Loopdilou
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Post by Loopdilou on Aug 16, 2012 16:05:14 GMT -5
So, Dark is driving me insane with his morning wake up routine. He has like 4 alarms set, starting at 6:30 and.. going til I don't even know when. The alarm doesn't wake him though, I do. So half the time it goes off forever and ever and ever and drives me insane. He hits snooze on all of them and still doesn't get up when he needs to to get to work at a reasonable time. Meanwhile, I wake up when the first one goes off, which means that I get a ridiculously small amount of sleep.
I feel like smothering him most mornings.
I get up the second my alarm goes off.
What do you do and should I kick Dark to the couch?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2012 16:06:07 GMT -5
Yes.
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Post by flopsy on Aug 16, 2012 16:08:58 GMT -5
Roll him off the bed and then pile the alarm clocks on his head
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Post by movingforward on Aug 16, 2012 16:09:21 GMT -5
I actually don't set an alarm. My body naturally wakes up somewhere between 6:15am - 7:00am. Our office is flexible so I come in somewhere between 7:30 - 8:30. The only time I set an alarm is if there is a meeting scheduled because then I figure if I don't that will be the one morning I sleep late.
Yes, I would kick Dark to the couch. That would drive me nuts!
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Post by Firebird on Aug 16, 2012 16:12:00 GMT -5
Pretty sure DH would nod in recognition... he has the same complaint about me so I can't say much I've gotten it down to one "pre-alarm" and most of the time I catch that one before it goes off (because I get up 50 times a night anyway, I don't really need it right now). One time, though, when I'd just gotten my new phone I accidentally hit something that made the "snooze/dismiss" option go away but the alarm just kept ringing... I had to unlock the phone, go into the alarm settings and disable the whole thing before it would stop, it was getting louder the whole time and by the time I finally managed to turn it off I think DH was full on ready to kill me. Bad times.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2012 16:12:48 GMT -5
I am the opposite side of the coin than Dark, it would seem. 'My' alarm goes off at 4:50. I get up immediately (the alarm clock is across the room) and turn it off. I go to the bathroom quickly, and wash my face. I then head to the kitchen and brew coffee for my wife (4 cups - aka one big honkin' mug). I also grind eight cups worth of coffee for her to bring to her office and brew there. Put it in a ziplock bag and put it by her keys. I then clean her mug from the previous day (if it didn't get cleaned during dishes the night before) and pour her her coffee just as she likes it (two stevia packets and a good dose of milk) and bring it to her in bed - around the time her alarm goes off where she tells me if she wants it to snooze 1 or 2x (we can stack snoozes on our clock). I then crawl back into bed and read on my tablet or hit the bathroom quickly to finish getting ready and get dressed and go to the family room to watch shows that I record that I like and she doesn't.
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Post by Abby Normal on Aug 16, 2012 16:13:37 GMT -5
Loop- I can so relate. I have the exact same problem.
Our sequence goes like this now- alarm goes off at 5am - SMACK- I hit DH - he gets up walks across the room and hits the snooze and comes back to bed- 7 mintues later- alarm - SMACK- he gets up walks across the room and hits the snooze and comes back to bed- 7 mintues later -alarm - KICK
you get the idea.. I made him move the alarm across the room because he was so fast on the snooze it wasnt waking either of us up.
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Post by Firebird on Aug 16, 2012 16:13:58 GMT -5
In my defense, when I'm not pregnant I generally get up between 4:00 and 4:30 in the morning, and I get up on the first alarm - no snooze. DH says he misses those days.
(Thanks buddy, ME TOO.)
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Post by dividend on Aug 16, 2012 16:14:16 GMT -5
I'm the same way as him in the morning. The other morning, in an attempt to get me up early, he brought me breakfast in bed and gently woke me up somewhere in the middle of the parade of snooze alarms. I couldn't really sleep with a plate of eggs and toast balanced next to me, plus he had gone to all that trouble, so I sat up and ate it. By the time I was done, I reasoned that it would be silly to go back to sleep since I'd already eaten breakfast. So, maybe try bringing him breakfast in bed after the first alarm, so he'll get up and go to work early and you can sleep more?
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 16, 2012 16:14:26 GMT -5
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Post by Abby Normal on Aug 16, 2012 16:14:44 GMT -5
I am the opposite side of the coin than Dark, it would seem. 'My' alarm goes off at 4:50. I get up immediately (the alarm clock is across the room) and turn it off. I go to the bathroom quickly, and wash my face. I then head to the kitchen and brew coffee for my wife (4 cups - aka one big honkin' mug). I also grind eight cups worth of coffee for her to bring to her office and brew there. Put it in a ziplock bag and put it by her keys. I then clean her mug from the previous day (if it didn't get cleaned during dishes the night before) and pour her her coffee just as she likes it (two stevia packets and a good dose of milk) and bring it to her in bed - around the time her alarm goes off where she tells me if she wants it to snooze 1 or 2x (we can stack snoozes on our clock). I then crawl back into bed and read on my tablet or hit the bathroom quickly to finish getting ready and get dressed and go to the family room to watch shows that I record that I like and she doesn't. Holy crap I think I love you.
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Post by Loopdilou on Aug 16, 2012 16:16:36 GMT -5
Foodie - marry me?
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 16, 2012 16:21:58 GMT -5
It really is pretty bad. At one point I was putting a wet towel on the floor between my side of the bed and the book case across the room where I put my phone/alarm clock. By morning it would be freezing so when I groggily stumbled over to make my phone shut up and give me another 15 minutes of blissful semi consciousness, I would step on that bastard, shock into fully awake, contemplate murdering somebody, then wander into the bathroom to get ready while I mumbled under my breath about the things I would do to the first poor soul to cross me that day.
It kind of worked, but it was a horrible way to wake up every morning. I've also contemplated putting a thumb tack down. Not a bunch, just the one. So maybe I'd miss it, maybe I wouldn't, but hopefully the knowledge that it was there would force me to actually wake up when I went over to make the first alarm shut up.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2012 16:23:05 GMT -5
Whatever a person has to do to get to work on time, i support.
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Post by BeenThere...DoneThat... on Aug 16, 2012 16:23:37 GMT -5
Holy crap I think I love you. Me too. ...I think foodie's fibbin'...
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Post by milee on Aug 16, 2012 16:25:25 GMT -5
Get him two of the relatively inexpensive Timex watches with a vibrating alarm (you can get them at Walmart for around $35.) He can wear one on each wrist and set one for 5 minutes after the other.
I wear one because I get up a couple of hours before DH and don't want to wake him up. The reason I suggested 2 is that every once in a while if the watch hand is under a couple of pillows and I'm sleeping on top of it, the vibration is too muted to feel and it doesn't wake me up.... if you're wearing one on each wrist, though, solves that problem.
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Post by movingforward on Aug 16, 2012 16:25:44 GMT -5
My mother was not a morning person. My dad used to get up and make her coffee and toast her a bagel with cream cheese every morning.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 16, 2012 16:30:00 GMT -5
I'd just like to point out that I've never turned down a morning quickie to get a little extra sleep. Have you thought about trying that every Monday through Friday morning? It could work.
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Post by Abby Normal on Aug 16, 2012 16:35:14 GMT -5
...I think foodie's fibbin'... DO NOT DESTROY MY NEW FANTASY!!!
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Post by wvugurl26 on Aug 16, 2012 16:35:52 GMT -5
I'd just like to point out that I've never turned down a morning quickie to get a little extra sleep. Have you thought about trying that every Monday through Friday morning? It could work. Haha that'd be faster than the snooze parade.
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Post by Firebird on Aug 16, 2012 16:38:17 GMT -5
It kind of worked, but it was a horrible way to wake up every morning. I've also contemplated putting a thumb tack down. Not a bunch, just the one. So maybe I'd miss it, maybe I wouldn't, but hopefully the knowledge that it was there would force me to actually wake up when I went over to make the first alarm shut up.
Why stop there? Broken glass will really get you moving.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 16, 2012 16:38:47 GMT -5
Actually, I have blacked out a couple of times because I stand up too fast to turn off the alarm. Both times I went down - once hitting my head, the other time scraping my back against the bed frame. I now spend a minute sitting up and gathering myself before turning off the alarm, but mornings are dangerous.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 16, 2012 16:40:18 GMT -5
Yeah, but it would take so long to bandage my feet in the morning that I'd still be late for work.
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Post by reader79 on Aug 16, 2012 16:41:11 GMT -5
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Post by Loopdilou on Aug 16, 2012 16:41:23 GMT -5
Yah, aside from kicking you, it isn't my job to wake your ass up.
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Aug 16, 2012 16:44:03 GMT -5
I drive poor DH nuts. My alarm on my cell phone goes off at 6:55. I hit snooze every 10 minutes until about 8 when I walk out the door. It keeps me on-track, otherwise I can get distracted playing with DD or watching a show, and the next thing I know its 9am and I am late for work I break it down - mentally I assign tasks that have to be completed before the alarm goes off again (done with shower, dressed & makeup done, hair done, etc).
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 16, 2012 16:44:19 GMT -5
True, but would you rather be frustrated every morning from having to listen to my obnoxious alarms go off over and over while I keep hitting snooze, or be frustrated from my mediocre performance in the sack, but at least I'd be up after one alarm? Sometimes you gotta take one for the team.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 16, 2012 16:44:21 GMT -5
Me too! My husband has a saying "Nobody gets up at 5 am to slack off." But, I have done it so many times I don't even want to think about it. Although I do agree that when I ride the train on the very early route - none of those people are messing around. If they are up and going to work at 5 or 5:30, they are going to work!
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Post by Firebird on Aug 16, 2012 16:47:39 GMT -5
Sometimes you gotta take one for the team.
Five mornings a week? Sounds like you're asking her to take about 260/year for the team.
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Post by Firebird on Aug 16, 2012 16:48:32 GMT -5
Me too! My husband has a saying "Nobody gets up at 5 am to slack off."
Um, I do. All the time. Between 4 and 6-7 is my favorite time of day. I can do what I like with zero interruptions, and it's nice and dark outside.
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