Are You a Morning Person?

Jojo87 said:

You sound like my partner. He likes to stay up late at night and loves to sleep late on the mornings. He has sometimes delayed from work when he has
overslept. He is definitely not a morning person.

I stay up late if I don't have to go to work the next day, but usually around midnight I get tired and go to bed anyway. I go earlier if it's a workday. I wake up 8 am pr 9 am depends earlier if it's a workday. It's very rare that I sleep to 11 or 12 So let's say that I am a morning person because I can't
sleep longer then to 10 max.

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I usually do that too - get tired and start falling asleep on the couch. New Year's Eve I forced myself to stay up until midnight so I could say "Happy New Year!" but I would have preferred to go to bed at 10 p.m.

During the week I get up at 3 and stay up. Sometimes may get an hour nap. On the weekend I sleep in until 7 or so. Usually in bed no later than 10.

I'm a big sulky grump in the morning. Standing in the shower for thirty minutes grumbling and moping while the coffee is on, would probably be the only condition that I'll be happy about it.

danie said:

Do you sleep in on weekends?

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I try. It's difficult, though, because the dogs get on the same schedule, and my fur baby, Lulu, gets worried if I'm not up by 6. She won't leave me alone--lol! She's the timekeeper for other things, too: she knows when we have to leave to get the kids to the train/school on time, and starts trying to herd us toward the door about 5 mins before. SOMEONE has to have a conscience about being on time, I suppose

fljoe0 said:

It seems like the older I get, the less I sleep. I just don't seem to need as much sleep as I used to. I usually get up between 5:30 -6:30 even on weekends. I try to stay in bed and sleep longer but just can't anymore. So, I am definitely a morning person.

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My husband's the same way. He has to be up for work between 2:30-4:30 (depends on whether he's working overtime) am, so sleeping until 5 feels like sleeping in to him--lol. Our schedules have gotten WAY out of whack the last couple of months--he's been in bed by 7:30 so he can be up at 2:30, and I'm asleep from midnight or so to 6.

Neesy said:

get tired and start falling asleep on the couch

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Guess what Neesy it happens to me too, I fall asleep on the couch and it's hard to go to bed after that.

Wow - talk about morning persons vs. non-morning persons!

Andy came downstairs and was making himself a 'sunny side up' egg in a small frying pan - I made the mistake of turning it down to low and putting a lid over it for the last 30 seconds - he got all peeved with me!

He called it a "basted egg" - can't say I have ever heard anyone use that terminology before, yet he was told that that is what Canadians call it when you put a lid over a sunny side up egg.

Wow - he is so crabby when he wakes up - just like a "bear with a sore heid" as my Mom would have said.

Neesy said:

Wow - talk about morning persons vs. non-morning persons!

Andy came downstairs and was making himself a 'sunny side up' egg in a small frying pan - I made the mistake of turning it down to low and putting a lid over it for the last 30 seconds - he got all peeved with me!

He called it a "basted egg" - can't say I have ever heard anyone use that terminology before, yet he was told that that is what Canadians call it when you put a lid over a sunny side up egg.

Wow - he is so crabby when he wakes up - just like a "bear with a sore heid" as my Mom would have said.

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Oh I know what you mean. Other half likes his over easy and heaven help you if you break the yolk!

Just scramble 'em...............

Out of Order said:

Just scramble 'em...............

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What if you scramble,the wrong Damn egg?

danie said:

Every morning, at 5:30, I feel like I have died, but that I did not come back as a morning person!
15 minutes EARLIER? Brah, have you no compassion? Have you no mercy? It takes me 35-40 minutes to get to work; I set my alarm for 5:59. (Usually I wake up earlier and go ahead and get up.) But if I get up at 5:59, I leave home at 6:50 and have to be at work by 7:30. So I'm driving 80 mph and still not awake. Guess I should've been a night worker of some sort.

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I se the alarm 15 minutes earlier than I need to get up so I can hit the 'snooze' button two times and not have to worry about being late. It seems to help. Of course I usually wake up before the alarm anyway because I'm so worried about sleeping in..... I much prefer getting up early and going to work and having time in the evening to do whatever.

ghost19 said:

My wife and I have a rule, we're not responsible for anything said to one another within the first 15 minutes after waking up. We can both be somewhat pissy rolling out of bed at 0500 every day...lol

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We have that rule and it extends to anything said in the wee small hours of the morning if either on (mostly me) gets woken up.

We have our routine.

When Grandma has her 6:00 am shift, we set both our phones for 5:00 or so. Hers goes off, and she tries to ignore it. Mine goes off, and I keep reminding her that she needs to get up. She finally does so, tells me she wants me to rest, and sometimes I go back to sleep and sometimes not, and it's weird, but before she leaves, she has to give me a goodbye kiss, and if I'm asleep, then she wakes me up anyway, but usually it's okay, because I'm faking it. Then she leaves, and I get up and get some work done.

On weekends, I get up and get work done, or cruise SKMB, or maybe work out (as if), or whatever. She'll get up anywhere from 9:00 to 10:30, and I'll fix her breakfast. Usually an egg scrambler with sauteed mushrooms, bell peppers, onion, spinach, various spices, and two to four different kinds of cheese. We grind our own coffee, so that's made too. She tells me the eggs are delicious, and we eat while we read the morning paper.

Man, we are old and boring.

Definitely not a morning person. I can be up and at 'em as early as anyone, but don't talk to me. Until at least 10 a.m. The past couple of years I discovered caffeine and nicotine, and this became my magical morning elixir. With it, I was a halfway decent person to be around in the morning. Without it, I became a troll. Now I am 8 months pregnant, and have had to give up both substances...lets just say, my husband should be knighted for his patience these past months.

Dana Jean said:

That's exactly right. My husband gets pissed when i nap.

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There's an ethic in America which is not necessarily shared worldwide - suggesting an unhealthy ethic - of expected, incessant industriousness. It might have the same root as that of the youth worship in which our country mistakenly indulges. I say that since only young people have the kind of energy to be incessantly industrious. With a little age, and with that wisdom, one realizes the value and enjoyment of rest.

Grandpa said:

We have our routine.

When Grandma has her 6:00 am shift, we set both our phones for 5:00 or so. Hers goes off, and she tries to ignore it. Mine goes off, and I keep reminding her that she needs to get up. She finally does so, tells me she wants me to rest, and sometimes I go back to sleep and sometimes not, and it's weird, but before she leaves, she has to give me a goodbye kiss, and if I'm asleep, then she wakes me up anyway, but usually it's okay, because I'm faking it. Then she leaves, and I get up and get some work done.

On weekends, I get up and get work done, or cruise SKMB, or maybe work out (as if), or whatever. She'll get up anywhere from 9:00 to 10:30, and I'll fix her breakfast. Usually an egg scrambler with sauteed mushrooms, bell peppers, onion, spinach, various spices, and two to four different kinds of cheese. We grind our own coffee, so that's made too. She tells me the eggs are delicious, and we eat while we read the morning paper.

Man, we are old and boring.

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Actually that sounds lovely. I think most folks would aspire to that level of comfortable.

Heck no! I hate mornings

Since I'm a corporate zombie I'm stuck on the 9am - 5pm (at a minimum) routine. Luckily, I don't live too far from the office so I don't have to get up until 7:30am or so. As an extra special bonus I get saddled with off hours conference calls a couple of times a week with my Bangkok team (hate that 12 hour time difference) that are either early morning (7:30am EST) or later at night (8:30pm EST). I prefer the 8:30pm calls myself but the rest of the US team prefers the morning calls. We alternate but I'm not anywhere near coherent for the early morning meetings! Although, I do get to work from home one day a week so on that day I don't have to rollout of bed until 8:45am for my 5 foot commute to my laptop.......

I suppose this is due to my gigging days when I'd have a mid-week show and not get home until 3am or so, hit the hay for 4 or 5 hours and then be up for work the next day. I was good to go on this schedule until I hit 30 or so. Then getting up for work the day after a gig seemed to get much harder

To compensate for my hatred of mornings I try and schedule all my project meetings from 11am on. My brain is usually functional then and I am more productive.

On the weekends I usually sleep until 9:30am or so depending on what time I go to bed the night before.