...and count your blessings and appreciate the family/friends that surround you?

I totally do. Every morning I decide it's going to be a good day. It works most of the time.

Since it involves the morning, not generally. I'm a vampire by nature

I start my day on a non-functioning note. It's up early and I'm usually on autopilot getting the kids ready for school. It takes me a bit to wake up.



I'm going to try that though. I'm going to tell myself it will be a good day.

Yes I do ( with a Reiki session usually )

I usually wake before the 5:45 am alarm goes off ( usually ) I turn it off so it wont sound and I lay still - listening to my husband breathe and I connect to his energy ...

Then I visualize our teens down stairs

Then our older kids and their kids

Then myself and how I want my day to unfold

I say a prayer then to spirit/divinity

and off I go

hokie said:

when I went to vegas on the invasion we had there, I told everyone that they need to make sure I was awake when talking to me in the morning because I am so out of it.

So everyone wanted to go to breakfast but I was like "fuck that" I'm sleeping an extra hour so everyone gets ready and they tell me the gameplan on where to meet and all that. So I get my sleep, wake up and take a shower and I'm getting dressed and I realize, I have no fucking idea what I'm supposed to do next. So I just hung out in the lobby til someone came looking for me as I had no idea if I was supposed to meet them in the restaurant, on the street, in the parking garage. Nada, zip, zilch.

Everyone was amazed that I was awake and didn't remember shit

Mach said:

What time do you go to bed?! Are you the kind of person who doesn't need a lot of sleep?

Mach said:

That's awesome. I doubt that no matter how evolved I become, I can ever celebrate the morning. I fucking want to cry every single day because I have to get up

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I don't think I'm quite that non-functioning, but I'm pretty grumpy.

hokie said:

on week days i force myself to go to bed by 1 am weekends i stay up til 2-3 usually and out of bed by 7 am or so

I do not sleep much ( or well ) and never have

When I get 4 solid hrs sleep a night that is just about right - 5 hrs is perfect

When I do try to go to bed earlier or sleep more - it doesn't work anyway and i end up feeling like crap physically the next day

Yeah...

it's called COFFEE!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I am NOT a morning person - I am a night owl/vampire

though i am so very blessed that i can NOT take the time to give thanks and send out healing energy to those I love - it helps me heal each day as well:nod: If by chance I forget - in the moment i remember i forgot I stop everything and do my morning ritual - even if it's noon

Mach said:

I'm jealous.

hokie said:

My Dad said that when I was younger 5-ish or so, and they would tell me I needed to go to bed and sleep I would say

I'll sleep when i'm dead

so I have used that term most of my life when people say that to me

Mach said:

Ariel has said that to me before.



I don't like getting up. I only do it out of necessity.

hokie said:

I only get up for the sex

Mach said:

You go girl!

OK...I'd really like to be a morning person if I could just hop out of bed and not be tired the rest of the day. Unfortunately because I have to take so much medication for different things it makes me tired almost all the time.

Mach said:

As much as I want to be a living porn, I hate morning sex. I'd rather sleep

I love long easy mornings.

I usually wake up at least two hours before i need to head out.

I like to get up, take a shower, have breakfast,
watch something on tv before I go.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

We should date!!!




I can't say I hate morning sex, but given the choice I'd rather sleep. Plus, you're all gross from being stagnant all night.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

my favorite

RenHoek said:

liquid lightening

hokie said:

Yeah, postnasal drip should have nothing to do with my sex life

I actually cut someone off cold never called back or communicated again because he woke me at 5:00 am on a Sunday and I didn't have to get up til 10. We were dating for 3 months! I just couldn't bring myself to tell him that I hate him for waking me

I just position myself on the windowsill, and the first bird that sings GETS IT!!!



Honestly, my daily positivity/negativity is based on what's percolating on my desk...and when I know that I have to explain to the big cheese why my troops don't know how to act when they go out or why they can't keep their fists off of their significant others or kids, then all the positive outlook therapy at 5 a.m. won't help in the least.....

reneGade20 said:

See, that is my absolute favorite thing about the morning. Hearing the birds sing.....while I'm snuggled in bed

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

The only time I really REALLY hate birds singing is when I'm getting the first twinges of "not quite a hangover, but in due time will be if left unchecked" and those fuckers are out in full voice right outside my window....and the best part is when the woodpeckers join in to provide backing rhythms.....

I've been spoiling myself with really fancy tea that I make each morning when I get to work.

That TOTALLY works. The stuff I had this monring was grown in the Himalayas and I swear to goodness, it is nirvana in a cup.


Although some mornings I sing in the shower. Those days I don't even need the tea to be positive. But it still helps.

reneGade20 said:

Yeah, I'm only sickened when I realize the singing means I'm forced to get up and sing with them

That's a tough question because when my alarm goes off I am moaning and groaning. Then I realize I am lucky to have a job and all that and I'm much better. My prime sleeping hours are from 4am till 9am so it's real hard to get up at 7 and I'm not a happy camper.

I hate the first 10 minutes after my alarm goes off at 6:30am, I just want to close my eyes and pray for sunday..my fun day.