Hello from California!

[Thermomixer]

You really are a gad about Andie - there are only 24 hours in the day in Australia - must be about 50 per day in California 

Thanks for the recipe natslim

[andiesenji]

You really are a gad about Andie - there are only 24 hours in the day in Australia - must be about 50 per day in California 

Thanks for the recipe natslim

The one advantage I have always had is that I need very little sleep.  I drop into REM sleep almost immediately after I sleep and after four hours or so, I am ready to awaken, totally refreshed.  I never worried about "insomnia" because my mother and my grandmother (maternal) were the same way and while my sleep patterns were different in childhood and most of my teens, when I reached my twenties, I also began this pattern. 
It was about the same time that I stopped growing.  My growth lasted longer than normal, fortunate because I was rather short and the extra two inches I grew from age 18 to 20 made a big difference to me.

When one has an extra four hours a day to fill, there are many things one can accomplish.   

[Thermomixer]

Lucky you - I could probably do with less sleep, but MrsT is always complaining - come to bed and turn out the lights!!  Used to survive on a lot less sleep when studying.  Oh well - sacrifices

[Ceejay]

Welcome Tanya!!   



As to sleep.. as a single mum of 4... I'm not sure if I remember what that is exactly! 

[cookie1]

My DH has always said I am like a chook, go to bed when it gets dark and get up with the sun. I'm not really that bad!  I must admit since retiring  4 years ago there are not enough hours in the day.

[achookwoman]

Cookie,  how right you are.

[judydawn]

Have to agree with this one too - rarely get to sleep before midnight or later, hardly watch any TV at all and have no trouble finding something to do. I am not up with the sparrows like you though Cookie1 - 8am is my preferred rising time. Boredom, what's that   I am amused when I see people sitting on their front verandah watching the cars go by and wonder if I will ever have time to do that    Thermomixer, I knew a couple when I lived in Darwin (he was American, she Fijian) who always went to bed at the same time together but after 4 hours sleep, he would get up as he had had his quota (like andie) for the night.  I first noticed it because I had to get up for my then baby's 2am feed and could see him sitting at his kitchen table reading or writing - not much else one could do without waking the household at that time of the morning.

[meganjane]

Hi and welcome!

I wish I could survive on only 4 hours sleep. I have bouts of insomnia and I always wake at 2am. If I'm stressed or very busy, I can't get back to sleep, so get up and work on the computer, read or do some other quiet activity. Then I go back to bed at 5.30 or so and sleep like the dead for a few hours!

[cookie1]

MJ you have a new avatar.