So I don't know if I mentioned this here, but I am living with my parents now. I am also working a full time job which has me up at 5:00 AM on days I work. This kind of.. I dunno, hinders me, I think. You see, it is 5:19 AM and I am still up. I love it! I have been more productive these last 5 hours since I shut off my desktop monitor than I was all day. I got 2 sinks full of dishes washed(no, don't ask), I have gotten a full room in the in suite basement cleaned(no, don't ask about that either) and as a break from cleaning and washing, I have caught up on 4 different forums that I have allowed to get backlogged. This isn't even the second wind, which just kicked in, this was all on the first wind.
Now, I do not truly believe I could have done the majority of this if it weren't for the occasional 5 days off in a row that I get, one of which I am on right now, but that is neither here nor there. I have been working at AAA for about 6 months now, and I have been fighting my night owl nature the entire time, trying to force myself to bed before I am ready even on nights I do not work, but in reality, I see now that I have been only hurting myself horribly in that I have been stealing my own high productivity time away from myself. Looking back, my best and most energetic podcasts have been done when I was living on my own, often done in the early morning hours. I am a night owl, and damned proud of it. Now, if I could only find a shift at work that would help that, instead of hindering it.
This is only half the problem. My parents, over 55 both of them, are not night owls. They are in bed no later than 10, awake at 6, and easily annoyed if I am up past 1 AM. They call midnight an ungodly hour! Midnight! Blasphemy! My parents and I have been, and always will be from two very different worlds, not just generations. They were raised on what I call farmer time. I know my mother was raised on a property with far land, only a block from the city's perimeter, and I think my father must have as well. They don't see how someone could stay up until 3 or 4 AM when in their minds a normal person is up by 6. Now, as to how to solve this problem. Well, there isn't one. The length of shift at my work prevents me working an evening shift, and I just do not see my parents changing anytime soon, not after 50 some odd years.