I am a morning person.

I wake up early, and happy. It is incredibly rare for me to sleep past 8am. Maybe if I don’t get into bed until after midnight I might sleep-in until 9am.

I’m pretty sure I get it from my mom. She sucks at sleeping, as funny as that sounds. She tosses and turns all night, checks the clock incessantly and wakes up around 4am. This is highly annoying for my father who shares a bed with her, as she is often quite chatty when she wakes up. Usually she tries to stay in bed until 6am. But after 6? She obviously sees that as fair game, and I am quite used to be woken up by her at an early hour to “keep her company.” Not that I really have a choice, because even if I say no, she just goes downstairs and blast music.

Once I am awake, I am awake. So, the blasting of such music causes me to wake up, and stay in such a state until bed time. But, it doesn’t bother me, because once I am awake, I am happy, cheerful and spunky– until about mid-afternoon when I become slightly worn out, but not too badly!

Obviously, since my mom is the same way, it’s never been a big issue at my house. Upon living with other people last year, I realized that it can be a big deal with those out there who need their beauty sleep (because ‘dey so ugliezz, heh heh). It’s not too bad when it’s your house as well, but what about at sleepovers? It’s awful! Lying there, wide awake, at 7.30am, and you know your friends won’t wake up until approaching-noon! It’s torture!

Why can’t everyone just be morning people, like me?

How about you? Are you a morning person? Or do you like to sleep-in just to spite your early-rising friends?