The need to sleep...

Some people love to sleep. Some people like to go to bed early, some like to sleep in very late. Me, I would love to find a way to never need to sleep. I don't enjoy sleeping. It annoys me greatly that I need to sleep. I have plenty of things to do; I could easily fill 24 hours a day with things besides sleep.

As it is, I don't sleep a lot. It's generally after midnight before I wind down, and my alarm goes off at 5:30. "Sleeping in" for me is staying in bed until 6 or 6:30. But every hour that I spend in bed is spent grudgingly.

At the opposite end of the spectrum is my little grand-dog who lives with me. (He technically belongs to my lovely daughter.) Humphrey is a very fat little chihuahua, who is about the sweetest thing in the world. Humphrey loves to sleep. He sleeps a lot. When I get up in the morning he gets up and wanders around with me, but when I leave for work, he goes back to bed. He greets me at the door when I get home, and his preference would be for me to immediately sit down so he could sleep on my lap. When I watch TV, Humphrey sleeps on my lap, or, if he feels he has been displaced by a cat, he sleeps in his bed. When I turn off the TV, he jumps up and runs to my bed to be picked up and dumped in bed....and within 5 minutes he's snoring...

So are you a sleeper or a non-sleeper?