Getting up at 6.30 when you feel groggy and you can hear the rain beating against the window and you know you have to go out in it is the best feeling ever.
Set my alarm for 6am and was up, showered and dressed by 6.10. Spent the last 45 mins sat nursing a coffee and some porridge reading the news. This is MY time, I'm gonna own this day.
Not everything is The Best or Shit. Theres many levels between that, lets just enjoy stuff.
Wasn't too bad for me getting up this morning, despite the rain and facing a commute to Milton Keynes.
I woke up panicking about " getting the 4 so the 400 will happen". No fucking idea what that is all about.
I am always awake at night and tired in the mornings. My life would be vastly improved if there was a way of reversing it. A manual labour job helped for a while, and i found myself getting very tired around 6pm, but at around 9pm i found myself waking up again. And who the fuck wants to go to bed straight after work? What sort of an existence is that?
My dad pretty much finishes work and goes to bed. He likes the mornings, but then he doesn't drink, doesn't socialise all that much, and usually finishes work late. He's happy with it.
My tiredness during the day would vastly improve if I didn't stay up playing games. And then get woken up in middle of night by a 2-year old having nightmares. Every night.
I set the alarm for 8:15, woke up at 8:10 and scooted out of bed like Boycott would hope.
Skerret's posting is ok to trip balls to and read just to experience the ambience but don't expect any content. "I'm jealous of sucking major dick!"~ Kernowgaz
Definitely prefer staying up to getting up. At university I barely saw daylight. I have had disciplinary problems at various jobs due to poor punctuality, despite generally OK performance.
I've become better over the years as my career progressed and I was less able to fuck about with mornings but the real shock to the system is, as others have mentioned, offspring.
Erik is actually quite nice to us: he rarely wakes up during the night and doesn't properly get up until 7. But what really changed is that our weekends are no different from weekdays, so the routine was more enforced.
I now think that there's some mileage in that research which seems to suggest that many people in fact try to sleep too much - I thought I needed 8-9 hours min to be OK, but now I'm functioning better on 7.
As for all these dads posting that they can stay in bed - how the fuck do you get away with that? My wife would murder me if I started kipping until 10 with Erik running about.
Weekday mornings is also prime time to spend with the little man, there's none of this "hanging out with a coffee and the paper" bollocks, it's all trains and planes and fucking endless cars.
I'll borrow one of your kids, they can sleep in my woolen clothes drawer (v. comfy I reckon) and you can have them back for weekends. I am never siring my own youth, so hopefully you can all pool together and arrange this for me ta. x