Up Early/Up Late (spider talk) (all threads don't end at poop or cheese or TMI. This one ends at spiders.) (siesta competition))

[RandomAnthony]

What do you do when you're up early/up late and no one else is around?

I'm a committed morning person, usually up by 4:30-5, although I slept all the way to 6 today. Anyway, when I'm up early during the week I usually lift/do the elliptical before anyone's awake. I might meditate but I rarely read. On weekends I read and watch tv and usually save the elliptical for later.

I love being up early, by the way. I love the pre-dawn quiet.

[shellyindallas]

I woke up at 5:30 this morning, but it wasn't on purpose. I had my alarm set for 7:00 and tried to go back to sleep but couldn't. Normally I only have time for a shower, so on the days I'm up early I go for a bath. I tend to get my best reading done in the mornings--not as much distraction. Although it takes me awhile to wake up so it can't be anything challenging.
It sucks b/c my bf and I live in a small place and he sleeps in. Otherwise, I'd do the dishes or something. As is, whatever I do has got to be pretty quiet.

[Reads with Scotch]

I have two alter egos when it comes to this; Nick at home, and Nick at work.


Nick at home is late to bed and early up. Sense the wife needs 20 hours of sleep daily what I do by myself is restricted to quite things at night. (Watching the history channel with the volume turned down, reading, sneaking out to the garage to play with my toys)

When I wake in the morning, I take the dog out for a walk and read, until the wife decides to wake up.

At work… well I work long hours so I work, sleep, conduct hygiene. That’s pretty much it. Oh and wait for all you deadbeats to come online and say interesting things.

[[deleted user]]

interesting things

[Reads with Scotch]

I suppose you find yourself funny Montambo...

[[deleted user]]

I am a late night person. I start feeling awake and energetic at about 10pm. I stay up way too late on a regular basis. I am probably going to get wrinkles and various old lady diseases, eventually, based on this habit, but I can't make myself go to sleep until I am dreadfully tired.

Waking up is hell. I shower the night before, I pick out my clothes the night before, get my lunch ready, etc. In the morning I take about 10 minutes to get ready and I get to work approximately 2 minutes before the morning checkout rush.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I find it annoying when the dang birds start singing at 3 a.m. Couldn't their internal clocks be synched to light, or something? How much sleep do birds need, anyway? I will tell you this: squirrels sleep more than you think. We tend to think of wild animals not getting much sleep, but there was a squirrel's nest I could see into all the time last year and the squirrels would be napping in it in the middle of the day, in the warm sun.

[Janice]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I find it annoying when the dang birds start singing at 3 a.m. Couldn't their internal clocks be synched to light, or something? How much sleep do birds need, anyway? I will tell you this: squir..."

Worse is being waken by woodpeckers pounding on the wood frame right outside your window. Noisy birds! Grrr.

[[deleted user]]

Our house is like a military camp. Up before the crack of dawn, completely dressed and finished with breakfast by 5:45. So on the rare occasion that I'm up before everyone else, I usually go for a swim or run, or take a walk along the beach and watch the sunrise.
I'm the only one awake after 10, so on the days that I'm bored and can't fall asleep, I go into cleaning-mode and basically scrub every inch of the house.

[Phoenix]

I'm a night owl, sometimes I don't go to bed until after the crack of dawn. I mostly read, play around on GR, clean, or walk the dogs when I'm up really late. Funny how police officers find walking your dogs at 3 am suspicious. :)

[Heidi]

Lately, I've been waking for work between 3am-5am (You'd be proud of me, RA). Mostly that's because I WANT to wake to go to work. I look forward to my days.

It's amazing how much a job change can affect a person's outlook on the day. :)

[Phoenix]

I agree, Barb. If Fury wasn't as big and scary looking as he his, I wouldn't do it. Karma isn't quite as large and looks deceptively sweet, of the two, people should fear Karma more.
Then there's Lucy the chihuahua...yeah, I have a freakin' chihuahua (so not my idea...we found her wandering the streets and tried to find her family, but no one ever claimed her...I think I know why), she could probably annoy someone to death.

[Louise]

my perfect rythm is going to bed ar 2 am and getting up at 10 in the morning. I can't during the working week, so I go to bed around midnight and get up at 7 am. I love being up at night, and when I went to university I usually would do my written assignments late at night. I like the quiet. If I'm alone I love to sit on our porch and listen to jazz music and look at the moon, or I read, listen to music or use the computer (Goodreads, games etc)

[smetchie]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I find it annoying when the dang birds start singing at 3 a.m. Couldn't their internal clocks be synched to light, or something? How much sleep do birds need, anyway? I will tell you this: squir..."

You make me smile, LG.

[[deleted user]]

I'm up at 5 am to make it to work on time, not really my choice. By the end of the week I'm a wreck, because I have a heck of a time getting to sleep early enough. I need 8 hrs.

My tendency is to stay up late on weekends and sleep late, but I really prefer it when I go to bed at a reasonable time 10-11 pm and get up nice and early 7 am. There is so much more of the day to enjoy! When I sleep until noon my weekend is gone before I know it.

Heiders, I used to love my job like that...

[Sally, la reina]

I drank coffee until 2pm yesterday, so this was me last night: except with knitting. It was ridiculous.

Then baby girl decided to get up at 4:30. More coffee, please.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Hee! I love that picture, Sally. That's me, too, some nights.

[[deleted user]]

I love your smile, Sallers!

[Lori]

RandomAnthony wrote: "....I love being up early, by the way. I love the pre-dawn quiet. "

I looove early mornings like that. When it's just dead quiet and your awake in the silence.

But yea for the most part I'm an early sleeper early riser all week long. It doesn't' really change weekend-weekday. I usually go to bed anywhere from 9-midnight (If I'm working on something I really don't want to leave unfinished or something and it takes me that long.) But I would averagely say 10:30ish and I wakeup from 3-6 depending on when I went to bed. Averagely 4-4:30ish. :P

[Scout]

I've always thought it would be neat to live in a country where people are expected to take a siesta. What a great idea.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Siestas and three hour lunches.

[Lori]

I pretty much used to take a siesta last year lol. After school every day I would nap then be up late but I totally changed my schedule and now am to bed early and up early etc. But the siesta was a good schedule to work on too. :)

[janine]

RandomAnthony wrote: "I love being up early, by the way. I love the pre-dawn quiet."

i love it too, but i usually just experience it when i've been out all night and am just returning home.

[[deleted user]]

Siestas would kill me. I wake up GRUMPY from naps. Friday before last I got off work at 1pm and I was wrecked so I decided I was going to take a nap. Honey didn't want to wake me (wonder why?), so I didn't wake up until 7:30 pm and figured "what the hell", rolled over and went back to sleep for the night. I was in a fog all weekend after sleeping for 16 hrs.

[Janice]

Lately, I've been feeling tired much of the time so have been enjoying naps here and there. If I throw a blanket over myself, I'm gone in minutes.

[janine]

i'll be waking up with the birds tomorrow. how can they be so cheerful so early in the morning?

[Félix]

Because it's a NEW DAY, Janine!

[Jim]

They are cheery because they know they are annoying the living piss out of us so early in the moening.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

If the birds ever stop chirping we'll know something really bad has happened. Like The Road, or a Tim Pawlenty presidency.

[[deleted user]]

You prefer Trump, LG? :)

Bun, I agree. It was just different somehow in Italy. It wasn't like a nap. You are absolutely correct and I withdraw my former negative comment on Siesta.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

It's not that I prefer him, I'm just not worried about him.

[[deleted user]]

I was teasing.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I know. I would rather have a squirrel be president than Trump.

[Phoenix]

I think the birds around here have been eating some...special seeds, they start singing around 2am. and they don't shut up again til around 10pm. And as soon as the birds stop chirping the owls start hooting, I can't win for losing.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Yeah, we have a lot of nighttime singing around here too. This morning at dawn the cacophony was unreal, like a bunch of parrots. A ______ of parrots? Pride of lions, murder of crows...

[[deleted user]]

I can't handle the comb-over. All policies set aside, I just can't handle the comb-over. I cannot look at the man. I cannot respect the man. Just shave it for bloodysakes and embrace the bald!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--eO8NXvWxM8...

I know this sounds shallow, I suppose I'm embracing the shallow for a moment. It makes me crazy.

[Annette]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Yeah, we have a lot of nighttime singing around here too. This morning at dawn the cacophony was unreal, like a bunch of parrots. A ______ of parrots? Pride of lions, murder of crows..."

I'll accept bunch of parrots - they rhyme with carrots!

Definitely a night person and anyway it's the only time to get piece and quiet with no one else around. So I read, write, draw and even grab a turn on the computer.

[Muddle head]

Am more relaxed at nights, and would like to stay up late hours. But since the past 1 week, i had to work from 6 am to 4 pm, would last a couple more days that's all. So it's a major habit change for me, and guess what, am really enjoying the morning hours except for the fact that it is screwing up my digestion clock!

[[deleted user]]

Aditya wrote: "Am more relaxed at nights, and would like to stay up late hours. But since the past 1 week, i had to work from 6 am to 4 pm, would last a couple more days that's all. So it's a major habit change f..."


I hate that! (Only reverse it for me, it's about staying up too late.) I stay up too late and then I'm starving when I go to bed, but I don't want to eat anything that late, cause I chub up EASY.

[Cynthia]

Oh, Honey, Amelia, you need to put on a few pounds.

Love, Cynthia the enabler.

[Scout]

A paroxysm of parrots, maybe?

In reference to birds stopping their chirping, Silent Spring was required reading when I was in high school. I keep thinking of insects that were everywhere when I was growing up: grasshoppers, walking sticks, preying mantises, granddaddy longlegs, lightning bugs, mole crickets, luna moths. It's been ages since I've seen any of them.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

We had praying mantises and lightning bugs in the suburbs growing up, and daddy longlegs at my grandparent's farm. That's the only place I've seen daddy longlegs (did you know they are arachnids, but not spiders)? The only ones I've seen here in the city are lightning bugs. But we have hummingbirds too, so that's cool.

[Félix]

I thought spiders were arachnids.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Spiders are arachnids but not all arachnids are spiders.

"Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms."

[Félix]

Got it. Thanks.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Daddy longlegs have no venom, or silk glands, and can detach their legs, which keep on moving, to confuse predators.

[Félix]

Interesting.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

So all those times I was afraid to lie in the grass for fear they would walk all over me, I shouldn't have been, because they had no venomous fangs. Nor could they weave a giant web and ensnare me, before I could move.

[Félix]

But ... aren't there spiders just about everywhere, too?

[Carol]

I've got a hairy black spider in my car. Fucker went into the dash before he could be squished. This, after I killed (sorry to spider-savers) a tiny brown one two days ago! I might have to get a new car.