April 19th, 2005 at 10:00pm Posted by Bill
I have a confession to make: I love to sleep. It’s not that I’m lazy (though Kathy may argue that point…), but I have never been a morning person. I have always had a really hard time getting out of bed. I don’t know what it is, but the bed always feels the warmest and coziest right when the alarm goes off. In fact, here’s another insight into just how weird I really am: I used to set the alarm for like 3:00 or 4:00 AM on week-ends, just so I would get woken up, and would be able to feel the comfort of the bed. I swear I am not making this up. I would actually force myself awake so that I could enjoy comfortably falling asleep again.
This leads to problems, however. Kathy is a very light sleeper, and doesn’t easily fall back asleep once she’s awake. If something wakes us up in the middle of the night, I can fall right back asleep, and she’ll lay there awake in bed literally for hours.
I start work at 7:00 AM in downtown Portland, and I try to get to my desk by 6:40 or so at the latest. As I’ve mentioned in a previous post’s comments, I try to walk to the MAX station when I can, which is about a 30 minute walk. If I decide to drive to the park and ride MAX station instead, it’s exactly a four mile drive.
So what does this sleep-loving, wife-annoying loser do? I’ll usually set the alarm for 5:00 AM, then when the alarm goes off, I’ll punch snooze, and if Kathy hasn’t woken up, I’ll sleep for another 1/2 hour (and it’s the best 1/2 hour of sleep ever.) Then I’ll get up, get ready, and drive the four miles.
If the 5:00 alarm does wake her up, I feel bad that she’s not going to be able to fall back asleep, and I get right up, get ready, and walk the 30 minutes. I don’t mean to toy with her sleep patterns, but I can’t help it. I’m really a bad person, and Kathy, I love you and I’m very sorry.
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1. rebecca marie | April 20th, 2005 at 8:47 am
the snooze alarm is God’s gift to the sleep lover. seriously. i always snooze at least twice. it’s a sickness. and, i don’t even make my bed because i like to climb into a rumpled comfy bed at night. like i had juuuuust gotten out of it.
2. Gabriel | April 20th, 2005 at 11:03 am
I like snooze, but since I have NO self control, I hate it…
I will hit snooze over and over again, without even realizing it…
I normally wake up at 6:00a, and there have been several times, when I have hit snooze to the point of being late for work (I look at the alarm clock to see that it is 7:05a, not 6:00a)…
Anyway…
3. Tabitha | April 20th, 2005 at 12:09 pm
i have one of those little portable, battery operated alarm clocks (1. because they use batteries and that leaves less things to plug in 2.because i don’t have to reset the time on it everytime the power goes out or i accidentally unplug it, etc 3. because i took it to europe with me and plan to do so again) so, when it goes off at 6:45am, i just hold it under my pillow and snooze it over and over. since it is under my pillow, my husband can’t hear it and it doesn’t bother him.
on the other hand, he works at starbucks and when he has to open, he has to get up at 3:45am. he sets the alarm on the other side of the room uber loud so that when it goes off, he jumps out of bed, crawls over me and rushes to turn it off. i think part of the motivation for him to get out of bed so fast is to keep from waking me up with snoozing, but the jumping over me thing sort of ruins that . . .
and, why is it that i could sleep forever on a weekday, but as soon as it is the weekend my eyes pop open at 7am?
4. rebecca marie | April 20th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
that waking up on the weekend schtick is crap. CRAP. i haaaate it.
5. Kathy | April 20th, 2005 at 1:57 pm
I have always been a light sleeper. When the kids were babies, Bill used to laugh at me because I would get up at the sound of them rolling over in their crib. (But, the crib was down the hall in another room).
Now, that I know you have been doing the snooze thing on purpose you will be kicked harder and more often.
6. Breanna | April 21st, 2005 at 6:41 pm
I’m most certainly the expert on this, seeing as how i’m addicted to sleep. not addicted so much as really loyally committed. a few examples:
you know how when you’re stressed or in a “bad space” experts tell you to close your eyes and go to your “special place?” and most normal people envision a beach or the mountains or the chinese buffet….me? i (honestly) close my eyes and imagine the perfection that is turning from your back to your side, tangled in your warm and cozy duvet…that is heaven on earth.
two: i have not only the snooze disease, but the script to go with it. it goes something like this “i need to get up now to have the time to do my hair properly. buuuut…i feel sooo good…maybe i can do the ‘wind swept’ look…but then again, that’s what i did yesterday, and people are going to start to wonder. i mean, i’m a professional now, i’ve got to rise to the occassion…alright, one more round of snooze, then i’ll get up” and on and on until i’m rolling out of bed 10 minutes before i have to leave.
a word about weekend sleeping. yes please. every weekend. it doesn’t matter if i go to bed at 9pm or 1am…i’m staying in bed until i wake up naturally, for the 5th time (cause if i wake up at 10, i’m forcing myself back to sleep). thankfully my husband recongnizes how important this is, and doesn’t give me a hard time about it.
sorry for the diatribe…this is obviously something i’m very passionate about…
7. Tabitha | April 23rd, 2005 at 5:46 pm
i don’t think passion is a strong enough word for what i have witnessed happening between you and “sleep” breanna. it might be more intense than that . . .
8. Robert | April 27th, 2005 at 4:24 pm
7:00!?!?!?
my 8th grade class starts at 9:00!!
what i do is get that huge oversized old school alarm clock(the one w/ the bells on top) and set it for 7:00.
It scared me everytime for the first two weeks. now when i hear it i rush to turn it iff w/o even knowing it. I LOVE THAT ADRENILINE RUSH! Then i fall back asleep only to wake up an hour and a half later to be late for school.
but i walk a fifth of a mile so i don’t care. maybe i should run, … but i’m overweight!
lol, awesome site!
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