As a child, who was your favorite relative?
Ooh, that’s tricky. Maybe my mother’s mother. She had great authenticity and a love of adventure. She was so much fun. She was my playmate well into my 20’s.
If you could be a tree or plant, what would you be?
I’d be an evergreen shade plant.
What would be your preference, awake before dawn or awake before noon?
Noon. I can’t even emphasize that enough. It’s 4am and I’m writing this because insomnia has come to call AGAIN. I don’t think I’m meant to be up with the sun. I’m much more likely to go down after sunrise. It’s utterly exhausting to be a night owl in a morning people world.
Would you like to sleep in a human size nest in a tree or be snuggled in a burrowed spot underground?
Human size nest in a tree would do just fine, so long as there are no mosquitoes.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
Last week I was most grateful for my husband. This week I look forward to … hey, I don’t know, maybe naps.
This post is my jot for Just Jot it January via LindaGHill and Cee’s Share Your World.
joeyfullystated 
I miss naps!
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Oh how terrible, Prajakta. I bet they miss you, too.
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Up before dawn or up before noon..???
Shit, if Im up “before dawn” its because 3am ran up on me like, “WTF,” or because Im still up from the might before.
I always figured noon was somewhere between “Goddamnitt.” and “I HAVE THINGS TO DO, OKAY?”
Lol 😉
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My interpretation of noon is VERY similar!
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I am a rubbish night owl as am asleep at 9pm! 🙂
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As a fellow insomnia-suffering human, I feel you! Your grandmother looks pretty and kind.
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She was said to be a handsome woman, and she was indeed kind — thank you 🙂
I’m sorry you’re in the insomniac group.
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I was wondering what was making my phone ding early this morning – “Joey like a comment” – What the heck is Joey doing up? I hope the insomnia is short-lived.
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I slept from about 10:45-12:45 and then I fell back to sleep around 8m and got up at 1:30. I may live. lol
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Insomnia is awful! I’m sorry you are dealing with it right now. I have been OK of late.
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Thanks, Deb. I’m glad you’re sleeping well enough. It didn’t come about on its own last night — Moo and cats woke me too often.
Hopefully tonight will be better!
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I had a couple rough nights over the holidays for some reason, but generally speaking I do OK. About 10 years ago I had a hideous bout of insomnia. I was literally the “Walking Dead”!!
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Oy.
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I have the opposite body schedule…usually asleep by 10 pm. Up at 4 -5 am. I’ve always been a morning person….but I’d love to be able to sleep in, on occasion. sigh…
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If I had my way, nothing would start prior to 10 AM. I am so sorry that you had insomnia. With any luck, you’ll wake up rested, enjoy the coffee, and the surprise on the counter that I left you. I found it extremely difficult to fall back to sleep when I went back to bed. My love to you
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All my love are belong to you, thank you xx
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You are welcome my dear.
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Believe me there won’t me any mosquitos for you. Our answers are all in a perfect world.
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Oh good! That’s comforting, Cee 🙂
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So with you on the night owl thing. My body does not understand going to bed at 10:30 and getting up at 6:00.
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Next school year, we get to wake at 7 instead. I AM SO EXCITED! 😛
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Your Gram does look like fun. I wake with the sun – in the summer, the birds chattering outside the window. In the winter I don’t get out of bed until the heater comes on! Bah humburg to insomnia! Not fun.
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Agreed, I wake earlier in summer as well, but not usually early by normal standards 🙂
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I wanna more sunshine….it’s been a bit gloomy around here for the last week or so….clouds head NORTH!
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Sorry. May your desert be sunny and hot soon!
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Oh Boy! More questions from the Jot It Squad. First question is a toughie for me. I didn’t have a lot of interaction with my relatives. I had some visits from my Great Aunt Louise and her husband Joe from Chicago. I remembered because he always gave us a silver dollar.
As for the time ? I have found that the older I get the less able I am to sleep or stay up late. I am usually good for waking up whenever the sun rises. Like a chicken. Oh give me the nest anytime. And with a good breeze you won’t have to worry about skeeters. Your Grams looks nice. I never knew mine too well at all.
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Naps are always deserving of gratitude.
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Fun post! I would love to get up earlier but I don’t seem wired that way either.
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I think I would choose the burrow because it has a steady temperature and I would be afraid of falling out of the tree in the middle of the night when I have to use the bathroom.
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Naps are good. Especially the ones that last from oh… 9pm to 9am. 😉
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NICE! Who gets one of those?!? lol
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I think you actually have to be under the age of 12 for one of those.
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I think you’d make a great evergreen shade plant. Then the other you could take naps underneath the shade. Okay weird, but I really like the answers to your questions and the challenge sounds like fun.
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Thanks! You should do them, April, everyone’s invited 🙂
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