Reply #48: I probably would like more sleep

[eilen]

I get about 6-6.5 hours during the week at night. 7-8 on weekends, like most people.

If my cat doesn't decide it needs feeding RIght Now! Meow! at 4 -4:30 am, my husband's alarm goes off at 5:30. He gets up and showers, I try to roll over to his side of the bed when he gets dressed so he has a place to sit. Then sometimes I get back to sleep, otherwise I ponder life for about 5 min, while he gets downstairs and makes coffee, feeds the cat and I get up. If I get back to sleep, my nephew's alarm rings at 6:30. If he doesn't get up with that, my mother calls his cellphone from his room at about 6:45. That usually wakes me up at that point. If that doesn't the dog gets up and makes her needs known. If I'm working days, I get up with my dh anyway. If I'm on evenings, I get up by 7. My shifts vary 7-3:30, 7-7:30, 11-7:30, 11-11:30, 3-11:30 and sometimes I get out on time. Today I don't have to leave for work until 2:30 (I'm doing 3-11:30). Since I got home at midnight and couldn't get to sleep until about 2, I slept in until 8. Then I dropped my son off at school, did banking, picked up some groceries (out of bread, needed meatloaf mix) and got dinner prepped. Mom will start it at about 3:45 in time for dh to get home, the kids out of school.

When you have a full house, only the teenagers get uninterrupted sleep.

I drive/have a car which makes things easier and sometimes more complicated. My nephew has a car and takes that to school.

I don't think I'm any more tired than anyone else. Everyone is tired. We have 2 new mothers on our floor who are tired. I think I sleep better than them.

I'm pretty alert at work. I work in a high stress environment. Things move pretty fast there, it is very busy.