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Post by gar on Aug 29, 2014 6:54:52 GMT
I do not wish to speak until I have been awake for an hour - that is all And with that I'm off to shower so I don't have to speak to Dh when he appears in a minute
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 7:08:37 GMT
I am definitely not a morning person. I feel your pain!
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Post by brandy327 on Aug 29, 2014 9:51:32 GMT
I am SO not a morning person!! But after getting up at 6:30 for four years to get our oldest off to carpool for high school (or take my turn driving her there) my internal clock gets me up between 7:00 & 7:30, even if my alarm is set for 8:00 instead. And I know I'm not a late night gal - by 11:00 I am toast. And some days, I could really use a nap in the afternoon, right around 2:30. So if I ever figure out what time of day person I am, I'll let you know! LOL Right around 2pm is when I feel like I need a nap as well. That's carpool time for me and I used to sit in carpool for an hour and read...well that's what I WANTED to do. I often dozed while sitting there. LOL
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Post by smokey2471 on Aug 29, 2014 10:03:32 GMT
Ugh. Starting another day at 5:45...only today I actually have to work in office:( boo
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Post by brandy327 on Aug 29, 2014 10:12:45 GMT
Ugh. Starting another day at 5:45...only today I actually have to work in office:( boo The alarm went off at 5 and I wanted to fling it across the room. My eyes are burning so badly that I can barely keep them open. TGIF!!! Sadly sleeping much past 6am over the weekend is about as good as it'll get. And even more sad is that I'm looking forward to 6am vs. 5am. LOL
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 10:43:03 GMT
I am a morning person but definitely need my alone time before the kids get up.
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Post by mallie on Aug 29, 2014 12:02:19 GMT
I"m not and never have been. I laugh when people say, "Oh you can train yourself out of that." Ha. I've had to get up at 5am for most of my life since the age of 14. It's a daily struggle. I can NOT wait for retirement.
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Post by PEArfect on Aug 29, 2014 12:09:48 GMT
Up all night, sleep all day. Only I don't get to sleep all day. I have to get up with my 7yo at 6:00 to get her on the bus by 7:10.
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Post by cakediva on Aug 29, 2014 12:16:17 GMT
I am SO not a morning person!! But after getting up at 6:30 for four years to get our oldest off to carpool for high school (or take my turn driving her there) my internal clock gets me up between 7:00 & 7:30, even if my alarm is set for 8:00 instead. And I know I'm not a late night gal - by 11:00 I am toast. And some days, I could really use a nap in the afternoon, right around 2:30. So if I ever figure out what time of day person I am, I'll let you know! LOL Right around 2pm is when I feel like I need a nap as well. That's carpool time for me and I used to sit in carpool for an hour and read...well that's what I WANTED to do. I often dozed while sitting there. LOL Me too! Pick-up time for DD from high school was 2:30 - so on days nobody had extra curriculars (mandatory for the program) and it was my day to pick up, I'd have to leave around 1:45 to get there on time. And MAN almost every time I hit that brick wall. I'd get to the parking lot and just close my eyes for the brief 5 minutes I had before they all came down. Of course, this year, DD (who still doesn't drive) starts University, and is living at home. And guess what? I'm back to driving her! ACK! At least I can drop her at the bus stop 20 minutes away and she can take the city bus further into town for school. And THANK GOD her classes all start after lunch!
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Post by scrappyesq on Aug 29, 2014 12:20:52 GMT
I'm not. I get up at 6 for work. EVERY morning I think of 1) quitting or 2) calling in sick because I'm so miserable when I wake up. It takes me until at least 10 (with a nice cup of coffee) to feel human again.
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Post by cme37 on Aug 29, 2014 12:30:21 GMT
That is me. I don't sleep well at all (there are some nights I literally don't sleep). DH is a morning person, even on weekends. He was asleep early last night though and takes naps on weekends when he can. For me? Sleeping until 10 a.m. is preferable! I wake up around 6 with the kids or earlier if I took a middle of the night bath. I pack lunches while they get ready (teens). Yes, they could pack them for themselves, but I find it helps everyone if I do it. DH was so chipper this morning that I did ask nicely for him to chill. I just want to get done what needs to get done and not be talkative so darn early. We went on vacation recently and DH was ready to go in the mornings super early. Of course, with teen DD and DS plus myself, we weren't ready to go until late morning at the earliest. However, DH would then be the first asleep and sometimes he acts like we're slackers. We're up about the same amount of time, just different hours.
My perfect job would be graveyard shift. Mornings are of the devil. If I can, I prefer to be up an hour earlier than everyone else just to have time to wake up quietly. mine, too! Relax, dude, your way is not the only way! And don't complain that you "have" to get up so early. You don't HAVE to get up THAT early. You get up 2+ hours before you have to leave to read news, shower, eat, coffee, and putz around... that's YOUR CHOICE. Do like the rest of us "slackers". Get things ready the night before, get up with just enough time to do what really has to be done, jump in clothes and go.! This is our house. My natural sleep cycle is go to bed around 1 and get up between 9 and 10. I, of course, can't do that during the school year. In the summertime, the kids and me all stay up late and sleep in. Dh acts like we are being lazy because we are not up at the crack of dawn like him. We are up the same amount of hours, just different times.
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Post by grinningcat on Aug 29, 2014 12:32:17 GMT
Honestly, I think it might be a morning person trait to think that sleeping equals slacking. I'm guilty of thinking that. I think it comes from a feeling of wasting the day if it doesn't get started first thing. But in reality, it's all relative. But I am definitely guilty of considering sleeping in past 8 or 9 as slacking off and wasting the day.
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Post by anxiousmom on Aug 29, 2014 12:41:24 GMT
Honestly, I think it might be a morning person trait to think that sleeping equals slacking. I'm guilty of thinking that. I think it comes from a feeling of wasting the day if it doesn't get started first thing. But in reality, it's all relative. But I am definitely guilty of considering sleeping in past 8 or 9 as slacking off and wasting the day. I am an up with the sun kind of girl. I am the person that all non-morning people hate...I am happy and chirpy and roll out of bed wide awake and ready for the day. For me, sleeping until 7 IS sleeping in. If I sleep later than that I feel like *I* am slacking off and wasting my day.
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Post by ~Susan~ on Aug 29, 2014 14:27:05 GMT
I am not a morning person either. I am sitting here now trying to get my rear end in gear
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Post by keknj on Aug 29, 2014 14:57:03 GMT
So not a morning person. I think it should be illegal to have to get up at any am time starting with a 5. This year we will have to get up at 7 to get the middle schooler off on time. Ugh. That's only a 1/2 hour earlier, but it might as well be two hours! LOL.
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Post by georgiapea on Aug 29, 2014 15:03:29 GMT
My DH. He likes his 2 pm to 10 pm job so he can slouch around in bed until 11 am. Drives me crazy. I don't go to work till noon myself, so I sleep in till 7 am. But then I'm up, zip through the shower and ready to meet my day.
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Post by ReneeH20 on Aug 29, 2014 15:20:40 GMT
I am not a morning person. It takes forever for me to fall asleep and forever for me to wake up in the morning . DH is like a light switch - asleep/awake. He tried to make into a morning person years ago with disastrous results for him. Oh and my sense of humor doesn't warm up until at least 10 am.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Aug 29, 2014 17:08:16 GMT
My DH and the kids get up at 6:00 and are already out of the house by the time I wake up at 7:00. Even that feels too early to me and I am always in bed by 11:00. I struggle to get out of bed every morning. I find myself jealous of the dog who I have to chase out of bed to go potty but then runs right back to it.
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Post by BeckyTech on Aug 29, 2014 17:17:04 GMT
It takes me at least an hour to drink a cup of coffee, get my wits about me... I am EXACTLY the same way. So much so that I will forego the extra hour of sleep and set my alarm so that I do have that hour+ of coffee/wake up time in the morning. I just can't function without it.
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Aug 29, 2014 17:25:47 GMT
I really HATE mornings. I have never been a morning person. My mom always said I would start kicking at 8 pm and stop at 4 am when she was pregnant with me. I think that if I was a single person I would never do mornings. My husband has to get up at 7 am and there are mornings that he gets up at 6 to sit in the hot tub before going to work. I need coffee in the morning. I have insomnia and most of the time don't sleep more than 3 to 4 hours. It seems like I get to sleep about 4 am and want to sleep through the morning. If only they could get them selves up with out a bunch of noise, but husband thinks that if he is up the world is up. not once can he get in to the bathroom without making a ton of loud noise.
Daughter doesn't get up before 10 am unless she has to. wish I could do that.
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Post by luvnlifelady on Aug 29, 2014 18:12:40 GMT
mine, too! Relax, dude, your way is not the only way! And don't complain that you "have" to get up so early. You don't HAVE to get up THAT early. You get up 2+ hours before you have to leave to read news, shower, eat, coffee, and putz around... that's YOUR CHOICE. Do like the rest of us "slackers". Get things ready the night before, get up with just enough time to do what really has to be done, jump in clothes and go.! This is our house. My natural sleep cycle is go to bed around 1 and get up between 9 and 10. I, of course, can't do that during the school year. In the summertime, the kids and me all stay up late and sleep in. Dh acts like we are being lazy because we are not up at the crack of dawn like him. We are up the same amount of hours, just different times. Exactly!!!
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Post by birukitty on Aug 29, 2014 20:17:41 GMT
ME! I have been guilty of this since birth. My parents tell me how they could not get me to sleep at night and how I hated getting up in the mornings as a baby. This has continued for 54 years. I am a night owl. I think better, I am more creative at night. So what if I'm working at 1 am while you early birds are asleep-how does that equal that I am a slacker because my body prefers to sleep past 8am? See, it's all relative?
I'm just happy now that I've put my years in and DS is living at a dorm away at college. I'm working at restarting my business so I can work when I prefer and sleep when I want-although I do realize that will change when it comes to opening the business. For now though it's good.
I don't believe you can reset your "clock" nor do I think you should have to. To me it's like forcing a left handed person to write only with their right hand-just because most of the world does it one way, doesn't mean it's the only way.
Debbie in MD.
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Post by caro on Aug 29, 2014 20:22:40 GMT
Me!!!! I have to get DD up at 6:30 for school BUT my neighbor with the loud truck leaves about 6:10. It drives me nuts that I miss my last 20 minutes that I could sleep. If there's no school, I don't have to get up until 8:15. Mornings suck! Ear plugs have been a lifesaver for me. I got them because DH snored. I didn't think about the benefit of all noise. It doesn't 't block all noise but dims it greatly.
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Post by smokeynspike on Aug 30, 2014 1:06:55 GMT
I am a night owl, but I don't wake up grumpy. Most days.
Melissa
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Post by maurchclt on Aug 30, 2014 1:58:40 GMT
Hate, hate, hate mornings, was a teacher for 30 years and woke up to an alarm clock, now that I'm retired, my natural wake up time is between 8-9AM. A much more civilized time to wake up and even then I don't function until I have my coffee.
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Post by pierkiss on Aug 30, 2014 2:03:08 GMT
Moi. I'm so not a morning person. One my 4 year old son is. And he wakes up early, and immediately runs to our room and jumps in bed with us. This new wake up by 6:15am every day and get 2 ready for school thing is killing me.
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Post by toby2014 on Aug 30, 2014 2:20:13 GMT
I am getting better as I get older. It might have something to do with the fact that I have to get up at 4:30 A.M. for 4 days.
But let me tell ya....I love the fact that I can now sleep in until 10 or so on some mornings.
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Post by grammanisi on Aug 30, 2014 3:02:40 GMT
Me! When I worked I had to be there by 5:30-6:00am and did it every day. Now I consider it early if I'm up before 10:00!
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Post by weaser714 on Aug 30, 2014 6:11:04 GMT
Definitely me! I'm hating the 5:30am wake up time to get kids up for high school.
My dh figured out quickly not talk to me in the morning. There were many times early on in our marriage that he wanted to discuss important matters at 7am. He would mention the conversation later in the day and I would have no idea what he was talking about.
We also have an ongoing disagreement about morning person vs. night owl. He totally thinks it's a choice. I totally think he's wrong.
For now, I am getting up before the sun and going to bed early with him, but only because I have too.
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Post by craftsbycarolyn on Aug 30, 2014 15:28:56 GMT
Not a morning person...never go to bed before 12 and sometimes up til 2 am...rarely get up before 8. If I don't get at least 6 hours sleep, I can barely function!!!
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