If you asked, I would tell you that I am one hundred percent, completely and totally NOT a morning person. During the week when my alarm goes off at 6:00a.m. I find myself hitting snooze repeatedly, and by 6:30a.m. I am having to force myself to get out of bed. I would also tell you that I cannot remember the last time I woke up feeling refreshed and ready to start the day (okay, so I CAN remember - it was exactly eight months and ten days ago).(That would be July 10, 2008 for those of you who are wondering.)
(I know, it's pathetic that I remember the exact date of the last time I actually felt like I got a decent night's sleep.)
(Don't judge me.)
After my alarm has gone off and I am hitting snooze, desperate
ly trying to ignore the fact that if I do not get out of bed I am going to be late for work, I often think about the movie Bruce Almighty, when Jim Carrey's character Bruce is throwing a temper tantrum when he has to get out of bed in the morning. I often have to stifle the urge to start kicking and throwing just such a tantrum myself. (Seeing as how I sleep on my futon, without it being folded out so it is like a couch rather than like a bed, the reality of my throwing such a tantrum would most likely end with me falling on the floor.)The funny thing is, I know I am more productive in the morning than I am at any other time of day, and most mornings I naturally wake up around 5:30a.m. On the occasions when I actually get out of bed rather than rolling over and falling back asleep, I feel much better than when I have allowed myself to hit snooze. Either way though, I am still generally tired throughout the entire day, and most nights I am ready to pass out around nine or ten o'clock (yet I usually don't go to bed until almost midnight). I find it nearly impossible to wake up in the morning, yet I also struggle to stay up late at night. So, if I'm neither a morning person nor a night owl, what does that make me?
I think it might be time for me to accept the fact that I am meant to be a morning person, and I need to start going to bed earlier.
2 comments:
In order to become a morning person I had to start going to bed earlier. It was the only way it would work for me!
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OMG I relate to this! I am such a grump in the morning that I just avoide talking to anyone until about 10 am. I also find that if I get up when I wake up my day is much better but I always roll over and go back to sleep. Then it's all downhill from there.
I love that scene in Bruce Almighty. I have actually had a fe of those tanturms. ;)
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