30 thoughts on “The early bird gets the night owl.”
I am an early person. Up at 0430 to walk and then work. bed by 2130.
Every morning? Go you!
I used to be that person, when I use to start work at 7am. But now I’m up between 5:30 and 6:30am. x
I am not a mum; but this morning I woke up at 6am and normally I wake up at 7am.
I generally cannot stay awake too late either; I think 11pm is the latest and I might actually sleep in until almost 8am.
[Last night I think I was in bed at around 10 or 1030pm but I have no work today 😉 hehe]
I am definitely an early bird – I have to be in bed by 9:30 at the latest or I’m super tired the next day! I do get up at 5am for work though 🙂
i have always been a night owl but that seems to be changing….11pm has become my why am I not in bed yet time, it was more around 1am…and this morning I was wide awake at 6am ready to face the day. I was going to have some couch time, eat my breakfast and drink my coffee in the quiet but it didn’t last long before the first of the kids came tiptoeing out to join me.
Honestly, I would prefer to be neither. I love sleep and need a lot of it so I’d prefer to go to bed after the 10 o’clock news and not get up until around 9:00. However, many things keep this from happening. First of all, I am a mom of two… a 13 year old and a 10 year old… who are both very active in sports, scouts and orchestra. Secondly, we have two puppies who cannot sleep in late… well, one of them can’t so the other gets up too. Thirdly, getting older means my body cannot be comfortable in a laying down position that long anymore. I personally, really want to be in bed at a decent time and then be up earlier. The earlier you get up the sooner the stuff you HAVE to do can get done and you can do what you WANT to do. However, since I am a teacher, during the school year, my hafta stuff takes longer than my hafta stuff does during the summer. 🙁 I have only a couple weeks left until I’m back into my teacher hafta stuff.
hafta! I like that. x
Realistically, I like my sleep! And I need a decent amount of it otherwise I feel myself suffering. I sometimes fall asleep putting my daughter to bed and then get up when she wakes the next morning.
Lately though, I am staying up later and getting up earlier. Too busy for sleep, and too much on my mind.
I used to be a night owl and not go to bed until 11:30/12ish and then struggle big time to get up in the morning. Since having 2 kids (now 3 and 1) I prefer to be in bed by 9:30 and I am usually up by 6:30 (although I would love a sleep in til 8 every now and then – not gonna happen!).
I guess you’d say I’m a night owl since I usually don’t get to bed until at least 10.30/11. I usually either suddenly find things I can do at that time, or find something on tv that I accidentally get sucked into. I’m definitely not a morning person – I like to sleep until about 9, but unfortunately I have to get up just before 7 to go to work. I don’t like the early mornings!
I used to wake at 6.00, shower, walk to the store and buy the paper, read it over a three-course breakfast, get ready for work, then train it in to work by 8.00. I’d be there for an hour before anyone else arrived (the most productive hour of my day!). Now? I could stay in bed all day. I don’t – I can’t! – but oh, how I would if I could! Just once!
i have to be in bed by 10pm, or i can’t function the next day. but i wake up at 6.45am, which isn’t even that early! i must just need lots of sleep!
I’m the first one up in the morning (7.15am) have to be otherwise everyone wil be late for school *insert rolling eyes motion* I generally go to bed around 10pm as I have to read before i go to sleep. Helps me to relax 🙂
Weekends I’m up around 8.30am but I make a cuppa and take it back to bed and read for a bit.
Night owl all the way. During the week I normally go to bed at 10ish then read until 12:30, then I get up at 7:30 for work. On the weekend however I’m usually up til 2-3 on Friday and Saturday night and only get up at 11! I’m 31 and we don’t have kids yet so I love not having weekend commitments 🙂
I’m usually in bed around 10-11pm, then up several times with the baby, then I’m up for the day around 5:30/6am. I don’t sleep much!
Before kids, I hardly slept. I was up late every night, and up early for work each week day. BUT…..would sleep til 10am on weekends :)))))
x
I used to be a night owl, especially in school I found the only way I could write a paper was by staying up late and working into the early morning hours, but I am finding as I am getting older around 11 I am ready for bed. I usually read before going to sleep but I want to be in bed doing it not out on the couch!
I can hybrid between the two if needed, like when I am shooting the night sky, or if we are road tripping, but I am an early bird through and through.
Up at 5 AM to workout (blahg) then go to work, which are close to 10 hour days. Then come home and have dinner with my fiance. I am in bed by 10 or 1015 at night. If it’s any later, I get to the gym later, I am frantic, getting ready for work and it chains through the day.
Even on the weekends, our dog is more successful at waking me up (my fiance can seriously sleep through his REALLY LOUD alarm clock, how???) so I am up at 8, then I usually just work on the blog, photos, or doggie and I go on a walk.
We have no children, yet, but with our dog, there is a twice a day tie to the house to tend to her and make sure she has bathroom break.
When I can stick to: in bed by 10ish and up at 5AM, workout, work (or errands if its my one weekday off) more things and back to bed at 10ish, I feel great. I do feel like making some deposits at the sleep back, since I know children tend to shake up the schedule a little 😉
<3
Elizabeth Saxe Coburg-Gotha is an evil woman, why do we slave away at work our whole lives for money with her face on
Interesting, I am the same way.. I am a night owl and yet Cannot sleep anymore past a certain time. Some nights it is four hours only! BUT I used to be a night out, and I would HAVE to get up but when I did not, I could sleep till 1 PM!
I typically go to bed anywhere in between 9-10, and I’m up at 6:30 getting myself & my 2 girls up and ready for the day.
Night owl! Can not wake up in the morning for anything! Except for my morning coffee 🙂
I went to bed at 12:01am this morning, the earliest in ages!! I don’t know why I go to bed so late, it’s so unhealthy. Bub is also a very good sleeper so I usually wake up whenever she does which is anywhere between 9:30 and 10:30 am. So I guess that’s why. I’m trying to change our routine though, this morning I was up at 8 when hubby left for work. Fingers crossed I can keep this up lol!
I so desperately fight to be an early bird, but I think I just not wired that way. Sometimes I’ll stick to a schedule, but it never lasts very long and I revert to staying up late, although these days I’m up far earlier than years gone past. Funnily enough, the earlier I’m up, the greater satisfaction I have with the day because I feel like I’ve achieved a lot more.
Sigh…. During high school I used to be a morning person… Went to uni and with the combination of assignments, readings, pop quizz(not so much pop since we knew they were coming), exams, practical components, presentations and an after lessons job often finishing at 1 or 2 in the morning I turned into a night owl (a very sleep deprived one after graduation). Once I started work (not in what I graduated in – long story I am still too angry about and haven’t forgiven my parents or myself for) I tried to get into a sleeping routine but alas I couldn’t get to sleep before midnight (at least I could nap during the day and sleep in on my days off)… Once I had my eldest there has been no rest and (since my second) have now been surviving on about 4-5 hours of sleep (give or more often take a couple of hours)…. I deperately want to be an early bird but I have trouble going to sleep and don’t even talk about opening my eye lids once I am a sleep… It requires so much strength! lol Who knew eye lids could be the heaviest part of the body!
I am an early bird but since I work night shifts, my body clock’s messed up. I sleep at 11 AM and wake up at 7PM. On weekends, that’s when I get to sleep like a normal person.
I do love the way you have presented this specific difficulty and it really does offer me some fodder for consideration. On the other hand, because of just what I have personally seen, I basically wish as the actual feedback pack on that folks keep on issue and don’t get started on a soap box involving the news du jour. Yet, thank you for this excellent piece and although I do not necessarily go along with the idea in totality, I value the perspective.
Thanks for the auspicious writeup. It indeed was former a merriment commentary it. Glance complicated to remote delivered pleasing from you! But, how can we withhold up a correspondence?
I sure hope I become a night person eventually. I can’t sleep in past 7 (even on my days off) because on my workdays I’m up by 5 and in bed by 10. It’s terrible because if I’m not moving around and stuff on the weekends, I get tired when I should be staying up with friends and whatnot! If you get a sec, I’d love to hear your thoughts on my latest blog posts.
peacelovedecor.com
What a great topic! I was just thinking about this the other day. I became a mom quite young (at 18) so I’m not quite sure if I’ve always been able to survive off little sleep or if it’s because I’m a mom (Or maybe it was the fact that at basic training the drill sergeants never let us sleep more than 4 hours a night). Fast forward 7 years and here we are. I’m 26 now and have 3 little ones (7, 2, and 3 months) and as you can imagine I get VERY little sleep…and even less time to myself. Even on the weekends I find myself waking up by 4:00 am in order to sneak in a little “alone” time catching up on my shows or reading a book or browsing the blogosphere before all my monsters wake up! I don’t mind, though. I love waking up early and having the ENTIRE day to do what I want to (read: get everything done)…it makes me feel accomplished.
Superb read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he really bought me lunch because I discovered it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch!
I am an early person. Up at 0430 to walk and then work. bed by 2130.
Every morning? Go you!
I used to be that person, when I use to start work at 7am. But now I’m up between 5:30 and 6:30am. x
I am not a mum; but this morning I woke up at 6am and normally I wake up at 7am.
I generally cannot stay awake too late either; I think 11pm is the latest and I might actually sleep in until almost 8am.
[Last night I think I was in bed at around 10 or 1030pm but I have no work today 😉 hehe]
I am definitely an early bird – I have to be in bed by 9:30 at the latest or I’m super tired the next day! I do get up at 5am for work though 🙂
i have always been a night owl but that seems to be changing….11pm has become my why am I not in bed yet time, it was more around 1am…and this morning I was wide awake at 6am ready to face the day. I was going to have some couch time, eat my breakfast and drink my coffee in the quiet but it didn’t last long before the first of the kids came tiptoeing out to join me.
Honestly, I would prefer to be neither. I love sleep and need a lot of it so I’d prefer to go to bed after the 10 o’clock news and not get up until around 9:00. However, many things keep this from happening. First of all, I am a mom of two… a 13 year old and a 10 year old… who are both very active in sports, scouts and orchestra. Secondly, we have two puppies who cannot sleep in late… well, one of them can’t so the other gets up too. Thirdly, getting older means my body cannot be comfortable in a laying down position that long anymore. I personally, really want to be in bed at a decent time and then be up earlier. The earlier you get up the sooner the stuff you HAVE to do can get done and you can do what you WANT to do. However, since I am a teacher, during the school year, my hafta stuff takes longer than my hafta stuff does during the summer. 🙁 I have only a couple weeks left until I’m back into my teacher hafta stuff.
hafta! I like that. x
Realistically, I like my sleep! And I need a decent amount of it otherwise I feel myself suffering. I sometimes fall asleep putting my daughter to bed and then get up when she wakes the next morning.
Lately though, I am staying up later and getting up earlier. Too busy for sleep, and too much on my mind.
I used to be a night owl and not go to bed until 11:30/12ish and then struggle big time to get up in the morning. Since having 2 kids (now 3 and 1) I prefer to be in bed by 9:30 and I am usually up by 6:30 (although I would love a sleep in til 8 every now and then – not gonna happen!).
I guess you’d say I’m a night owl since I usually don’t get to bed until at least 10.30/11. I usually either suddenly find things I can do at that time, or find something on tv that I accidentally get sucked into. I’m definitely not a morning person – I like to sleep until about 9, but unfortunately I have to get up just before 7 to go to work. I don’t like the early mornings!
I used to wake at 6.00, shower, walk to the store and buy the paper, read it over a three-course breakfast, get ready for work, then train it in to work by 8.00. I’d be there for an hour before anyone else arrived (the most productive hour of my day!). Now? I could stay in bed all day. I don’t – I can’t! – but oh, how I would if I could! Just once!
i have to be in bed by 10pm, or i can’t function the next day. but i wake up at 6.45am, which isn’t even that early! i must just need lots of sleep!
I’m the first one up in the morning (7.15am) have to be otherwise everyone wil be late for school *insert rolling eyes motion* I generally go to bed around 10pm as I have to read before i go to sleep. Helps me to relax 🙂
Weekends I’m up around 8.30am but I make a cuppa and take it back to bed and read for a bit.
Night owl all the way. During the week I normally go to bed at 10ish then read until 12:30, then I get up at 7:30 for work. On the weekend however I’m usually up til 2-3 on Friday and Saturday night and only get up at 11! I’m 31 and we don’t have kids yet so I love not having weekend commitments 🙂
I’m usually in bed around 10-11pm, then up several times with the baby, then I’m up for the day around 5:30/6am. I don’t sleep much!
Before kids, I hardly slept. I was up late every night, and up early for work each week day. BUT…..would sleep til 10am on weekends :)))))
x
I used to be a night owl, especially in school I found the only way I could write a paper was by staying up late and working into the early morning hours, but I am finding as I am getting older around 11 I am ready for bed. I usually read before going to sleep but I want to be in bed doing it not out on the couch!
I can hybrid between the two if needed, like when I am shooting the night sky, or if we are road tripping, but I am an early bird through and through.
Up at 5 AM to workout (blahg) then go to work, which are close to 10 hour days. Then come home and have dinner with my fiance. I am in bed by 10 or 1015 at night. If it’s any later, I get to the gym later, I am frantic, getting ready for work and it chains through the day.
Even on the weekends, our dog is more successful at waking me up (my fiance can seriously sleep through his REALLY LOUD alarm clock, how???) so I am up at 8, then I usually just work on the blog, photos, or doggie and I go on a walk.
We have no children, yet, but with our dog, there is a twice a day tie to the house to tend to her and make sure she has bathroom break.
When I can stick to: in bed by 10ish and up at 5AM, workout, work (or errands if its my one weekday off) more things and back to bed at 10ish, I feel great. I do feel like making some deposits at the sleep back, since I know children tend to shake up the schedule a little 😉
<3
Elizabeth Saxe Coburg-Gotha is an evil woman, why do we slave away at work our whole lives for money with her face on
Interesting, I am the same way.. I am a night owl and yet Cannot sleep anymore past a certain time. Some nights it is four hours only! BUT I used to be a night out, and I would HAVE to get up but when I did not, I could sleep till 1 PM!
I typically go to bed anywhere in between 9-10, and I’m up at 6:30 getting myself & my 2 girls up and ready for the day.
Night owl! Can not wake up in the morning for anything! Except for my morning coffee 🙂
I went to bed at 12:01am this morning, the earliest in ages!! I don’t know why I go to bed so late, it’s so unhealthy. Bub is also a very good sleeper so I usually wake up whenever she does which is anywhere between 9:30 and 10:30 am. So I guess that’s why. I’m trying to change our routine though, this morning I was up at 8 when hubby left for work. Fingers crossed I can keep this up lol!
I so desperately fight to be an early bird, but I think I just not wired that way. Sometimes I’ll stick to a schedule, but it never lasts very long and I revert to staying up late, although these days I’m up far earlier than years gone past. Funnily enough, the earlier I’m up, the greater satisfaction I have with the day because I feel like I’ve achieved a lot more.
Sigh…. During high school I used to be a morning person… Went to uni and with the combination of assignments, readings, pop quizz(not so much pop since we knew they were coming), exams, practical components, presentations and an after lessons job often finishing at 1 or 2 in the morning I turned into a night owl (a very sleep deprived one after graduation). Once I started work (not in what I graduated in – long story I am still too angry about and haven’t forgiven my parents or myself for) I tried to get into a sleeping routine but alas I couldn’t get to sleep before midnight (at least I could nap during the day and sleep in on my days off)… Once I had my eldest there has been no rest and (since my second) have now been surviving on about 4-5 hours of sleep (give or more often take a couple of hours)…. I deperately want to be an early bird but I have trouble going to sleep and don’t even talk about opening my eye lids once I am a sleep… It requires so much strength! lol Who knew eye lids could be the heaviest part of the body!
I am an early bird but since I work night shifts, my body clock’s messed up. I sleep at 11 AM and wake up at 7PM. On weekends, that’s when I get to sleep like a normal person.
I do love the way you have presented this specific difficulty and it really does offer me some fodder for consideration. On the other hand, because of just what I have personally seen, I basically wish as the actual feedback pack on that folks keep on issue and don’t get started on a soap box involving the news du jour. Yet, thank you for this excellent piece and although I do not necessarily go along with the idea in totality, I value the perspective.
Thanks for the auspicious writeup. It indeed was former a merriment commentary it. Glance complicated to remote delivered pleasing from you! But, how can we withhold up a correspondence?
I sure hope I become a night person eventually. I can’t sleep in past 7 (even on my days off) because on my workdays I’m up by 5 and in bed by 10. It’s terrible because if I’m not moving around and stuff on the weekends, I get tired when I should be staying up with friends and whatnot! If you get a sec, I’d love to hear your thoughts on my latest blog posts.
peacelovedecor.com
What a great topic! I was just thinking about this the other day. I became a mom quite young (at 18) so I’m not quite sure if I’ve always been able to survive off little sleep or if it’s because I’m a mom (Or maybe it was the fact that at basic training the drill sergeants never let us sleep more than 4 hours a night). Fast forward 7 years and here we are. I’m 26 now and have 3 little ones (7, 2, and 3 months) and as you can imagine I get VERY little sleep…and even less time to myself. Even on the weekends I find myself waking up by 4:00 am in order to sneak in a little “alone” time catching up on my shows or reading a book or browsing the blogosphere before all my monsters wake up! I don’t mind, though. I love waking up early and having the ENTIRE day to do what I want to (read: get everything done)…it makes me feel accomplished.
Superb read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he really bought me lunch because I discovered it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch!