The biggest difficulty with my wife being the one working, is that I stay up way too late. Some nights I don't get into bed until 2 or 3! It is ridiculous. And no matter how I try, I can't get up before 8 in the morning. I will set the alarm, and think I can get some work done before the kids are up, but they wake up if you are doing anything, because there aren't doors yet. So I go back to sleep, just for a little bit until they get up. Yeah right! before I know it I am woken up by a 5 year old right over me saying "I'm hungry!. Wake up daddy, I'm hungry", or a two year old yelling, "daddy! ill you why my buuu", which translated to English means that he hasn't yet figured out how to clean himself in the lavatory. I gotta go to bed. There is more tea in the pot though... c* Nahhhhhh.
I stay up way too late too... Ya just gotta post in a real relaxed kind of way.. It's almost as good as sleep. ;)
I usually get to bed by midnight or 1 and the sun or animals wake me up between 5 and 7 usually. The cat wants petted in the morning.
Holy cow, you're more efficient with those nighttime hours than I am! I usually need at least eight hours..
I would like 8 hours - not disciplined enough to make myself go to bed and wake up too easily so wander around half crazy and in a daze for days on end....
Every so often I have to get a couple hours extra to catch up. They tell me I need my beauty sleep.... really. They said they didn't know they stacked ugly that high.... see- there I go -- Crazy again... [waiting]
I thnk it is all about conditioning yourself. Set a standard time to go to bed and a standard time to get up. Before long you won't need an alarm. As you get older you really don't require that much sleep. 6-7 hours is enough. Our children go to bed between 8:30 & 9:00 nightly. Usually up at 6-6:30.
I like to stay up late and I like to be up early. So, it sometimes creates a few problems. However, kids go to bed by 8:30 and we usually try to get there by 10:30. Most nights I'm actually up a lot later, but my intention is to discipline myself to go to bed earlier. I am usually up by about 5:30... my favorite time of day. My husband needs more sleep... he is usually falling asleep in the recliner or the couch soon after (sometimes before) the kids go to bed, and then in the morning he just about needs a cattle prod to get up... his alarms start going off at 5:45, but he usually doesn't creep out of bed until after 6:30. I don't get why he bothers with the earlier alarms? He has an alarm that plays the theme to "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"... nothing like being awakened to that every morning, I tell ya.
It's really bad right now, cause the wife works at 5 in the morning, so she is asleep by 8, and up at 3:30. For years, I have gone to sleep between 11 and 2, and gotten up between 5 and 7. Not much sleep in other words. I find I operate best on about 6-7 hours. I could give up the whole night of sleep for just the last 15 minutes, that's the best! Unfortunately, the last 15 ends up turning into a couple of hours sometimes [frus].
HT, my cell phone ring is from TGTBTU, he is in good company.
I was raised in a home where my parents preached sleeping only when you are tired. They kept crazy hours. Sometimes up all night then asleep during the day or up a 4 am and in bed at 8pm. My grandfather said he did his best work after the kids where asleep. He often worked in his office till 3-4 am. He was a writer.
I think we all have different internal clocks. My ideal sleeping pattern would be going to bed around 4am and getting up around 11AM. I do my best work at night when I can't sleep.
I can also set my internal clock to wake me up. If I go to bed at 11pm and need to wake up at 5am I can wake up without an alarm clock 90% of the time.
Unfortunatly I'm a 9-5er and walk around like a zombie when I'm up until 4am... [frus]