Early to bed, Early to rise

Daylight savings will come into effect next Sunday —yet again. Should I give up and accept the fact that I’m a night owl, or should I strive to accomplish being an early bird? I really enjoy the fresh mornings, but it’s been a year with this goal pending, and my current life just does not match it.

A few days ago, I didn’t even make it to the early-bird breakfast special of this Capitol Hill restaurant. Of course, for the Capitol Hill crowd, “early bird” means until 11:30am!!! lol And I wasn’t even close!! ::sigh::

Few things compare to smelling morning air, yet this goal has lingered for ages on my stubborn effort to stretch the late-night hours…

Yet this morning, due to an early appointment, it happened: 6:30 sharp, and I was up and running. I really like waking up early, and I always ask myself why I commit to a late-owl life! The early light is so inspiring, bike riders along the lake, a morning walk with my dog… aaahhh, life’s good in the early hours…

With mother around, it has been ‘easier’ to achieve this goal ;)

It’s 4am… and I’m not waking up… this goal is going nowhere :(

Here I am at 4:35am writing entries. The birds are already chirping outside and twilight is now bringing the night to an end.

I’ve made a log of my sleeping times for the past weeks, but I haven’t been successful with the Steve Pavlina’s approach I posted a few weeks ago.

But it’s really been my fault, because I haven’t woken up at the same time in the morning but rather sleep through my alarm clock. Sometimes I turn it off, sometimes I don’t even hear it…

The only fact I know is that I feel much better the days I have gone to bed relatively early and have woken up early at the set time. I need to have more discipline to achieve this goal.

...and I’m just going to bed :P OMG!! It’s light already outside!!!

I’m doing sooo bad with this goal :S

I woke up at 10 this morning instead of 9am :S

I really did not hear the alarm go off. Well, no wonder given the fact that I went to bed at 3:38am last night. Why do I have to keep pushing my sleep limit? I was already sleepy before 2am, but why I kept myself awake for two more hours is beyond me…

Even though I broke the rules of the experiment last night, I’ll be back on to it tonight.

I went to bed at 4:35am (!) last night, and woke up at 9am (my set time). I napped for about 25 minutes in the afternoon, but didn’t really go to sleep, just relaxed.
It’s 1:48am already tonight, and I’m feeling really sleepy, but I decided to post this before I went to bed, so I have a log of my ‘experiment’.

Somewhere in the many ‘sleeping goals’ of 43 Things, someone recommended the article How to Become an Early Riser.

1. Going to bed when —and only when— you’re sleepy
2. Get up at the same time everyday no matter how long you slept

He expands on the process and goes further to clarify in a second part.

Consequently, he states, your body will adjust and will demand to go to bed at a decent hour ;)

It really makes a lot of sense, so I’ll give it a try.

The phone rang at 9:06 this morning, so I jumped out of bed to answer it. On the other end, a woman asks me: “Is there a grown-up at home?” LOL!!!
How “tweety” my voice had to be that she thought I was a child???
I need to go to bed earlier and rise earlier, so my voice sounds grown-up ;)