Then the dog comes in, and smells a snack he can lick up, while you try to keep them away, and play it off cool.........but that dog REALLY wants that snack!
And thats when your friends walk into you getting an unwanted bj from a dog, and everybody is like "OH MY GOOOOOODDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!"
And you're like "wait, no, I can explain!!!"
I'm imagining it like it could have been a scene in "Theres something about mary"
And not grab me an extra muffin or something to eat for breakfast...
Grab an extra plate for a bro if you gonna be awake that early anyway! You know you're gonna need my ass to get everyone's collective shit together at 1am, so we can all get back safely; why the disrespect for us "late wake's"?
For real tho.
Why are we playing by morning people rules? We need to make some decisions in late afternoon after morning people already went to sleep, those lazy bastards! :D
Because most places run on morning person hours. If you don't get up early enough you can't get everything done because a lot of places close by mid afternoon. I think the compromise at this point is just divide society into day people and night people and just run everything 24/7. There should be enough of both for that at this point.
I want to punch whoever thinks being a shifted sleeper (4am-noon or 6am-2pm in my case) is a bad thing. I had a job that loved me for taking all the late shifts that my age cohort didn't want so they could have a social life. I just didn't want to have to wake before noon. :D
If I try (and fail) to keep social hours, aka business hours, I have to contend with severe insomnia (in bed by midnight, awake til sunup), or I just don't sleep. Either is bad for me, my health, and the sanity for those around me.
Where I live, most things are finished by noon, and stores close at 4 on the weekend. Late night shopping means open til maybe 7pm on a Friday. (I miss my home city/country. Weekend hours til 6pm, late night (open til 9pm) three nights a week. Moving here was like going back in time forty years.)
I snore like a freight train... a real "rattle the walls" type thing. It doesn't bother me cause I don't notice lol. Unfortunately, my wife is apperently "unable" to ignore it (I mean that sarcastically about her; my snoring can be/often is impressively loud)
I tried taping my mouth for snoring, but ended up choking on my own saliva. Works for some, not for me
But I went and got a sleep study done (that you can do at home, with equipment they loan you) because I didn't want to do that to my wife (and I guess there's health benefits too). Surprisingly, I was diagnosed as having only "mild" sleep apnea. As loud as my snoring (allegedly) can be; I thought it would be worse. So I was prescribed a CPAP and got my machine... mainly because I didn't want to force my wife into another room 3x a week, due to my obnoxious snoring
And holy shit... I hadn't slept so well, in so long, that it made me feel a little sad/stupid that I hadn't gotten a CPAP sooner. You have to find a set-up that works for your sleeping habits... but my god! I hate going without it now. Sometimes I forget to put it on, and sometimes I rip it off at night... but I can always feel how unrested I am now when I don't wear it
TL;DR - CPAP's are awesome and worth any mild inconvenience they may cause. And they also stop the snoring, regardless of cause. It's an inflammation/soft palate thing; sometimes you need a little extra pressure. The sleep you get is priceless though
Thanks for letting me know. I'm still not convinced a CPAP will help, but I don't think she's ever had a sleep study done either. If she did, it was long enough ago that it might be worth another.
Mouth tape. Explained how much snoring affected me and the missus started using it. Cheap, simple, and the snoring stopped inside a week.
As for the dogs, stop rewarding then when they bark. Don't feed em, let em out, whatever it is they're wanting that they bark for that you keep doing. Sounds like they've trained you.
With the dogs, it's a light sleeper issue. If they start moving around, they wake me up and I can't get back to sleep. And then I have to use the bathroom and I'm totally awake.
Days off too. I used to stay up all night, sleep all morning, and work part time at 5pm. Now I start work at either 4am or 7am, and sleeping any later than that on my days off feels as though I'm squandering my freetime. My wife and I still lie to ourselves and say we're going to sleep in, but then my 4-year-old wakes up at 6 like fucking clockwork, and it's all downhill from there.