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The Anchorage, Part 3
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Lorraine
The Wicked Witch of the North
One of the things that really annoys me about some of the early risers I know is their holier than thou attitude. It's like they think because they get up early it makes them a better, more intelligent, more everything person. Well I've got news for them, it don't. These are the same people who can't stay awake at night and pike out of dinner parties early or whinge about programs on tv that start after 9.30pm. As Eeyore says "pathetic, that's what it is, no better from this side".
I wasn't quite so bad when I first retired 12 years ago, but after 40 years of getting out of bed around 7:00am every morning to catch an 8:10am bus so I could get to work on time . . . well there just wasn't any fudging with the time I had to get up. 
I didn't get up much later than that the years I drove to work either. Now, unless I have an early morning doctor's appointment, I don't get up early because I'm up late. Then again, I was always a night owl when I was working too. Don't know how I kept the hours I did back when I was working full time. ~shakes head~
I didn't get up much later than that the years I drove to work either. Now, unless I have an early morning doctor's appointment, I don't get up early because I'm up late. Then again, I was always a night owl when I was working too. Don't know how I kept the hours I did back when I was working full time. ~shakes head~
Good afternoon...I'm still in my jamies but I have been up since very early(Sorry Lorraine...I'm one of those annoying early risers but I don't think it makes me a better person just one on with a different biological clock and a back that won't let me sleep in past about 8am.) been busy making play doh and laminating stuff for tomorrow...I'm going to have a breaak for a while and read a book though!
Lorraine
The Wicked Witch of the North
Don't be sorry, Pen, neither you nor Terre ever get holier than thou! It's those smarmy sanctimonious persons I'm irritated with (yes, Angie, that's you I'm talking about). Makes me wanna punch her! And I am sorry your back gives you gyp, Pen, that sucks. Mine own back is only intermittently awful and no one likes being around me when it is...I'm more irritable than usual. I suffer from Irritable Owl Syndrome
And it is good we have completely different biological clocks, Terre, sure do like being able to chat like we do.
And it is good we have completely different biological clocks, Terre
, sure do like being able to chat like we do.
Lorraine
The Wicked Witch of the North
Bad, Miss B, BAD?! We're not bad! We are bloody wonderful owls
And yes, I never get up early unless I have to. And I generally make sure I don't have to. Bus trips are my bete noire.
Ahhhhhhh. We have long distance buses as well as trains, but the ones I use most often are local routes.We don't have a train
Lorraine
The Wicked Witch of the North
I don't use the trains when I'm in Auckland cos the stations are few and far between...but the buses, hot damn, they are so great! I can hop on a bus and pretty much go anywhere I want...it may take a couple of buses but I love being independent of peeps with cars, no waiting, no parking problems. Something I can only wish for up here.
Geeze, and I thought I was the only one who didn't get out of bed until noon, or there abouts.
Nope, it's not just you! I am by nature, completely nocturnal. Left to my own devices, no appointments or other icky requirements that demand I be awake in the daylight (shudder) and I will be up all night, and go to bed around 8am, and then sleep until 2pm...
When I was working outside of the house, I kept the "dreaded" graveyard shift for hours. It worked out easily enough, as I was a nurse's aide, and most people don't like to work overnights. So it was pretty easy to find a position at that point, and I actually had to turn down hours a lot, as most folks won't come in on the day/night off to cover an overnight shift for someone, either.
Nowadays, I'm still naturally nocturnal, and my body does not like to function before 2pm. My husband is a union carpenter though, and he is one of those people who thinks that because he gets up at 430am, everyone else should be up, too... so he wakes me up every blasted morning when he gets up, if I'm not already awake... and then wonders why he gets growled at. Or, if he leaves me alone and I rack out around 8am, he's in there at 930 and 10am grumping at me that I'm in bed too late.
He was just so thrilled to realize that our daughter has the same biological clock as her momma, let me tell you.
You can say this again!! And again, and again, and again!! I fought that battle for years! I have dealt with so many people who think this way... and others who believe I'm lazy just because I sleep during the day. They don't see all the housework getting done at night, or bills being paid, etc, because they are in bed. But because they know I sleep all day, I'm automatically labeled as being lazy.
Well, they can all just take a long walk off a short pier as far as I'm concerned.
I deal with this constantly. I've tried to switch over to a diurnal schedule. You know what? I get sick. I get very sick. It's not worth it to fight my body on this. My circadian rhythm is backwards, and that's that! I'm a nocturnal creature. Period. It's not worth putting myself into the hospital just to appease a bunch of judgmental people who think they know better.If I could sleep at normal hours, I would! I don't like being exhausted because I had to stay awake for 36+ hours just to get errands done at places who think noon or 3pm is a great time to shut their doors for the day. I don't like having to rush out the door with my eyes barely open to get errands done at places that close up shop at 4 or 5pm. If I could sleep on a diurnal schedule, I would. I can't, and that's just the way I made, and if they don't like it, tough jigglies.
On the flip side, though.... it means that when I'm working on here nowadays, I'm up all with all you Euros and Other-Side-Of-The-Great-Pond folks.
I can deal with that!
Don't be sorry, Pen, neither you nor Terre ever get holier than thou! It's those smarmy sanctimonious persons I'm irritated with (yes, Angie, that's you I'm talking about). Makes me wanna punch her! And I am sorry your back gives you gyp, Pen, that sucks. Mine own back is only intermittently awful and no one likes being around me when it is...I'm more irritable than usual. I suffer from Irritable Owl Syndrome
And it is good we have completely different biological clocks, Terre
lol...I love your description Irritable Owl Syndrome...so cute! My daughter is like that. Regularly sleeps in to at least noon. Annoys my husband no end but I don't mind. When she needs to she gets herself up early and even sometimes just because. When I went into work she volunteered to be my minion for the day if I bought her macca's breakfast and she got up early to do it. She was such a help...I think his problem is he would like to stay in bed himself but won't let himself.
Back's can be tricky mine is arthritis some days are worse than others. Just the last few days I've ached all over which I think is due to arthritis...hopefully not the onset of rheumatid arthritis as my older brother has had it since he was quite young and I would hate to get that. I have myself tested for it from time to time just to make sure.
Yes...it is good that we have night owls as well as early birds there are a few people I would miss talking to otherwise.
Lorraine
The Wicked Witch of the North
Oh Seliah, you've got it even worse than me! I do usually come to between 11 and 12 so I can mostly make appointments for after three. But being called lazy, yep, that's the story of my life "Get out of bed, you lazy sod" is the greeting I normally get from one of my friends. I should go round his place at 3am and make him be sociable, see how he likes it! My ex and I were the complete opposites and it was one of the nails in the coffin of our marriage, that and he liked country music and I was a rock chick...never marry anyone who thinks your music is crap. Us Anchorites do seem to be awake at the same time, don't we
Lorraine
The Wicked Witch of the North
I'm not sure why morning people get so annoyed with afternoon people, Pen...it's got something to do with the Protestant work ethic drilled into so many of up with the dawn, work all day, go to bed early, I think. Dunno, just wish they would keep their thoughts to themselves and not make me want to hit them with a piece of 4x2.
Haha. I did that to my Bear at one point.... I woke him up at 3am, two nights in a row... gave him one "day off" like they give us nightshift workers (and they think it's enough haha.. you sleep half your day off cause you worked the night before!).... anyway, I gave him a "day off" and then I woke him up two more nights at the same time...
By the time I was done with him, he was passed out sound asleep on the couch at 11am, and complained at me that he didn't know how the blazes I did it!
I did not do this to him when he was working - I would never endanger his life that way (or the guys he works with)... but I had reached an "enough" point at the time, so on a two week vacation, I gave him a little taste of "the other side."
It did do the trick... for a little while. LOL
Well, for us it's not enough to threaten our marriage. I mean, we've been married for 18 years now. But it does mean we don't share the same bed very often, or that we end up hot-racking it, one rolling in as the other's rolling out. There are times I will crawl into bed, even if I'm not tired, just to lay next to him, and times where he will ask me to. So we do make compromises and such about it, but our sleep schedules are definitely polar opposites.
LOL! Yes, yes we do... and I am perfectly okay with that! It's enjoyable for me, to converse with folks from other places. You always learn something from each other and the exposure, and I like that very much.
Lorraine
The Wicked Witch of the North
Haha! I love it! Maybe I could just ring him every night at 3am for a week
I love talking to all you gals (do you think we frighten the boys). I learn so much about the way things happen in other places and I think I do pass on similar things to yous fullas.
I love talking to all you gals (do you think we frighten the boys). I learn so much about the way things happen in other places and I think I do pass on similar things to yous fullas.