Day One: what did I sign up for?

Do you ever stay up too late at night, I'm talking 4am-6am too late at night, and you have that light bulb moment. 
A-Ha! I know how I'll fix everything in my life! A new routine! Or maybe for you it's a new exercise regiment, or a new weekly dinner planning. You know that ONE thing that will just make everything else click together and will fix your whole life. 
Well that was me last night. I've been struggling with a horrible bought of insomnia that was really kicking my ass. I was not sleeping until sunrise and then sleeping too late in the day to feel like anything was accomplished. 
I started slipping into a depression about it, especially after last month and my medical emergency which had me bedridden for almost a month and in so much pain it shut off my creativity for the first time in my life. But that's a story for another day. 
Last night I made the choice to start a new routine. A simple one, a flexible one, one that has just enough accountability to help ME be accountability and enough lenience to give myself down days when I'm not feeling well. 
For me it looks like this:

• Wake up when my body wakes (I ALWAYS wake up between 7am-10am to pee) 
• Do my Morning Pages (I've recently been doing the Artists Way book, it's a great book so far)
• Breakfast (I have to put it to remember to eat)
• House care tasks 
• Rest
• Write or comic for a few hours
• Exercise
• Evening projects or tasks (baking, diy kits, crocheting, etc.)
• Rest for the rest of the evening. 

Simple, vague, flexible. 
It has structure but I can do these in any order and change them slightly from day to day to fit my needs and my health. It keeps my projects in the forefront of my schedule so that I at least work on one of them every day. 
Today was day one of the new routine. I woke up at 9am almost on the dot. I did the morning pages, faster than I have done them yet. I went and started cleaning, tackling the bathroom and the kitchen today. I made homemade bagels for the first time that were 6 out of 10s, not bad for a first attempt and I'll definitely eat them! I exercised and I wrote some of N for Not Human, and I accomplished some other things I needed to do and have now had a nice calm evening of web building. 
It gives me hope to keep going with this routine. This simple and flexible routine that will help me finish all of the projects I have on burners waiting for their chance to shine.