Routine -- writing mine for the Friday Writings

My Life Day to Day; 

  there are routines and then there are some more routines 

Some things I do every day 

Likely some of these you may do

Others only weird folk like me 

At any rate if you don't tire 

You'll know more of me 

I wake up when my bod is ready, 

every morning except Sundays 

or an early appointment usually between eight and nine 

I push the ON button on the coffee pot 

on my way for a first morning pee 

 

While its perking I get out two coffee cups 

I get the largest left on kitchen shelf 

I have favorites, yellow Texas Blue Bonnets 

There are only two of the eight left 

Then to the Pantry for a double pack 

Nature Valley Oats Granola Bars 

These sitting by the coffee pot 

While I'm waiting for the brew

I change into something allowable 

Allowable for sitting on, or in, 

the living room furniture 

Also fit to answer the front door 

if someone would come 

Can't hide behind the door as the 

front door has a long glass window

Back to the kitchen, on the way 

I unset the house alarm 

and bring the morning paper in 

also put out to fly the U.S. Stars and Stripes

Then I pour the coffee, 

one, or two cups if my mate is up 

Make it hotter in the microwave 

Thirty seconds for both cups, 

twenty for only one 

I sit in the left recliner and turn TV on 

If both are up I get the NBC Today Show

the VCR is set for that

When I'm alone I watch the recorded ABC 

By nine if the misses isn't up 

I bring her a cup of coffee and her granola bar 

She'll have breakfast in bed 

While all the News is playing 

And I am listening 

I'll work the newspaper's Sudoku 

But at ten the TV goes to Price is Right 

Again at eleven-thirty over to Jeopardy 

In between time or spare 

I'll check emails and Facetime 

That'll last them 'till I'm in bed at night, 

around Midnight 

My pills and meds come at ten 

or eleven or noon 

With them 

I'll eat a couple of saltines 

loaded with PeanutButter 

and dabs of Hazelnut Butter 

That's how my mornings been going 

Maybe a phone call or text exchange 

Then it's time for lunch 

I may have, likely did, dressed by then 

I can make hot dogs with cheese

sometimes with sauerkraut or chili 

Also cook the corn dogs,  make sandwiches, eggs, 

cheese, and ham on toast my special 

I make spaghetti with meatballs 

or chicken parmigiana 

I make or help make a tuna 

or chicken salad with egg and pickle relish 

Macdonald's and Wendy's 

are a couple of miles away Burger King 

and Chick-fil-a  as well

We don't go hungry 

I forgot canned soup and 

Maruchan Instant Ramen Noodle too 

Also forgot to tell of putting in my uppers 

before chewing, small things 

like garbage or mailing a check

miscellaneous that are their own 

Have their own schedule 

blending in with mine 

Afternoons are liberal, 

evenings also 

Bed by eleven-thirty is my goal 

That all has it's own routine, 

again long and boring 

Adi is retiring from Pet Partners 

We've been retired twenty-three and 

twenty-one years, she and I 

We do okay 

for our age 

Forget a little here and there 

Splurges and surprises 

Doctors mess with us the most 

Adi retired too, after us 

But Adi died in 2012 

I'm in my later eighties, 

ninety soon I hope and dread 

I may have to make a few changes

My dad lived to ninety-seven 

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 - Photo and Write Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Rommy who suggested us doing this, at Friday Writings #29, 

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/06/friday-writings-29-little-rituals.html

 - Rommy has asked us to write poetry or prose about the small rituals or daily routines that make up our lives.

 - NOTE:  I will read everyone's who has commented here plus some others.  For the Blogger folk my comments will have to be anonymous IF you accept them they should post.  Google has messed me up.

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