My damn wife has roosters, so I’m up around 4am, like it or not. The only thing I get done is cursing the bastards.
She sleeps late, and I make no attempt to keep the dogs from doing their little bark-party around 8am.
Welcome to Passive-AgressiveLand!
We’re on this earth to do a certain number of useful things.
I’m conserving my list. At my rate, I’ll live forever.
You? Enjoy speeding yourself to your early grave. 
It’s interesting how the same life events shape us all differently.
My military career taught me to sleep whenever I could. I do still wake up at 6 AM, but it requires no effort to roll over and resume sleep.
And I can take a power nap any time and place I have the opportunity, which is somewhat useful keeping up total sleep hours. My wife envies that I can basically will myself to sleep and wake up refreshed.
ETA: the only thing that makes sleeping in hard nowadays is GETTING OLD.
Night owls can also be pretty shitty when you are explaining that you have no interest in going to a late movie or a party because you can’t keep your eyes open. They often seem to think it just has to be a bullshit made-up excuse because it’s not possible you actually go to bed by 9:00.
Hmmm…I’m on vacation and I got up at 5:15 on Monday–so I could catch sunrise at Glacier Point.
This morning my 5:30 wake up call was the honking of Canada geese…rather rude of them. However, a glance outside my balcony window revealed a beautiful day and a clear view of Mt. Shasta.
Smug? Guilty as charged.
[Smug]Nice view of your neighbor’s A/C unit. :rolleyes: [/Smug]
I just wish I could sleep more than 4 hours at a time. Because I am a lazy ass I don’t care what time of day it is. Sleep blissful sleep eludes me. I am convinced I will die completely awake.
My wife has GERD. Not a big deal at all, so long as she doesn’t eat large meals late. Just try to get people to schedule a dinner before 6 p.m.!
I find I can get more done if I come into work early rather than stay late. If I run into a problem, I can wait an hour and someone will be available, vs. waiting overnight.
Another advantage is that sleeping until 7:00 on weekends feels like luxury. Or at least it would feel like luxury if it ever happened - Leet the Wonder Dog[sup]TM[/sup] has not mastered the concept of “weekends” as of yet. So I tend to get a cold, wet nose and a large pokey paw encouraging me to let him out to go potty and fix him some breakfast.
Regards,
Shodan
Oh my gosh do you go to bed by 9:00 too? My early bedtime is a running joke among my friends!!
Also, just want to add that some people are smug about how little sleep they get. Maybe smug’s the wrong word, but my friends who don’t sleep for very long love to tell me how they only got two hours of sleep the night before (or something like that).
My dad used to brag about getting up at 5:30 every morning. The problem was, he’d come home drunk after work and pass out on the couch after dinner until it was time to get up and go to bed. So yeah, big deal. :rolleyes:
All of this. I love getting home at 6:30 a.m. after I’ve been to a workout class and thinking, damn, the house is STILL quiet.
And don’t get me started on the roadtrips - my husband likes to get on the road right after work. You know, during rush hour when it takes an hour to get out of the metro area. I LOVE leaving as early as possible. Not only do I have the whole day, there is no traffic, and I get to do most of my driving in daylight, which is way, way, way better (I get sleepy early since I get up so early, so driving all night is not a good idea).
Most people are smug about whatever it is they do. I don’t think it matters whether they get up early, late or somewhere in the middle.
Yeah, bunch of quitters giving up on the day so early!
Geez, go ahead and feel smug about having done a lot of work before I got out of bed.
As if I’m not doing the same amount of work after those hours. :rolleyes:
In high school I was up at 4am to attend basketball, volleyball, or marching band. It was pretty awful, but I managed to do it because I loved these activities, but it took a lot out of me and I’d fall asleep in classes.
I was in corporate 8am -5pm jobs for a few decades, so I was usually up at five and was tired all of the time, even if I had slept well. In spite of being forced to rise early since I was 15yo, my body never adjusted to early bird demands.
The last few years I’ve had a great deal of freedom with my teaching schedule so I can follow my own circadian cycle. I go to bed at 2am, rise at 10am, and feel great for the remainder of the day. When my early bird colleagues crow about the virtues of rising early, I remind them that my snooze schedule is closer to natural human sleep cycles. Sleeping schedules of the past favored night owls in many ways: Your Ancestors Didn’t Sleep Like You - SlumberWise - Sleep tight, every night
Agree with all the above, except I can’t usually fall back to sleep if I wake up and it’s light outside. Yeah, drives my wife crazy, too: turn off the lights, say goodnight, and I’m gone within 30 seconds.
Yup. Those sleepyheads are wasting valuable hours of their life just lying down. Plenty of time for lying down later, when you’re dead.
That’s pretty much my ‘natural schedule’ too. When I’m working, I typically fall back into this on the weekend and then suffer on Monday mornings.
I’ve worked all the shifts, can adapt to all of them, but left to my own devices, I fall straight back to being up until @2am and sleeping until @10am. Sometimes a little earlier but more often a little later.
I am an early riser. I can not help it. I am retired with no place I need to be and wake every morning between 4-5am (without an alarm.)
I can not think of any time in my life when I have acted or felt smug about anything.
Uh oh . . . wait hear it comes. . .I fell smug about my lack of smugness:D