New time 'zone'

I've been slacking here now that we've returned to 'normal' life ... or our new 'normal'.  I have also been trying, and often failing, to adjust to living in our new time zone. I am now trying to be on MST.
"Michael Standard Time".
[other alternate names considered: GMT (goshdarnearly Michael time), WMT (why-am-i-up Michael time), or any other variation on the same]

See, as I think I've mentioned before, I'm a night owl. I was born at night, my first waking hours were at night, I've always been good and alert at night, and grad school just returned me to this natural circadian rhythm my body has wanted for years -- to be a bat. So I do late nights, and late mornings and I have never ever been an early riser, or particularly good in the mornings. What can I say, working in the corporate world was hell for this reason alone. 

Nevertheless, this is not a state I can live in during caretaking time, nor could I really manage it during the holidays, our travels, the time in Cleveland, etc. Too darn many of those 4:00-hour a.m. wake-up calls, early flights, early hospital appointments, etc. So I've been trying to adapt. Hence (probably) my fall from grace and wooing over to the dark side as my friends Jay & Sean have called it (quite maniacally gleefully I might add. hmmmm).   I've been trying to be up early, get up when the alarm actually goes off, when Michael is up, and pretend to be a normal person. This was jump-started on the weekend of all godforsaken times when M had me up before 8am I believe on both days. The weekend is no longer sacred!!  Ugh.  I have regressed earlier this week, sleeping in past 9 and through my alarm unfortunately, and even missing a wanted aqua class. Darn. And this has resulted in sequential days of Starbucks visits for nonfat caramel lattes. [Darth Vader music & rasps ... "Luke, I AM your father/caffeine"   Me: "Noooooooo!"]

Stay tuned to see if this results in a more permanent re-setting of my circadian rhythms or if I regress to my dark hours, and how well can I keep up with the patient and his preferred hours.