Well, if you consider 11am morning. Which I guess I do. Because I just started my day.
I keep really weird hours, partially because I'm a night owl - I get energetic and awake around 4pm until, oh, 2 am or so - partially because Bill works nights so our life-schedule has kinda shifted in that direction. Bill, however, is one of those leap out of bed when the first pale line of pink appears in the eastern sky with a hearty 'What a beautiful day!' a laugh and a stretch before bounding out to meet the world.
I, however, will groan and roll over and hide my head under the pillow. Then, later, when I do mostly wake up, I'll stagger to the bathroom, yawn through my shower, and stumble through the day until about 4pm (stealing a early afternoon nap if I can) then I'm busy, busy busy until I finally get sleepy sometime in the wee hours of the night.
I keep trying to change and it's just not working. Strange thing, isn't it, our own natural rhythms? When I worked paycheck kinda jobs, I LOVED working second shift, 4pm to midnight, it was a natural fit for me, but my husband doesn't take night work as well. He will convert, almost instantly, to daytime hours on weekends and vacations. Heck, he's outside right now with the weed-eater while I'm sitting here bleary and blogging. And he worked all night. Sure, he took a 2 hour nap with me after he got home, but still. He worked all night and he's outside right this moment being energetic and productive.
Things like this make me wonder sometimes what other preferences are naturally wired into us. Is our sense of taste (for example, I much prefer crunchy/salty things over sweet things) natural or learned? Creativity? Work ethic? Political beliefs? Fitness habits? Vocabulary? Problem solving? Kinkiness? Questing for knowledge? Loyalty? Depression? Music?
Bill's the only eager early-riser in his family. I'm my family's night owl. Why is that?
It's something for me to think about as I stumble through making lunch for my busy family. I hope y'all have a great day pondering your own ponderings.
2 comments:
My ideal wake-time is 7am to midnight. Right now I'm sleeping 10:30 to 5:30 and I don't like it. Grumble.
I, however, don't have a sleepy switch. I'm either asleep, or awake. So I also bound out of bed in the morning. Or in the middle of the night (I get up with the baby because I also fall back to sleep in thirty seconds or less).
Shrug. It is what it is. My wife is often tired and grumpy, but she can exist on four hours of sleep for weeks at a time. I cannot.
Jeff, I rarely get more than four of five hours of sleep and it's normal for me.
And, yeah, it is what it is. {{huggs}}
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