Early Bird Does NOT Get the Worm!

I think I've complained enough on twitter, but haven't thought out my complaint here. So here it goes. I absolutely am NOT a morning person. When I wake up in the morning, it's probably a good thing that Jared is still sleeping, because I refuse to talk. I refuse to be nice and cordial. I like to dwell in my sad morning state. For 4 years I was to be to work at 9am and then I switched jobs and with that came being to work at 8am. Then my current work moved and in order to beat traffic (if there is one thing I hate more than mornings it is traffic) I decided to switch my shift to 7am. Which mean I know wake up at 5:45am. That is incredibly hard for me since I rarely fall asleep before 1am.
I have had this new shift for just over a month now. It hasn't gotten any easier. I can pull myself out of bed and get myself to work. Work actually goes by pretty quickly since I get off at 4pm now, but as soon as I get home it's like all my sleepy-ness catches up to me and I feel like I just hit a brick wall of exhaustion. I have been taking naps after work for a solid 20 - 30 minutes and that does the trick. It's like an instant rejuvenation and I can happily live out the rest of my days. If I do not take the nap, I am like a cranky little baby.

The heartache comes when I tell you that I feel guilty for taking naps. I feel like the dogs need my attention, I'm being a bad wife, a bad laundry doo-er, a bad maid, a bad friend and whatever else you can be bad at. I have felt this constant struggle since I started this new shift. I really need the nap to keep up my energy levels in order to do things. I know one answer is to get to bed earlier, but there are 2 problems with that.
1. I am a night owl. I would so much rather be awake during the night than the day.
2. Jared is also a night owl and doesn't get home from work until 7 or 7:30pm, then he works out, does some shhhtuff and usually is up all night long so late at night closer to 10pm is our usual bonding time. We'll go down to the hot tub, curl up and watch TV, eat dinner... whatevs. If I went to bed earlier those things I love wouldn't happen.

So there's my guilt-ridden spill. Do you wake up early? How do you handle the exhaustion? Do you take naps?