Alarming Habits

Getting back in the "working mood" after a nice four day weekend has definitely been my biggest challenge this week! Ughh. The name of this post may seem quite fierce and you may be expecting to read some sort of complaint about the regular newlywed habits that drive people crazy. You would be half correct if you thought that! I love being married and I really can't say we fight a lot or have problems. We dated for nearly 7 years before getting married so we are pretty accustomed to each other's habits, good or bad. Today I will talk about both, but  I will get to the bad part later.

First, I want to announce my "new" good habit.I recently had to have blood work done to get on Josh's insurance and I will be honest and tell you the results were slightly less than favorable. I am not unhealthy nor dying, but I do need to make small changes in my lifestyle to try to improve my overall health. Heart disease runs on both sides of my family and I want to do all that I can to prevent getting it. Hence; my new good habit. I have decided to exercise more and eat healthier. I am trying to cook better meals and I walk with a walking buddy usually around 6 miles a week or more. Here is pic of us right before we left for our Thursday night walk:

We have been walking briskly in the neighborhoods surrounding our apartment and mapping out the distance. It is enough of a workout that I definitely get something out of it. Hopefully I am making a lasting impact on my health. 

When I got home from walking I cooked a healthier version of chicken and dumplings. delicious!

Now onto the second part of my post. The actual ALARM! Before I explain what happens every morning at the Woods residence I will preface all of it by saying a lot of this may be due to the fact that I am not a morning person. At all. On a scale of 1-10 with ten being the highest I would say I am a negative 5. I just really don't like mornings. 

My alarm goes off at 6:30a.m. every morning so that I will be able to get ready for work, but most of the time I wake up before this. I usually wake up at 6:00a.m. (or earlier) due to Josh's alarm. He usually gets out of bed at 7:30 or after (unless he has to be at work early) but he likes to gradually wake up to an alarm. When I say gradually, I mean he sets his alarm for 6:00a.m. and sets it to where it goes off every 7 minutes. So, I get to hear his alarm (sometimes there are multiples)  every 7 minutes all morning until he gets up at 7:30. I try not to complain too much because I know this is some strange habit he has, but maybe, just maybe, he will "grow" out of it. I'll keep you updated. :-)