Cayenne gets me up every morning around 7 by propping herself up on the side of the mattress with her paws, and licking my nose to let me know she needs to pee.

I can't remember the last time I got to sleep past 7. But I will say that my terrible habit is getting back to bed (after opening the back dog door for Cayenne) and reading youse guys on my iPhone (along with Twitter/FB) well into the morning. I should be using that time to sleep or just get the hell up. I annoy myself!

Leo wakes me every morning about 5 or 6am. Except on days when I really want or need to get up early, in which case he'll be sound asleep in the cat tree downstairs. He is an unreliable alarm. Contrary beast.

Yikes on the 5 or 6 am!!

I generally wake up 3 minutes before it goes off.

I hate that. I look at the clock and think "I could be asleep!"

When I'm on a week or so of vacation it takes 3-4 days for my body to believe it can sleep in. And even then sleeping in is usually 7:30 or 8. Yet the whole early morning wakefulness doesn't generally translate into productivity. Many weekends, I'll be in my robe until noon, drinking coffee and reading fic.

Darby got up at 11 the other morning.

I wish I would frigging train myself to go to bed earlier.

I never use an alarm unless I have to wake at a really odd time. My body wakes up 6ish, or earlier in the summer when it gets light earlier. But yeah, like Burrell, life would be golden if I was in bed when I should be more often, or if I could stop reading and shut the eyes earlier. I never was able to do the nap thing so if I am up late I am still up early with no sleep until night time.

I wish I would frigging train myself to go to bed earlier.

Ahahahahahahaha. You guys, I've been SO PROUD of myself the past few days for being in bed by 11:45.

Pete has tried for years to convince me that we should keep to a regular schedule on the weekends, no sleeping in to catch up on sleep. He hasn't succeeded yet, and I think it's kind of endearing that he still thinks he will. Nope, sleeping in is one of the best things about weekends!

Yeah, I used to be really bad about it and mornings are still hard for me, but I'm getting better. I do really need to start heading for bed at, like 8:30 because it takes me so long with puttering around and building the fire and brushing the dog's teeth and then reading forever. Next up is reducing that routine, I guess. But I've reconciled that I have two 6:30 out the door days and I really just need to get to sleep and get up. The dog knows he can only wake Dave, which is more or less unfair.