When Did This Happen?

If you ask any of my friends in high school if I was a morning person you'll get a collective "hell no" from them all.
I was notorious for rolling out of bed at the last minute, throwing a pair of sweats or jeans on with my boots or slippers depending on if I had time to actually put socks on or if I just didn't care what I looked like at all and wanted comfort over anything else and head off to school where I would always manage to have time to grab breakfast from the caf before I went off to my first class.  Thinking back on it now, there were many times I barely made it to the caf before they closed to grab something to eat during my first class.  I didn't function well in the morning and I can barely recall any conversations at "breakfast" with my friends because as A put it a few days ago "you could sleep eat", meaning I was basically asleep while I ate my breakfast burritos and rarely contributed to the conversations and when I did it was probably in the form of grunts and groans of agony from being prodded to contribute.


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My first year in college was kind of the same.  I rolled out of bed as late as I could manage without being late, threw sweats and boots on and off to class I went.  I functioned better than I did in high school but if I didn't have food to motivate me to stay awake I was just as useful as if I were still laying in bed.

When I started to open at the store last summer for breakfast I had gotten used to getting up before the sun rose and starting my day.  Naturally my day would end around 8 or 9 in the evening and then it would repeat.  It's been months since I've had that schedule but now I seem to have gotten used to it again.

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I've been doing really well with getting up with the first alarm.  Usually, I have to set an alarm for every five to ten minutes to keep me from drifting off to a deep sleep and subconsciously turning them all off...because I have done it...many times. Even better is the fact that getting up at 7:30 isn't a big deal as it used to be. Let me remind you that prior 2013 anything before 11:00am was considered too early for Jess to function.

I've found that I actually enjoy mornings...as long as no one talks to me for the first hour that I'm awake and I can eat my breakfast and read my news articles in complete silence.  Now I am faced with a new problem, the fact that I am most productive in the evening but when I get up early and work throughout the day I'm ready to go to bed early but if I stay up later to work on extra things I want to sleep in until at least 10 and that throws everything off.

I can't believe I'm about to say this but, I actually want to be a morning person.  Maybe I can make the change happen and become a full functioning person by 8:00 in the morning on the daily.  The one thing I know for sure though is it's going to require a lot of coffee.  I just want to know when did this happen? When did my body decide that mornings were a cool thing and that I needed to participate...on the daily?

Oh, and I'm just so thrilled about getting to "spring forward" an hour this weekend.  Because I need another reason to make liking Mondays difficult.

Are you reading to "spring forward" this weekend?