I Am A Night Owl

By nature I am a night owl. Always have been from the time I was a teenager, and always will be I think.  My grandma (Mom's mom) was one, and I can remember her staying up until 1 or 2, reading or playing solitaire or watching tv , and then getting up around 9 or 10 in the morning. I figure I take after her (though I can kind of recall my dad staying up late too, so who knows, but I would rather take after Grandma), because I love staying up late and I love sleeping in in the morning (which is usually when I get my best sleep anyway).

I also tend to feel more active and creative at night than I do during the day. Like writing these blog posts now at 1:23am, or when I did the dishes just a little while ago. If I could I would clean the house and vacuum and probably even clean the carpet which really needs it. Pretty sure Mom might object though, so I will just write instead.

Mom doesn't  understand why I like to stay up late and then sleep in late; she has always been a morning person and in turn goes to bed early,  so she just really doesn't get it. Which is very evident in the morning when she is super chatty and I just stare at her, bleary eyed and not talkative, which she doesn't even seem to notice. And at the moment my sleep schedule is wacky because I have to give her meds through her IV lines every 6 hours, so I have to give them to her at midnight and wait till they go through, which can take 30 - 45 minutes.  Sometimes I might actually be sleepy while waiting up until midnight, but after I am all finished I seem to get a second wind and am wide awake for another 2 hours and not get to sleep until 3am or so! Then I have to get up around 6:30 (she wakes up about then) to do it all over again. I go back to bed when I am done for 2 or 3 more hours but this is really screwing up a solid night sleep. Only 4 more days of this though hopefully.

Not that I won't stay up late then too, but at least I don't have to wake up at 0630.  I don't know why she wants me to get up early anyway; she always watches the news which I have no interest in, and she talks on the phone to her other morning people friends, and basically I just don't feel like talking in the mornings.  At work of course it is a bit different, but even then sometimes I wish people wouldn't talk to me until around 10.

Ah well. Can't wait to retire and I can be a night owl all I want and sleep in all I want. I know I don't ever want to be a morning person, those people are just too dang chipper for a night owl like me.