Early Morning Crew

[Exhuminator]

8:05AM. Sitting in my office at my desk drinking coffee. Going to make some microwave grits for breakfast in a minute. I'd rather have something better than that, but I'm too damn lazy in the morning to make a nice breakfast on a work day.

[Jagosaurus]

I've been a 5:30-45a guy lately. Take it slow in the morning, tell the kiddo hi just as he's waking up, head into work around 6:45, listening to podcast while driving, get there around 7:30ish. Sipping coffee throughout

[samsonlonghair]

I'm covering for someone else's morning shift this week and next week at the radio station. I'm rolling into work at five forty-five in the morning for my six o'clock morning shift. Yesterday there was no water in the building. I wasn't worried about the bathroom. What bothered me was that there was no coffee at six in the morning! No water = no coffee.

[mjmjr25]

Ughhh; I am not a morning person.

[BoringSupreez]

So I work day shift now, meaning I have to wake up at 4:15 every morning. The hardest part is not taking a nap right after work, because then I can't sleep at night.

[BogusMeatFactory]

Got up at 4:30 this morning by the baby. Just had to change and feed her. She went to bed early last night as she was crazy tired. I find that I am insanely lucky with our baby's demeanor.

When I say she woke me up, I mean, she got up, sucked her thumb a bit and was just chatting with herself. She doesn't wake up crying or fussing, but just naturally wakes up and is chattering away. If we don't wake up right away, she squeels a bit and gets a bit louder to make sure we know its time to get up and feed her.

Luckily, we keep her on a pretty good schedule and are consistent so I think she just knows that things are going to happen and she is taken care of. I am so surprised that she does so well. We have a few friends that had babies around the exact same time we did, being off by just a few days and their experiences are vastly different from ours.

Their babies are always fussing, are big balls of goo and seem really inactive or disinterested in the world. Our baby is constantly alert, always smiling and blabbering and is a constant joy. She fusses over 2 things, being gassy and being tired when trying to take a nap. She doesn't like taking naps in the day and gets fussy for a few minutes when trying to get her to sleep.

At night, however, we do a bedtime routine and she goes right to sleep with zero provocation. I just wash her hands, behind her ears and her face and neck, lotion her, feed her while telling her a bedtime story (my favorite time right there as I love to tell stories) and then when she is done, I set her in her bed and even if she is still awake, she just drifts of to sleep with ease. She then usually wakes up around 7:00-8:00 AM and if she sleeps early, gets up somewhere around 4 AM for a feeding and goes right back to sleep.

So freaking lucky.

Sorry.... babies. This is what happens when you stay at home, you get a little baby crazy.

[Luke]

fussing

Did not know this was a word used in the Midwest nor can I think of someone saying "fussing" without a Southern accent.

[BoringSupreez]

fussing

Did not know this was a word used in the Midwest nor can I think of someone saying "fussing" without a Southern accent.

I always heard people say "fussing," or "fussy" back home. Never thought of it as a Southern thing at all.

[Ziggy]

It's not a Southern thing, people around here (NY) have been saying it my entire life.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I do day shift now too and would you look at the time. 'Mornin peeps! Coming straight at you from 4AM.

I've got a big pot of coffee here.