How do you like to be woken up?

The secret of a screen name unravels here...

As some may know, I use the screen name EndOfDreamsWaltz on several different services, and this is the perfect place to explain the meaning.

When I waken, it is in stages.  The alarm goes off, if I have one set for that day, then the blinds are cracked just wide enough to let the sunlight bounce off my nose as the peeps through the window.  I roll over and kiss my friend good morning when the sun reaches eye level, and we laze about for several minutes, just enjoying the silence and the stillness of the morning (we are both huge fans of serenity).

After a little while, we get up, and one person starts breakfast--be it coffee, cereal, eggs, or whatever we feel like that day--and the other takes a shower, then the trade off.  After eating and bathing, we lounge on the couch for several minutes before heading off to work and school and the switch off.

This is my morning waltz.  It begins with the lightheaded pleasure of my eyes flickering open to that lovely breath of morning and ends with a secretive smile passed between friends.  A smooth transition from wonderland to book (or tool) land.  The end of dreams waltz.

I can think of no way in the world I would prefer to awaken.

Der weckende Traumer,
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