I am a sloth among the cheetahs

[Anonymous]

I'm a half-and-half extrovert/introvert with sloth tendencies who tries to strike a balance. I don't like running from place to place but I also don't like sitting around the house all day long. I prefer outside time to indoor activities and like routine; I'd much rather go to the park nearly every day around the same time of day than have ballet one day, skating the next, soccer the third, et cetera. If I am scheduling activities for DC, I like them to be on the more open-ended side (art studio, group music class) and less like a lesson or organized team (he's only 2).

I think of it as my energy cycle being more a sine curve. I can be high energy and on the go, but I need a similar amount of down time to replenish my stores. Now that we're through the infant sleep deprivation phase I'm finding that I am doing better with being on the go more. Weekends we really like to have family time, though, and DH definitely is a homebody who needs to kind of dig in and home after a hectic week of work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH here. How do I tell my cheetah wife that I need hours of do-nothing/nap time to recharge my batteries?

You don't! If you're an adult who takes naps on the weekends you are LAZY! Get a solid amount of sleep at night and exercise to increase your energy.

This poster just doesn't get it. Everyone is different. I wouldn't call myself a sloth, yet I need a nap every day. I cannot function well without a nap. I'm a very light sleeper, and often get broken, not restful sleep at night. I need a nap to recharge during the day. I have a very stressful life right now, and I am not high energy. But lazy? People who need rest aren't lazy, they're tired. My DH is having a very hard time at work right now, and he needs to sleep for hours on the weekends just to recharge his batteries. I resent that he's asleep while I'm taking care of the house and kids, but I completely understand his need for extra sleep right now. He's mostly a Cheetah, super high energy, never needs or takes naps, and sleeps like a solid rock at night, unlike me. We all wear down at times, and everyone has different needs, so lighten up, PP. You may one day find yourself in a situation where you need some rest, and it won't feel very good to have an unsympathetic person say you're lazy. Tired, yes, exhausted, probably, in need of sympathy, absolutely. Leave the man alone and let him get some sleep.

Amen, sister.

-Signed, a person with a metabolic disorder that makes me chronically normally tired during the best of times and a narcoleptic zombie when truly sleep deprived

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Divorcing someone over a nap. Classic.

Yes, because it's as simple as that - you got me! Now go take your nap and RECHARGE so you can function like a grown up again.

Hey lady, those were your words, not mine. You even used the word "literally." It's plain to me you're a total nut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I was also totally serious about extra sleep and exercise. You may also want to look at your diet. There is really no reason why an adult should need a nap on any kind of regular basis. "

Spoken like a young woman. Check back when you are perimenopausal and don't sleep through the night. I run 20 miles a week and sleep, brokenly, about 7.5 hours a night. I still nap often on one of the weekend days.

I'm not as young as you think but if that excuse makes you feel better.

Do you sleep soundly through the night, or do you wake up every night without fail to pee? I do. I think an hour nap once a week is not being a sloth. I need it many weekends. I work about 50 - 55 hours a week, raise two young children and also volunteer in addition to my weekly runs. I am not a slothful person.

[Anonymous]

I'm an uber busy sloth. DH is somewhat efficient sloth. I kinda wish he was a cheetah.

[Anonymous]

I'm a little bit cheetah and a little sloth. I guess I'm a "choth?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a little bit cheetah and a little sloth. I guess I'm a "choth?"

Reminds me of, I'm a little bit country and I'm a little bit rock 'n roll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am cheetahish about my slothishness. Like, I will plan time in advance to laze. When the fam is drawing up vacation itineraries, I make sure that "MOM LAYING BY POOL" takes a chunk of time every day. I make sure we have at least one six hour span every weekend to just hang around doing nothing of much importance.

It pays to sloth ahead.

It's hard to decide who to love in this thread, but you may have stolen my heart.

[Anonymous]

Cheetah. Or idiot.


Woman Walks Across Tracks At Metro Center

A woman walked across the tracks at the Metro Center station on Wednesday night...

[A]t about 9:30 p.m., the woman decided to walk directly across the tracks from one side of platform to the other....

Midway across the tracks, she changed her mind and decided to cross back to where she had been. Metro employees told her to stay in the middle of the tracks while they cut power to the electrified third rail, which they did for about four minutes.

The unidentified woman left the tracks unhurt. She was taken into custody by Metro Transit PD....

Trains were delayed for about five minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cheetah. Or idiot.


Woman Walks Across Tracks At Metro Center

A woman walked across the tracks at the Metro Center station on Wednesday night...

[A]t about 9:30 p.m., the woman decided to walk directly across the tracks from one side of platform to the other....

Midway across the tracks, she changed her mind and decided to cross back to where she had been. Metro employees told her to stay in the middle of the tracks while they cut power to the electrified third rail, which they did for about four minutes.

The unidentified woman left the tracks unhurt. She was taken into custody by Metro Transit PD....

Trains were delayed for about five minutes.

http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/213343/158/Woman-Walks-Across-Tracks-At-Metro-Center

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would literally divorce my husband if he decided that taking naps for hours on the weekends was acceptable (again barring medical issues).

Because the naps would be the only thing standing between him and a cure for cancer?

Most of the stuff that we think it is so important to do is...not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cheetah. Or idiot.


Woman Walks Across Tracks At Metro Center

A woman walked across the tracks at the Metro Center station on Wednesday night...

[A]t about 9:30 p.m., the woman decided to walk directly across the tracks from one side of platform to the other....

Midway across the tracks, she changed her mind and decided to cross back to where she had been. Metro employees told her to stay in the middle of the tracks while they cut power to the electrified third rail, which they did for about four minutes.

The unidentified woman left the tracks unhurt. She was taken into custody by Metro Transit PD....

Trains were delayed for about five minutes.

Slidiot

http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/213343/158/Woman-Walks-Across-Tracks-At-Metro-Center

[Anonymous]

Why did this woman walk across the tracks? Because she didn't want to go back down the escalators, cross the bottom platform, come up the other escalator, to get to the right side? I agree that that set-up is EXCRUTIATINGLY annoying if you have mistakenly gone up on the wrong side. Not that I would have taken matters into my own hands like this chick apparently did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a sloth with a sloth DH, and we live in Brooklyn. Neither of us understand why everyone loves to go to Manhattan so much. This is a common conversation 10 am on Saturday mornings:

wife: we should do something today.
husband: yeah, we should.
wife: What do you want to do?
husband: I don't know.

I think it would be better if one of us was a sloth and one was a cheetah. When I lived alone, I would get up at 7 or 8 on Saturday and actually try to do something before just laying around. But I think our slothiness has multiplied since we've been together.

This has happened to us - on Saturday afternoons, Mr. Sloth naps on the couch and I nap in bed with the dog. Its pretty awesome.