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Today I woke up at 5:20 am. Tomorrow, I'm gonna wake up at 5am. How's that compared to your wake-up time?
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The girls (2dogs, 2 cats) generally get me up between 5:30 and 5:45 am)- If they don't sleep- NOBODY sleeps!
-------------------- Catharine C. Kennedy CCK Graphics 1511 Route 28 Chatham Center, NY 12184 cck1620@taconic.net "Look at me, Look at me, Look at me now! I't's fun to have fun, But you have to know how!" Posts: 2173 | From: downtown Chatham Center, NY | Registered: Feb 2004
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6:46am here right now. Sometimes the only way you can get work done is to do it when the phones calls are not distracting your train of thought.
Plus, it's 90 degrees here the last few days, and it's cooler in the early AM.
MC
-------------------- Mike Clayton M C Grafix Custom Lettering New Jersey (again) Posts: 508 | From: New Jersey | Registered: Apr 1999
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Hehehehe, I'm normally up between 5 and 6. But I started a new physical training program that has me up and out the door very early. Today it was 4am. On Monday I start wroking out at 4, so I have to be up and out of the house between 3:30 and 3:45. Yuck!
Havin' fun (but a little sore),
Checkers
-------------------- a.k.a. Brian Born www.CheckersCustom.com Harrisburg, Pa Work Smart, Play Hard Posts: 3775 | From: Harrisburg, Pa. U.S.A. | Registered: Nov 1998
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i'm up around 5am...then i start peddling my fat asss up bear notch mtn(all dirt roads)5.4 miles uphill. today was awesome as i got to follow a huge moose on the ride down. i love getting up early, i feel awesome after my ride and i'm ready to tackle my workload by 9am.
-------------------- Karyn Bush Simply Not Ordinary, LLC Bartlett, NH 603-383-9955 www.snosigns.com info@snosigns.com Posts: 3516 | From: Bartlett, NH USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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I try to get up by 6:30-7:30 in the summer time when my daughter is out of school. I think it would be easier if I could sleep at night. I'm pretty positive I have some kind of sleep disorder (AKA husband's snoring is unreal!!).
My daughter sleeps until 9-10 everyday.
-------------------- Amy Brown Life Skills 101 Private Address Posts: 3502 | From: Lake Helen, FL, USA | Registered: Feb 2001
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I'm usually awake by 4:30-5am in the summer and 7am in the winter. I stopped using alarm clocks then learned I wake up naturally, and more refreshed, right at sunrise.
Amy, my bedtime is anywhere between 10pm and midnight, just depends how tired I am. Are you having problems waking up through the night or just falling asleep? it could just be related to your lifestyle. Could be stress related, husband related , too much or too little activity through the day or activity too close to bedtime (gotta have time to wind down), even your diet.
If your mind is racing at night keeping you awake, head to your local vitamin/nutritional supplement store and pick up some 5-HTP, otherwise known as Tryptophan. Try taking one or two capsules on an empty stomach 30-60 minutes before bedtime. Tryptophan boosts serotonin levels which makes you feel all calm, warm and fuzzy inside, helping you fall asleep.
If you wake up through the night try taking some melatonin. It regulates the circadian rhythym which controls your sleep patterns.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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the day I wake up at 5am, you can all stab me in the chest with a pair of scissors. As long as I get 7 or 8 hours sleep, I'm good to go. I book my work after 10:30am which works up this way. I get to sleep way past midnight all the time
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
Get him to the nearest sleep study clinic. If he has what it sounds like he us suffering and gets treated,, you will never sleep better afterwards..
Ask my wife...
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Joey, it's a good thing you never became a farmer. Although I wake up early, it still takes me almost 2 hours from bed to dressed and out the door.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3820 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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During the week, the alarm gets me up at 7am so I can get cody off to school. Weekends with no alarm, body clock wakes me up 7:30-8:00 usually.
For the life of me, I can't stay up past 10pm these days.
I was wondering too what kind of night life you extreme morning people have! Seems to be one or the other, never both. My mom is a total night owl but she sleeps through her alarm every morning. She's 80 so she's earned the right.
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I just took my son to a neurologist who's a sleep disorder expert. After a bit of an interview he told me that we (the whole family-it's genetic) has a "delayed onset sleep syndrome"... that means we are naturally night owls. He said that a special bluelight therapy (called a 'Go-Light') would help to correct this, as normal schedules (like school) won't allow delayed sleep patterns. This is really interesting to me. If I could sleep & wake when I want to, I'd go to sleep after midnight and wake around 10 a.m. Life won't allow for that here...
-------------------- Nancie W. Phillips White Dove Painting Studio 74 Dacula Road, Dacula, GA 30019 678-887-3339
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Nancy, I personallyt think that some of us are night people and we do not have a sleeping disorder. Since I was a child, I always stayed up late, My Father and brother are the same way. my nephew, is the same way. We don't all have to comform to the rest of society.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3820 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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That's pretty much what the Dr. said too... He said it's labled a "syndrome" and not a "disorder" because it's just a tendency to be a little different. The only reason to do anything to change those tendencies is so that one could successfully function in a time frame that's not so natural to them. Like my kids having to get up early for school. It's a real battle to get them to dial down at night so that they're not sleep deprived.
-------------------- Nancie W. Phillips White Dove Painting Studio 74 Dacula Road, Dacula, GA 30019 678-887-3339
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Well Alicia based on time zones I'm jumping out of bed about 2-3 hours earlier than you. Otherwise I'm out of bed anywhere between 5 and 6am usually.
-------------------- Harris Kohen K-Man Pinstriping and Graphix Trenton, NJ "Showing the world that even I can strategically place the pigment where its got to go." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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Alicia, I've actually been a part time farmer for some time and most of my tools work by themselves through a timer including watering, this way I can get my beauty rest and have splendid crops to boot.
This morning I was up and out striping by 8am, finished by 11am and home by noon just in time for my nap than out again for a car show.
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
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I can change my schedule anytime but it takes about a month to get used to. Right now I wake up about 5 am and the cat makes sure she gets a bite to eat and sits in my window. If she's a pest, I shut her out of the bedroom so I can snooze some more. Her fav place is the top of my plotter, yes, I have it in my bedroom. She then tries to get ontop of the scanner and dsl, then the keyboard, arghhhh. so out she goes if she isn't good. ...me? I enjoy starting at about 10:30 a.m. whatever time zone I'm in.
-------------------- Deb Fowler
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Nancie, Funny you mentioned the 'Go Light' as I got one three years ago and it certainly helps during the winter months. I really found the lack of sun depressing and having to get up in the dark really got me off to a bad start.
We usually head to bed about 10pm and get up at 6am.
-------------------- Miles Cullinane, Cork, Ireland.
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I used to be an early to bed early to rise fella. Now, I listen to the radio til all hours. Old Shows and Coast to Coast. My official start time is 9:00 am. I work til about 5:30 or more. The girls get in to the office just before 8:00 am and work til 4:30. In the summer I enjoy the long daylight hours sitting out on the screened deck til 11:00. Sometimes I curl up on the couch out there and spend the night. I never set an alarm anymore unless I'm catching a plane. I'm big on naps these days... Raymond is really on to something.
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