OT: One of my pleasures in life is in the morning....

[EricStratton-RushChairman]

You’ve done well to recover from your mistakes. That’s all that matters at this point.

Could be the nicest thing anyone has said/directed to me in weeks

 

[Mr. Potter]

Sleep is like chasing the dragon; satisfaction is always out of reach.

I started working from home about 5 years ago and don't need an alarm anymore. So what happens now that that torture is gone? Now I wake up even earlier for no reason and feel like crap.

It's like the Twilight Zone episode where the guy has all the books and all the time but no glasses.

Burgess Meredith, I just watched it over New Years got me hooked on a binge that holiday. I believe it was called something like "All the time in the World."

 

[fairgambit]

I am deeply in the "woulda coulda shoulda" portion of my journey.

Now past 70, I spend far to much time reflecting on Whittier.... "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"
Acts not done. Words not spoken. Challenges not met.
Through the years I let far to many dreams die. I should have worked harder, loved more, criticized less ... The process of introspection comes naturally, I suspect, with advanced age, and yet it can be so damn depressing. I still chase dreams, but the hourglass is running out. Don't let it happen to you.

 

[MtNittany]

Could be the nicest thing anyone has said/directed to me in weeks

You da' man Otter!

 

[LionJim]

Yep - Eric is one that some here have probably looked to as an example, and he's lived up to that. One of my favorite posters over the years.

I dig strong people.

 

[ODShowtime]

Burgess Meredith, I just watched it over New Years got me hooked on a binge that holiday. I believe it was called something like "All the time in the World."

"Time Enough at Last"

Exactly describes every morning while I toss and turn and stare bleary-eyed at my phone, doomscrolling.

 

[tkmtr14]

Great thread Mr. Potter. I’m married and the Father of 5. My youngest is a high school senior.
all I can say is “Winning is fun!!” Your morning routine is a win!! At my house, I rarely win the war, but I win many battles in a very similar and immature fashion!!!

 

[ODShowtime]

When I have to wake the GF up I use the exact tone of voice my mom used.

Tiiime to get up!

When you do it just right it's infuriating.

 

[PSU Mike]

As y’all know, I’m an ironhead and while I was teaching I’d wake up at 4:30 to be at the gym when it opened at 5. My watch has a stopwatch feature and I’d use the stopwatch to time my hard boiled eggs. More than once, twice in one week, actually, I would forget to switch back to my regular watch setting and I’d wake up, look at my watch saying 4:45, drive to the gym’s empty parking lot and realize that it was 2:15 am. Good times. Thank god my gym is only four minutes away.

I do seem to recall you saying your gym is “two times i to the fourth power plus the fourth root of sixteen” minutes away
already.

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

When I have to wake the GF up I use the exact tone of voice my mom used.

Tiiime to get up!

When you do it just right it's infuriating.

That’s how you go headless

 

[ODShowtime]

That’s how you go headless

It's one factor.

 

[retsio]

I will certainly agree that waking a teen, who could sleep all day, is a performance issue - we used to hate that voice, and it was always too early !

However, how can all of us not tell of an early morning pleasure that would stand out in our minds many, many years later. I truly mean many, many years later............ what better memory could be - when you pull her over on top of you and know you could last forever. Then a hot shower for two in either tight or spacious shower conditions that make for one more or last time. Come on - tell me that is not an early morning pleasure you have in your memory !

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[LionJim]

However, how can all of us not tell of an early morning pleasure that would stand out in our minds many, many years later. I truly mean many, many years later............ what better memory could be - when you pull her over on top of you and know you could last forever. Then a hot shower for two in either tight or spacious shower conditions that make for one more or last time. Come on - tell me that is not an early morning pleasure you have in your memory !

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Yeats, looking back on an one-night stand, twenty years on:

The women take so little stock
In what I do or say
They’d sooner leave their cosseting
To hear a jackass bray;
My arms are like the twisted thorn
And yet there beauty lay.

 

[Obliviax]

Now that I'm officially a middle-aged man I no longer have the ability to sleep in. I love sleep but I wake up right around 6:30-45am. I remember how much I hated waking up at the time for getting to high school. However, my two boys are high school students and without an alarm they could sleep till 2pm. So now every morning when I wake up, I let the dog out, then come up stairs to bang on their doors like a police raid shouting "Time for school!". Nothing better than their reactions of dismay. I love it.
Shalom

Good stuff.

As you get older, you need less sleep. Actually, I sleep less in the night but feel I run out of gas during the day and want to nap. Today, I wake up at 6-ish and sometimes get up, sometimes lay in bed until 6:30. What I really like is getting up and having a relaxing cup of coffee before the household and work. It has become my favorite time of day.

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

I run out of gas during the day and want to nap.

tell us you’re old without telling us you’re old

 

[Woodpecker]

tell us you’re old without telling us you’re old

I dig chicks