I am not an early riser, mornings have never come easily for me.  On any given weekday, I set my alarm(s - I use two) for 7:00, then struggle out of bed an hour later to make it into work somewhere around 9:00.  Not a pleasant way to start the day, and not even restful - you'd think that the extra hour or so I get to sleep in would make me more alert and productive once I finally get going, but contarily, I'm actually more focused when I force myself to wake up early.  Which makes it even more frustrating that I find it so difficult to haul myself out of bed.  
But this morning - a Saturday!!! - I woke up at 6:00, I didn't hit snooze even once, & met the morning with a fabulous Ashtanga class at Tulaa yoga on Naaman's Road.  Since then, I finished a bunch of chores that I thought would take most of the day, and even managed to spend a few hours knitting:

This is the beginning of a hat, knit with a lovely blue Rowan DK wool.  I'm using my own pattern - it's a mini-honeycomb trim, then stocking stitch knit in the round.  I'll include instructions in a later post.  It's a simple and easy pattern that results in a very posh hat.  It's also my first project knit continental style - I learned last weekend from this very helpful video.  It wasn't difficult to pick up, and it's much faster than the English style I started knitting with. 

I've gotten so much done this morning that I'm going to try to make this early-rising streak stick - lately I've been finding that I'm just not awake enough hours in the day to get done everything that I want to get done.  I have a lot of projects I'm working on.  Knitting projects, health projects, and running projects (5K season is beginning!  More on that later.) - so if I'm going to make any progress, I'm going to have to start living a more focused life.