Good morning to you all from California! it's 2:30 am right now, and for some reason I sleep until 2 - 3 am, so good morning everyone.

How early do you wake up, and how many cups of coffee does it take for you get started in the morning?

Mine is at least 3 big cups. I go through A LOT of Splenda that's for sure!!!

I usually wake up at 8:20 or 9:20 depending on when I need to go to work, haha. I don't usually fall asleep until about 2 a.m though, I have a sleep disorder that makes it so my circadian rhythm wants me to sleep during the day, and not the night. I like coffee, but I don't drink it every day. I often don't have enough time or enough money or enough calories budgeted. To wake up, I watch Maury. The screaming and fighting makes it so you won't be able to fall back to sleep lmfao.

LOL that's funny. I hear that most of that stuff is staged. That's too bad about your sleeping disorder. I have a couple physical ailments that put me in constant pain every day so I can empathize with the frustrations.

Mom's knee surgery preps and recovery royally screwed up my sleeping, lmao. Perhaps for the better. Prior to it, I was going to bed at 2 AM and getting up at 11 AM. After everything, I'm going to bed at midnight and waking up between 8:30 and 9 AM, 9:30 if I "sleep in."

I love coffee, but I don't drink it every morning, it's the ocassional treat. What I normally do is get up, get myself together to come downstairs and grab a Mountain Dew to take my synthyroid with. Mountain Dew is my morning coffee. XD

poor mom. I hope she's recovered from it. I can't stay up past 9pm which royally screws up my Being Human viewing time on Monday nights. So I catch it Thurs at 5... they repeat it which I totally love syfy for. My cat has me whipped. She's the one that got me up at 1 - 3am... begging for food and attention. So now I get up at those times naturally. and coffee - my lifeblood in the morning, sometimes the afternoon as well. Because I get up so early, I get tired during the day. Sucks.

I take synthroid as well.... hypothyroidism.

She is. c: We're working on her recovery from shingles now.

I have no pet that bugs me at odd hours of the morning. I haven't for ages, and truthfully, I kind of miss it. I had a cat several years back who would wake me at dawn by bumping her nose into mine and mew for attention and noms.

I know, right? Coffee was the only reason I was able to adjust.

that's good. I remember when my mom tripped over some re bar in front of the house where dad was rebuilding, tumbled to the ground and snapped her ankle in half. She came so close to falling off a 12 foot wall from the side of the house. She fell HARD. Took her about 6 weeks to heal, but because it was such a clean break and she took such good care of it, it's like nothing ever happened to it. Shingles. Your poor mom. That's painful shit.

I had to put my cat of 13 years down last year in feb. I had never cried so hard in my life since my grandmother died. It was during this time I JUST got out of the hosp from surgery. I reopened one of my sutures and bled internally. I was on coumadin at the time so I bled like a stuck pig. They said I almost died, pumped me full of plasma and vit. K to slow down the bleeding - TWICE. This happened TWICE in the same month... But after I recovered, I got another cat and things were just fine after that month. Crazy.

I've been waking up around 11-12 every morning. I have a hard time falling asleep, worrying about everything going on right now. I take naps in the afternoon sometimes too because I just can't stay awake any longer some days. I really think I have chronic fatigue syndrome. Or I guess it could be part of my depression. But I don't take the naps cause I'm depressed...I take them because I feel exhausted and just have to lay down.

have you seen a dr about this?

I can't see a doctor right now. I don't have insurance, nor do I have the money to pay for myself. I do take meds for the depression, but that's it. I go the the gym three days a week, if not more, and I eat well, but that's the extent of what I can do right now.

do you live in the states?

Yes, I live in Michigan. I don't qualify for any state programs though. I'm kind of fucked, lol.

no disability??? Medicare/MediCal??? You would qualify with depression as long as you have a diagnosis. Do you make too much $$?

That is eaaarrrrlllyyy you early bird. ;P I set my alarm for 5:00am and hit snooze until 5:30am, for work. I've found this half an hour is the only way to really wake myself up. If I'm not working I usually get up at around 8. My daughter seems to wake up at this time when we can sleep in, as well, so it works out. :) When I am up, after I shower and get ready, I need one cup of small coffee to take my vitamins with. If I don't have that cup every morning I get a headache. x_x

yah, I'm the early bird. And I don't get no worm either. LOL I'd love to sleep till 5am. I usually pass back out around 4 or 5am when I get up at 1 or 2. My clock is all messed up. But without coffee, I'd be a zombie.