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It's the Morning report!

Dear Reader,

For those who haven't seen The Lion King  as a live musical production, today's title comes from one of the first songs in the show when Zazu and Simba are talking with Mufasa about what is going on in the animal kingdom. I use it today because my morning report is not very good.

This morning I woke up incredibly late (About 10:45). I was not happy. Luckily, there was no pressing matter to attend to this morning. On the other hand, it is not the most pleasant experience to waste three or four hours in the morning on sleeping. If I had it my way everyday, which rarely happens, the morning report would look something like this:

7:00 AM - Wake up/Shower/Eat Breakfast
8:00 AM - Read for about an hour (Preferably from the scriptures)
9:00 AM - Write something. This something can be a letter to a missionary, a blog post or even an entry in a journal
10:00 AM through 4:00 PM - Whatever activity is pressing that day. This may include cleaning, reading for work, shopping for groceries, etc.

Typical morning report for my liking. That did not happen today. Instead, it looked something like this:

10:45 - Wake up/Shower
11:30 - Write on Blog
12:00 - Ride up to Orem for Work

Yeah...we are going to work on getting this stuff down for getting up at a reasonable hour. We will see what we can do about that.

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