I'm also considering changing my alarm to The Muppet Show theme, hoping that it will kick things off in the proper vein.

I have that as my ringtone! I wake up to the radio news, though. Which sometimes produces some interesting dreams.

I wake up to the radio news, though.

True story: I have my alarm set to NPR, and the morning after Heath Ledger died, my alarm happened to go off when NPR was doing a story about him, and the story led off with a clip of him singing in 10 Things I Hate About You.

Cree.Pee.

I also have Tim Gunn saying "Carry On! Make it Work! Holla at your boy!"

HA! Where can I find that bit of brilliance?

Man, I *cannot* get out of bed in the morning. It's like I have an actual medical condition — lack of wakefulness, or something.

OMG, my sistah in sleepiness. I feel like I have tried *everything*. And really, the only thing that consistently works is to have someone call me and talk to me until I'm out of bed and have fed the cats.

I have that as my ringtone!

It's currently my ringtone when my parents call, so I'd have to find a new ringtone for them.

I've found a couple of iPhone apps to try. One is called Sleep Cycle, and supposedly uses your iPhone's accelerometer to determine your lightest sleep phase in the half hour before your alarm is set to go off. I am intrigued but skeptical. The other has a "fade-in" option for up to 60 min. Not sure which one I'm going to try first.

Tim Gunn said "Holla"? There really is someone who'd be funnier than me saying that.

I have a Joe. I highly recommend getting one.

And where can I get one of those? And, is he on sale?

I found mine wandering aimlessly 'round a gaming store, looking at the Shadowrun stuff. He wasn't on sale, per se, but I got a box of dice for taking him away from there.

I call mine "the cats".

I call mine "the kids." DH can't wait until they are old enough to come downstairs, pour their own cereal and turn on cartoons by themselves. I have no answer. I envy people than can pop up with the alarm and get right on with their day. I slog through the morning until about 10.

I am alive but just barely. My wonderful sitter came over this morning and put Owen on the bus and took Liv to school. She'll pick the girl up and stay with her the rest of the day while I recover. I swear, I would hire this girl as my personal asistant/nanny full time if I could afford it. She's awesome with the kids and runs errands for me if I need it.

I feel like I've been hit by a truck and every time I cough, it hurts like hell. Headache won't go away for love or money. I can only take Tylenol because of my upcoming surgery and it's not cutting the pain. I'm going to have some tea and hopefully the caffeine will take care of that. At least I can go crawl back into bed.

HA! Where can I find that bit of brilliance?

A friend ganked it off of the ep for. I shall send it to you, yes? Profile addy?

Tim Gunn said "Holla"? There really is someone who'd be funnier than me saying that.

there was a contestant who was always saying "holla at your boy", and Tim asked him about it, and then tried it.

And IIRC, it was the funniest thing since, "Where's Andre?"

Oh good Cash, I'm glad someone was able to take on kid duties this morning. Poor you.

That's hilarious and I don't really watch that show.