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| Fri, 09-07-2007 - 12:55pm |
Am I the only person that goes to bed early? LOL!!!
After reading some of your posts, it sounds like quite a few of you go to bed really late (or what I consider to be late). How do you do that and function the next day? I have never had the capability to stay up until 2 or 3 in the a.m. and then go to work the next morning. On the weekends if I do that, I'm dragging the next day.
I was checking out the "who viewed me" section on Cupid, and it showed that most of the men that viewed me had done so like at anywhere from 10:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. This guy I had viewed earlier one evening, viewed me at 1:58 in the morning. I would have like to have chatted it up with this guy, but good grief....I gotta go to bed!!
Maybe this is why I'm not having much luck with OLD! I go to bed too early! LOL

I can't imagine staying up til 2am either. I wonder if you see posts on here that seem earlier because of time zone differences or someone working later hours?
Anyway, I think the online dating sites that have the chat windows seem to attract men who get lonely and want to chat late at night and that is not necessarily a good filter. POF is one example that comes to mind. If you want to go to bed early then you should not be expected to chat late at night, which never appealed to me either - and maybe you want to try one of the more traditional sites like match that encourage email and matching and dating?
Maybe the others have good tips and stories, too.
I am physically at work until 8 pm.
I have an hour (roughly) commute, so it's 9 before I get home.
The kids are bathed and fed and settled in, so I spend 15-25 minutes with each one alone. By the time I've finished talking and tucking and reading and kissing, it's 10.
I need to eat, so by the time I fix something, or warm up whatever's leftover from their dinner, it's 10:30. Then I need to do the dishes (luckily it's just a matter of loading the dishwasher), look over their homework, and fill out anything they brought home for me, clean up, walk the dog, and since we've only just moved, I spend about an hour on unpacking/discarding/sorting.
Catch up with funnyguy briefly before he goes to bed, check email, message boards, pay bills, etc etc etc...
Toss in a load of laundry on my way to bed, and hopefully I can get to sleep before 1-2am. I'm a night person, so staying up late doesn't bother me in the slightest. Getting up at 5:15 kills me, but a mother's work is never done ;-)
Moody, who doesn't need much sleep
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I've always been a night owl..... Even if i stay home, sometimes i can't fall asleep til after midnight... if i had the internet at home... after midnight would be the perfect time for me to be online... because i feel like chatting... Since i don't have the internet, after midnight is great for journally or reading. Or going out!!!
Another good thing for me is that i have friends in hawaii... because of the time difference i can call after midnight and it's early eve for them....
As far as dragging the next day.... sure it happens sometimes.... I try to pace myself... i can manage one or two nights a week of getting less than 6 hours of sleep... but after eating lunch, i usually get a second wind.... And it only takes one night of getting 8 hrs for me to feel refreshed. I'm grateful that all my children sleep thru the night these days... before that i went to bed early but kept waking up all night.... so even then, i got little sleep.
Loonybunny - who does not plan on slowing down any time soon....tehehehe
Personally, after my kids go to bed I consider the next few hours "me time." After cooking dinner, helping with homework, doing laundry, and playing a game or something with them it is generally betwwen 9pm and 10pm that they are in bed. I get to bed around 2am or so because I usually watch at least one movie and then check my e-mail, call back anyone whose call I missed, etc. (though lately it's been more like 3am...damn you "One Tree Hill!").
I usually get no more than 5 hours of sleep per night but my body clock is conditioned to the point that that's really all I need. Any more than that and I feel groggy all day. I am definitely a night owl myself and having as much "me time" as possible takes precedence over getting the "recommended" amount of sleep, otherwise I'd go bonkers.
If it werent' for work or kids (and their school)- we'd never wake up as early as we do! I'd be up past 2am all the time! I am SUCH a night owl... but I just can't be one anymore when there is work and school calling at the crack of dawn now.
I remember the old college days when I used to go to bed around 4am on weeknights, and sun-up on the weekends! lol
Now, it's "staying up" if I'm awake past 11pm! :-P
~shrimpy
~shrimpy
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