To find lazy adults really grating?

YABU. Who gave you the right to decide what is a ‘reasonable time’ for people to get up?

I’m in bed right now reading this 😁

Gosh OP! You sound literally perfect in every way. You travel, you spend a lot of time with children, you run, you belong to a gym, you sew, you have a mentally draining office job, you’re up at 5.30am but 7am on weekends. Is there anything you can’t do? You sound like a mash-up between Mother Theresa, Bob Geldoff and Jessica Ennis.

But seriously, you sound painful. Utterly smug and big headed. I can completely see why your friend ridicules you.

Yes you are right it is !

Inane 🙄

What I find weird is that Night Owls never tend to get as sanctimonious about their hours - even if they add up to more hours awake and working over the course of 24 hours.

HNRTFT but as a person who has never been a morning person I couldn’t give a toss what the sanctimonious early birds think ! If I have to ,I function perfectly well getting up early but out of choice I lie in until about 930am and get on with my day from about 11am .
Just to add I now work a night shift twice a week and am up from 9.30am one day until 10am the next! Do I judge people getting into bed at 9-10pm ? Absolutely not!

It's a moot point anyway.

Half of MN will tell you that SAHM are lazy, work-shy and on a permanent holiday,
and the other half, that looking after children is the hardest job in the world.

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That's probably why you read stories and hugged babies you were unqualified.

Are you serious?!

I have worked in a nursery for years, not just interning for a few weeks. It's exhausting. In the nurserys that I worked in, the intern wasn't allowed to do the full job and had a much slower paced experience.

part of being an adult is being able to make your own choice ...

She must be a lot prettier than you or something, considering you’re so jealous of her.

It's maybe time to distance yourself from this friendship. You have both grown up and followed different paths. It would irritate me too to be honest

She sounds a little depressed in my opinion. Ridicules you for having hobbies and going to the gym. Ridicule, that can also be jealousy. I used to have a boyfriend who ridiculed my house although he did not have one. It was plain jealousy.

In my opinion it's time you both went your separate ways.

Yes of course it is - that's my whole issue with the OP.

She seems incapable of grasping that there is no moral imperative in terms of the lifestyle choices she has made.

Just stop it OP. Why don’t you understand that being on your feet for 6 hours a day is more tiring and full on that being sat at a desk? She looks after small children! It’s exhausting.

Yet instead of being understanding and supportive you look down your nose at her, you diminish what she does and think you are superior.

You really need to take a long hard look at yourself.

A part of being an adult is being able to choose your own schedule. As long as you’re doing what you want to do, be that going to the gym, staying up late watching Netflix, or lying in bed with a good book, then no time is being wasted.

I mean 5 hours in a nursery is not nothing but it's not "very hard"?

I do wonder about people who fill their every waking moment with activities. I feel like they’re trying to avoid something in their own lives. Sitting with their own thoughts maybe? Or maybe they just like to feel superior to us “lazy” adults? Filling a void because of childhood trauma? Succumbing to the age old subconscious capitalist messaging that if you’re not being productive every minute of the day then you’re somehow a less deserving human being?

Not really

Just bored if doing nothing?
Also bored if I am gardening or knitting. I can lay down to read a book (or sleep) , otherwise it's just pointless to me and life is too short to be bored?

I'll be gardening when I am too old or to ill to do anything else, if that's ok with you. I am not avoiding my life, I am actually living it.

I work and study better from late afternoon to very early mornings, so I try to have a job where I can actually pick my own hours within reasons.

People like you and the OP are only judgmental bores, who are so dissatisfied with their own lives they need to be bitter about others. It's rather sad.

Eh? She works, you said so yourself, she works in a very demanding role but she's going to end up obese and on benefits.

Get your head out of your own backside, step off of your ivory treadmill and read what you just said. You contradict yourself over and over in this thread.

Clever. I have interned in a nursery for 4 weeks, I'm fairly sure 5 hours is not backbreaking work. I've also interned in reception class and that was much more tiring. It's ok to disagree.

Yes they have cosy blankets and snooze for an hour 😀

Nah, you're on a windup now. No one is this spiteful about someone they call a friend. Uncomfortable reading at this point. Hope she sees this and realises who you actually are.