I find it so fascinating how different people are .. may I ask how late you stay up at night? I get depressed when it's dark out, and I find I just can't be in bed if there's any daylight, and once that sun sets I notice my energy dropping really quickly. Sometimes it's difficult for me when I have company over who want to stay up until midnight, I'm practically a zombie, and then I'm up early next morning waiting to make breakfast (which quickly has to turn into lunch when they sleep past 11!)
I went to bed around 7 am this morning, and woke up when my alarm clock informed me it was 10 minutes to my soap opera (which I'm watching now).
Those Borgias videos are addictive, and there's a multi-chapter fanfic I'm reading... I usually go to bed when I start dozing in front of the computer (irritating when I'm demoing a new BFG game and the time runs out).
In general, I'm a night owl. It's really annoying when non-night owls think we're lazy or unmotivated or need to be "cured."
That latter is the attitude I got from the nurses when I spent those 5 weeks in the hospital a long time ago. They said, "We'll have you turned around the right way by the time you leave."
They can go fly a kite. I've had to put up with snide cracks and criticism for decades, like when I had my various home businesses. Finally I said, "Look, I might not go to bed until 4-6 am and get up around noon, but other than short meal breaks and a break for my soap operas, I'm
working - usually putting in 8-12 hours a day. I work as many hours a day as anyone else, and so what if it's not the same time of the day as other people?"
[Pokemon battle theme starts playing]
I don't know what that sounds like.
Why on earth would you hang around in bed when you've already woken up? I can't do that.
Cuddling the cat, reading, writing, daydreaming...
Hanging around in bed in the morning is life's highest pleasure. The bed is warm and comfy. The world outside it is cruel and cold. Add a smartphone and a warm cat and/or a dog to your bed arsenal, and it's really hard to find a good reason to exit your castle of comfort.
Subtract the smartphone and add a book and writing materials. Oh, and subtract the dog. One of our dogs used to sleep with me occasionally, and he snored. Loudly.
I love the idea of Zkribbler and Mary coming to northern Norway and just hibernating through the winter and staying up 24/7 during the summer.
Yeah, I can see it; burrowing into the ground, pulling the entrance shut after hanging a sign on the door saying, "Hibernating; BRB in 6 months" (not sure how long winter is in Norway; if you take first snow to last snow it's about 5-6 months here).
I love that feeling where it's freezing cold in your room, but your bed is piled up with many blankets
Okay, my bed used to be piled with many blankets when I lived in a drafty house in a bedroom facing north. Right now I don't have anything on the bed other than a couple of sheets and the cat. In a few weeks I'll add a blanket, but just one (Maddy functions as a second blanket). I'm trying to hold off on turning the thermostat on since it gets too warm (hopefully they have that fixed this year; last year the people on the ground floor froze, and then we roasted; they just couldn't seem to figure out a happy medium).
I'm in bed by 5, asleep by 10:30, and awake by 6 most days.
Unless I'm extremely absorbed in a book or writing, I can't imagine taking 5.5 hours to get to sleep. It usually takes less than 10 minutes, but then I usually go to bed when I'm really tired.
Hmm...maybe I shouldn't get a cat.
As we've said, if you get two cats, they can entertain each other (particularly if they're littermates). If you get one cat, provide toys and other things like scratching posts and perches and even an empty cardboard box.
