What's your "bedtime"?

I don't think there is a right or wrong way to live your life. Just because the "world" seems to live on a certain schedule doesn't mean we always have to conform. My father has been retired for years. He used two work the night shift. Once he retired, it seems as if he could not re-adjust to traditional hours. Even to this day, years later, he still can't sleep at night. Unfortunately, after my mother passed away, this schedule of his seems to be very hard on him. If you feel like you are missing out,though, then yes, trying to get "back on track" might be a good idea. I tend to be more of a day person, so although I would like to sleep in (and I do in the summer) I wouldn't want to feel as if I've missed most of the day. I think in the summer's, eventually I will sleep as late as 10am, but it seems teh older I get, the harder it is for me to "sleep in". I just don't seem to need as much sleep. It's actually frustrating because I love sleeping sometimes! lol Have you been away for a while?

Lol... how perceptive of you. Yes, I've been missing for a while because I've been very busy in my "waking life". I'm secretary of the local darts league and my village's team, and it's end of season, so I had a load of stats and stuff to work out, had to arrange finals night and an end of season meal for the team, together with presentations, so I had to stay out of the Internet World for a while, in order to get things done. I have a wedding cake to make ice and decorate for July as well, so there'll still be some times when I'm not around. I'm desperately trying to catch up with the past two or three weeks of discussions and there are hundreds of them! ha ha ha. Right... back to the discussion. I don't feel it's a wrong way to live my life but in the summer months especially, there's a feeling of "freshness" and "new beginnings" to the mornings. In the winter, it's not so bad because it gets light much later and is often dreary, although having said that, I do like the crisp whiteness of a morning frost, especially when the sun shines on it. I miss all that, and the summer would be a good time to turn it around, I thought. I can sympathise with your Dad, as shift work or even my routine is not an easy thing to get out of. It has to be done gradually, say by half an hour at a time, otherwise you can't sleep. I think maybe the taking of food and coffee... stimulating things... might play some part in that, as they get into our system and work our body clocks. However, I must try to start getting a glimpse of morning life again because I do feel I'm missing out... on life and nature!