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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:09 AM
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Okay--Who's up at 5:00 AM?
One of my cats usually wakes me up at 6:00, but today I woke up at 2:00 and couldn't fall back asleep, so I woke the cats up! (Now I have to feed them and clean their litterboxes).
Who else is crazy enough to be up at this hour?
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Freedom Knight Donating Member (125 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:11 AM
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1. I am.
I enjoy this time of day. It is quiet and one can write without being disturbed.
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:29 AM
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6. You want three cats? nt
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Lady Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:46 AM
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8. I already have one. He is a handful all his own.
But thank you for the offer.
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Lady Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:48 AM
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9. Opps! Sorry Freedom Knight! I read the wrong post!
:blush:
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Freedom Knight Donating Member (125 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:49 AM
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14. Quite alright.
I too have a feline that is a handful.
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Lady Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:13 AM
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2. ME! ME!( Waves hand in air like Hermione Granger)
I am at work. x(
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:27 AM
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4. Working a night shift, Lady? nt
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Lady Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:48 AM
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12. Morning shift!
:P
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:51 AM
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16. Wow. I've had four cups of coffee
I still feel groggy. How do you do it? I worked a night shift once, 11:00 to 7:00. Torture. I lost 20 lbs. in two months--I was never hungry.
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Lady Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 06:13 AM
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24. It is a 3:30 am t0 8am shift.
I've been doing it for 4 years and still have no clue how I do it!
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:22 AM
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3. Just came in from shoveling snow
Not much snow this morning, but I'm ready for coffee

:hi:
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:29 AM
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5. You have my sympathy.
Our snowblower died in December. It had a warranty but Sears won't honor it.
Stuck in NH in the winter without a snowblower; it's like up a creek without a paddle.
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 07:25 AM
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27. My snowblower is on its last legs
Replacement parts don't exist, I cut up an old tire to make new "blades" and bolted them on. It sort of works.

We didn't get enough snow to bother with the machine. Nice light snow, easy to shovel. Just a little chilly, lower teens.

NH in winter? I imagine it's scenic, when you stop shoveling and look around.

:hi:
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Callalily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:45 AM
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7. I'm here too!
Woke up early and decided to just get up and out of bed.

Sorry your cats woke you up. Mine (only had one) would do that once in a while. I'd race downstairs figuring she was hungry, only to find out that she just wanted up out of bed. :rofl: I still miss her!
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:48 AM
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11. Can you get another cat? nt
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Callalily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:53 AM
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18. Oh, yes I can . . .
but I don't want to right now. My work/life schedule is so erratic, it wouldn't be fair to any animal. I take pet ownership very seriously.
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 06:12 AM
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23. Good for you. I'm glad. nt
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:48 AM
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10. I was up at 4am - does that count?
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:49 AM
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13. That sounds serious.!
Insomnia?
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:51 AM
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17. no, 6-month old puppy that had to pee
two greyhounds that decided if the puppy had to go out, so did they
and 5 cats wanting breakfast
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:53 AM
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19. Holy crap!
You must feel like you have a house full of dysfunctional kids!
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:57 AM
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21. actually
4am is my normal time to get up - gives me two hours to check e-mail, the DU, have coffee and wake up before I shower/dress and head to work

I have an hour commute - have to leave house by 6:45am if I want to miss getting stuck behind a school bus that stops every 10 ft to pick up a kid
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:50 AM
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15. I am up and slamming coffee
It is f'n cold these days.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 05:56 AM
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20. Every day.
I have to walk a doggie before work, leaving the rest of the pack to my wife.

Hell, I slept later than this in the Army.
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 06:10 AM
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22. It's only 4AM here, but I will stay up until 5.
I hate mornings, I would rather sleep through it.
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 06:56 AM
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25. well I was making coffee and oatmeal @ 5:30 and am now heading for the shower
and the office after eating said oatmeal.

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Connonym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 07:11 AM
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26. me!
I work until 6...just winding down from work and thinking about an after work beer for "breakfast" That sounds really bad doesn't it? But really since my work schedule is so opposite the world I think my drinking schedule should be too. :toast: to time challenged 3rd shifters, hell :toast: to all!
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 07:31 AM
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28. I was already into my workout at the gym ...
shoulders and calves.
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