Sun 11 Mar 2007
It is hard to wake up at 5:15 am. The sun isn’t even out yet and the birds are just tuning up. I equate early mornings with nerdiness. Birds are nerds. I’m on a 7:30-4:00 schedule to try to alleviate some of the traffic difficulties, but it still means about an hour each way, more if I take Dr. G to work first. Trying to get myself in bed with my eyes closed by 9:30 every night is a hassle. There are regular battles with my inner preschooler. I’m not tired! Yes you are, you’re exhausted. I need a drink! I need a story! I need a back rub! Pick one of those things. We don’t have time for all three. What if something really cool happens while I’m asleep? Nothing really cool will happen. But we just got home 20 minutes ago! It can’t be bedtime yet! Yes, it is. Now lay down. I mean it this time. Fine! Fine.
March 12th, 2007 at 11:33 am
It must have been even harder this morning after the DST shift– the inner preschooler thought it was only 8:30 last night, and only 4:15 this morning…
March 12th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Us Arizonans don’t do the DST shift. Let the rest of the country shift. We’re non-shifters.
March 13th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Dottie, this is the perfect dramatization of my own inner conflicts as well. I think my inner preschooler runs on a 25-hour a day clock–each day she would like to go to bed one hour later and sleep one hour later.
March 13th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
I too have an inner toddler who wants to eats sweets anytime of day and wants to stay up hours later than would be best! So there are many days I wake tired and overweight.
March 14th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Geez. Need I weigh in on how very typical your inner preschooler is?
But 5:15 is mighty harsh. Mighty harsh, indeed. How many bangs of the snooze does that typically require?
March 19th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
I’m glad to hear I’m not alone on this one, Tara and Amy! Being an adult is not as easy as it looked from childhood.
Kate–I get up on the first try, but Dr. G. usually has to go through three or four.