Wow. It has been awhile since I have written anything. I have been in the throes of grading and wrapping up the school year. As much as I have loved teaching, it is kinda nice to know that I will not be going back so that I can completely contain my work at home, help Rick out with his business and be with my kids more. And again, I apologize for the lapse in my posting. Funny...I say that like I have millions of people reading this. A woman can dream can't she? Millions of people waiting with baited breathe on what crazy things happened to Heather Miller today...
I have a hard time waking up in the morning. My only real time I can work and get anything done is when the kids go to bed, so I usually am up till midnight 1am easily. So now you can imagine why I don't wake up so easily come morning.
My senses have become immune to my old alarm and without realizing it, my subconscious forces my arm out to hit snooze. Rick tells me that sometimes I hit is so much I get a good 2 hour snooze out of it. Needless to say, the alarm does not wake me up anymore in a timely manner and I don't think Rick would appreciate me setting it at 4 in the morning just to make sure I get up at 6.
My first new alarm try was the nice calming sound of birds, with the alarm placed across the room. I thought if there was a soothing sound it would wake me up nicely instead of that jarring beep that used to bring me out of slumber so quickly it gave me an instant hangover type feeling. Didn't work. I was actually awoken by the sound of Ricks voice telling me that he was getting sick of listening to the birds. I got up, walked across the room, turned the alarm off, then collapsed back into bed.
Onto the next one. How fun! A rooster crowing. I will pick that one. It is natural, and maybe a God given alarm that automatically wakes anyone. The next morning, again, I get up, walk across the room, hit snooze, then collapse in the bed. I did this probably about 5 times before I sucked it up and just got up.
I begin to wonder if I am just forcing my body to get up before it should. I am always up and out of bed at 7 so why try to force it any earlier? Because, if I can get another hour or two of work done in the morning before the kids get up, that would help me out in the evening.
Next try: Music. I set it to my playlist and alarm becomes dream. I am usually at a concert, and front row...how do people get those seat anyway...if I go to a concert, I want to be up front! Sometimes the dream consists of the music being background music, or even my dreaming that I am waking up. Nothing like dreaming that you got out of bed and already were getting ready, then waking up in the middle of you blow drying your hair to realize you have to do it all over again.
So Rick and I decide that music doesn't work. Notice that Rick isn't offering to help me get up, or helping me get up period. I think it is because he knows I don't have to, and would rather just stay up late.
Annoying sound. That has been the latest test. And this is what happened: I was outside of a building, work or school or something like that surrounded by a bunch of people. I decided while waiting to change the ring on my phone, and then my phone starts to ring, and ring, and ring, and ring. It wouldn't stop ringing, and it was the most annoying ring ever! I tried turning it off, then changing the ring, nothing! I decide that I need to walk down the way and take it to the apple store. As I am walking everyone is looking, telling me things to do. I just insist nothing works and walk faster to my destination. Ugh! what an annoying sound! why won't it stop! I do wake up eventually and wonder why the ring is still happening and decide it must not have been a dream after all. That is when I go into the next phase of waking up and put 2 and 2 together. My alarm is under my pillow and I need to turn it off.
I have a hard time waking up in the morning. My only real time I can work and get anything done is when the kids go to bed, so I usually am up till midnight 1am easily. So now you can imagine why I don't wake up so easily come morning.
My senses have become immune to my old alarm and without realizing it, my subconscious forces my arm out to hit snooze. Rick tells me that sometimes I hit is so much I get a good 2 hour snooze out of it. Needless to say, the alarm does not wake me up anymore in a timely manner and I don't think Rick would appreciate me setting it at 4 in the morning just to make sure I get up at 6.
My first new alarm try was the nice calming sound of birds, with the alarm placed across the room. I thought if there was a soothing sound it would wake me up nicely instead of that jarring beep that used to bring me out of slumber so quickly it gave me an instant hangover type feeling. Didn't work. I was actually awoken by the sound of Ricks voice telling me that he was getting sick of listening to the birds. I got up, walked across the room, turned the alarm off, then collapsed back into bed.
Onto the next one. How fun! A rooster crowing. I will pick that one. It is natural, and maybe a God given alarm that automatically wakes anyone. The next morning, again, I get up, walk across the room, hit snooze, then collapse in the bed. I did this probably about 5 times before I sucked it up and just got up.
I begin to wonder if I am just forcing my body to get up before it should. I am always up and out of bed at 7 so why try to force it any earlier? Because, if I can get another hour or two of work done in the morning before the kids get up, that would help me out in the evening.
Next try: Music. I set it to my playlist and alarm becomes dream. I am usually at a concert, and front row...how do people get those seat anyway...if I go to a concert, I want to be up front! Sometimes the dream consists of the music being background music, or even my dreaming that I am waking up. Nothing like dreaming that you got out of bed and already were getting ready, then waking up in the middle of you blow drying your hair to realize you have to do it all over again.
So Rick and I decide that music doesn't work. Notice that Rick isn't offering to help me get up, or helping me get up period. I think it is because he knows I don't have to, and would rather just stay up late.
Annoying sound. That has been the latest test. And this is what happened: I was outside of a building, work or school or something like that surrounded by a bunch of people. I decided while waiting to change the ring on my phone, and then my phone starts to ring, and ring, and ring, and ring. It wouldn't stop ringing, and it was the most annoying ring ever! I tried turning it off, then changing the ring, nothing! I decide that I need to walk down the way and take it to the apple store. As I am walking everyone is looking, telling me things to do. I just insist nothing works and walk faster to my destination. Ugh! what an annoying sound! why won't it stop! I do wake up eventually and wonder why the ring is still happening and decide it must not have been a dream after all. That is when I go into the next phase of waking up and put 2 and 2 together. My alarm is under my pillow and I need to turn it off.
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