Hi, friends!
How are you doing today? I hope the week is going well. 😊
Recently I had to work an overnight and wowsers was that a reminder that I’m a morning person.
In fact, I’m an annoying morning person. I’m the person on vacations that wakes up early and chipper and just wants to start doing shit at 6 or 7 am. The good news is that I’m very aware that most people are not like this and I just go do things on my own for a few hours on vacations first thing in the morning so I don’t annoy the crap out of whomever I’m with.
Are you a morning person? A night person? An adaptable to whichever is needed person?
I am neither. In fact, I am only good for a few hours in the middle of the day if at all.
Bingo, me too. I used to be a total night person, which really worked great with my audio career, because going to bed at 4am was no big deal. But then the economy went to shit in 2008 (Thanks, Dubya) and I had to switch to being a baker for the next several years and I’m telling you that was a hard, hard, hard transition. After that was my office job which didn’t require getting up as early but still pretty early. So, now my body is just fucked. Getting up in the morning is bullshit, I start yawning at 9 and most of the time hit the sack at 10 or so (11 is an aspiration that I will force myself to meet just to prove I can), and I require a nap in the middle of the fucking day.
I’ve shifted from being a night person to semi-morning person. Earlier than 7:00 will kill me, 8:00 is better, sleeping until 9:00 on weekends is nice.
I might still be a morning person, but now I’m also a night person. Recent thing. Since I stopped sleeping more than five hours a night, if lucky. Probably I’m just an always tired person running on responsibilities and caffeine.
Thanks to a decade (ugh) on rotating shift, my sleep pattern is the F-14 aircrew motto (it’s not I feel the need the need for speed) “anytime anywhere.”
Basically if my body sez “enough” then I’m going to sleep.
I used to be a morning person. Get up around 700am etc. I didn’t really need to set an alarm as I would get up at roughly 7am except if I went to bed at 4am or drank too much.
Hate hate hate hate getting up at 5am for day shift. It’s too fucking early. I know farmers and soldiers get up at that time but damn I am not either.
Days is the worst shift and why when I get home I have to nap for an hour.
This is why I am thankful for my schedule accomodation of straight afternoons.
It’s interesting how there’s early and early for all of us and there’s a distinct functional difference for how we work for even a not big time difference. Yu feel good at 7am, miserable at 5am, and probably unhappy at 6am.
Speaking of night creatures, I’m sitting on my porch and a fox just went by. Last night I saw one bombing around in my neighbor’s yard, then it jumped to the top of their fence, looked around, then took off down the alley after whatever it was hunting.
That’s awesome! I see hawks and owls but that’s really it for predators. Well, some coyotes follow the train tracks about 3 miles from my house and we see a bald eagle in the greater area, but I suspect its range is much much bigger than my area since no one has spotted an eyrie yet.
It is flicker mating season. Just had one pecking my fireplace rocking the house & then I saw him on my trellis doing his mating dance for a female. Never seen that before.
I ever show you my mating dance? It hasn’t worked yet, but I’m not giving up.
That dance almost got Clark Griswold killed!
Used to be a night person. Now I’m a morning person. It’s geographical.
Night owl forced to wake up early (east coast hours in the mountain time zone). I sleep like shit most nights.
Night owl and peppy morning person. But I’m a witch all day long if I’m woken up between midnight and 5:30am. Mostly because then my anxieties kick in and I can’t get back to sleep. Which means I’m sleep deprived and stressed out when morning finally shows up.
late to the party coz im a night owl what has to get up at 5 am…..and as i for some wierd reason overslept by nearly an hour this morning….i didnt have time to say anything before i went to work….and then i forgot
but yeah…..5 am starts and me dont mix….coffee gets me through the day….but once i get back home and stop moving for a minute i am near braindead….like…non communicative
helpfully tho…..by about 9pm i start perking up again…and roundabout 11 ish im having a good time again….which makes me want to stay up coz life is fun again now….so…i do…and then my alarm clock goes off at 5 am again…..
just give me nightshifts please…..or a lottery win