Nazgul Girl
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Nov 17, 2012 6:35:22 GMT -5
It might be a symptom of aging, but on my work days, I wake up at 5:15 a.m. to do my ten-hour work days, four days per week. Guess what my body happily does on my days off ? Wakes me up at 5:15 - 5:30. I consider it a great accomplishment if I can sleep in until 6:30. This is very annoying. I wanted to sleep in until 7:30 - 8:00 a.m. today, but that sure didn't happen.
Is this a common problem ? Obviously, I'm never late for work, so there is an upside to it, but still, I'd like to bask in bed for a couple of extra hours sometimes.
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Apple
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Post by Apple on Nov 17, 2012 6:46:34 GMT -5
I have to be up at 4:30 to get to work on time. It's 3:30 right now, I haven't adjusted to the time change yet... My goal was to sleep until 8:00 too. I do a couple things then try to go back to sleep.
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Formerly SK
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Post by Formerly SK on Nov 17, 2012 10:40:56 GMT -5
This has happened to me, too. I blame it on the kids, but maybe it's aging. I'm always up between 6-6:30am - I haven't slept past 7am in years.  |
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Post by BeenThere...DoneThat... on Nov 17, 2012 12:40:05 GMT -5
...we deal with this... two different "body clocks" and one bed... my advice, just embrace the suck and get up... taking a nice long nap later in the day works for me... I'm still getting that few extra hours of sleep... just not concurrent with the normal night's sleep... honey over there can sleep 10hrs straight into Saturday morning no sweat... grrr...  |
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p8nt
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Post by p8nt on Nov 17, 2012 17:40:42 GMT -5
Yes, I think it's common.
I have to be up at 3:45 to be at work at 5am. I'm lucky to sleep in until 6am on my days off. GRRR... what I wouldn't do to sleep until noon on a day off now.
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alabamagal
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Post by alabamagal on Nov 17, 2012 21:54:06 GMT -5
For most people, the older you get the earlier that you wake up. I now wake up every day between 6:30-7. I no longer even use an alarm clock to wake up for work.
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michelyn8
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Post by michelyn8 on Nov 19, 2012 9:04:59 GMT -5
I have a similar schedule and problem. I wake up between 4:30 and 5 a.m. M-Th and also work 10 hours days. Then on my days off, I'm lucky if I sleep past 7 and because I'm up so early during the week, I'm ready to pass out before 11 pm even on weekends.
Its not only annoying but its causing some issues with the BF because if I stay at his house, I want to go to sleep earlier than he's ready and lose sleep because he's moving around then the next morning I'm up early and restless while he's happily snoring away. That leads me to want to stay home instead of going to see him which leads to him being unhappy with rarely getting to see me (lives 40 miles away and has school aged kids so seeing each other during the week is extremely rare).
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