Is anyone else an anti-social dinosaur first thing in the morning?

[SapphireSeptember]

What I say... "Morning."
What I mean... Fuck off, I haven't even gone to bed yet, because I decided I was going to start sorting out my make up at 11pm and haven't slept yet.

I am a night owl of the highest order and can stay awake for over 24 hours with ease (although I had a decent nap yesterday afternoon.)

My room is now an utter tip and I need a shower, but my mammoth make-up stash does need sorting (and downsizing.) I'm about halfway through, though gave up when I emptied out my box of Revlon lipstick back-ups. That's going to take a while, send help, I'm buried under a pile of lipsticks.

Variations on this theme are I can't talk to people until I'm properly awake, I need tea, breakfast and a shower before I qualify as such (and even then barely) and chirpy morning people get on my nerves. Go away, I want to go back to sleep, not have a chat. Where's my pillow and my blankie? Night night. 😴

Also get sick of people asking me if I'm working on certain days, when they should know by now I don't. My ex used to do this, of all the people to know my work schedule he should have!

I am getting rambly and I am overtired. I'm off to bed (the joys of being single, child-free and having a day off, yay!) I appreciate all of those things right now, and know it's my own silly fault for not going to bed at a reasonable time after getting a second wind.

I am a morning person so I guess I'm a bit biased! Do you live with your sister? If not can you turn your phone off and ignore her for a bit?

PS you've reminded me to tackle the make up hoard!

Me.
Even after a decent sleep, please do not attempt interaction until I've had a litre of tea and some food. Might still be touch and go after that.
But I'm forced into being a morning person because of the children. Only another 10 years or so to go and the little one will be approaching the ever-sleeping teen years so I might get a lie-in .

Me completely.

Dp does this immensely irritating thing too, of wanting to have a conversation about something important while I'm still nursing my first cup of coffee, haven't even opened my eyes properly and can barely string a sentence together.

He then gets pissed off that I can't remember the details of said important conversation.

Or he tries to get me to do the morning jobs pre coffee.

He claims to not be a morning person but he really really is.

It's a daily battle.

On the plus side, being a night owl does make working night shifts loads easier

Just in the morning?!!

No, usually Ok after some breakfast and a cup of tea. Just have to be consistent in sleep times (thank you catch up tv for helping with this).

I'm incredibly grumpy for at least an hour after I first wake up, work permanent nights and it doesn't seem to matter which end of the day I wake up, I'm no use to anyone and possibly marginally dangerous if approached before I've woken up properly.
I'm far chirpier after a night shift than before it despite just having been awake all night. Nights suit me much better, but they do take a toll on your body unfortunately.
I also decide to do random tasks at night, usually sorting stuff out, or painting - something quiet. I think it's probably because I'm used to being active so many nights a week at work.

Reminds me of a meme I saw
'I'm neither a night owl, nor early bird. I'm some kind of permanently exhausted pigeon'

Suits me well!

Me. My husband knows to NEVER EVER WAKE ME UP. It just isn't worth it. It's more since I had dd which makes me massively protective of my sleep. She didn't sleep for 18ish months and it pushed me to the edge of sanity.

Not a sister, housemates! One's as anti-social as me (we smile at each other by way of communicating) one's in the middle, the other two are very chatty and get on my nerves (I ranted about one last year, he said I was so pretty I didn't need to wear make-up! As I don't wear make-up to look 'pretty' I ignored that piece of 'advice'.) One of the chatty ones will stand and talk at me for hours! That drives me bananas! I have got better at extricating myself from those monologues though. You're welcome, namechange! 💄 Good luck.

Work decided to phone me at 8:15, I wondered who was calling, rolled over and went back to sleep! Didn't get out of bed to check my phone till 11:35. (No I am not coming into work on my day off. Fuckers.)

Billywig Why do people do this? Can't they see we're barely conscious? We need one of these mugs!
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Moke Why do kids get up so early? I used to be up at silly 'o' clock when I was a child. I'm sure I did just to be awkward.

Saints I'm still anti-social the rest of the time, just less like a dinosaur, (and less likely to eat someone.🦖 RAWR!)

What That sounds about right! I'm glad it's not just me that stays awake and needs to find something to do.

forever I'm not surprised, glad your husband has learnt. My ex used to wake me up from naps and it made me feel awful, I'm much more awake if I've woken up naturally.

The status of my Revlon lipstick stash, I didn't get rid of a single one! Why is this so hard! I don't need three back ups of every Revlon lipstick shade I own (Revlon did a limited edition lipstick collection last year, and I only bought two of each, which I thought was progress.) Other brands I'm quite happy to only have one of, even the super cool limited edition stuff!