Sleeping in..

[badger]

I'm very anal about sleeping in on weekends. Even when my dog was alive, I would take him out at 7am (when I wake up for work) and then go back to sleep for a couple more hours.

I feel so cheated if I have to wake up early or have to use an alarm on a weekend. I can't imagine having to wake up to go to the pool for 5am. I swim in the evenings which suits me much better (nice and exhausted for sleep!!)

There is nothing more relaxing to me than just lazing about on a Sunday morning with a hot mug of tea watching t.v. or doing the sudoku.

[Trekhawk]

With three kids, a puppy and a husband that goes away to work I don't get the chance to sleep in very often. When a chance to sleep in comes along you can bet your bottom dollar I grab it. A sleep in for me is about 8am.

I keep telling myself I should go to bed earlier but I think I am a bit of a night owl and generally don't get to bed before about 11pm.

Do you think as you get older you just naturally get up earlier? All the oldies I know wake up at the crack of dawn even when they don't have a reason to.
When I use to swim before taking the kids to school (this was when my husband worked normal hours) the other swimmers were all retired. I would ask them why they would be at the pool at 5am if they did not have to be and most of them said that they could not sleep in anymore. Great I thought I don't get the chance to sleep in now and by the time I am an old retired woman I wont be able to.

[OakLeaf]

I think maybe retired people can let their bodies sync up with the sun as we're built to do. It's SO much healthier, for the heart and psyche as doctors know right now, and for the rest of the body systems also I believe. It's one of the things that I feel really fortunate about not working. (It's really not all it's cracked up to be overall, especially for someone who struggles with self-worth and motivation anyhow.)

These days the only time my alarm wakes me is for the club rides In the summer I'm awake plenty early. Right now, after the time change, I'll have a couple of weeks reprieve. But since our bedroom window faces northwest, and there's a pretty long eave, I don't get as much morning light as I'd like, so I don't usually wake until just a few minutes before actual sunrise, especially this time of year when the sun's farther south.

I'm just trying to figure out why the club has to ride out at 8 a.m. when it's 38 degrees... when it's going to be 65 by the time we get back... and even a 10 a.m. start would let us dress appropriately for the whole ride without having to carry a pack for heavy layers...

[Crankin]

I still get up early, despite the fact I have the luxury of being able to sleep in a little later. I got up at 5 AM for 30 years... I still get up by 5:30 most week days, although sometimes I sleep in until 6-6:30. Any later than that, it feels wrong.
On the weekends, I usually get up early, but let myself go back to sleep until 7-8. If I don't sleep, my husband and I usually watch the news in bed and sort of loll around until 8. Well, at this time of year. In the summer I tend to be out of bed at the crack of dawn.
I went to bed at 9-10 for years. I don't think it's weird. I do stay up later now, but there are nights when I get in bed at 8 and watch TV for awhile or read.
The older I get, the more I appreciate sleep!

[Pax]

The young fella who works for me does the "go to bed at 3am-get up at 11am" thing. It works well for us because he covers the later shift. We were talking about it and realized it's not that one of us sleeps more than the other...we just do it at different times of the day.

[polly4711]

One of my best friends is Canadian, she can't sleep in for the most part. She's up by 8am (after a late night out) and already working on some paper of some sort for class.

I on the other hand, it depends upon the day. I used to not be able to sleep in. I used to feel horrible about it. I was on the rowing team in college, and so waking up at 5:30 am was sleeping in. Now that I am finishing up my last semester as a Resident Assistant (which requires me to be up until midnight everynight for different reasons), I can sleep in quite well. hehe.... let go of the guilt. doing it every weekend, i dont promote... but sometimes, a late sunday sleeping in (and if you have someone to share it with, it's quite nice) can be just what teh doctor orders.


relax..... block out the light in your room. body needs sleep almost more than it needs food.

[crazycanuck]

Our company started a 9/80 working schedule & i love every second friday..ahhhhh

I slept in until 730am this morning.

Now all i have to do is wait for the mummy brigade to get off the roads with thier SUV's so i can take my doggie to the beach

[crazybikinchic]

Polly,

What hospital are you at? I am doing clinicals (Radiology) at Methodist in Dallas.