waking up grumpy

I used to wake up like that once a month. It was like a monthly alarm clock to warn me that my period would start the next day. I told my mother, and she said that even though hers had finished by then, she still woke up at the same time, once a month, feeling low for about two days. Mine have just ended a couple of years ago, and the same thing is happening to me. I suppose it's the remnants of any hormones I have left.

I'm not saying that yours is caused by the same thing, but maybe if you make a note of the days on which it happens, you would find a pattern?

Interesting thought, janerowena I know that if I had been 20 years (25?) younger, I would have put it down to PMT and DH might have felt safe to come out from behind the sofa!!

My mother is 78 and she says she still gets it!

I just asked her!

I don't wake up exactly grumpy but I don't want to talk to anyone or have a television or radio on for a while. What I have found since I retired is that I slouch around and don't do much when I feel I should leap out of bed and go for a walk or go to the gym. In fact the only thing that kick starts me into action is making a cup of tea and then putting the pooter on; bit concerned that the pooter is taking over my life somewhat .

That is me too Tegan, I cannot bear even being spoken to for about the first half hour! I get up shoo the dogs out have a cup of tea while staring vacantly ay the birds in the garden and listen to john humphries et al for a half hour

Poor DGD Scarlett is such a happy bunny and wakes up full of beans, I think is puzzled by my lack of enthusiasm at 7.00amona Sunday !

Add me to that list as well tegan, I am so slow in the mornings now. Very interesting thought about the pmt isn't it? Because today felt very like it, so think I will keep a record jotted down somewhere, just to see if it works out!Honestly, pmt at our age?

If I do wake up grumpy I go back to sleep. Living alone helps.

It's not so bad now I'm retired but when I was working the S.O.[who only stays at weekends] would wake me up on Saturdays and Sunday [not deliberately but just by getting up early which is what he does]. And then, on Wednesday which was my day off in the week either the phone would ring or someone would knock on the door Grrr.

I wake up feeling over 80 and get younger as the day moves on.
I like to have something to look forward to and most days ther isn't anythng special, but as the day progresses I find pleasure in the simple things like cooking or shopping of meeting up with a good friend or reading GN.
Of course we are not goIng to feel like when we were children or in our 20s and in love.

Like you Storynanny I am close to the beach and head down there often even when the weather is poor. Being by the sea seems to lift my mood. Maybe because my star sign is Pisces

Does that mean you walk like a crab seasider?

wait a mo, the crab is Cancer isn't it? Ok, can you swin like a fish? [or drink like one?]

SWIM!