Posted by Carly at Jul 12, 2012 9:20 am
Since I’m obviously late in getting this post up, I might as well make it about why. My summer is hell. Let me start by apologizing ahead of time to all of you who work, who get up every morning at 6 AM or earlier, to leave the house. I don’t. I’m on school hours. High school hours which means during the school year I’m up at 6:20 – but I don’t have to shower or walk out of the house at any specific time that’s ridiculously early. For whatever reason, that means if I’m at my desk by 9 AM, I feel good, not rushed and like a human being. My summers used to be that the kids had to be out of the house around 7:30 for camp, which bought me another hour or so. I could wake up around 7 sometimes 7:30. Last summer, one daughter stayed up at college, the other worked in a job I had to drive her to at 10 AM. See how nice that was? Fast forward to this summer. Word from hell: DRIVER’S ED. I agreed to the 8:30 so I could get her to work at 10. That means we leave the house at 8:10, so I can sleep till 7. Definitely good. Somehow, this little addendum got sprung on me after I’d paid – every other day the lecture is at 7 AM. IN THE MORNING. I have to leave the house w/her at 6:40. AM. I can’t wake up at 6, jump out of bed, shower, be ready and leave the house by 6:40 AND FEEL AWAKE and HUMAN. I can’t do it. I can not shower, then come home and pull myself together but no matter how I slice it, my morning routine is screwed up. My body clock is screwed up. I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE! It goes through August 15th. No joke. I now bring my laptop and do my writing in the car instead of driving the twenty minutes home and back again, losing all that valuable time. But I am NOT a particularly nice or happy person the rest of the day. I don’t like this about myself, but that’s how it is. I can’t control it. I feel out of control and I hate it. In other words, I’ve learned that I am an even more regimented control freak than I originally thought. And I already thought I was bad.
I can’t even think of a question to talk about. I’m too cranky. LOL.
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:zzzzz: With me it’s the dog’s schedule… and the sunrise, which comes about 4:30 way up here in the north! Then trying to get work done before people start tramping through the house. Of course by 6pm I’m not ready to quit work for the day, but there’s dinner to fix for all the people and critters… actually the critters I don’t mind… the people? could do without them. I’d like to live in the woods with no distractions except nature…Wait… I do live in the woods but unfortunately I’m not alone and I’m allergic to something in nature! Isn’t it always something?
OMGosh Carly!!! You poor thing. I would be cranky too, mostly because I’m not a morning person and I’m a Creature Of Habit. Do NOT mess with my Habit. My Habit makes me happy. LOL!
Here’s hoping August 16th comes quick. But I’m glad you’re getting work done.
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I feel your pain….but I have to be up early and so the pain is mild!!!Good luck to your daughter with her driving class.
How much driving time is needed by teens after completing the class until they get their license and can drive somewhere, anywhere, by themselves without an adult in the car? PANIC TIME in the right hand seat!!!
hugs to you! :hugging:
I’m not an early riser either since I stopped working 5 yrs ago, unless it is absolutely necessary! I get up around 8:00…have breakfast in front of the computer…and then spend the next 2 – 3 hours catching up on life.
Drivers ed classes might be a pain now, but once she can drive herself you won’t have to get up…she can do it herself! Today my baby turned 15 and the first thing she said was 6 months until I can get my temp! At least it’s the last one I have to go through with this driving stuff!
Hope your day gets a little less crabbier!
I have never been a morning person but in order to get to work by 7:30 I have to be up by 6:15 (showers are takin at night). My body is used to the schedule but my mind doesn’t really want to give in. I hate it when I wake up at the same time on the weekends and can’t get back to sleep. My night person doesn’t want to give in so I wind up staying up way later than I should (usually reading) and then I pay for it in the morning. Like now. It’s 8:45 a.m. and I could use a nap. :zzzzz:
hugs to you, Carly.
Last summer, I was training for a 5K and I had to get up at 5 am to go for my walk so that I could do my walk and be home so that my husband could leave at 6;30 (although, how rarely he left at 6:30, it was more like 7:15 or later, but that’s what he told me).
This summer, the earliest I have to get ready is 9 am (and I don’t have to shower unless I want to). I do have to be presentable by 10:30. If I do my walk, I do it or I can always do a Wii Fit type of thing. Unfortunately, I don’t have a ‘schedule/schedule” (there is not a ‘typical’ week, which kind of bums me out). Flexibility is the key to my summer
I so understand. I have never once been a morning person. After high school, I got a job working nights in the ER. Now however, I am a full-time caregiver for my grandfather and two dogs. My grandfather has Alzheimer’s Disease, Diabetes and a few other diseases. One of my dogs has been diagnosed with Epilepsy, and he seems to have seizures early in the morning. I can get my family into a routine for about a week, and then someone, or something will happen, and we are all up extra early. Sorry for my long story, but I do understand about not being in control of your time anymore, and about not being a morning person. I wish you luck through the rest of your summer, and I hope you have a nice rest of your day!
Once upon a time I was a morning person. Then I got married and had kids. My hubby, a wonderful person but, likes to cuddle and keep me in bed in the morning, often making me late. Plus he works the evening shift so I was solo-parenting and staying up too late. So now it seems I’ve become a night owl. It’s all those nights of staying up late waiting for him.
Carly, it will get better. Think about how you won’t have to drive her everywhere after she gets that license.
Carly, I can understand how that can get you off to a bad start on the day. I’m not a morning person but if there is something I want to do or have to do I can get up real early, shower, do whatever is necessary & be on my way. By the time I walk out the door I’m functional. Get me some coffee
& it is even better. Since we have hot weather here in the summer & into the fall I like to get up early throw on some clothes & get my walk in for the day. After that I shower, eat, have my coffee & get on with the day. Part of the morning routine is here at the computer visiting the Plotmonkeys :applause: & a couple of other blogs. 
Inquiring minds want to know how Aruba was. :D
:hugging: Carly. That stinks that they didn’t list all the information for the class before y’all signed up. I wake up early each day even when I don’t have to go to work. Wish I could sleep in a little on the weekend at least.
How was Aruba?
Not a morning person…had to become one when grandbaby came to live with us. I sure miss sleeping in!!! :ohno:
Not a morning person. I am a Night Owl. However, I am up at 5 (work days. 6 non-work days) to wake up hubby, who is still downstairs recuperating, take out the dogs, feed them and the cats, breakfast (if I’m eating home), get lunches ready, run back upstairs and shower and dress, throw the dogs back out one last time, round them up, shove hubby out the door (I’m still doing all the driving), take him to work, get the wheel chair out, push him up the ramp and thru the tunnel and into his office (because heaven forbid the effing bunker has a handicapped door that works), run back to the car, head to work (thankfully across the street), be in by 720, if not my usual 10 minutes early, and start the day. Then reverse on the way home which might not be until 8pm. Bed by 10. Rinse and repeat daily.
I am beat. Everything he usually does has fallen to me on top of what I do. If I had my druthers I would be up all night and sleep all day, like I used to do. Why, oh why, did I have the brilliant idea to go back to work?
I feel your pain. I got so tired of being Mom’s taxi service. Both my girls did theater production while they where in high school and just hated those late weekday nights. Most nights I would pick up the girls at 10:30. It sure make for some really long day, especially when your day started at 5:30.
Just hang in there because things are going to get better when your daughter has her license in hand. It is going to be one of the happiest days in your life. You are really going to enjoy your extra time.
Thanks okay, Carly. Trust me, I completely understand. My husband REALLY wanted a dog. So about two months ago we rescued a Husky. Don’t get me wrong, I love Sammy The Man. But I didn’t realize how much my life would change. I’m use to getting up at 6:20 to get one kid ready for school and then laying around, reading, or cleaning the house with the two year old in our pj’s until around 1, when we actually shower/bath and leave the house. But no, Sammy the man has to go out at 9:45 and it can’t be quick. He wants the quarter of the mile walk. You really can’t do the in pj’s…..
The things we do for our kids (the two legged and four legged).
I am chuckling over your blog because I have a terrible time waking up in the morning. I am a night person, always have been. Hubby has to wake me whenever there is some place we must go.
That is a harsh reality when you are bumped out of your routine and it throws the rest of your day off. I’ve become a morning person when my kids went to private HS and needed a ride to the bus site. that dictated my work schedule because I needed to be able to pick him up at the end of the day to head to swim practice. So I know how it feels to be at the mercy of your children’s schedule. Just a few more weeks and Aug 17 will be here before you know it. :hugging:
I don’t have the rush the kids out of the house early traumas anymore, but the house does get awfully quiet sometimes. I sure don’t miss the early mornings, but I do miss the lovely sounds. The best news: My baby (24!) as well as our one and only just got into law school at UC Berkeley! We are so proud of him!