Then again, it's rare for a school not to.

I was gonna say!

Regis and Kelly is annoying. Why does my family torture me so?

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Regis and Kelly is annoying.

Ok, this made me go "buh?", my girl isn't in NY. Oh, yeah. Ok....

I think I'm taking BART to the airport to meet her. They are already talking about how bad traffic is to the airports.

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They are already talking about how bad traffic is to the airports.

Oh, yeah. I bet.

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Because the 15 minutes it takes to make and drink coffee is 15 minutes I could be sleeping.

I boggle that I am able to get dressed in anything decent in the middle of all that (post shower, pre-driving I should say).

I plan my outfit the night before. Sometimes I even put it out so that I can save that 5 minutes of “where did those pants go? I can’t find my other shoe”

Vortex is me. On a work day, my alarm goes off at 5:30, and I do the snooze thing until about 5:45. Then I shuffle into the bathroom and into the shower, because there is no way I am functional before showering. I always leave my outfit hanging in the bathroom because I am utterly incapable of taking less than an hour to figure out what to wear in the wee hours of the morning (decision-making before the sun comes up is not my forte), so I towel off and pull on my clothes. Then I feed the cats (who have been meowing incessantly since I got up), do my make-up, dry my hair, grab a breakfast shake, and stumble out to my car. If I leave no later than 6:30, it takes me about 45 minutes to get to work, and I grab a coffee once I get there. Luckily I own a Prius, so it drives itself to school.

My rationale for not getting coffee when I first wake up is two-fold: my stomach isn't usually quite ready for the acid of coffee yet, and I always feel guilty about making more coffee than I'll drink. (Okay, the real reason is that I forget to set it up the night before.)

And all of this made me think of this post from Miracleman that I just had to Nilly.

Who are you trying to fool? You're not happy-go-lucky and/or cheerful in the morning. You're barely sentient in the morning! It's all husband-helps-you- put-on-robe-shuffle-to-living-room-have-cigarette- blankly-jump-in-shower-get-ready-wander-out-door- to-work-with-brief-kiss-for-robehelping!husband.

I will not be a party to your deception, love.

Signed,

Gonna-get-it-when-she-gets-home-husband.

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I don't understand the snooze button, For me the worst thing about waking up is the alarm going off. If you hit the snooze, just when you start dozing off, you have to go through that hell AGAIN. I set the alarm as late as I can, then I know I have to get right up.

I also love going right into the shower. It's warm and soothing and I like waking up under the water.

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I don't understand the snooze button, For me the worst thing about waking up is the alarm going off. If you hit the snooze, just when you start dozing off, you have to go through that hell AGAIN. I set the alarm as late as I can, then I know I have to get right up.

Robin is me. Except both my DH and I are people who get up without an alarm. We set one, just in case, but I can't remember the last time it woke me up.

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Who are you trying to fool? You're not happy-go-lucky and/or cheerful in the morning. You're barely sentient in the morning! It's all husband-helps-you-put-on-robe-shuffle-to- living-room-have-cigarette-blankly-jump-in- shower-get-ready-wander-out-door-to-work-with-brief-kiss-for- robehelping!husband.

I will not be a party to your deception, love.

Signed,

Gonna-get-it-when-she-gets-home-husband.

Hee! He's not even home in the mornings anymore! But he does have to call me to make sure I'm up by 6:30.

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I need some advice. I'm going to be seeing a friend that I haven't seen in a few years tomorrow night. We haven't seen each other because she has been in graduate school and doesn't come home very often. I wanted to get her a little thought gift, but it has to be something that she can take back to Italy (where she is doing her post doctoral work) easily. Any ideas?

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The snooze alarm is important because it eases me into being awake. I don't do well with abrupt transitions and the snooze alarm is my buffer between actually waking up and getting up.

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(Waves to all)

I've had a busy time and been trying to catch up.

Hugs and hairpats to all who need them.

Mornings: I'm not really a morning person, but I can function on autopilot to the extent of getting myself to the bus and then wake up completely on the way to work. I'm not safe to make coffee before then ... and there's always a potprepared when I get into the office.

Laga, the whole holiday thing can be distressing. I've gone through times when I've searched - and spent - for the perfect thing for someone only to have them give me something generic. Or obviously cheap. Last year my family didn't get around to sending me birthday presents ... so they sent them this year.

As someone once said, the holidays are at our throats again.

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