If left to my own devices I would be nocturnal. I am wide awake at 2 o'clock in the morning and don't want to go to bed. I also hate having to get up early in the mornings, I just don't function well. When I am off work for a long period I revert back to my nocturnal habits. I have a theory about this, which I came up with in the early hours of the morning when I should have been in bed. My theory is that when we all lived in caves and life was dangerous, some people had to stay up through the night to guard the others. So some of us are naturally nocturnal, my ancestors were the ones sitting by the fire through the night looking out for bears and wolves. If I could stay up all night and sleep during the day I may actually sleep better, I am trying to make my body do something it doesn't like, which is why I wake up umpteen times in the night wide awake. Perhaps I'll write a book about it and make a fortune, it's no sillier than some of the other theories that people write about.
Anyway, the lack of sleep has seen me starting the new year not with a bang (well apart from New Years Eve) and more of a whimper as I have been doing an awful lot of lying around on the sofa. So much for all my plans of cleaning the house, decluttering and generally being super woman. I also blame it on all the crap I have eating over the xmas, it makes me sluggish. I have actually managed to get the decorations down, well mostly, the bearded one keeps finding things that I haven't noticed. I have also been using up any leftovers, a lovely banana and walnut cake yesterday to get rid of the over ripe bananas. Today I made a quiche to use up the eggs and stilton, with the last of the chard from my veg patch ( I love saying that! My veg patch, ooh get me :) ) I was really please with the way the gluten free xmas cake and chutney turned out and will be using the recipes again next year.
It has been really interesting to read about all your plans for the new year, they are very inspiring and I will be taking some of them on myself. I thought I would tell you about the wonderful tradition my sons partner has, which I will by copying. He writes down on a piece of paper a memory of a lovely day, it may be a feeling, a name or an event and puts them in a jar. Then on New Years day he opens it and reads them. I have some lovely tins, so I will be using one of these to put my memories in. I was taking photos and tickets stubs etc and sticking them in a book, but didn't keep it up. This is so simple and quick I have no excuse not to do it.
I have really enjoyed joining the blogging world and getting to 'meet' so many lovely, inspiring, kind people and look forward to continuing to follow you through 2015. I may not always comment but will be reading as much as I can.
Welcome to new followers, I apologise for not giving you a name check, blogger seems to be doing all sort of weird things at the moment so I can't see who you are. Bloglovin also seems to be playing games as the numbers seems to be changing daily! Up and down without notification. As promised I will have a little giveaway soon, I just have to find the present which was stashed away before xmas somewhere. My sewing room is in reality a bedroom so was occupied over xmas. Things were shoved in every little space I could find so who knows where it is!
Chickpea xx
I must have been sat by the fire with you. I have visions of the story telling in the film Twilight when they tell the story of the wolves in the tribe.
ReplyDeleteI could have written this post. I'm always wide awake at 2am and feel like I'm being pulled from the womb kicking and screaming by my alarm clock each morning. Lawd knows how that's going to pan out when I'm back at work next week!
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty much the same, I think because I know I don't have to go back to work until Tuesday I am using as much time as I can for me, rather than being in the work routine and getting up at silly o'clock! xx
ReplyDeleteI would be the one going to bed early then getting up about 5am so you could pop off for a nap. Specially in summer, I hate staying in bed while it's light, though this time of year I struggle at 7.30
ReplyDeleteI naturally gravitate towards late nights and late mornings once the routine is broken by holidays. For me it is the need for private time, which is easiest to achieve when everyone else sleeps. Happy New Year! x
ReplyDeleteI'm often awake at 2am - but always fall asleep easily. It's the staying asleep that I find tricky! x
ReplyDeleteThe online booking service for our gym classes opens at 12 midnight for the following week and a lot of the classes are booked by 6am as most people book as soon as it opens. I can't stay awake past 10pm so you can always book my classes for me if your up with nothing to do ;)
ReplyDeleteI like working at night. I think is was because of the children and after they went to bed I would have some free time for me to work.
ReplyDeleteI do the same thing as your son's partner. I have a nice glass jar and cut a slit in the top. Then I write something good, nice or just special to me that happened on that day, I date it also. Then when you open it up on the New Year you see that your year was pretty nice after all.
cheers, parsnip
By nature, I think I'm a morning person, but I work a night job, so I'm all messed up. On Saturdays, I work until 4AM, sleep for three hours, then get up to volunteer coach (from October to March, 9:30AM to 1PM), then return to work at 5PM.
ReplyDeleteI think my group was the group your group woke up when there was a hyena attack, then we'd club hyenas for sixteen hours and pass out afterwards until noon.
Is that a legitimate group?
I love the jar idea. a jar of happiness x
ReplyDeleteI did last year what your sons partner does with memories and it was great to look back on all the nice things I did, rather than the sad events that happened. I have gig tickets, silly notes friends have given me and just my own notes on nice days. I enjoyed recalling them when I opened it.
ReplyDeleteWell I think between us we have it covered, plenty of night owls like me to take the night watch and some early birds to take the day watch, with Big Bad springing into action when needed.
ReplyDeleteIt often feels like I'm the only person awake at silly o'clock in the morning, so it is reassuring to know I'm not the only one.
I love the idea of a memory jar,im more a morning person, I like to be able to do my thing while everyone else is still sleeping!
ReplyDeleteI love your nocturnal theory and can totally see the sense in it!! I think that your memory tin is a good idea too, I started something similar with a jar of good memories last year and it fell by the wayside, but you have made me think that I should start again - so thank you for that! Great inspiration! xx
ReplyDeleteI'm a night girl too - RMan can't understand it LOL
ReplyDeleteNight person as well, I might get to bed by 1am but then read until silly o'clock.
ReplyDeleteMy mother always said it was because I was born at 2.30 am and turned night into day as a baby.
Hello from one of your newest followers! I too am a creature of the night and can, fortunately, indulge it at last. I'm a writer and musician, gardener, cook... you know the rest. LOL. Anyway, I've added you to my blog list--one of my fondest daydreams is to have a little cottage in some small Cornish port town, where I could write my masterpiece!
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