What Time Did You Wake Up Today?

[matt72582]

4:30 am... I never sleep past 7am, and go to bed a little before midnight. If I can't go back to sleep within 5-10 minutes, I have to get up, despite knowing my entire day will be misery.

I know this is beyond mundane, but I'm curious. Even if its not usually the time you wake up .

[ynwtf]

4:30 am... I never sleep past 7am, and go to bed a little before midnight. If I can't go back to sleep within 5-10 minutes, I have to get up, despite knowing my entire day will be misery.

I know this is beyond mundane, but I'm curious. Even if its not usually the time you wake up .

This morning, I woke at an annoying 2am with a 6:05 alarm set and waiting. It took an hour to pass back out to only wake again and again on a 20-30 minute cycle until I was physically miserable at 5:45ish. I then Set my clock to 7 for a futile attempt at reclaiming a solid hour of sleep before having to drag myself out of bed to start this doomed day.

*EDIT*
I agree, I should have gotten up too as it never fails that I feel much worse throughout the day if I try to reclaim my sleep. If I get up, I feel better if not a bit tired midday and on. Days like today, though, it becomes a matter of principle and sometimes I just refuse to let the universe dictate to me how long and for what quality of sleep I deserve.

[Yoda]

Alarm went off at 7:30, because that's when my wife had to get up for work, but normally it's 8:20.

[Yoda]

Oh and the dog woke me up at like 2:10 AM to go outside.

[Torgo]

6:30 AM, thanks to my dog, who licks my face every morning around that time. It's amazing how accurate their internal clocks are.

[John W Constantine]

515am

Meds have to be taken before work.

...my dog was too busy sleeping to lick my face

[Mr Minio]

I'm a slacker. I woke up at 3PM.

[Chypmunk]

1:00am - cat woke me for a shnuggle
2:20am - cat woke me for a quick security tour of the house then back to bed for a shnuggle
4:10am - cat woke me for a bite to eat and went out
7:35am - woke naturally, wanted to lick the cat's face as a form of revenge but sadly couldn't find him :(

[Citizen Rules]

I get up at seven, yeah,
and I go to work at nine.

[matt72582]

I'm a slacker. I woke up at 3PM.


Yeah, but when did you fall asleep?

[Stirchley]

I wake up at 6.30 a.m. every day except for Sunday, which is church day & I need to get up at 6.15 a.m.

Am definitely a morning person & an early bird.

[doubledenim]

1:00am - cat woke me for a shnuggle
2:20am - cat woke me for a quick security tour of the house then back to bed for a shnuggle
4:10am - cat woke me for a bite to eat and went out
7:35am - woke naturally, wanted to lick the cat's face as a form of revenge but sadly couldn't find him :(

🤗

[ynwtf]

wait.
wait, wait, ...wait.

I think I'm starting to see the deeper meanings here with this OP. Matt is apparently referencing The Beatles, "A Day In the Life." This is proved by his recent thread starters with topics such as, "Band Members Who Refused to Leave When Asked?" and, "Do You Believe Stanley Kubrick's 'Mysterious Message?'" The latter of which points to secondary levels of communication, confirming my gut feeling here that this thread is riddled with these so called "mysterious messages." Breadcrumbs. Matt planted those seeds at least a week ago now, and here those seeds appear to be bearing fruit (citric fruit?).

Having discovered Matt's clever cipher, I can now see the obvious reference to lyrics within, "a Day In the Life" on alarm clocks, falling out of bed, combs... through ....hair. Mysterious messages, indeed, Matt. Are you combing this forum? Whatever could that be for, Matt? Are you hinting again with the thread drop, "Newspaper-dot-com - Is There Anything You Want Looked Up?" What should we be looking up??? Yes, the lyrics, "I read the news today, oh boy" corroborate this! No, there are no news topics here. RABBIT HOLES THICKEN!!!! PLOT HOLES GO DEEPER!!!

Matt (who I will now refer to as M) can see behind the two-way mirror. I believe M has direct communications with site admins plotting the New Forum Order (NFO)! You saw it in our very own SHOUTBOX!!!! Did you think the conversation on Easter Peeps was just a cute holiday throwaway? NO!!!!! PEEPS are no LONGER innocent baby chicks. NO!@!!11! Peeps have now been FORCED TO HIRE RABBITS!!!!!! And what do RABBITS DO??! They. DIG. HOLES!!!!1!!11111Eleventy-one!!!!!11!1 How deep does this PEEP hole go?!?! Local? STATE? BIG PHARMAPEEPS!?

Lennon knew, and look what happened to him. Listen. Folks. I'm placing myself in harms way to bring you the NEWS OF M!!1!! No one knows who M IS!! Not even ME!!1......** This thread is an ILLUSION!!!! Stick with me, FOLKS, and I will RED-TWIZZLERS YOU into your AWAKENING!!!?!?!1 HOW MANY HOLES ARE THERE in BLACKBURN LANCASHIRE?!!?!?! Four THOUSAND?! And just WHAT is the fourth THOUSANDTH letter of the ALPHAbet?????? That's RIGHT! YOU CAN'T ANSWER THAT!!!1!11!1ed!!!1!1@! But, peeps, let me now ask you THIS: Who is Albert Hall?????$? Follow the money, peeps. Follow! The breadcrumbs. Follow the THREADS!!1!! And then unravel the thread to find your own answers, folks.

As I've stated, I am at risk here sharing my knowledge of M with you now. So I need to close before they come for me. All I can say at this point is to be aware of lemon slices. Soon you will understand.

Stay vigilant, my peeps. Stay awake. Stay away from citric fruits. They could be listening.
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y**t*
MAnom(anom)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ

:coleman: :coleman: :coleman:

[Mr Minio]

Yeah, but when did you fall asleep? 6 AM.

[Chypmunk]

Have to say I think our mysterious whistleblower might just be on (to) something. How deep might this go - to the very bedrock of society? And if so does that implicate Fred n Barney?? Come to that where would Wilma and Betty fit in??? Any why isn't the news ever blue, or orange, or even green ...... it always has to be read!!! Spooky with a capital POO methinks :eek:

[Austruck]

Conspiracy theories everywhere. :D

I'm a night owl who works from home, with a very understanding husband who himself often works overnights at the nuke plant. Last night I was a shorter night's sleep than usual. Just had a lot to do today (which means I shouldn't be here!). Just over six hours of sleep, which started around 4 a.m. and ended prematurely after 10 a.m. If I hadn't had a million things on my mind, I would have slept till 11 to get at least seven hours of sleep.

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[pahaK]

Went to bed about 7 am, woke up about 2 pm.

[Stirchley]

wait.
wait, wait, ...wait.

I think I'm starting to see the deeper meanings here with this OP. Matt is apparently referencing The Beatles, "A Day In the Life." This is proved by his recent thread starters with topics such as, "Band Members Who Refused to Leave When Asked?" and, "Do You Believe Stanley Kubrick's 'Mysterious Message?'" The latter of which points to secondary levels of communication, confirming my gut feeling here that this thread is riddled with these so called "mysterious messages." Breadcrumbs. Matt planted those seeds at least a week ago now, and here those seeds appear to be bearing fruit (citric fruit?).

Having discovered Matt's clever cipher, I can now see the obvious reference to lyrics within, "a Day In the Life" on alarm clocks, falling out of bed, combs... through ....hair. Mysterious messages, indeed, Matt. Are you combing this forum? Whatever could that be for, Matt? Are you hinting again with the thread drop, "Newspaper-dot-com - Is There Anything You Want Looked Up?" What should we be looking up??? Yes, the lyrics, "I read the news today, oh boy" corroborate this! No, there are no news topics here. RABBIT HOLES THICKEN!!!! PLOT HOLES GO DEEPER!!!

Matt (who I will now refer to as M) can see behind the two-way mirror. I believe M has direct communications with site admins plotting the New Forum Order (NFO)! You saw it in our very own SHOUTBOX!!!! Did you think the conversation on Easter Peeps was just a cute holiday throwaway? NO!!!!! PEEPS are no LONGER innocent baby chicks. NO!@!!11! Peeps have now been FORCED TO HIRE RABBITS!!!!!! And what do RABBITS DO??! They. DIG. HOLES!!!!1!!11111Eleventy-one!!!!!11!1 How deep does this PEEP hole go?!?! Local? STATE? BIG PHARMAPEEPS!?

Lennon knew, and look what happened to him. Listen. Folks. I'm placing myself in harms way to bring you the NEWS OF M!!1!! No one knows who M IS!! Not even ME!!1......** This thread is an ILLUSION!!!! Stick with me, FOLKS, and I will RED-TWIZZLERS YOU into your AWAKENING!!!?!?!1 HOW MANY HOLES ARE THERE in BLACKBURN LANCASHIRE?!!?!?! Four THOUSAND?! And just WHAT is the fourth THOUSANDTH letter of the ALPHAbet?????? That's RIGHT! YOU CAN'T ANSWER THAT!!!1!11!1ed!!!1!1@! But, peeps, let me now ask you THIS: Who is Albert Hall?????$? Follow the money, peeps. Follow! The breadcrumbs. Follow the THREADS!!1!! And then unravel the thread to find your own answers, folks.

As I've stated, I am at risk here sharing my knowledge of M with you now. So I need to close before they come for me. All I can say at this point is to be aware of lemon slices. Soon you will understand.

Stay vigilant, my peeps. Stay awake. Stay away from citric fruits. They could be listening.




Why do you think I’m here only 3 days a week? Big M tried to convince us there’s 8 days a week, but I know better. WE ARE BEING WATCHED! He’s out of bed at 4:30 a.m.! Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there. What does he care?

[gandalf26]

Oh and the dog woke me up at like 2:10 AM to go outside.

I know this pain at least once a week.

[Miss Vicky]

I got out of bed at 6:27 a.m. I first woke up to my alarm at 6:00, but hit snooze 3 times like usual.

[Stirchley]

I got out of bed at 6:27 a.m. I first woke up to my alarm at 6:00, but hit snooze 3 times like usual.

My husband would have a fit if I hit snooze even once & disturbed him. :rolleyes:

[matt72582]

wait.
wait, wait, ...wait.

I think I'm starting to see the deeper meanings here with this OP. Matt is apparently referencing The Beatles, "A Day In the Life." This is proved by his recent thread starters with topics such as, "Band Members Who Refused to Leave When Asked?" and, "Do You Believe Stanley Kubrick's 'Mysterious Message?'" The latter of which points to secondary levels of communication, confirming my gut feeling here that this thread is riddled with these so called "mysterious messages." Breadcrumbs. Matt planted those seeds at least a week ago now, and here those seeds appear to be bearing fruit (citric fruit?).

Having discovered Matt's clever cipher, I can now see the obvious reference to lyrics within, "a Day In the Life" on alarm clocks, falling out of bed, combs... through ....hair. Mysterious messages, indeed, Matt. Are you combing this forum? Whatever could that be for, Matt? Are you hinting again with the thread drop, "Newspaper-dot-com - Is There Anything You Want Looked Up?" What should we be looking up??? Yes, the lyrics, "I read the news today, oh boy" corroborate this! No, there are no news topics here. RABBIT HOLES THICKEN!!!! PLOT HOLES GO DEEPER!!!

Matt (who I will now refer to as M) can see behind the two-way mirror. I believe M has direct communications with site admins plotting the New Forum Order (NFO)! You saw it in our very own SHOUTBOX!!!! Did you think the conversation on Easter Peeps was just a cute holiday throwaway? NO!!!!! PEEPS are no LONGER innocent baby chicks. NO!@!!11! Peeps have now been FORCED TO HIRE RABBITS!!!!!! And what do RABBITS DO??! They. DIG. HOLES!!!!1!!11111Eleventy-one!!!!!11!1 How deep does this PEEP hole go?!?! Local? STATE? BIG PHARMAPEEPS!?

Lennon knew, and look what happened to him. Listen. Folks. I'm placing myself in harms way to bring you the NEWS OF M!!1!! No one knows who M IS!! Not even ME!!1......** This thread is an ILLUSION!!!! Stick with me, FOLKS, and I will RED-TWIZZLERS YOU into your AWAKENING!!!?!?!1 HOW MANY HOLES ARE THERE in BLACKBURN LANCASHIRE?!!?!?! Four THOUSAND?! And just WHAT is the fourth THOUSANDTH letter of the ALPHAbet?????? That's RIGHT! YOU CAN'T ANSWER THAT!!!1!11!1ed!!!1!1@! But, peeps, let me now ask you THIS: Who is Albert Hall?????$? Follow the money, peeps. Follow! The breadcrumbs. Follow the THREADS!!1!! And then unravel the thread to find your own answers, folks.

As I've stated, I am at risk here sharing my knowledge of M with you now. So I need to close before they come for me. All I can say at this point is to be aware of lemon slices. Soon you will understand.

Stay vigilant, my peeps. Stay awake. Stay away from citric fruits. They could be listening.
00146F
y**t*
MAnom(anom)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ

:coleman: :coleman: :coleman:


If you take the first letter of each of your sentences, it spells out:


MATT IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

You forgot a handful of other things, so I'll give you a clue for my post-political career
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RS3YGmbuT8

[Stirchley]

MATT IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

Matt (aka Big M) will start flashing this as a subliminal message sometime before midnight when he may or may not go to bed. Subliminal messages are illegal, but he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake. :eek:

[doubledenim]

My upstairs neighbor, Ms. Stompy Stomperson, gets up at 7. Somebuddy didn’t put his earplugs in last night, so he woke up at 7 as well.

Tried to re-enter my sleepy bliss to no luck. Good thing I didn’t have to go to work till 18:00 😑

[AgrippinaX]

What a sweet thread. At 5.30, as ever.

[Stirchley]

What a sweet thread. At 5.30, as ever.

Interesting how early almost everyone here arises.

[Austruck]

I got out of bed at 6:27 a.m. I first woke up to my alarm at 6:00, but hit snooze 3 times like usual.
I've never figured out why alarm clocks end up with 9-minute snoozes instead of a nice, round 10. :D

[Austruck]

Interesting how early almost everyone here arises.

"Almost" being the operative word here. ;)

[AgrippinaX]

Interesting how early almost everyone here arises.

I didn’t use to do that until fairly recently, but then changed jobs to the kind of PR where all action happens in the morning. To be honest, I don’t mind. I don’t sleep much, and there’s something mystical about early morning when the sky is pink and the world is stretching itself awake.

I keep telling myself I’ll sleep in on weekends, but... it’s a habit.

[matt72582]

Every single of one my neighbors has at least one dog (and most have kids, too), while I live alone with no living thing in my house.. Maybe I should get a dog whistle.. Do they even work?

[cricket]

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[Miss Vicky]

I've never figured out why alarm clocks end up with 9-minute snoozes instead of a nice, round 10. :D

I've never understood it either. I had one alarm clock that had 5 minute snoozes. WTF? That's not enough time!

[Austruck]

Miss Vicky : Ha ha ha!


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[gbgoodies]

I rarely get enough sleep because eBay has a requirement that Power Sellers have to ship within one day of the buyer's payment to maintain the Power Seller status, but eBay considers the end of the day to be 12:00 Midnight PACIFIC TIME. For those of us on the east coast, that's 3:00 AM EASTERN TIME. So if someone buys something at 2:00 AM EST, I basically have to ship it out the same day. That means that I usually stay up until at least 3:00 AM EST in case something sells.

However, I usually wake up between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM every morning because USPS won't schedule a specific time for package pickup, so the mailman can get here as early as 9:00 AM, and the packages must be ready to be picked up.

It's exhausting.

[xSookieStackhouse]

6:30am take my kittys out then 7:30am i bring my kittys in then been playing destiny 2 in bed =]

[Mr Minio]

hit snooze 3 times like usual. Poor Snooze! You hit him every day!

[John McClane]

Now

[Sedai]

6AM today. Up with the wee lass!

[matt72582]

6:30am today.. What a difference two hours makes. Today is what I call "recovery day", tired, but not miserable. If I were to wake up at 7am tomorrow, I'll be in good shape.


At about 7pm last night, with temperatures hovering over 80 degrees, I decided to get scissors, go to the backyard, and cut my very long hair with no mirror.

[Torgo]

I don't know, but I got myself a gun, if that helps.

[AgrippinaX]

6:30am today.. What a difference two hours makes. Today is what I call "recovery day", tired, but not miserable. If I were to wake up at 7am tomorrow, I'll be in good shape.


At about 7pm last night, with temperatures hovering over 80 degrees, I decided to get scissors, go to the backyard, and cut my very long hair with no mirror.

How’d that go?

[doubledenim]

His hair is currently not on speaking terms with him 🤠

[Austruck]

I rarely get enough sleep because eBay has a requirement that Power Sellers have to ship within one day of the buyer's payment to maintain the Power Seller status, but eBay considers the end of the day to be 12:00 Midnight PACIFIC TIME. For those of us on the east coast, that's 3:00 AM EASTERN TIME. So if someone buys something at 2:00 AM EST, I basically have to ship it out the same day. That means that I usually stay up until at least 3:00 AM EST in case something sells.

However, I usually wake up between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM every morning because USPS won't schedule a specific time for package pickup, so the mailman can get here as early as 9:00 AM, and the packages must be ready to be picked up.

It's exhausting.

Is there any way to appeal to eBay based on time zone differences? Seriously, I would write to them about that. It seems inhumane to require something so... arbitrary as defining "same day" one way for everyone.

[matt72582]

How’d that go?


Fine.

[Nausicaä]

During the week I get up at 8.20, that's the latest I can sleep in and get ready before people come to the house to help me care for a family member. On weekends they don't come to the house so we stay in bed usually until 10. LOVE weekends.

I am not a morning person at all. :tsk:

[Stirchley]

I didn’t use to do that until fairly recently, but then changed jobs to the kind of PR where all action happens in the morning. To be honest, I don’t mind. I don’t sleep much, and there’s something mystical about early morning when the sky is pink and the world is stretching itself awake.

I keep telling myself I’ll sleep in on weekends, but... it’s a habit.

I love early mornings.

Every single of one my neighbors has at least one dog (and most have kids, too), while I live alone with no living thing in my house.. Maybe I should get a dog whistle.. Do they even work?

There is one living thing in your house: you!

76049

What happens on Saturday, Sunday & Monday?

6:30am take my kittys out then 7:30am i bring my kittys in then been playing destiny 2 in bed =]

Where do they go for one hour? Here in America we generally keep our kitties inside. Too dangerous outside.

I decided to get scissors, go to the backyard, and cut my very long hair with no mirror.

I have got to do this - maybe my old man will help me. He has in the past.

[cricket]

What happens on Saturday, Sunday & Monday?

With the sun

[gbgoodies]

I rarely get enough sleep because eBay has a requirement that Power Sellers have to ship within one day of the buyer's payment to maintain the Power Seller status, but eBay considers the end of the day to be 12:00 Midnight PACIFIC TIME. For those of us on the east coast, that's 3:00 AM EASTERN TIME. So if someone buys something at 2:00 AM EST, I basically have to ship it out the same day. That means that I usually stay up until at least 3:00 AM EST in case something sells.

However, I usually wake up between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM every morning because USPS won't schedule a specific time for package pickup, so the mailman can get here as early as 9:00 AM, and the packages must be ready to be picked up.

It's exhausting.

Is there any way to appeal to eBay based on time zone differences? Seriously, I would write to them about that. It seems inhumane to require something so... arbitrary as defining "same day" one way for everyone.


I've already tried. I spoke to a PowerSeller CSR, and several supervisors, and they basically said that there's nothing that they can do about it. It's just the way the system was set up. But they said that if a buyer leaves me negative feedback because of a delayed shipment, I can contact them after the feedback is left and they'll review it for possible removal. :rolleyes:

[matt72582]

5:30... I had chest pains, and then the damn birds started chirping and couldn't fall back asleep. It's going to be a long day, so I ordered some groceries (just for the Dr. Pepper) as a reward... This will be another day (week) I don't see a movie - the main reason I've never joined the selected watch-a-thons around here.

[ScannerDarkly]

Woke up at noon decided it wasnt the day weny back too sleep untill 2.... not my usall.