How do you get up in the morning?

[Refuge]

Queensland does not do daylight saving, we don't want our curtains to fade or confuse the cows when it's milking time or some such thing. I don't understand these arguments but they still get trotted out on a regular basis. So about 4:AM the guy down the road gently warms up his Harley letting it idle and then ever so thoughtfully takes it down the road past our window - sigh. The light then starts to take over the dark and the fight to get more sleep is lost. Nine times out of ten I get up before my other half and crack the whip so he has to exercise. He won't otherwise. Actually I do everything (little violin) in the morning. The coffee, the breakfast, our lunches, sort the cat out, make the bed etc. etc. He does the evening stuff. Makes me a cup of tea.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Lately I try not to get up in the morning.

 

[Jayson1]

Does this question keep you up at night?

I so wish I had come up with that joke. If could sleep better maybe it would have came to me.

Jason

 

[Spot261]

I so wish I had come up with that joke. If could sleep better maybe it would have came to me.

Jason

I wouldn't lose any sleep over it

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Queensland does not do daylight saving

And for that it should be proud. DST is an abomination.

 

[Jayson1]

I wouldn't lose any sleep over it

But then I will spend the next day having day dreams about the perfect sleep joke.

Jason

 

[Spot261]

But then I will spend the next day having day dreams about the perfect sleep joke.

Jason

Sleep on it?

 

[Relayer1]

Go to bed about midnight, wake up between 7.30 and 8.30 unless Mrs Relayer or I are at work, in which case the alarm is at 6.40 and I'll get up a few minutes later. I'm ready and out of the house in about 40 minutes.

I hate getting up, so now I'm working part time I'm glad I don't have to do it too much.

 

[Jayson1]

Sleep on it?

I guess I could try ambien. That has been known to inspire, jokes!

Jason

 

[J.T.B.]

Until recently I had a radio with an alarm that started quietly and increased in volume over a few seconds so it wasn't jarring. I had one that lasted about 15 years before it died, then another that broke after only two years so I use my phone now. It's set for 04:45. I usually wake a few minutes before it goes off, but not always. I usually lie there a few minutes and then at some point make a decision to get up. I put on a headlamp with a red filter so I don't have to turn on any lights and head to the kitchen for coffee prep. On weekends/days off I don't use an alarm and usually wake up between 6 and 6:30.

 

[Riker'sMailbox]

I usually wake up before my alarm goes off. I am a light sleeper with two small kids and a husband that leaves for work very early. So, I usually drag in the morning until I take my shower. I am wide awake after that and ready for morning craziness.

 

[Refuge]

And for that it should be proud. DST is an abomination.

I have mixed feelings about it. It really IS quite bright and often hot by about six in the morning. Like as I type it is not quite seven and looking outside you would think it was midday. If the clocks were pushed back the day would 'start' using up this daylight One wakes anyway.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

DST just doesn't make logical sense. You can't arbitrarily redefine what constitutes day and night simply by moving the clock around.

I mean, why is it such a big damn deal WHEN the sun comes up or goes down? Time is time, after all. We should pick one and stick with it.

 

[Refuge]

DST just doesn't make logical sense. You can't arbitrarily redefine what constitutes day and night simply by moving the clock around.

I mean, why is it such a big damn deal WHEN the sun comes up or goes down? Time is time, after all. We should pick one and stick with it.

I blame the clocks. Clocks (I love clocks actually but that is another story)... but clocks control us. Whoever sets them runs the World.

You know I'm right.

 

[Avro Arrow]

We should pick one and stick with it.

I totally agree. And that "one" should be Savings Time!

Going back to Standard is the worst. And speaking of... for me, and others who live in NA (at least, not sure about other locations) and observe Savings Time, the return is this weekend.

 

[Leviathan]

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[MacLeod]

I totally agree. And that "one" should be Savings Time!

Going back to Standard is the worst. And speaking of... for me, and others who live in NA (at least, not sure about other locations) and observe Savings Time, the return is this weekend.

The UK already went back to GMT last Sunday.

But if you're interested

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country

 

[Boomstick]

I can't believe so many of you have to get up so early, I don't envy you at all.
I hate waking up, it's like being born again every day and it takes me a good 90-120 minutes before my brain is completely conscious/functional. At the moment I work two part-time jobs and I'm studying a masters, so my schedule is all over the place, which doesn't help too much.

What we need to do is kill all of the morning people, then the rest of us wouldn't ever have anywhere to be first thing.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

LOL that's a somewhat extreme measure. I used to be a night owl, too, when I was in my teens and twens. At mid-50 I am now an early bird. The time you wake up changes the older you get. They always say old people need less sleep. That's fundamentally wrong. They simply wake up earlier (and often half a dozen times through the night).

 

[Boomstick]

LOL that's a somewhat extreme measure. I used to be a night owl, too, when I was in my teens and twens. At mid-50 I am now an early bird. The time you wake up changes the older you get. They always say old people need less sleep. That's fundamentally wrong. They simply wake up earlier (and often half a dozen times through the night).

I'm not so much a night owl, although sometimes I end up staying up stupidly late to finish my reading for university, it's just that if I wake up before it's fully light then my brain doesn't kick into gear. It's really bad, I can't function properly at all, I'll forget what I'm doing while making a bowl of cereal even though I've already poured out the cornflakes and I have a spoon in my hand.

In my early twenties I worked in a hospital, my shifts were 6am to 6pm, which meant waking up at about 4am. It was really weird, because I wasn't at full capacity in the morning it felt to me like my alarm went off and then it just suddenly was midday 11am and I was sitting at my desk at work. It was a bit like when you black out drunk and then are suddenly aware you're in the queue in a McDonalds.