It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything, but that is not to say things have been uneventful. We are still tackling our daily shares of differences. Our latest back and forth is the amount of sleep a grown adult needs per night. I tend to think we need 7-8 hours of sleep per night. It’s okay if we get less some nights, just as long as it balances out in the week as a whole. I think Greg sleeps way to little. Greg goes to bed somewhere between 12:30 and 1:30 and tries to get up around 6:30.
Okay, here’s what I don’t get. I have no idea what he does between the hours of 6:30 and 8:30 when he leaves for work. Some sort of mystery activity. Rearranging the yard sale in the drawer perhaps. Usually, his alarm goes off, he gets up, puts on a robe, paddles out of the room and it is silent in the house for an hour and a half or so with an occasional clink or clank. Then, around 8:15, he paddles back in, still in his robe and complains that he is running late. This is supporting evidence to my superhero theory.
On the weekends, Greg has some unrealistic expectations of himself. He likes to keep his alarm set to what it is during the week (6:30 a.m.) at a decibel level that is loud enough to raise the dead when it goes off in the morning. We both wake up startled because it’s so loud. Once he realizes what it is, he hits the snooze. Ten minutes later, he has already forgotten and jerks up in bed completely startled again. Repeat for one hour, compete with jerky startledness every 10 minutes during that hour. In the meantime, I haven’t slept in an hour. Finally, I get fed up and scream at him to turn off the alarm. He’ll grumble and complain that he wanted to go running and will angrily shut of the alarm and go back to sleep.
Actual time we get the day started on the weekends: 11:00 or so.
My college roomie had one of those clucking chicken alarms and she was a BIG FAN of the snooze button. Clucking every 10 minutes for an hour. Wow, was I glad to move on to a single room that fall!
I get up an hour before I have to, to get ready for work…it’s because I can’t just get up and go…I need to take my time…and yet I still would end up leaving late for work. I’d watch the news, check the web/email. So I wouldn’t have to get up go straight to the shower and right out the door…that would be the death of me.
I, too, had a college roommate with an annoying alarm clock that would wake the dead with a blaring “BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!” till he’d snooze it and then 10 minutes later “BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!” For an hour…just as you described…oh wait. That was Greg.
Jim does a kick-ass impression of that alarm clock!
what? and you guys didn’t inform selena of this? unbelievable!
i wake up to npr. sometimes on sunday mornings, i wake up because i’m dying of laughter at some of the sunday morning lyrics. seriously, cracking up in your sleep is really painful.
I admit it, I am a Snooze Abuser. I cannot, simply cannot get up in the morning. I can’t set my alarm to NPR because it is not loud enough to wake me up. You can ask any of my roomies, I sleep like the dead.
I have no problem staying up late, catching a few hours slumber and making it though a day of work, but I am at my best when I get 7-8 hours of sleep. When I was younger, I could function on six or less. In college, I used to pull back-to-back all-nighters (after you hit the 50-hour mark, you start to hallucinate). Now, I’m just gettin’ too old for that.