Seriously? Why ARE you getting up at 5am???? Santa didn’t come, you don’t have cows,(unless you do), you don’t have a crying baby, there’s nothing on TV but infomercials and the NASA channel! (and seriously, watching the NASA channel ANY time of the day is pretty weird) You don’t have to go to work, it’s DARK outside, hell, there are still STARS in the sky! Why do you get up at 5am?. You’re not alone. There are people all over the world who wake up at 5am and like you, lots of them don’t have to. I think there is something wrong with you. I LOVE my bed. I am always sad to get out from under my nice soft squishy down blanket. Even if I’m wide awake, I’d just as soon stay just a little bit longer. My bed loves me too. I make promises to my bed that I’ll be back soon! (That seems to calm my bed down.. just knowing I’ll be back.) But you bounce out of your bed at 5am. And talk to me.. who is not planning to get up for a while. Oh and for the record, 7:30am is not the afternoon.(neither is 8am.) You are not the first person in my life that has said “good morning sleepyhead” to me as I tear myself away from my beloved pillow to enter the world at 7:30! Apparently I have slept the day away already. What the hell… I might as well go back to bed then. And just exactly what do you do in the “shank” of the day? Unless you’re, like, solving world peace or something.. I think it could wait an hour or two. Oh and that coffee you made at 5am doesn’t taste good at all at 7:30. (just saying).
So what’s up with that, all of you early risers? Do you have some sort of Farmer DNA? To me, the day starts when something is going on like the sun is up or the newspaper is here. By the way, this whole thing does not apply to you if you deliver my newspaper. Thank you for getting up so early but I really don’t need mine till 7ish. Ok, so maybe your job starts at 6am. That does not explain to me why you wake up so early on the weekends. I’d think about looking for a new job if I was you, because really, it’s a lot nicer to wake with the sun. I can feel the sunlight on my closed eyes and I know the world is waiting for me. Of course on a rainy day.. the world can wait a little longer. Not only do you wake up at 5am but you fall asleep around 8pm. If I did that, I’d miss American Idol (Jessica Sanchez knocked it out of the park tonight!) and then how could I join in the conversations with everyone on Facebook?
Ok, it’s 11:00pm now. I think this day is done. It was a good day, a very good day. It started at 7:30am.
Sweet dreams, Night owls, Good morning, Early Birds
Well here it is 2:48am and I am wide awake have not been able to go to sleep. Made berry muffins and egg salad. I am not a morning person but HE is a morning person and comes in every hour to see if I'm awake, when are your getting up, and what time did you say you want to get up???? Grrr leave me alone!!!!! Grew up on a farm and still wasn't an early bird thank goodness I didn't have to go to the barn til later. Why are morning people so damn cheery even without coffee?? I'm a night person and I like it that way...until my grandchildren come and then I am a morning person LOL...Love my grandchildren.
ReplyDeleteIt's 5:15 am, the stars are shining, just turned the coffee on (ya know, the one you're gonna throw out in a couple of hours), and am planning my day. No, I have no cows....never did....but I am one of those morning people who enjoys the peace and solitude of the early morning. While the rest fo the world is sleeping, I organize my thoughts, so when bombarded with everything that interfears with those plans, I can refocus and head back down my desired path.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I enjoy 5am....besides, by 7 am, half the day is gone! ;-)
I can relate to this. I am not a morning person and my body clock painfully reminds me of this every flipping weekday. The moon and stars are still shinning as I drive to work with the car headlights on and it just feels so unnatural. There’s not much point in looking for another job, I think the early bird got that worm! I love sleeping in on the weekends though, my aching soul looks forward to this renewing saving grace!
ReplyDeleteI too live with an early riser who automatically awakens at a ridiculous hour, but is also lucky enough to be able to take a nap and abides by the mantra “sometimes you just get tired from being awake.” Amen to that!
When I retired from my job some 15 years ago I would automatically wake at 5am despite the fact I would go to bed later and later. But over time that 5am got to 6 to 7 to 8 and finally to 9. So if I was to get up at 5am now I would probably go to bed much earlier and miss some late night TV.
ReplyDeleteA word or two about daylight saving’s, research has concluded that “Sleep deprivation, the body's circadian clock and immune responses all can come into play when considering reasons that changing the time by an hour can be detrimental to someone's health,” The Journal of Applied Psychology article also sparked researchers to call on sensible politicians to rethink the whole daylight saving time thing in light of the potential productivity losses it causes. Do you find it amusing that the call to rethink daylight saving’s as a health hazard uses the index of losses in work place and productivity? Implications that the value of someone's health is only equal to their potential job performance?(health = human productivity...myopia)
ReplyDeleteI actually have cows, 2 barns full now, and babies, many, many babies. I like 3 am myself since his alarm goes off at 3:45 am. It gives me a chance to catch up on things I have missed, organize myself, read a book, and sometimes hop on the treadmill. I am a morning person, even on vacation, and when I was in Las Vegas it was a great time to be awake.
ReplyDeleteI see 5a.m. Monday through Friday. I get up long before the rest of my family to have some coffee, do some reading, & take a shower IN PEACE because once 630 hits, all bets are off for the rest of the day. Now, weekends I've been known to sleep until 1030 & then turn around & take a 2 hour nap by 3p.m.!
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