Hi! Remember me?
Maybe it’s a product of the short work week, but people, it seems like there is just NO TIME! As a chronically early arriver, I have been late to almost everything in the last few days. Work, social events. Even, and especially, to bed. And it’s turning me into a snooze button junkie. Over the course of the last week, my stanard nine minutes has turned into twenty-seven, and I find myself doing some serious short-cut showering. Shaved legs? So overrated. I’m just happy to get soap in and out of the crevices.
But my alarm clock, it appears, is smarter than I am. Or at least, more assertive. This morning, I tried to go for a record thirty-six minutes of snoozing (you know, because sleeping in nine-minute intervals is soooo restorative) and wouldn’t you know, the damn thing refused. Smack! went my hand on the snooze button, and not only did the alarm keep sounding, it started beeping louder and faster until I finally dragged ass out of bed and shut it off. Who is in charge here? My appliances. I have high hopes the microwave will follow suit and stop before I burn the kettle corn for the zillionth time.
Surely this must be a setting that I can change, but I’m not sure I want to. It’s kinda like when I was a kid, and my mom used to come in on Saturday mornings, throw open the curtains and belt selections from Singing in the Rain. Even if it didn’t serve as motivation to get up and face the day, it sure was impossible to get back to sleep with all that lava-hot irritation surging in my tween veins.
Oh, and apropos of nothing… in all my rushing, I have stopped to take the time to make one very important observation: women who apply make-up while driving are idiots. Freaking dangerous idiots. You know who you are.
If I hit snooze more than once…it’s over. I’ll keep thinking that “just five more minutes” is really going to do me good.
While driving? Dude…at least wait for a red light or something.
Like you, I’m usually up and early… and this week I have hit my snooze button more than I care to admit.
It’s gotta be the stars. Mercury is retrograde right now, ya know?
I am in the same boat. I found it difficult to fall asleep, almost impossible to wake up, and pointless to come to work….but here I am! Gosh and is it just me or is the work day super long????
Somehow this short week seems even longer than a regular week–I guess it’s a side effect of trying to fit the same amount of stuff into a shorter span of time?
And I just wanted to mention–that last comment, along with many others you’ve made, makes me think that I love you (you know, in the non-creepy “you go girl” way).
Oh man, my mom had her own “wake up song” and I still get worked up just thinking about it. After years of her torturing us my father actually had to step in and tell her she was lucky neither my brother and I had physically attacked her yet. There are few things that truly make a person’s blood boil like being roused from a dead sleep by an overly perky mother improvising her own lyrics to the tune of “surrey with a fringe on top” (and I love me some show tunes). I think it’s the kind of thing you can’t really appreciate unless you’ve lived through it.
We got the music from “Singing in the Rain” too! I miss that
Am I an idiot if I only apply makeup in the car if I’m stopped at a red light? As soon as it’s time to start driving, the makeup goes back in the bag.
Oh my God, I AM that mom! Singin’ in the Rain and all! Aaagggghhhhh!!!
Do you miss the subway/bus? I couldn’t imagine having to drive to work again. At least not without Journey’s 2nd thru 5th albums.
HA! My Dad usually sings all the time, ESPECIALLY in public. However, not on Saturday mornings. Nooooo. On Saturday mornings I was in for a special treat : he’d come in, rip the curtains open and yell at the top of his lungs : RISE AND SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE! Hehehe. Aggravation in the morning…. I prefer coffee thanks very much
Today I saw a woman putting on lipstick with one hand and talking on her cell phone with the other – while trying to turn left at a crowded intersection.
I use my cell phone as an alarm clock and my boyfriend recently gave me a new one. I never realized that my ex-cell had been an enabler all those years. The new one puts its foot down after 30 minutes. I guess it’s good that I’m now with a more productive and responsible cell. Though, I think I’ll always hold a soft spot in my heart for the naughty one.
this “week” isn’t even a week. It’s a four day long sad excuse for a time period and only serves to usher in June even faster than I’m ready for it to come.
On a side note, I was rushing to a meeting yesterday in the car and applied clear nail polish while at a long stop light. Stupid, I know. And I think it got me a little high. Need. To. Stop.
6am job requires use of (count’em!)6 alarms. One Radio (set 15 minutes earlier),phone, and 4 buzzing ones. The fourth buzzer is across the room so I can’t snooze it! Going to bed earlier might help, but then I wouldn’t text “5 more minutes, Mom!” to dear friend who is sometimes wake that early.
We have enough dangerous old people driving in my little town. Thank the heavens above that *they* don’t apply make-up while driving, too!
Fish, I NEED your alarm clock to help me get out of bed in the AM. Do you mind if I ask where you got it from and what brand?
Putting on makeup in the car is an art form. If you master it, you can hit the snooze button as many times as you want and make it to work looking beautiful. Word to the wise though: save eyebrow plucking for red lights.
Fish, I’m with Lea. What kind of alarm do you have?! My snooze button addiction has gotten way out of hand. I’ve even been considering getting one of those roller kind that flops off your nightstand and hides under your bed, but I know myself too well – those little wheels don’t stand a chance againt my morning fury.
I need your alarm. Badly.
My cell alarm goes off at 6am and I have to hit the snooze every 5 minutes for 40-45 minutes before I can drag myself out of bed. I also have an iPod alarm clock that goes off and starts playing music about 20 minutes after the cell phone starts. One day I actually hit the snooze limit on my cell phone and it stopped going off and I fell back asleep. Sooo late to work.
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What is it with moms? I don’t eat fish and I hate the smell of it with a passion. On Saturdays, if my mom decided I had slept in way too long she would start cooking fish and crack open my bedroom. Talk about your pissed off teenager.
Did your mom sing you “Good morning?” I LOVE SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN. But I’m with you on the snooze button. I love to sleep. PERIOD.
Oh God, my mom used to do that too. Now she doesn’t even get to stay with me when she comes to visit.
My snooze problem is that it feels so good to fall back asleep but it feels awful to wake up again at the end of the snooze. Especially when I have screaming nightmares. You’d think I would have learned my lesson by now.
Oh my goodness! I’m the idiot who applies makeup while driving haha. In my defense I used to apply makeup while in the train and just recently had to adjust to apply it while driving. Also, I wait for red lights. Sometimes. Morning are hectic for me okay!
Oh my god! Did your mom used to sing, “Good Morning, Good Morn-ning the whole day through, Good Morning, Good Morning to you”? Because that is how I used to wake up my freshman college roommate! And, yes we still talks to me, why do you ask?
It went a little something like this,
Good morning, good morning
You’ve slept the whole night through
Good morning, good morning, to you!
Repeat.
You know, I put my makeup on in traffic at least once per week, and people look at me like I am NUTS. What is the big deal?? I see people talking on the phone, text messaging, READING, you know name it.
Seriously, what is so offensive about doing your makeup in traffic? Why all the nasty looks from other drivers doing equally distracting things?!
I don’t get why moms don’t let you sleep in on saturdays. if there’s nothing pressing going on, what’s the problem? my rule is i’m cooking breakfast when I get up. you can either eat it hot, or eat it cold. up to you. if they were up late and i know won’t be up when i’m making breakfast, i’ll make sure that there’s something around they can nuke and not worry about it!
Hey – smart alarm clock! Pretty fancy.
wow, i cant believe the alarm clock busted you! apparently they dont want us doing the 4x a charm snooze fest.
I graduated from the snooze button to getting up and setting the alarm ahead 30 minutes, then going back to sleep. This results in arriving to work about 30-45 minutes late daily. Luckily we have flexible work schedules.
I have to laugh. I was talking to my daughter last night who just got back from a 5-day wilderness hiking/camping thing. She said her teacher woke them up every morning singing show tunes and they all wanted to drown him in Lake Superior. She then thanked me for never doing this to her!
It’s better than yelling, though. My mother used to wake me up yelling at me. Not good.
I am a snooze button MASTER. Its the one button that gets all lot of pushing. The ****ty part, living in NYC you cant even attempt to put on makeup after leaving the house, walking while applying is also quite dangerous.
so glad it’s not just me that is finding it tough to wake up this week… I almost had myself convinced that I have chronic fatigue syndrome.
I always sing to my son in the mornings.
Good morning, good morning
It’s great to stay up late.
Good morning, good morning, to you!
He is 4 and will stay up as late as you let him. If that song doesn’t work I sing a few other morning songs. Of course, I sing to the moon at night to. He is going to hate me in 10 years!
I am a red light makeup applier, can’t help it. I think I started because I was bored sitting through at least four light cycles before getting to the intersection. That’s like four whole minutes of being stopped dead in traffic doing nothing.
Men that shave too. Totally caught one of those one morning a few months ago.
My dad used to blare obnoxious Italian music in the living room and sing along with it. In a house full of ceramic tile, that is NOT what you want to have to wake up to! Uhg!
For the girl who walks in NYC…when I was in Chicago on the L one morning, I watched a girl put on a full face of make up and style her hair on the train. She seemed to have been doing it for a while bc she was a pro at not poking her eye out when the train jerked a little. Maybe start taking the subway?
OMG I read myself in today’s blog — even more than usual. Only in this case, *I* was the Mom who sang “Good morning” to the kids in the a.m.! Is this really such a heinous crime? I guess I could’ve gone in, said “get up” and left. Yeah, that would’ve worked. NOT!
Now I’ve got to get my daughter (who is grown) to read this blog too, hehe!
Fish, I went to see Sex And The City at The Angelika on Friday night. I looked around at all the Carries, Samanthas, Mirandas, and Charlottes, and thought I saw you!
i used to snooze for at least an hour…until my sister bought me ‘clocky’ for my birthday. they sell them at target if you want to check out a link. the damn alarm clock is actually designed to let you snooze once, then ‘jump’ off the nightstand and roll around the room, beeping, until you get up. i chased it once, and will never snooze again.
Moses supposes his toes’ are roses?
But Moses supposes erroneously!
Oh god. That’s going to be in my head for the rest of…forever. Thanks a lot!
I need that alarm clock, its usually my Cell phone but that never works for me!
LOL My mom would wake us up soo early on saturday mornings by blasting music in Spanish and making Salsa picosa, the smell of the Chilis toasting on the grill would wake anyone out of deepest sleep!
but hey I have done it to my nieces everyonce and a while.