I'm not a morning person, and I never will be

[DeathGrip]

When I was young I could sleep all day. Then adulthood called. I mostly worked regular hours and my time in the Army stuck. I am a very scheduled person. My stomach is my alarm and I always eat a good breakfast, I believe it's important.

I think as long as you have a schedule and a steady wake/sleep cycle you're probably gonna be healthier. Day or night. It's just preference and habit.

 

[Golddollar]

My uncle here in town found a great saying: "Follow your dreams. Go back to bed."

 

[WuzzFuzz]

I like to get up early, 5:30 am or so, have a cuppa coffee and get the day started. Most of the time I feel good, am refreshed and ready for whatever comes along.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

Me too Leon.......




Me??? I still like to see a pretty sunrise, instead of a sunset. Can't see either one if I'm in bed.


WuzzFuzz

 

[Goldstar225]

I'm a morning person. My first year of retirement I was still getting up at 4:30-5:00. I've eased up some since then, sometimes I don't get up until almost 6:00. Yesterday was a rarity, I slept until 7:00, my wife checked to see if I was still breathing.

 

[usmc2427765]

I worked night shift for so many of my LEO years, my sleep patterns are still off. Retired in 2011 and still stay up until 0200 or 0300 and sleep until I feel like getting up.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Being retired I find I tend to go to bed early-ish and wake up around 6am, but usually read the papers online for a while and listen to music for a while before actually getting up and making a) coffee and b) breakfast and letting the cat out.

OTOH, there are people like this:

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Like other towns this size, here you learn to get up and get moving before everyone else just to get where you are going and come back before or after everyone else. So I am a "morning person" courtesy of Monster White.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

For me, advanced age has been the ultimate cure.

Some of my happiest years were spent working 4PM to 2AM, 10-hour shifts with 4 days on and 3 days off per week. All day to run errands, get any necessary shopping done, attend to kids and school needs, etc. Usually home by 3AM, sleep until 9:30 or 10AM, hardly ever bothered to set the alarm clock.

Midnight shifts weren't bad either. Go to work at 11PM or midnight, off at about sunrise, sleep while the kids were at school, all evening to deal with family business. A little bit of a hassle getting up to make required daytime appointments (doctors, dentists, parent-teacher stuff, anything requiring "normal business hours").

Never could get in the groove of working typical day shifts. Shocked into being awake by a blaring alarm clock, stumbling around half-asleep trying to shower, shave, get dressed, fighting traffic to get to work, competition for parking spots. Even worse, all the bosses were always there all day, every day.

Having arrived at my "golden years" (whoever thought that up must have been thinking about the color of their urine specimens, on a good day) I seldom sleep longer than 5 hours or so per night. I am frequently wide awake at 3:30 or 4AM. A two-hour nap in the afternoon usually means I will be wide awake until 1AM or 2AM, then sleep for another 2 or 3 hours before I find myself up again for the next day.

My wife is a very light sleeper, and will usually take 8 or 9 hours in bed every night. I have to be careful not to disturb her rest, so I spend a lot of time reading or putzing around on the S&W Forum, anything that doesn't involve making noise around the house.

Which is worse, the curse or the cure? Probably just another one of life's little challenges.

 

[tops]

I can stay up all night but I have never liked to get up in the morning. My wife wakes up early in the morning just as happy as if she had good sense. I tell her that people that wake up happy in the morning have some kind of a bad mental problem. Larry

 

[WuzzFuzz]

You can see from the time stamp on when I post some of my musings, that I'm already up and at'm early in the morning.

Besides, I want to read what you guys might say about me, over night, good, bad or indifferent.

But yes a nap in the afternoon is a pleasant refresher...


WuzzFuzz

 

[Fishslayer]

Apparently, science says it's true, and there is little the afflicted tyrants (AKA morning people, usually your boss) can do about it.

It is a more scientific explanation than mine which runs like this:

"Early was invented by the enemy to break us, do not comply".

20 years in the Navy and I never did get used to getting up early.

"Never have so many gotten up so early to do so little."

 

[Peak53]

Looks like this thread is running 70-30 (didn't count) in favor of the night owls. Put me down in the "Happy Morning Person Do You Want a Cup of Coffee!!!" camp. It may have been learned behavior when I was 19-20 and expected to be on the job site shoveling sand in the mortar mixer at 7 am before the surly, possibly hungover, bricklayers arrived at 7:30. I quickly learned that putting the alarm clock on the bedside table was a no go. Put it on the dresser on the other side of the room so you have to stumble over there and shut the dang thing off. No snoozing that way.

Of course, that meant a reasonably early bedtime. Man, did I miss out on some heck raising partying! It also meant I (mostly) missed out on the lawn puking, girl friends throwing dishes, cars in the ditch, DUI's, and fist fights. Win-win for everybody, cause I would have kicked their *** , except I was in bed. And I brought home a pretty good pay check for the day.

I guess I never got over it. Now in my leisure years I find that I get up when it first begins to get light, make the coffee, check the email from evil night persons, check the forum, bring in the day's firewood, let the dog in and out three times, check the weather forecast, have a third cup, watch the sun light up Ice Mountain, wonder what I'm gong to do the rest of the day. Something usually comes up, but there might be a nap involved.

Besides, who wants to miss a sunrise like this ?

 

[Rustyt1953]

Being nocturnal prepared me for a life of brightly lit stages, smoke filled bars, echoes of "last call" and Waffle House coffee.

To quote Willie: "Oh, the night life ain't no good life..But it's my life."

 

[oldbrownhat]

Being nocturnal prepared me for a life of brightly lit stages, smoke filled bars, echoes of "last call" and Waffle House coffee.

To quote Willy: "Oh, the night life ain't no good life..But it's my life."

There used to be a jazz music host on CBC in Canada, Ross Porter, whose on-air voice reminded me of some of those scenarios. I think the show was called "After Hours." You could actually hear the 3 am stubble

 

[LVSteve]

Being nocturnal prepared me for a life of brightly lit stages, smoke filled bars, echoes of "last call" and Waffle House coffee.

To quote Willie: "Oh, the night life ain't no good life..But it's my life."

Dammit, Rusty, you just time traveled me back to my brief, part time, dalliance in the music business.

 

[Rule3]

"Nothing good happens before 6am"


Even fishing I caught more late mornings then being out before the Sun was up.

 

[Kurusu]

"Nothing good happens before 6am"


Even fishing I caught more late mornings then being out before the Sun was up.

Man! You are so wrong.

 

[2152hq]

I never liked working a 'day shift'. Always tired, couldn't wake up in the AM.
Hated school because of that.
Worked mostly evening and nite shifts when I could.

Self employment was a true gift.
Sleep when tired,,work when you feel like it.
Either were and are just about any time of the day or night and any day of the week. ..and no cellphone.

 

[mtgianni]

I found that I sleep best between 4 and 7 AM. I had the misfortune to discover this while working a shift I needed to get up at 5 AM for. Retirement has reaffirmed this.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Dammit, Rusty, you just time traveled me back to my brief, part time, dalliance in the music business.

"Music- a splendid art, but a dreadful profession" (Georges Bizet)