the wake up music is key
Oh, I can't use music at all. I'd sleep right through that every morning. I need a loud, obnoxious noise.
I also have to rotate alarm clocks with different noises as I get used to the same noise after awhile.
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.
Hmmmm...maybe I need to find the local gaming store?
Cashmere, rest today and take care of yourself. I recommend lots of sleep and tv.
Holla at your boy Tim Gunn style. [link]
When I was a teenager, I had an old tube radio alarm clock to help me get up. My brother Jeff had taken it to electronics class and somehow rigged it to go to eleven twenty-two.
I would set up the analog clock alarm on the radio to about halfway and placed it across the room, set to the worst radio station in town.
Most days, at the click and the 60-cycle hum of the tubes, I would be up and out of bed before I woke up.
Okay, I'm sending the Mp3 to smonster. anyone else?
I need a loud, obnoxious noise.
My Mac is set to play me Alien Ant Farm's cover of Smooth Criminal which qualifies as loud obnoxious noise and music. I usually wake up before it in some sort of panic that I've unplugged the computer overnight (and for medication purposes I depend on waking up an hour or so before it goes off so I can take meds the proper amount of time before medication) so I'm obviously not hard to wake and I can *never* get back to sleep which I despise, because on weekends I really want to sleep past 6:30am.
I can't remember -- what's the recipe Web site where you can type in what ingredients you have and it tells you what you can make?
is there anyone who has/had massive issues getting up on time and found ways to deal with it?
I don't really have a problem with waking up. My problem is that I'm a daydreamer, which can attack anytime my mind thinks it has a few moments to itself. And those moments becomes minutes. So if I got up early and I'm nearly done and ready to go, my mind would float to whereit'sgoing, and poof - 15 minutes passes.
Thankfully, I'm usually very strict with myself and my mind knows better than to float to whereabouts. But sometimes, it has a will of its own...
Okay, I'm sending the Mp3 to smonster. anyone else?
Yo!
My Blackberry's alarm is annoying enough, plus I have myself trained to be up and moving to go for a run before I even gain higher brain functions.
It does help that my current job allows me to have my optimal sleep time (2 a.m. - 10 a.m.).
