I am a night owl.  Fortunately, so are Lindy and Nanki-Poo.

Joy

Night Owl

Joel & I are night owls, most definately, always have been.

With the event of the Yowlet, I have been forced to become - if not a true
morning glory - one hwo can at least tolerate mornings.

I suspect that The Yowlet is also a night owl, but will take some time to
develop fully into one. As it is, he tends to go to bed and wake up alter
than most kids his age, and really isn't fully functioning for about half an
hour after he's woken up.

Like Joel & I, he can't eat breakfast until his tummy has woken up - which
is usually a good hour after the body is out of bed. I lie to the daycare
folks when I say he's had breakfast. He hasn't. But most kids are up and
awake at 6am, usually for a Daycare day I've had to wake Cary up at 8:00am
(he usually wakes up at 8:30am), and their morning tea (at 9:15 am) is about
when he'd have breakfast anyway. But onthe same token, he doesn't go to bed
at the usual 7:30 most kids do, its usually about 9:30pm.

Most people would probably thinkI"m nuts, but I like it that way. If it was
the 'usual' way in our house, I wouldn't have time for him in the mornings
when I go to work, as mornings are always a mad rush no matter what time you
getout of bed, and by the time I get home at night, I'd have just enough
time to cook dinner and then it would be his bed time.

Funnily enough, I want to actually spend time with my son. So, if he wakes
up at 8:30am I've done all my morning stuff, and kiss him goodbye just as he
wakes up, and when I get home, I have 3 - 4 hours with him.

The housework gets all but ignored because there's no way I'm going to start
scrubbing things at 10pm, but that was the same before we had kids anyway.
My theory is that kids don't care whether there's a small civilisation
growing behind hte bathroom sink, but they do care whether Mummy & Daddy are
too busy for them or not.

Shmogg, he's neither Morning Glory *or* a Night Owl. He knows that when I
get up he'll get breakfast, and will start meowing for dinner once Cary has
gone to bed, otherwise he'd be content to sleep all day every day.

Fluff doesn't care much, providing The Yowlet continues to drop food all
over hte place (I'm starting to think he does it just so the dog can eat).
That dog is really starting to live up to her name "Fluffy".

Yowie

I wish I was a morning glory-- it would be much more convenient and
helpful in my life.  I'm a night owl, but I wish I wasn't.  For awhile
I was nicely adapted to getting up early in the morning, being bright
and alert, and able to get things done.  I seem to have turned around
again-- I feel awful and quite cranky in the morning.  

The cats seem on a 24-hr cycle of playing and napping.  THey get
especially rowdy when I get up in the morning, again in the early
evening, then again at bedtime.  Then Dante often throws in an extra
tear around the house or two, in the wee hours. ;)

Theresa
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Make Levees, Not War

Most definitely a night owl.  Much worse when I was younger.  I liked to
work late, after every one else was gone.

I worked closely with a woman who was the exact opposite.  Took a while but
we finally determined that if we both has to meet with a client it had to be
after 10 am and before she ate lunch.  She would have client meetings at
7am.  I had trouble brushing my teeth at 7am.

My hours have changed to accommodate Kayla.  That and I don't sleep well
anymore.  So I get up now at 6 or 7 and let her out of her crate and
outside.  But I really don't qualify as conscious till after 11.

Jo

I wake up early, but if I can take my afternoon nap, I also like to stay
up late. Waking early is not just due to the cats, because I do it when
they are out on the island and I'm in town. I'm usually in a good mood
when I wake up, thought it's best when Caliban has been stomping around
on me and purring his fuzzy little head off 15 minutes before the clock
is set to go off (I don't really need an alarm clock, since I wake up
early anyway, but I've noticed that I wake even earlier if I don't have
the clock set).

Good thread!
I am, by nature, a night owl.  I am not good at mornings.  DH is a
morning person - for him to sleep in beyond 7am is unusual, although
he's not up to being civil until he's been up for at least half an
hour and has had some breakfast.  The cats are both night-owls,
mostly, although Persephone likes to occasionally mess with our heads
and rampages around half an hour before the alarm goes off.  This
baby, so far, is a morning person (4 - 5am most mornings), but we'll
wait and see how baby's character develops once baby is born;
personally I'm hoping baby takes after DH because then *he* can look
after baby in the mornings and let me have a fraction more sleep!
(wishful thinking, anyone?)

Tish

Oh, A night owl, most definitely. I'm sleepy and surly in the morning,
and definitely not conversational first thing after I've got up.  But
I get a lot of my most creative work done at night, and have to force
myself to go to bed before midnight on working nights. The girls curl
up on my bed and nap, until I get ready to go to sleep and rudely
disturb them so I can get under the covers.

Melissa

Neither, really.  I don't get out of bed before 8 am and am in bed by
11pm.  I guess I'm pretty much a daytime girl ;-)

I'm definately not a morning person. I woke earlier than usual today because
I was worried about Baggy, he didn't come in when I called him last night.
He was fast asleep on the chair at 8 this morning, he'll probably stay there
most of the day now.

"Tanada" <tanada@earthlink.net> wrote in message

Hoomin: Whoooo, Whoooooooooooo
(Have I the wit to woo?)

Bandit: Both, if there's food involved: wide awake & asking for midnight
snacks or a dawn breakfast.
Snowball:  Neither, bless him, sleeps early & late with mid-morning &
early-evening neo-zoomies. Perfect!
Claudius: Owl - however late I switch off & try to go to sleep he requireds
2 hours of extra zoomtime :(
Raki: Neither, bless him, good as gold after evening walkies until morning
walkies, alert but not obtrusive during the day, quiet sleeper. Perfect
again. :)

Sleep-deprived purrs (Claws was very active last night) zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Gordon & the FF

I am a morning person, through and through.  Although I seem groggy in
the morning, I'm much worse when I try to stay up past my bedtime
(9pm).  I like to rise early and get out and do my shopping and
running around, and be home by 11am.  I'd do it earlier, but the
stores object to the crazy fat lady banging on their doors at 7am.
(heehee)    So, on weekends I usually 'sleep in' until around 7am.
Rita is used to being fed at 5am, so she doesn't like weekends very
much, although she loves having me home with her.

Jane
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I can be either  and I do change from time to time.  MLB

Ramona and I are definitely night owls.
Sam, closely supervised by Misteletoe

mostly nightowl

My daughter and I are night owls.

Fred and Sam are morning people and Andrew is TBA.

Chester is an all around the clock cat and Otis gets up blisteringly early
to wake us up, then settles down for a long nap by 9 AM.  Little monster.

It looks like most cat people are night owls - or most cat people who also
use computers to talk to other cat people around the world are night owls
;-)

Susan M
Otis and Chester

Night Owl here, as is DH and DD.  The dog is more of a night owl as well.

Diane

Bit of both. I do get up early in the week and it doesn't bother me unless
it's cold. But at weekends, I become a night owl and can happily spend
Saturday and Sunday mornings asleep in bed.

Dave through is a definite night owl, in the week, I try to get out of the
house without waking him up because there is NO way anyone could calll him a
"morning person", he's a grumpy sod until about 11.00!

Dunzi and Sarsi tend to sleep when we do...and then some....

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Hard-core Night Owl here.  Sunrise is something I see before I go to
bed, not when I wake up!

Ginger-lyn