I am wondering if I am, but want to hear what you think a "Not a Morning Person" is like.

I get up in the morning, dragging my feet a bit, but not unpleasant or grouchy. Once I get going I am okay, but I am not too thrilled about getting up early in the morning. But that's the extent of my morning mood.

How about you? Is a Not a Morning Person supposed to be more unpleasant like moody, upset, not talkative, etc?

And morning people, do they always get up cheerful, happy, talkative?

I am "not a morning person". I get up mad every morning. Once I'm awake, I'm okay, but every single time the alarm goes off I get a surge of anger. My DH hates to even wake me because I'm such a bear. Once I am up and showered, I can recover a decent mood, but I don't really get rolling until mid-morning. I don't know what morning people are like, my whole family is a bunch of grumps in the morning I love my sleep, I don't think I get enough of it, and I resent the heck out of anything that will interrupt it (even going to work).

Alrighty!!! I get the picture!!

Noon = morning
your energy level increases as it gets darker.
you'd rather sleep in the day and party/work all night.
(hmm...are we related to Dracula?)

I am sooooo NOT a morning person. I get up draging. I get up at 7:25 (snoozing for 40 minutes ) yea EVERY morning. I am OUT the door at 7:45. I do not talk in the mornings. I am just silent. I have to get ready in lighting speed because if I dont I feel like I will fall back asleep. I am not fully awake till about 10:30 - 11:00 am. When I get to work I am just plain sleepy.

At night am totally different. Even when I am sleepy I feel in a good mood.

Thats why I am NOT a morning person.

Mmmm, I want to hear more. I am starting to think that I actually AM a morning person. I don't like getting up but I am not so bad after the first half hour. My energy comes a little bit after that and am ready to do my morning work out by 9:30am.

By the way, I do weights and aerobics and rather do them in the morning to get them out of the way.

MarieLovesCakes: I think you might be a morning person! Congrats!

I really wish I was a morning person but I never have been and, despite the fact that I have a little one, I don't think I ever will be. I love the night. I could easily work a different shift at any job. Once it's bedtime, I can sink right into watching my tv shows or working on a cake... or reading about cakes
I don't go to bed until at least midnight and thats because I force myself to go to bed in order to get up at 7:30am. Thank goodness for a smiling little face when I go in to get my angel because otherwise I'd be such a grouch. (my DH gets the brunt of that on the weekend mornings )
I basically just push through the first hour or two until I can get into the shower and start my day.

Just DON'T ever wake me up when I'm sleeping. Otherwise, I'm just fine in the mornings!

My younger brother qualifies for this. He can sleep through 6 adults and 4 kids in the same room making lots of noise if it's before about noon.
He had trouble even when he was a little kid with mornings, my mom would have to wake him up about 5 times to get ready for school.

Now that Cakerator mentioned the kids, I think that did it for me.

I could never get up when I was younger before 11:00am or 12:00pm on the weekends. I got up early during the week because I had to go to work.


But on the weekends, forget it!!!

I have two young girls that have changed all that. My eldest is 8 and the youngest is 3. The both liked to get up early and of course, I had to get up with them.

So, eversince, I can't sleep passed 9:00am or I ge a HUGE headache.!

Monica said it all for me. I used to not really talk much until 10 or so but I've gotten better. I'm usually still a bit sleepy through most of the morning.

I am ALIVE at night. I'm such a night owl. It's very hard for me to get to bed before midnight, no matter what time it is I have to get up in the morning. I do my best work late at night. I go to the gym late - no crowds!

One of my friends is more of a morning person. We've did a girls weekend to Vegas and Chicago a few times and I swear she wakes up and picks up where she left off talking the night before. We're all like "give us an hour, please!"

I consider myself a morning person. Maybe by default because I am not a night person. I am so tired at night. I put my kids to bed early so I can have a couple of hours in the evening to myself. Now I am not saying I like to get up early, but by the time I walk to the bathroom I am pretty much awake and ready to go.

I guess I think of "not a morning person" as people who press the snooze 500 times, dont talk to anyone until they have a cup of coffee, are grumpy in the morning or who dont like to talk, like to sleep until noon on a day off. Not necessarily all of these traits at the same time! But that is just my perception!

LOL, Monica, I've got you beat, I think...I actually set 4 alarms...starting at 5:30 - I actually HAVE to get up by 6:10. Most of the time I don't even hear the first couple of alarms, I just turn them off in my sleep. I have to use my cell phone so I can keep changing the ring tones to 'surprise' me. I also set my clock in the bedroom 15 minutes fast in a sad little attempt to trick myself out of bed.

Oh, my goodness you ladies are too much with this alarm thing....

My husband has the alarm set to ring at 6:00am. That's when I get up. Then it is set up again to ring 10 minutes later. That's when he gets up.

I get everyone going in the morning. I have to call my 8 yrs old daughter like 5 times, before she finally gets up.

I am staying home right now but I don't go back to bed when everyone is gone which is about 7:15am. I could and sometimes I do but by 8:00am I am ready to get out of bed and continue the day....

Iam not a morning person at all my husband gets up and hour before me and he hits the snooze on the alarm like 5 times and takes a shower i sleep through it all I atually gave my son an alarm clock when he started first grade this year and he gets up with that amazingly i manage to hear his alarm clock from the room down the hall but once he is up you kind of have to switch into morning person mode after all there is breakfeast to be made and lucnh to pack and clothes to lay out and a walk to the bus stop so you dont really get the option of being cranky unless i want him to be in a foul mood all day because of my crankyness. of course it is a whole different story if i get the oppurtunity to take a nap during the day if i get woken from that i'am a grump the rest of day and the family knows to stay clear. so for there sake i just aviod day time naps no matter how tired i am.

I just wanted to add my DH IS a morning person. and that's enough to drive any nonmorning person insane. He wakes with a clock radio and starts singing along with the music How dare he be so d@mn happy in the morning!

I hate the alarm clock! I just wake up in a grumpy mood and it's best not to talk to me until I have had a cup of coffee and had time to adjust to the morning. i'm good to go then.

Kelley

oh goodness! im not a morning person either and i have school @ 7:35, so i have to get up around 6! i hate it, I am sooo quiet in the morning until i have P.E, which is my 2nd class, after that im usually talktive and awake. but i guess wat wakes me up in the morning is a workout!
Natalie

I had a job that I had to be at once at 6, you guys would have died! Actually the last job I had I had to be there at about 6:45. Plus i had to get up my 2 boys and drop them at day care first, we had to leave at about 6:10. Good thing I am a morning person!

I probably do qualify as a morning person. I love to get up around 6 a.m. sometimes and start cleaning I know I am so warped! I can get up and immediately start cleaning or picking up things. I usually hit the floor running so to say. The only thing I do not like in the morning is if my hubby has to get up really early like 4 a.m., I do not like for him to talk to me when I am still trying to sleep. I only mumble my replies and he has learned to deciper (spelling?) what I am mumbling. I don't open my mouth at all to speak and we can still have a conversation. If I open my eyes and speak then it's all over. I am wide awake. I know i'm so weird.

I used to hate going on vacations as a kid sometimes. My mom gets up SO early (5) and will just open up the blinds in the hotel room. Ahh! I felt like a vampire.

My boyfriend is a morning person too but also a night person. Don't ask me how he manages but he can go to bed at 3 and get up at 8.

The only time I get up is on vacation. Let's go!

What really amazes is the people that get up at 4:00am to exercise!!! I couldn't do it! Now that's where I draw the line!!!!

It depends on what time I went to bed and how well I slept if I'm a morning person that day or not. In high school I use to have those whind-up alarm clocks since the power went out in our area real easy. I broke so many of those clock by just chuking them across the room to turn it off because I couldn't see clearly enough that early in the morning to shut it off! ....so I broke the clocks to make them quit ringing!!!
Then for a whole year I use to wake up at 5 am to go run anywhere from 4 to 16 miles a day and weight train before I had to shower and get ready for classes that was almost an hour drive away. I guess that's why when I joined the Marines it didn't bother me waking up early to run because I was already conditioned for it

Now is a different story! I ENJOY my nice warm bed in the morning and prefer not to get out of it for any reason at all! Too bad I have to get up at 6:30 to get ready for class and get my DD ready for school. I don't know how many times I've thought about calling in to school saying I was sick and then calling my DD school to say the same just so I could go back to sleep! (I haven't done this yet....but I think about it often)

Okay, I do have to admit that even though I am NOT a morning person (see my previous post), I am also one of those freaks who will get up early to exercise. At one point I was really into my workout routine and I would get up at 4:30 every morning to do it because it was the only way I could ever find the time to do it.

I don't do that anymore...

I definately AM NOT a morning person.

I cannot be bothered for a while once I wake up & I' tend to get crabby.

I like to be "in the quiet zone" while I'm driving to work. My co-worker calls me alot while I'm in the car & I "accidentally" turn off my phone because I really don't want to hear her voice in the morning, & she is always disgustingly happy!
Yuck, too much for me in the morning!!

Give me until 10 or 11 and I'll be okay.

And DO NOT WAKE ME UP! I will be grouchy all day and make your life & everyone around me miserable!!

I haven't read the whole thread, but I am cracking up at the last few posts!

My husband is a morning person, and while it is a little irritating to hear whistling and singing while I'm trying desperately to get my eyes to stay open, I'm more jealous than irritated. I have never been a morning person, but I want to be be sooooo badly. Is it possible to become that way?