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From: SummersEchos
Date: 06-06-2005, 04:29 PM (1 of 17)
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We had some interesting answers last week. Yes it is nice to be able to dream. This week, it is more about yourself. Nothing earth shattering now, just little quips about our lives. Are you a morning or night person? Is this by choice or due to work, family? If you could change this would you? Summer Summer
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 06-06-2005, 08:52 PM (2 of 17)
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I'm a night person, always have been always will be. I'd 'like' to be able to go to bed at 6am, sleep till about 3 and then have my 'day' start. I was able to do that for many years and I was happy. Now I have to be up at 7 am, but I still can't get to sleep before 1-2 am. I'm not unhappy, just 'off' all the time. It's very hard for a night person to live in a day world...(as most of the world is...) Chrys
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From: allie-oops
Date: 06-06-2005, 09:00 PM (3 of 17)
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Night owl here too - and so are my kids. It was great when hubby was working 2nd or 3rd shift, we'd just all stay up late and get up late. So much of the world doesn't understand that though....so there is some guilt attached, lol. I read an article about John Travolta in Reader's Digest. It said he gets up around 5pm, has breakfast, and starts his day. The whole family does that. No, I wouldn't change it. I love the solitude at night, the quiet....twilight is my favorite time of day.  Allie "onward through the fog"
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User: allie-oops
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 06-06-2005, 09:59 PM (4 of 17)
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I am a early morning and late night person. It is the mid-day I like the least. I like the early morning, it is quiet, I can sit and have my coffee, get ready for the day. I like the night due to the peacefulness of it. I could sit and watch the sky for hours on end. I can relax from the day. Hopefully everything is done and I can just do as I wish. I have always been this way and have no reason to change it. I have 2 groups of friends the early risers (who are also early go to bedders) and the late risers who can stay up most of the night. I am an insomniac, always have been since childhood. Drove my parents and older sister nuts. Summer Summer
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User: SummersEchos
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From: esrun3
Date: 06-07-2005, 12:10 AM (5 of 17)
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I'm a night owl however, since I'm no longer working the night shift at the hospital I am now forced to be a day person, but I have managed to at least get my work hours to be 6am -230pm so I am still up in the early morning. Sad thing is, I'm also up late-not all night like I used to be but still midnightish-especially if I'm reading or sewing!
Lyn
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User: esrun3
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From: Julia's Nana
Date: 06-07-2005, 12:58 AM (6 of 17)
I love the mornings but...........I don't function really well until about ten no matter what time I get up............. My brain doesn't kick in until I have moved around some. My poor kids used to never quite know what to expect in their lunch when they were in grade school but they just met in the lunchroom and traded because well, Mom made the lunch BEFORE the second cup of coffee.  My husband was out of work about three years ago and not having a schedule to follow really messed up my sleep cycle so I am up at all hours........I don't have a hard time going to sleep, but I don't stay asleep. My dr says it is not unusual in someone my age................so I might be sewing or reading or doing dishes at three in the morning. So anymore I just am thankful when I can sleep..........be it in the night or the morning. |
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From: Sancin
Date: 06-07-2005, 02:47 AM (7 of 17)
 Interesting question and one I struggle with. I am a night person through and through, even though over the years I had to adapt. As a nurse before there were 12 hour shifts I loved working the evening shift. The dusk and settling always seemed so peaceful and less people around. Later as a nursing instructor I did my most creative planning in the evening and night and I loved working late with students. My husband and then my children actually told me to stay in bed as I stumbled around trying to get the day going. One child is a day person and one a night person. I wonder if it is hereditary or necessity? I am now retired and finding that while I have the time to work (sew, read, quilt, garden and volunteer work) at my leisure everyone else in the world seems to be starting their days earlier and earlier - especially people my age. I can get up but 1 hour after being up I am sleepy again (part of it health reasons). Travelling with others is difficult as is trying to arrange activities with others. I read of an exercise class in my community that starts at 7 pm and I was first in line. I would love to swim but aquacises start at with 7am or 10 am. C'est la vie. I truly wish I was more alert with others. I do love early mornings as the sun is coming up at 4 am and I am going to bed feeling fresh as I did last night! And then got a phone call at 10 am!
*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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User: Sancin
Member since: 02-13-2005 Total posts: 895 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 06-07-2005, 08:07 AM (8 of 17)
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From childhood and for many years I was a morning person. I was up before six every morning. Then I covered local government for the local paper and was at a lot of late night meetings. And I had to stay up even later writing about them for the morning paper. I would still get up early but would be sluggish for hours. Now I still stay up late to have dinner with my husband when he gets home around 8:30 to 10 p.m., depending on his emergency of the day, but I get tired and sluggish by 11. I would say I have become a mid-day person. But sometimes I'm a little tired and sluggish then too. Dorothy |
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From: grandmasue
Date: 06-07-2005, 09:28 AM (9 of 17)
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I am not a early day person but family and job requires me to be, so I do my best to muddle thru. But once the whole family is in bed and the house is quiet, the creative part of me wakes up and I can design and sew until 3 a.m. Someday my DD will leave the nest and someday I will retire and get to live the sleep pattern that fits me.
Grandma Sue
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Member since: 10-26-2004 Total posts: 138 
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From: esrun3
Date: 06-07-2005, 09:40 AM (10 of 17)
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When I first went to days I used to tell people my best time was between 10am & 2 pm and I was taking lunch in there too so don't bother me before or after those hours! Still pretty much true as I stay up so late at night that I'm dragging in the mornings but I do like the quiet time of the early morning. Used to come home from 12 hour shift and sit on the porch watching the humming birds before going to bed when people were just getting started with their days.
Lyn
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User: esrun3
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From: Hogmami
Date: 06-07-2005, 09:55 AM (11 of 17)
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I was always a morning person. I always worked days than sat and watched my kids sports games at night. After the kids moved on with their own lifes, I transferred to third shift because my dad was real sick and I was needed during the day to help care for him. After my dad died, I went to second shift and love it. I am working second shift again but I still get up early. So I don't know what kind of person I am anymore. It doesn't seem to matter what hours I work, I still get up early.
Carolyn
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User: Hogmami
Member since: 09-30-2004 Total posts: 800 
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From: sewingrandma
Date: 06-07-2005, 08:55 PM (12 of 17)
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The current job requires me to be an early morning person. By the time 9pm rolls around I'm ready for sleep. When DH and I both worked the evening shift we would meet for breakfast at 1am, then hit Wally World and do our shopping, go to bed at 5am and sleep til 1 then get up to get ready for work.
Brockie
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User: sewingrandma
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From: DragonLady
Date: 06-10-2005, 03:11 AM (13 of 17)
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I love late nights & very early mornings but don't really care for the daylight hours. I've tried to change this ever since the kids were born, but I get my days and nights completely out of whack so I'm tired all the time. I intend to get back on my own "right" schedule when the last one moves out...up 'till about 7am, sleep 'till about 3pm and stay up all night again. I'm just so much happier that way.
"No more twist! No more twist!"
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User: DragonLady
Member since: 11-10-2004 Total posts: 152 
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From: pucktricks
Date: 06-10-2005, 10:42 AM (14 of 17)
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I'm not sure that I am a particular type of person. It usually takes me about an hour or so after I get up to get going and I don't like to be talked to during that time. No matter what time I get up I don't really want to get up. And I, pre-twins, tended to stay up later, but now with them I've pretty much been forced to go to bed earlier and get up earlier. Ticia |
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Member since: 03-31-2004 Total posts: 570 
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From: HeyJudee
Date: 06-10-2005, 07:15 PM (15 of 17)
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I consider myself a night person although you would never know it with the hours I keep. Weekdays, I usually drag myself out of bed around 5:45 a.m. and I'm on the bus by 6:30 a.m. I am sitting at my desk with coffee in hand at 7:00 a.m. This way I avoid the rush hour traffic jams (which I hate) and I love being in the office when it is so quiet. But I am a work-aholic as I tend to leave the office anytime after 5:00 p.m. In the evenings I usually have lots of energy until about 9:00 p.m. and then I start to drag myself around. But for some reason as soon as I start preparing for bed at 11:00 p.m. I get my second wind. That is when I have energy galore and start dusting, doing dishes, cleaning, re-organizing, etc. I've seen myself go to wash up before bed and clean my entire bathroom at that time of night. I usually have to tell myself to get to bed or I will never get up in the morning. I could choose to start work at any time I want but for some reason I have been keeping these hours for years.
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From: Sancin
Date: 06-11-2005, 04:40 AM (16 of 17)
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Used to come home from 12 hour shift and sit on the porch watching the humming birds before going to bed when people were just getting started with their days. esrun - I always call that period in the morning being outside before going to bed, magic time. I keep telling myself that it isn't so, but I often feel "I've got a secret" ---- let's not tell anyone  ps. I also feel that magic time driving to work early when there is little traffic on the road - of course frenetic times ahead tends to temper the magic. *~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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User: Sancin
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 06-11-2005, 10:42 PM (17 of 17)
Judy I'm with you. I get my second wind around here about 12 midnight. I'm usually up by 8:00AM or a little after but most mornings I go to bed at 3:00AM or 4AM. This morning I had to go to a quilt class and I had to travel about 80 miles to get there so I left home at 7:00AM to meet my friend. I didn't go to sleep last night until 2:30AM and my husband set the alarm for 5:00AM thinking I had to get up that early so I'm dragging tonight  . I think I might make staying up till 9:45PM. (It's now 9:40) Good night, this is the earliest I've gone to be bed in years. If I don't go now I'm going to fall off the chair I'm sitting on. LOL
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