I didn’t realize that isn’t the case for…a lot of people. Even though I do rely on caffeine to take me to the next level, I automatically wake up energized, refreshed, ready to rumble, if you will 1. I’ve actually never considered myself much of a morning person until I’ve been with people who are defiantly not. I unfairly got frustrated with an ex who slept through half the days when on vacations because, at the time, I didn’t understand that just because she wasn’t working late-night shifts on those days didn’t mean her body wasn’t used to its patterns. I’ve been in relationships where this kind of mismatched Circadian rhythms can be a secret source of a lot of conflict. One of the biggest differences when it comes to routine between us is that she’s a night owl and I’m a morning person. Getting up and walking down the hall into the kitchen to make coffee ensured we would start writing at a reasonable time. It was a luxury, especially in those times. It was half a year into the pandemic, and we didn’t just both work from home - we were both freelance, too, working on our own hours. A coffee station in the bedroom would ensure the laziest of lazy mornings, and we were both prone to lazier and lazier mornings. It’ll be even harder to get out of bed, near impossible, she insisted. We consume a lot of coffee, and we both need it, right away, before we can properly start our days. My coffee drinking extends into the evening she usually cuts herself off in the afternoon. She so rarely tells me no I’m spoiled and what exactly is so opposable about easy access to caffeine! We both work from home and are devout coffee drinkers, usually splitting a pot throughout the day and then accompanying it with an espresso drink or two. In the first month of living in Miami, I tried to convince my girlfriend we should have a coffee station in our bedroom. But perhaps a pair of sunglasses really did change your life - who are we to judge? Did these items LITERALLY CHANGE OUR LIFE? No, we’re being gay and dramatic. This Changed My Life is an ode to the small, seemingly chill purchases bought by Autostraddle writers and editors this year that made our lives infinitely better.
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