You all are giving me sleep envy.

I can't say a thing intelligible about sleep; I have no normal, it's all over the place.

Getting up at 6am (and occasionally earlier) pretty much has to be my new normal with the role I'm in. I can limp along with 6 hours of sleep, but things start getting catastrophic when I get less than that, which has been happening way too frequently.

Timelies all!

Tomorrow we head to OVFF! It's the little guy's first convention.

All summer I've been wearing skirts and cropped pants. One of the facilities ladies has seen me most mornings and commented that she liked my bright clothes. This morning I was wearing jeans, as it's getting cooler. She spotted me and chirped as she walked by, "Why, I didn't recognize you! You're wearing pants!" We were not alone in the office lobby, and I blinked and said, "Well, that sounded bizarre." She tracked me down a couple of minutes later, all flustered, and explained how she meant I'd been wearing skirts etc., which I understood. Still, enough people apparently know who I am around her, and I'd rather not have "I didn't recognize you, you're wearing pants" attached to my name.

On the flip side of sleep, I have a coworker who I believe genuinely doesn't need that much. She was saying she's having trouble with her retainer because she only wears it to bed and she's not in bed long enough!

I am very jealous of people who only need 6 or 7 hours! (And I mean "need", not "would like more but only get...")

Poor Casper has lights out at 9pm (and we can't reasonably push it much earlier) and gets up at 6:15 because school starts at 7:30 and the poor child is exhausted all the time during the week. It can't be healthy. (I know, 9 hours sounds like a lot, but she is young and growing like crazy.)

Yeah, I was basically cranky for five years from 8th-12th grade, because school started at 7:30 and my bus picked me up at 6:40, and I was even less a morning person now than then. In theory I was supposed to go to bed at 9PM, but it only vaguely happened, I was usually in my ROOM, but not asleep, by a long shot.

I don't have to be at work till 9, a situation I've set up deliberately because I know my ability to get to bed early. Not having kids to worry about makes life must less complicated.

This is me. Also I know my ability to get up early. Unreliable. Some days I'm up at 5am, but those days I'll be asleep by 8, and sleeping interferes somewhat with working. I can function on 5 hours sleep for one day, but to be really alert, I need at least 7. School was such a misery, because I had to get up at 5 every school morning from 1st grade to senior graduation.

I regularly get by on 5-6.5 hrs. I could do with more, but I'm functional. Weekends I tend to sleep more. I just can't make myself go to bed at a reasonable hour and I just wake up early. I can easily fall back to sleep, but only if I plan to be later to work than I'd like. So I get up.

6 hours is about average for me I'd say. It's when that six is broken up with wake ups that I get really testy.