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I am a night owl to a fault!

Thank goodness I don't work or I'd be in a world of hurt heehee...

I stay up very late usually til about 3am in the morning...sometimes I get up at 6:30am to get the children off to school (but hubby helps me with that all the time) and then I sleep til around 9 or 10am and go about the day.

I also find I'm more focused at night, fresh ideas come to me at night, and noo distractions b/c everyone is sleep.

However I do have 1/2 days 'off'. Friday I 'work' half a day and I take either Sat or Sun. off.

I used to be a night-owl to a fault, and still am to some extent compared with most people.

There are other alternatives to "night-owl" and "early-bird" though, you know? This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Everyman.png) is my own sleeping-pattern now, for nearly 2 years, and very successfully, because I was advised by a neurologist to take up polyphasic sleeping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep) (probably not suitable for anyone with children, though!). :D

Hiya

I can work from 9 in the morning through to 1.00pm at night, although I do find I am more alert in the morning and am able to come up with good content for my website.

I am not able to do this everyday as I think I would be like a walking zombie with the lack of sleep.

If I had my way and I wasn't time restricted I would probably be more of a morning person, but hey I just have to grab the time I get (well for now anyway).

Cheers

Julie

Probably more of an early bird, though lately I have been staying up way too late. I think its insomnia.

I'm a night owl... if I had my way, I wouldn't come to work til 1 pm or so.. :)

Cause I am. I wake up early and go strong all day tending to my house and family. Taking breaks in between to sit down to post, write or read more about IM. Then at night I sit down with no distractions till about 2 am to focus on "work". I stay focused till 2 any later and I become a zombie. Then do it all over again the next day.

I wish I was an early bird but I am a night owl.
I hate waking up early and I love staying up late, lol.

Early Bird!

Yes, early bird for sure! :)

Both? LOL Then it all catches up with me eventually. Then back to both.

I started a Social Group here on the board:
http://www.wahm.com/forum/groups/up-too-late-working.html

I don't like being an early bird but can't sleep late even though there's no reason for me not to. So I'm both too though I used to be strictly night owl.

What's the saying - early to bed early to rise? Generally up by 4am. Sleeping in for me is around 6am, but I get a lot done, ha.

I think I would have to say that I am neither. I can't stay up late because I get too tired and I don't like waking up in the morning because I'm too tired. I blame the Fibro. I think that's why I drink too much coffee in the morning, also. :)

Both? LOL Then it all catches up with me eventually. Then back to both.

I started a Social Group here on the board:
http://www.wahm.com/forum/groups/up-too-late-working.html

Too funny! I am the same way! I hate getting up early.

I would have to say I am both!

I think I would have to say that I am neither. I can't stay up late because I get too tired and I don't like waking up in the morning because I'm too tired. I blame the Fibro. I think that's why I drink too much coffee in the morning, also. :)

I can totally relate to being both and neither. I've had CFS since age 12 and I too drink too much coffee.

Both? LOL Then it all catches up with me eventually. Then back to both.

I started a Social Group here on the board:
http://www.wahm.com/forum/groups/up-too-late-working.html

I joined your group. :D

I am definitely an early bird! I wake up at 1:00 EVERY morning and it doesn't matter what time I go to bed. I've had insomnia for so many years that now I think it's habit! And I can't break the cycle!

Lora

:DI am a bonafide

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Definitely a nite owl here. I even tried going to bed early but I always end up just laying there and staring at the wall haha!

I need to go to bed earlier. I stay up late to work because it is the only time that the house is quite - I have three children under the age of 6... We get up early to get my kindergartner dressed and ready for school. .: Work At Home United :. (http://www.HappyWorkAtHomeMoms.com)

Owl here... its 1 am and just finished cleaning the house ... agrr

now I am a early bird, a chicken... but I was a night owl for a long time

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I use to be a early bird. But now the alarm goes off and I want to hide under the covers. It seems like I have more energy at night. The other night around 10 pm I decided to clean the bathroom and wash curtains.

I am a night owl. I was born at night and I guess it has stuck with me. The one thing you have to learn when your night owl is to know when to cut it off. You have to beable to get up up in the mornings as well. Sending a shout out to all my night owls.

Well, as for me, I'm a night owl, that's for sure, I can work all night long, and in the morning it's really hard

It depends sometimes. I find myself being a night owl most of the times. I tried being both, trust me its not so easy. I think getting enough sleep is very important though. So unless I dont have anything important to do at nights I try to get my beauty sleep. ;)

Definately a nightowl!

Way more alert at night tend to stay up until 1-2am but still have to get up at 7a to get my daughter to school. Try not to take naps, which I used to adore, because I have a hard time doing that for just an hour or so.

I am such an early-bird now that it seems funny to remember when I wasn't. I think my natural inclination has always been to the early morning side of life. I used to be much more of a night owl, though, but when I was promoted to the copy desk at the newspaper I was working at, at the time, and had to be at work, functioning really well, at 6 in the morning, well, the night-owl days were done! And even after I started working from home many moons ago, I still maintain the early hours. I get stuff done -- or really, many days a week, I get my exercising in. If I'm not doing that, I have to say I revel in the silence.

Night Owl definitely

I think I am a bit of both as well.....I have to now get up at 5am on certain days for work, and I hate it, but once I get up and get going I find it is ok....and usually I stay up till about midnight or so.....however I would say my "prime" focus time is late afternoon to evening....I find I am most productive then with my own business ideas....

Judy:)

I've read that it is very typical for Women to be creatures of the night, I to am one. It goes back to our cave dwelling days. The women were the ones the kept the group secure at night, we hear the slightest noise and are aroused very easily. The Men are typically morning larks, getting up early for the hunt to keep the group fed.
Explains alot doesn't it? I deal with this issue on a daily basis. As soon as I had kids, it was all downhill from there.
Women also have acute olfactories, so we can smell danger! That is why we can smell foul orders, when others can't...a curse in my opinion.

Great Post

Renee

Definitely an early bird - I'm useless in the evening. Even when I was 18 I found it hard to stay up late, (always a "party-pooper!") Not my fault though, if they had "morning parties I'd be fine.

It's now three minutes to four (in the morning), UK time. It's lovely and peaceful, even the dog isn't hassling me yet :-)

My grown-up son is the opposite - we practically pass each other on the stairs: me getting up and him going to bed!

Sally :)

Definately a night owl. Everyone thinks I am the strangest person ever staying up til 4 AM all the time. I agree with them. I just get so caught up doing stuff online lol. I can get away with it because I don't have anything to do in the mornings now and I can sleep in.

Night owl. It's the only time I get to breathe. I complete a lot of work when the house is asleep.

I am an early bird, though I do stay up late often as well. I don't sleep much. :)

I am a nocturnal and usually stay awake til past5am, all my great ideas regarding my work online comes in when everything is settled and tucked in their bed. I also love serenity and peace and adores working with my baby in bed as a background. ;)

Night Owl here! Although I am trying to break the habit ;)

I'm a bit of both but more of a night owl. I can stay up to 5 am sometimes. LOL!

Like justjewelrybarn I'm an early bird, but unfortunately I'm a night owl :)

20 years ago I was early bird.Now is a Night Owl.As long as I have enough of sleep.Don't mind to be either one.

I am definitely a night owl. I HATE mornings. I function best after about 10am, and usually by about 2pm I am ready for a nap, and then stay up til about 1am. Of course I don't my world doesn't actually get to function that way. But that's the way I'd like it.

I am a night owl, too, but I don't get grumpy in the nmornings. My natural cycle seems to be going to sleep at around 3 - 4am and then waking up around 10 or 11am. I need to stop fighting it, because I'm most creative and energized at night.

Night owl, definitely. I used to work nights and I loved it. I would wake up whenever, watch TV while I ate "breakfast", do some cleaning or run some errands, go to work and then come home and go to bed. With my day job, I have to get up early and go straight to work. It's just not me.

Most definitely a night owl. I could stay up until 1am and wake up at 6am or 7am since I was about 13. I get motivated to clean, wash dishes, re-pot plants, post to forums, :D, whatever. Night time is the best time.

Early Bird ...but so are all my kids so I don't think I have a choice!:)

I am an early bird, but only out of necessity. I get up very early to start the day. I wish I could be a night owl, but the kids start school early, I like to have coffee with hubby, and I getway more done this way.

Early bird. I set the alarm for 6am every day. I have to because if I'm allowed to sleep as late as I want, insomnia rears its ugly head the next night.

Plus I like starting the day early. I don't feel like I've wasted a good part of it sleeping.

Night owl. I've been known to stay up to 4:30AM on nights when I don't have work/school the next day.

I am definetly a night owl. That is when I feel the most productive.

I'm not sure what I am anymore....I think I'm just suffering from insomnia. LOL

I have ALWAYS HATED MORNINGS....so I became a musician for many years-and I STILL hate mornings...<g>
mpe

I used to be an early bird, but now I'm a night owl. Don't know whether that's good or bad really.

I can stay up for two days and then I have to sleep off and on for a full day. My family and friends around me think I am crazy but that is how I function best. Luckily I don't have any daily work that has to be done in the daytime. I can do mine anytime. One of my favorite pasttimes is taking a nap.

Right now, I am neither LOL. I stay up until about 11 and then wake up at 9. Once my baby comes that will all change though!

No matter how much I try, I am a night owl. I feel my more alert really late. My husband works at a bar and works evenings-nights, so we are really bad. Society and our friends tease us and call us lazy because we stay up until 2-3 am, :eek: but I get al ot done, as much if not more then they do. It drives my in-laws nuts, because as teachers, they expect EVERYONE to adhere to a 8-4 or 9-5 type schedule. I usually get up between 10-11 am.

I am really lucky that my children are old enough to get themselves off to school. I used to get up earlier, but not anymore, usually between 10-11 am. And, before anyone goes complaining about not getting up with them, let me say that we live RIGHT across the street from school. :p

I am sooooo glad I read this thread, because now I know I am not alone!

Stephanie

Up at 5am most mornings ouch !! , used to be an awful TV channel surfer so had to get rid of cable , now down to 4 channels only and its fantastic, at least if you still want to surf it only takes 10 seconds.
Terry

I'm a night owl. I stay up late and always have, 11 - 12 - 1 a.m. I used to sleep in, but not anymore, so probably some of you would consider me an early bird as well, since I'm up at 6 a.m.

For sure a night owl! I drag getting out of bed even if I go to bed early the night before. I have always been like this even as a kid.

I get all my "work" done after 9:00 when the kids go to bed. I usually go to bed at midnight and wake up at 6:30 or 7:00. My 14 year old daughter gets up before me!

Definitely NOT an early bird! I am so grumpy until I get my COFFEE! I get sleepy in the middle of the day, and then come night time Im wide awake!

I have always been a night owl! Hated early morning classes in college! When I worked as an ICU RN I would work 12 hr night shifts. That was a struggle cuz I ended up having to fudge on sleep a lot. Now that I work from home full-time with my husband, we generally go to bed at 3 am and wake at 11 am. We both just naturally go to that schedule.

Early bird for sure!

Definitely a night owl!

I guess I am a morning person, but not an early morning person. I like to get up at 7:30 to 8 but I also stay up until midnight or later most nights.

I am truly a early bird, I enjoy the "me" time that I have in the morning before I have to get the kids up. :o

I'm definitely an early bird - up and started work at 5am to get in a couple of hours before rest of house wakes - absolutely done in by 9pm but will stay up til around 10.30 if there is something grabbing my attention!

I am an early bird. I like to be in bed by 9 pm. The rest of my family are night owls.

Count me in as a night owl. :) I can manage to stay up late until 2 or 3AM to work and wake up at 9AM. I am usually productive at night. I work during day time too but I'm a more active worker at night. I can concentrate better when working at night.

Now, definitely an Early Bird as I have my workouts at 5am. I use to be a bit of a Night Owl, so it was a slight adjustment period...yet I feel it was so much worth having made the switch b/c I find I tend to get more accomplished each day. :)

Early Bird on this end.

I am such a night owl. I like to party it up so I'm always out late and then when I'm home that just carries over. It's just not fitting for my schedule that I have to be up at 7:30 every day to get kids to school lol so it's sometimes a little rough but I manage. I'm usually never in bed before midnight on a weeknight and never before 4am usually on a weekend night. I get so much alone time this way too when the kids are in bed and the husband is occupied. I love this time of day the best. Get a lot done too

I guess early bird would be me. Since my little one is not in school yet sometimes we can sleep late but most times if the sun is up so is he! ;)

I am forever a night owl...Nothing like productivity that happens when hubby and kids are asleep :) Plus, I can plan my strategy for the next day.

Night Owl all the way.

Both, I can't enplane it, other that I love what I do and run on Adrenalin and coffee

It sound bad that you wake in night.Because it goes against health condition.Try to make asleep in night.








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a night owl. I love to sleep and and kind of dread mornings but can stay up all night without any problem...

Im an early Bird..i get up to bed early because i work from 8am to 5pm..

I am definitely a night owl, despite my 4 year old's VERY early bird tenencies. I am more awake in the evening/night than I am during the earlier part of the day.

uhm...both...:)...i can stay up until 4am especially when i'm waiting for my hubby to arrive and sometimes when needed i can get up at 5 in the morning...but i would prefer to be an early bird so i can do all my works during daytime and rest at night...

I am an early bird, I like to wake up early.

i am more of a night owl...maybe this is because of my insomnia...i can stay up until 3am or even 5 in the morning... i wish someday i can change this bad habit...

I am a night owl to a fault!

Thank goodness I don't work or I'd be in a world of hurt heehee...

I stay up very late usually til about 3am in the morning...sometimes I get up at 6:30am to get the children off to school (but hubby helps me with that all the time) and then I sleep til around 9 or 10am and go about the day.

I also find I'm more focused at night, fresh ideas come to me at night, and noo distractions b/c everyone is sleep.

However I do have 1/2 days 'off'. Friday I 'work' half a day and I take either Sat or Sun. off.

Me too! I'm totally a night owl, and am barely functional until the afternoon.

Just last night I stayed up until 7 in the morning when I came up with a great idea and finished the whole project down to putting up a sales page for it on the Warrior Forum!

Already sold a bunch of them too! Now I'm tired, of course :(

And I'm lucky to be a night owl because it actually synchronizes better with many of my clients on the West coast (and even Asia), but it's frustrating because I sometimes feel very out of sync here and it takes me a huge effort to make morning meetings and be coherent at that time.

I might have to calibrate myself to go to bed closer to midnight...

I'm a bit of both, I am an insomniac. I get up by 5am everyday including weekends, and am usually up til midnight. I have a bit of an internet addiction, and time just seems to fly by when I'm online :o

I am more of a night owl. I don't know what's with me, I just find myself very productive and functional during evenings. I also work online so most of my task were done during the evenings.

I am a night owl for sure... can't get anything done until 10:00pm or later... that is when I am ready to get stuff done. I have always been this way, not sure why! :)

I'm a night person.. I like to sleep in when possible, and I find that the night time is when you can get alot of work done, becuase in the day I'd rather be hanging out with my loved one.

I'm definitely a night owl

I am more productive and my mind works very well at night, I guess that made me a night owl :)

I also am a night owl.I can concentrate better because it is nice and quiet and I can get things faster because there is no one bugging me...;)

Rhonda

I tried to shift from night owl to early birdie a few days back..it's really not working. It's like suicide..morning person indeed is not meant for me at all cost.

Early bird. I catch the worm!

With two younge children I am a early bird.

With two young children I am an early bird.

Me too, but I find that I end-up being a night owl as well because I'm trying to get so much done during the quiet hours when everyone is asleep. But I'm not up too late at night, just much later than I know that I probably should be.

I am becoming more of a night owl. I use to be more of a morning person. Although my kids force me to get up early. :)

When the kids were little I was both. What I mean is that I since I had to get up early with the kids, that is what I did, but on my own time with my own clock, I don't do mornings very well. I will if I have to work or for an appt. though. I can get up no problem (I just don't like it very much LOL) I guess you can tell by the way that I am posting this at 1:30 in the morning... I am naturally a night owl.

Both.

Sleep is for sissies.

:)

I'd rather get up early than stay up late, but I'm really an afternoon person. I put the kids to bed after lunch, have a cup of coffee and I'm ready to be productive!

I am also a little bit of both. But since doing IM I have been going days without any sleep whatsoever. Thanks to coffee. I start and I forget to eat even, do not want to sleep because I might miss something, But, when I eventually do fall asleep, it is usually of 10 or more hours.

Lakeisha,

Looks as if you may be a good 3rd shift worker. I too find that I can brainstorm and work better during those hours because it's very peaceful!

I am a night owl to a fault!

Thank goodness I don't work or I'd be in a world of hurt heehee...

I stay up very late usually til about 3am in the morning...sometimes I get up at 6:30am to get the children off to school (but hubby helps me with that all the time) and then I sleep til around 9 or 10am and go about the day.

I also find I'm more focused at night, fresh ideas come to me at night, and noo distractions b/c everyone is sleep.

However I do have 1/2 days 'off'. Friday I 'work' half a day and I take either Sat or Sun. off.

I like to sleep! So I would say I am neither. Don't want to wake up too early and don't want to go to bed too late.:p

I hatee the morning. night owl all the way. lol

My brain works best in the late evening and at night, from 9 pm on.

Don't ask me any thinking questions before 11 am. You'll get a grunt and moan in response :)

Night owl, that's why I'm typing this now. Wish I could be an early bird!

Night owl! I should be asleep D<

depends on what i am doing. i can usually get up pretty early if the need arises. with a four year old those times change frequently. :) LOL mostly have always been a morning person.

DH has to get up for work at 2:45am and I am a light sleeper - so am usually up with him and then asleep by about 9pm or so.

Definitel a night owl, but I am trying to change as I don't feel like getting up in the morning. I'd like to start getting up earlier.

I am an Night Owl, I always was, I think I'm more creative at night, In the morning I do what needs to be done only!
But sometimes when I have to get up earlier I notice the beauty of the morning's fresh air and the upcoming day. That's beautiful

I can be both, but mostly I am an early bird. I like to get up before the kids and have that quiet me time.

Depends on the day, sometimes I get up real early and start working, some days I stay up late, depends on my mood.

H

Goodness, I think I'm an early bird. I'm often away early in the morning and struggle to get back to sleep. But that might relate to age too, who knows? I'm usually very tired by 10.30pm and have to nag hubby it's time for bed. But I'm wide awake come 6am and sometimes much earlier.

I think it depends on what project I am working on.
I would say that 3am is my deadline though, I find the time between 11pm and 3am goes so fast when I am focus on a project.

I usually like to finish off at a natural break rather than work by the clock.

Other times I would get up at 3am if I wake with that great idea on my mind then go back for a quick nap when that natural break comes along, probably 1 to 4 hours latter.:cool:

Yes, I'm up at 04:50, cup of tea, apple, desk for 2 straight hours then wake the kids up and the day goes crazy.

It took a while to getting brain used to writing so early but now I'm used to it I se it as my most productive time.

Babs.

I am definitely an early bird. I'm not at all very coherent at night. Also a little grumpy:o
But love the early mornings!:)

My husband and I have always been night owls. He has a midday work schedule, so we get up around 9:30 and we don't really feel fully "awake" until around 5pm.

Before I was a night owl because I have to do my projects at school over night but now I am an early bird because I need to wake-up early not to be late in the office for my job. :)

I'm an early bird. Starting early make the day longer so that I can get more done.

Left to my own devices, I will get up early, get lots of stuff done, then take a mid-afternoon nap, then stay up late.

But since I live with someone else, I follow his schedule -- he has the steady job. So it's 8am to rise and 11:30 - midnight to bed.

I'd love to be more of a night owl than I already am. I don't think I'll ever be a morning person no matter what! Hahahaa...

Becki

I'm definitely an early bird however if I don't stay out of the forum, the late nights are going to interfere with getting up in the morning.

Definitely a night owl. It's not uncommon for me to work until 2 or 3 in the morning, especially now that my kids are a little older.

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I go to bed usually far from midnight ... But I wake up with the first rays of the sun ...
I love to get up early and watch the city that wakes up ...
I try to sleep trough a smaller part of my lives.

I find that I’m more an Early Bird, however it is still hard for me to get up in the morning. At 9PM my brain pretty much turns to mush. If I can get myself out of bed at a decent hour then I am the most creative and energized all day.

Jessica

Definitely a night owl! Though my daughter loves getting up really early. So it's kind of tough some days juggling early bird morning mommy duty with bleary eyes. Thank goodness for coffee!

Im definately an early bird too. If I have a late night it takes me a few days to get back to feeling myself. Im definateky atr my most productive when I have 8 hours sleep and get up early. I find it works best for me to always be on the verge of tiredness.