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July 12, 2006
I am so not a morning person
So why am I getting up at five-freaking-thirty?
Okay. This blog is going to be a total letdown after yesterday. The Hot Topic thing was too much fun. Let's all take a second to applaud Alesia for having such a great idea and putting it together. Yay!! Alesia!!!
Now, on to the whining.
I am not a morning person. I am not up with the sun, all happy to start my day. I love to sleep. I particularly love to doze as a light breeze wafts through the windows and I'm all snuggly and sleepy and Cowboy is all cuddly and warm next to me.
So why have I been rolling out of bed at five thirty, slugging down a cup of coffee and jumping on to a hard bike seat or strapping on my running shoes? I lay the blame at the feet of my exercise buddies, Spring and Carol. "Come on," they said. "It'll be great. It won't be hot yet and we'll be all done with our exercise before our kids even get up."
They're right, too. Even on the days when it tops one hundred degrees here in the Central Valley, at six o'clock in the morning it's still pretty pleasant. Even on the days that we bike close to thirty miles, we're home before Things One and Two have rolled out of bed and turned on Sports Center. It's great to have the day stretching out in front of me and know that a big agenda item (exercise) has already been crossed off.
I still don't like it though. Plus, it's taking an inordinate amount of espresso to keep me going through the day.
People say that eventually your internal clock resets and you become a morning person. It's been a couple week and I don't see any sign of it happening. I asked Sissy Two who started having to get to work at an ungodly hour when she became a surgical tech how long that took. She said, "The first year is really rough."
The first year? I was sort of hoping for a few weeks or a month even. So what about all of you? Are you a morning person or a night person? Have you ever tried to switch which one you were? How long did it take?
Posted by Eileen at 10:09 AM | Comments (11)
Comments
Okay, so not a morning person unless my night runs into my morning which it did pretty regularly. Here's the secret I've just recently discovered: Go to Europe for 3 weeks! Yes, that's right. After adjusting to European time, I am now a morning person here in the US. My first few days home, I was up but 5 AM daily. I'm starting to wake up later and later so I may need to go back...
Posted by: Kelley at July 12, 2006 10:55 AM
Last year, two weeks in the Philippines screwed me up for weeks afterwards. I kept waking up at 2 a.m. and not being able to go back to sleep until five or six. Maybe I just went too far . . .
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at July 12, 2006 11:34 AM
I'm so NOT a morning person, yet I've been working 0600-1400 for the past month. I do wake up, all on my own, at about 0430, EVERY DAY, but that doesn't mean I don't hit the snooze or outright toss the alarm clock.
I don't think it gets any easier, it just becomes routine...
Posted by: Jen at July 12, 2006 12:24 PM
Ok, I read the words sleep, morning person, waking up, time, day and night. Since the first boy, I all I really remember is being able to sneak an intermittent "long nap" or two. Most of the time, I wonder if I have even slept at all!?
Posted by: Brian at July 12, 2006 2:13 PM
I am so NOT a morning person. I'm a confirmed night owl.
Posted by: TeresaH at July 12, 2006 2:30 PM
I'm neither....how sad is that? LOL
Posted by: Cee Cee at July 12, 2006 9:06 PM
I'm not much of a morning person. I can't write first thing in the morning after I wake up. So not much point in becoming a morning person. ROFL!
Posted by: May at July 12, 2006 9:48 PM
My nickname in college was "Wombat"--what does THAT tell you about my sleeping habits?! *grin* (It became "Flying Wombat" after the incredible bedsheet escape from my third floor window, but that's a story for another time....). However, I am TRYING to be a morning person and, truth be told, I love to be up with the sun and enjoy the drive over the Altamont Pass at 530AM so much that I chose the early early BART schedule again this past bid. However, I do NOT like getting up at 330AM to do the drive, because I cannot go to bed early!! Having teens and having an early work schedule don't go hand-in-hand. More like a vicious tug-of-war than a skip through the park!! It is a struggle, but the upside of going to work so early is that I get to come home by 110PM! Makes it all worthwhile...
Posted by: Sheri at July 13, 2006 12:11 AM
Um, actually, I quite like getting up early in the morning. Because if I get up early enough I reward myself with a bit of a read of something great before I have to start work. It sets me up for the day :-)
Michelle, an early bird
Posted by: Michelle C at July 13, 2006 9:09 AM
Definitely *not* an early bird. I like to tell early classes (I'm an instruction librarian at a community college) that my brain doesn't switch on until 10 am so I can't guarantee what might come out of my mouth before that. And I also tell the 8 am classes that I never took 8 am classes in college and now having to teach them is the universe's punishment.
If left to my own devices, I'm a night owl. Sadly, when one is at work at 8 am, being a night owl doesn't work. So these days, I tell people I have a couple of good hours, usually between 2 - 4 in the afternoon....
Posted by: Dia at July 13, 2006 11:42 AM
Ugh, I'm so NOT a morning person. I'm a confirmed night owl. If I get a second wind after 10:00 or so, I often stay up until it's technically morning... but I hate getting up. Doesn't matter what the weather is like, where I'm going or what I'm doing that day, I just never want to get out of bed. I love to sleep; I just haven't gotten to do it enough since having children.
I salute you for getting up early and exercising, especially in the heat!
Posted by: Rebecca at July 18, 2006 8:00 AM
