How long does it take....

[catnapper]

for you to wake up?

I was thinking this morning about how miserable I am to get out of bed.

7:00 Alarm screams at me. I punch it Spend the next 20 minutes in a half-conscious state.
7:20 Start thinking I need to wake up and get outta bed
7:30 I finally crawl out of bed, then refuse to talk to anyone, even the monsters. I actually bump into walls!
7:45 Stumble to the car to drive the girls to school. We all realize I'm a lousy driver when I'm fully alert. The ride to school in the morning is downright scary
8:00 Return home and start getting ready for work with my first cup of caffeine. Do this on auto-pilot.
9:00 Finally totally awake and comprehensive.
Sooo.... it takes me a full two hours to become a fully functioning human in the mornings! How about you?!

PS: Here's hubby:
5:30 alarm sings (his is set for radio, mine is buzzer)
5:40 out of shower singing goofy made-up songs.
6:00 fully dressed, completely awake without the aid of caffeine, and on his way out the door to work
How on earth can he do it?!?! I hate him!

Silly thread but I thought we need some fun.

[Pam]

Kim I am laughing at your description of yourself. I am actually a morning person and wake up on the weekends at the same time as during the week. If I should sleep a little past 6:00 Trevor will come in and remind me that he hasn't eaten yet. My hubby is more like you, while I am more like your hubby. Of course I fade early in the evening though.

[sirrahved]

It totally depends on the day, and I haven't been able to figure out what makes the difference. Even on my earliest days at work (have to be there @ 4 am) some days I pop right out of bed and I'm alert the whole day. Other days I don't know how I even make the 20 minute drive.

Dh is like yours. He's up and doing stuff within 15 minutes of waking. He'd love for his days to end around 4 o'clock, though.

[Sirrahsim]

I am very groggy in the morning but find that turning on every light in the house as soon as my eyes open helps chase away the cobwebs. Hubby laughs at me but I just tell him that it is my "light therapy"

[k9krazee]

I always set my alarm about an hour before I actually want to wake up. The snooze is set for 5 minutes and I know that I can hit it 6 times and still have enough time to dress and get ready for class. The ten minute walk usually wakes me up quite a bit...especially if there's snow or rain involved. So on a regular schoolday it takes me about an hour to become coherent.

[JenBKR]

ugh I am so not a morning person. The alarm goes off at 6:00, at which time Roscoe jumps up and runs around the room to be let outside. Every once in a while, if I pretend I'm still asleep, hubby will let him out. But usually he just nudges me and tells me to get up. So I let him out, feed the cats, then go back to bed. Around 6:30 hubby gets up to shower, and I continue hitting the snooze until he's done, about 7:00. Then I lay there with the covers over my head and say '5 more minutes!' until I look at the clock and realize if I don't get up that second I am going to be very late to work. I'd say I fully wake up around 5:00pm, when I get to go home

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Alarm goes off at 6.45am
2.30pm - still asleep

[crow_noir]

1) 7Am is just too darned early to be awake
2) You may want to talk to your doctor about sleep apnea.

It takes me about 10 minutes after 10AM about 20 minutes if it's before 9AM.

Oh, you said fully functioning... NOT until about 10 minutes after I've had my oatmeal. Sugar balancing takes a few minutes.

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

Some of these are really making me laugh....

0400 - alarm goes off - hit snooze
0410 - hit snooze
0420 - hit snooze
0430 - get out of bed and make Alden a bottle.. put him in his playpen with bottle and take shower
0450 - feet two hungry kitties and get Alden and myself dressed
0515 - *hopefully* leaving the house
0535 - dropping Alden off at babysitter
0600 - arrive to work and *first things first* drink first cup of coffee
0620 - *wake up*

[Glacier]

I'm usually up at about 4am to let Pacer out and reassure Anvik that I am still alive. Back in bed 10 Minutes later.

Alarm goes off at 6:21; I actually get out of bed 9 minutes later when it goes off again!

6;30-6:45...Shower and put contacts in. Since I rarely wear my glasses unless I"m sick, contacts are part of feeling awake! Pop allergy meds

6:45-7:00....Feed cats, scoop litterboxes, clean up any critter related messes that happened overnight.

7:00-7:30....get ready for work, move the dogs to their daytime spots, haul water for the dogs, hand out canine medications as needed, head count to make sure everyone is accounted for. Once a week or so Stuart will call early in the morning.

To be on time for work, I have to be out of the yard by 7:40 at the very latest.

At work by 8am, drink copious amounts of coffee....I don't do anything really complicated until at least 9:30. My office door is usually closed til then and my assistant and my boss have both learned to not ask me much until I reopen the door!

Stuart is a morning person, goes from dead sleep to wide awake in a millisecond and functions quite nicely on less than 5 hours sleep. Last week, he worked 40 hours straight without sleep and didn't miss a beat.

On the weekends routine is the same, critters like routine! Except I usually go back to bed after I've moved all the dogs to their safe spots! Today I didn't actually get up and stay up til 11am.