Bretrick
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Do you wake up fresh and eager to face the day or do you want to stay in bed and hope the world passes by with little or no effort from you?
Are you an early riser?
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RadishRose
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- Connecticut, USA
I never wake up fresh and eager.
8:00 am is about right.
I have to ease into the day
8:00 am is about right.
I have to ease into the day
Bretrick
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- Perth Western Australia
Always nice being snuggled up in bed on those cold mornings, listening to the rain.I’m ruled by the weather, much more inclined to stay in bed later during the winter months
Packerjohn
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- Canada
Oh Yap! For sure I'm up with the birds in the summer. Even now, in the dead of winter, I get up "bright-eyed and bushy tailed" at 4 am. You see I'm still a country boy at heart and I guess I always will. Can't understand the other folks around in this 55 plus building. Many sleep until 10 am or even 10:30. I guess they must of been born in the city some place. Me, I get up, do floor exercises, read, play and sing with my guitar, read again, eat my breakfast, finish my coffee with some more reading and then go out for my walk. When I return some folks around here are just gettin' up. Then some of them folks end up using the TV as a baby sitter all day. I kind of feel sorry for them. Strange world I figure! I was born lucky. Always plenty of things to do and many places to go.
Aunt Bea
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- Near Mount Pilot
I usually go to bed at about 7:00pm and get up around midnight.
I enjoy being up puttering around when the rest of the world is sleeping.
I enjoy being up puttering around when the rest of the world is sleeping.
Bretrick
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- Perth Western Australia
I find early morning to be the best time of the day. Hearing the birds chirping to each other. Seeing the sun rise.
horseless carriage
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Four am, I'm impressed. I'm up at half five and in work an hour later and I'm ten years past the UK retirement age.
feywon
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- Rural North Central NM
Depends entirely on level of light. Clock time, especially now i don't need to be anywhere routinely is irrelevant--- i sleep longer in winter months. Unless ill i wake up fully quickly but spend some time doing physical stretches (really helps with foot pain) and meditating, before actually get up.
Alligatorob
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I am a morning person. Wake up between 4 and about 5:30 most days. Always have felt better in the morning.
Shero
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- Transient in the Land of Oz
An early riser here. Coffee in hand, I head to my desk and do 2 or 3 hours of solid writing before breakfast.
Irwin
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- Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
Are you writing a novel?
Irwin
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- Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
I'm not much of a morning person. I wake up around 8 or 9 AM every day, have two cups of coffee, then take the dog out for a walk and a little fetch playing, then brunch and then back to bed for my nap. It's only after my nap that I get productive. I suffer from hypoxemia from central sleep apnea and feel like crap until then.
Shero
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Not a novel - about my travels and cuisine from other cultures. I am also a freelance travel writer
Irwin
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Nice! Are your articles online?Not a novel - about my travels and cuisine from other cultures. I am also a freelance travel writer
Ruth n Jersey
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- Northern New Jersey
Depends on how much reading I do before I fall asleep, I Usually get up around 8 or 9. I have 2 eggs and 2 cups of coffee, make the bed and get dressed.
Once I start my day I rarely sit down and I never ever watch TV during the day.
Once I start my day I rarely sit down and I never ever watch TV during the day.
It used to be difficult getting up, due to insomnia. No matter how early I got up to go to work, and how early I went to bed.
When I was no longer working, it was nice to be able to sleep later - until I had a baby.
I don't know when it started to change ... but, it did. So now, it's early to bed (most days) and early to rise.
When I was no longer working, it was nice to be able to sleep later - until I had a baby.
I don't know when it started to change ... but, it did. So now, it's early to bed (most days) and early to rise.
Ronni
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- Nashville TN
I’m a morning person. It’s when I’m at my most productive and freshest. I wake naturally between 5.30 and 6, get up right away and snuggle up on the couch with coffee and my laptop for an hour or so.
That’s when I catch up on emails, social media, pay bills, order from Amazon, research…whatever’s on my to-do list for online things.
That’s when I catch up on emails, social media, pay bills, order from Amazon, research…whatever’s on my to-do list for online things.
Sassycakes
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- Pennsylvania
I wake up early because I can't sleep. Between pain and horrible dreams I wake up almost every 20 minutes.
oldpeculier
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It's almost entirely up to Frenchie the wonder dog as to the wake up. If she starts licking my beard we get up, usually at dawn early light. I am not fresh and eager until the third cup of coffee goes down.
DaveA
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- Coastal Massachusetts, USA
Do you have any time left open for your wife, kids, possibly grandkids and animals? Sounds like you don't have many distractions in that regard.
My wife, who'a an earlier riser than I usually eases out of bed and puts on the coffee while I'm still sound asleep. When SHE decides (haha) that it's time for me to "rise and shine" she'll usually bring me coffee and a muffin. After staggering out of bed, I'll usually spend an hour or so with my wife, coffee, maybe the TV news (if it's not too depressing that day) and then our day begins. And floor exercises - - -At 88, that would only be trying to get up after taking a fall.
I didn't mention that we share the old homestead with our youngest daughter, husband, and 2 college age grandkids, 2 dogs and 2 cats. Lived here as a child and still here today - -still in the country although a few less open fields than back in the 30's.
Shero
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Subscription only I'm afraid!