:rofl:

It seems lately that it's just me and you here until the wee hours of the morning, lol. I'm on this nutty sleeping cycle, due to health issues. I just think it's a riot that it's me and you, almost every night. :lol:

:rofl:

It seems lately that it's just me and you here until the wee hours of the morning, lol. I'm on this nutty sleeping cycle, due to health issues. I just think it's a riot that it's me and you, almost every night. :lol:

Mind if I join the club? ;)

Mind if I join the club? ;)
Sure thing, Charles. :wave: Let's start counting sheep. :lol:

:sheep :sheep :sheep :sheep :sheep :sheep


:sleep2: :sleep2: :sleep2: :sleep2: :sleep2: :sleep2:

Friendsfan is usually still up when I go to bed as well, he usually doesn't hang out in Chit Chat as often as we do tho, lol

Can I join?

Even if I could sleep, my cat is hogging the bed. :lol: He's laying in the middle of my bed and he's asleep. I believe he thinks it's his bed. :lol: I hate to move him. My bed is a twin size bed. Maybe he will wake up in a little bit and at least scoot over. hehe :cat: Last night I was able to lay in bed and watch over him.
You're in, Jenny! Your cat's hogging the bed. :rofl: He sounds worse than my husband. Do you have a laptop going on there? You tell Chava that I said, that I said....give that sweetie a kiss from me. :kiss: And Jenny, don't you know that it is his bed. Cats allow us to live with them. :nod:

I work the graveyard shift at work, so 8:30am - 9am is my normal bedtime. Can I join ya guys? :lol:

(I'm off from work right now... hence why I'm posting RIGHT NOW)

I just woke up but I'll be going back to bed in a few minutes. :lol:

I'm addicted. You can find me on in the wee hours sometimes on the weekends. Also during the week there are a few nights I go to bed real early so I end up waking up at 4:30 or 5 a.m., so can I join every so often? ;)

Im often here til 4-5 am, but, lately, i find that theres nothing new to post in at that time, and if i update my own threads that early, they just get burried and no one sees them; so, i've been leaving much earlier lately

I'm up pretty late, too, usually about 2-3 in the morning(sometimes 4), and I'll come on here when I come home late from one of my concerts.

It's funny because whenever I post on here and the time on my post reads like 2:27 AM, I'm a little embarrassed that people will notice and think "Geez, who posts in the middle of the night!!":lol:

I work the graveyard shift at work, so 8:30am - 9am is my normal bedtime. Can I join ya guys? :lol:

(I'm off from work right now... hence why I'm posting RIGHT NOW)

crazy lady! lol. where do you work?

Everyone who can't sleep is welcome to the club! :) I'm going to change the title of this thread, and make one rule only. It has to be late, say 2:30 am and after (your time) to post on the Night Owl Thread. We'll see how it works out. :D

Heeeeeeeey, I'm up too! ;)

party:

Mind if I join?:groucho

I'm feeling far to random and hyper to go to sleep!!!:woohoo:

Man about 4 years ago I'd be up at that time with no problem. Lately I have trouble just making it to 2:00. :lol:

Man about 4 years ago I'd be up at that time with no problem. Lately I have trouble just making it to 2:00. :lol:

I'd have trouble making it until 2:00 now. :lol:

I don't have a set schedule at work but I tend to have more night shifts, so I rarely go to bed earlier than 4:00 AM.

im a nightowl too sometimes i dont go to bed until 3 am maybe we should all play that song the nightowls by the little river band

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/zoneboy/moonlightshadow.png

Whoa... that almost looks like a negative of an owl!!!

Whoa... that almost looks like a negative of an owl!!!

True, It's actually a screen capture from one of my favorite music videos

Moonlight Shadow (http://youtube.com/watch?v=8bOLkPbPCbk)

Just remember that this is a Night Owl thread. So, let's say 2 am. There are Random threads on the Community Thread forum. Thanks.

:rofl:

It seems lately that it's just me and you here until the wee hours of the morning, lol. I'm on this nutty sleeping cycle, due to health issues. I just think it's a riot that it's me and you, almost every night. :lol:



I'm not even programmed to be on the internet after 2am-lol I used to be when I first got the internet since it was a new thing but my shutoff time is at 1am

I'm definitely a night person. I find it hard to fall asleep before 3, which sucks when I have an early class the next day.

No, I don't have a laptop. In my room I have a computer and a desk which is close to my bed. My room is small. Guess where he is tonight? He's underneath my mother's bed. He's so silly. He doesn't usually hide under her bed. He is underneath the bed in the middle where you can't reach him. He's smart. He knows how to hide when he wants to be by himself.

Geez, all 3 of my cats are outside right now sitting either on the driveway or on one of the car hoods. That's one of the reasons I stay up so late. I let them stay outside for a while, then try to get them in before I go to bed.

Well... Here I am. Wide awake when I should be fast asleep. I have a lot to do tomorrow. Going to suck...

This whole night owl thing started years ago. I used to work a normal scheduled job. I would have to be there at 8. I've never been a morning person, so when I got home from work, I was so tired that I would take a nap. So because of that nap, I was wide awake late at night. So I started watching late night TV - Jay, Conan...back then USA Network started showing Wings & Quantum Leap. Started watching them along with other shows on other channels. And it's been that way ever since.

I have to get up in 6 hours for work!

Wow, I didn't know there were so many night owls here at SO! I'm a member of the club, too, as you can tell by the time I'm posting this. ;) I don't have to go into work till 12:30 most days, so I don't go to bed until 5 or 6am. (Usually around 5:30). Man, I thought I was the only weird person who went to bed at that hour!

I have to get up in 6 hours for work!
Get to bed, young lady! You're going to be dragging ass tomorrow. :nonono:

Well, here it is, after 3, and I'm wide awake. Nothing new, lol.

So where do I send in the club application form? Are member testomonials required?

Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoot!

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So where do I send in the club application form? Are member testomonials required?

Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoot!
Nah, just the fact that you're posting at this hour is proof enough that you're a night owl. :)

I am always up until at least 5 AM

Nah, just the fact that you're posting at this hour is proof enough that you're a night owl. :)

Oh, thanks! Always great to save on e-postage~~~

2:52am and still going strong! ;)

Here's a dark portrait, of an insomniac posting.

This whole night owl thing started years ago. I used to work a normal scheduled job. I would have to be there at 8. I've never been a morning person, so when I got home from work, I was so tired that I would take a nap. So because of that nap, I was wide awake late at night. So I started watching late night TV - Jay, Conan...back then USA Network started showing Wings & Quantum Leap. Started watching them along with other shows on other channels. And it's been that way ever since.
Naps are brutal when trying to get on a sleep regime. I've been a nocturnal person for my entire life. As a kid, my two sisters woud be up early, watching cartoons. Meanwhile, my mother had to yell at me to get out of bed to eat breakfast and get ready for school. I never wanted to go to sleep at night. I was always afraid I was going to miss something, like now, lol.

Good afternoon everyone!...wait, that's not right. It's 4:44 AM....er, good morning.

:wave:

crazy lady! lol. where do you work?
Haha, if it's M-F, I work 10pm - 6am. If it's Sunday, then 9pm - 5am. Target team member checkin' in, yo.

After i got out of high school i would sleep during the day and stay up all night. i mostly stay up for family ties came on at 5:00am in the moring. i would watch movies on tv some times. i wouldn't get up unitl 4:00pm. Now i go to bed sometimes at 11:30pm or at 12:30am. one night i stay up until 3:30am. it was the longest i have stay up for longtime.

Haha, if it's M-F, I work 10pm - 6am. If it's Sunday, then 9pm - 5am. Target team member checkin' in, yo.

first of all...go target! or tar-jay as i like to call it. lol.
those are crazy hours though. completely different sleep schedule. lol.

first of all...go target! or tar-jay as i like to call it. lol.
those are crazy hours though. completely different sleep schedule. lol.
Yup, tell me about it. I maintain a schedule like anybody else -- I just happen to have an out of the ordinary schedule. I still work 8 hours, and I still get ~6 to 7 hours of sleep. They're just at different times of the day.

The thing I love about it is, I don't have to deal with any customers and I can do my shopping when my shift is over, which is well before the store opens. :D

Yup, tell me about it. I maintain a schedule like anybody else -- I just happen to have an out of the ordinary schedule. I still work 8 hours, and I still get ~6 to 7 hours of sleep. They're just at different times of the day.

The thing I love about it is, I don't have to deal with any customers and I can do my shopping when my shift is over, which is well before the store opens. :D

:lol: oooh...well then, that makes up for the weird hours. not dealing with customers...sounds like a very sweet deal!

:lol: oooh...well then, that makes up for the weird hours. not dealing with customers...sounds like a very sweet deal!
Fo' sho'. Biggest advantage of working at a big-box store that's not open 24 hours like Walmart, that's for sure. :D

I can also get clothes on clearance and get them for really cheap w/ my discount. I've been getting a lot of ~$30 tops that have been marked down to $5 - $10, and I can get them in my size before the rest of the customers get to it. Boo yeah!

Naps are brutal when trying to get on a sleep regime. I've been a nocturnal person for my entire life. As a kid, my two sisters woud be up early, watching cartoons. Meanwhile, my mother had to yell at me to get out of bed to eat breakfast and get ready for school. I never wanted to go to sleep at night. I was always afraid I was going to miss something, like now, lol.
I am the same way. I have to be the last person in the house to go to bed and I'm always the last one up.

Hey, night owls :D :wave:

Usually I am in bed by now, but since I decided to go to bed early (I'm talking 7:30 p.m. here :eek: ) due to a migraine, I'm now up watching t.v. I feel a lot better now :cheer:

How is everyone else doing? :)

Hey, night owls :D :wave:

Usually I am in bed by now, but since I decided to go to bed early (I'm talking 7:30 p.m. here :eek: ) due to a migraine, I'm now up watching t.v. I feel a lot better now :cheer:

How is everyone else doing? :)
Hello to you. :wave: I'm glad you're feeling better. Another night, 3 am, but I think I'm heading off to bed soon. I'm actually tired tonight. That's a welcome change, lol.

Hey, night owls :D :wave:

Usually I am in bed by now, but since I decided to go to bed early (I'm talking 7:30 p.m. here :eek: ) due to a migraine, I'm now up watching t.v. I feel a lot better now :cheer:

How is everyone else doing? :)im ok kristel:wave: except im suffering some bad allergys today but im glad to hear you are feeling better

4:20am, and I'm wide awake. Go to bed Janice!! :crazy:

4:20am, and I'm wide awake.

Likewise. :)

Likewise. :)
Next to my computer desk, I have two cat towers. My two cats are sleeping away. I can hear my husband snoring. Me, I'm sitting here like an idiot talking about nonsense. :lol:

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired.
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired.
For then my thoughts, from far where I abide,
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see.
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view:
Which like a jewel hung in ghastly night,
Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new.
Lo, thus by day my limbs -- by night my mind --
For thee and for myself no quiet find.

William Shakespeare

(anticipating online addiction, addressing his favorite forum :lol:)

Show of hands, please. Who's in the Night Owl Club tonight? :wave:

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired.
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired.
For then my thoughts, from far where I abide,
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see.
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view:
Which like a jewel hung in ghastly night,
Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new.
Lo, thus by day my limbs -- by night my mind --
For thee and for myself no quiet find.

William Shakespeare

(anticipating online addiction, addressing his favorite forum :lol:)
:) It's a good read. Shakespeare, a man ahead of his time. I'm always amazed at how timely his observations are, even though he made them 400 years ago. When it comes to human nature, so many things remain constant.

Show of hands, please. Who's in the Night Owl Club tonight? :wave:

:wave:

:wave:
Chucky! People are going to start talking. ;)

Chucky! People are going to start talking. ;)

:lol: I haven't been called that in years.

Sleeplessness a Nightmare for Many

WASHINGTON (Feb. 29) - With late-night TV watching, Internet surfing and other distractions, Americans are getting less and less sleep, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

And all this sleeplessness can be a nightmare for your mental and physical health, CDC experts cautioned, calling sleep loss an under-recognized public health problem.

Sleep experts say chronic sleep loss is associated with obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, cardiovascular disease, depression, cigarette smoking and excessive drinking.

The CDC surveyed 19,589 adults in four states. Ten percent reported they did not get enough sleep or rest every single day of the prior month, and 38 percent said they did not get enough in seven or more days in the prior month.

The CDC survey was conducted in New York, Hawaii, Delaware and Rhode Island, asking people how many days in the prior month they got insufficient rest or sleep, without asking specifically how many hours they slept.

But the CDC released nationwide data collected separately showing that across all age groups, the percentage of adults reporting sleeping six hours or fewer a night increased from 1985 to 2006.

The National Sleep Foundation recommends adults get seven to nine hours of sleep a night. Children ages 5 to 12 should get nine to 11 hours and those 11 to 17 need 8-1/2 to 9-1/2 hours.

Sleep Is Vital

"At night, we're doing everything except for sleeping -- we're on the Internet, we may be watching TV. With these new lifestyles we have kind of taken sleep for granted as something that we can do when we have time or we can catch up on it on the weekends," CDC behavioral scientist Lela McKnight-Eily, who led the study, said in a telephone interview.

"We don't realize that sleep is a vital part of overall health and that chronic sleep loss is related to both physical and mental health issues," she added. "It's getting worse."

Darrel Drobnich, National Sleep Foundation chief executive officer, added that several thousand people die on U.S. roads yearly in accidents involving drowsy drivers.

"Americans are definitely sleep deprived. They don't get the amount that even they say that they want," Drobnich said.

The CDC said 50 to 70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep loss and sleep disorders in a country of 300 million.

The CDC four-state survey found that younger adults are more likely than older adults to report getting too little sleep. It also found overall that 30 percent of respondents said they got enough sleep every day of the past month, and 33 percent got too little on one to six days in the prior month.

Lela McKnight-Eily urged people who often get too little sleep to see a doctor to see whether lifestyle issues are to blame or whether they might have a sleeping disorder. People can also try to establish a regular sleep schedule and avoid caffeine or other stimulants before bedtime, she added.

im still up!

im still up!
:music: Up, up and away, in my beautiful, my beautiful, my beautiful balloon. Balllooooonnnn!!

I'm still up...and extreemly restless. I have bronchitus and a double ear infection and have been woring from home all week. Now I am starting to feel better and I am going NUTS!!!

D

^ Nice to see you Ags, and glad you're feeling better.

Who's in the Night Owl Club tonight?

:wave:

^ Nice to see you Ags, and glad you're feeling better.

Who's in the Night Owl Club tonight?

:wave:
Me! I slept too much today, so now I'm not as tired as I should be. But I'm getting there.

I guess it's the Wide Awake Club. Show of hands, please. :wave:

:wave:

CHUCKY BABY! :wave:

Who else is here tonight? :wave:

Me

Me too. :wave:

Me three :wave:

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Ok, so there was no point for me to post this pic other than the fact that I think this M*A*S*H moment is very funny :lol: This is what happens to me when I stay up late :crazy:

Yeah well, I guess I'll get some sleep now. Night All! :bye:

We Night Owls lose an hour of sleep tonight, due to Daylight
Savings Time. I don't like that one bit.

I'm still awake. It's 6:05am.