I have always enjoyed the novelty of staying up late. Even now when i'm not my rambunctious teenage-self anymore and get easily tired at the end of the day-I still like to stay up. This explains why I'm up writing a blog post about being up-it's a well known fact that there's not a whole lot of productive things to do when up late. Though I must say, when staying up late one starts to get hungry which, coupled with checking out a couple of my fav cooking sites, def inspires me for meals/things I want to try in the upcoming week- which is a miracle since lately i've been in a cooking rut. It's fun to get excited about recipes and grocery lists-takes the chore out of the fact they have to get done.
I think my night-owl tendancy is stemmed from two things.
One: i'm an introvert. And as an introvert I really enjoy being alone-not that I, or any introvert, am/is a loner or anti-social (trust me I wish I had more girl friends all the time), but I can recharge my batteries by having time to think, ponder, have some quiet time-thus the late hours when all else is quiet and I'm left to my thoughts is a positive thing.
Two: when I was growing up my parents always had bed times-strict conservative ones- but ever since i can remember, we could stay up another thirty minutes or so if we were reading in bed. Thus started my love of reading and staying up late-frankly it was a win win situation for me, and why you can always find my nightstand piled high with books. Currently I have The Best of Sherlock Holmes (highly recommend it! so interesting and witty-not that far off from the movies) and John Adams by McCullough. Don't get me wrong-sometimes I read during the day but i'll always love reading at night.
Another perk of staying up late is that inevitably cody will do or say something that will either give me warm fuzzies (*sigh* "I love you so much...") or laugh: For example, just now he opened his eyes pointing at the ceiling saying, "that's gonna get everywhere" or something like that as he started to get out of the bed. Turns out he thought there were cups filled with fruit on display?.....that were up high.....and going to spill? shrug, I dunno but it was funny as he mumbled things like "danger will robinson" and then finally said, "I'm not sleep talking I'm just trying to be funny" he's always very defensive if he thinks that I think he's sleep walking/talking which I find adorable.
Final perk of staying up late: when it starts to rain outside (which it is right now!) and you feel all warm and secure in your bed and can just listen to it-cause let's face it, with my luck chances are it won't full-on rain tomorrow when I'm up to enjoy it. Rain has gotten sneaky in houston lately.
So for whatever reason you're up...happy reading/internet browsing fellow night owls!
Guess what! We just borrowed Sherlock Holmes from the library to start reading. That's funny. I'm glad to hear it's a good book.
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