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.).

set to the worst radio station in town.

Also very effective.

I don't tend to have issues waking up at all. If anything, I wake up too easily. And I cannot be shocked awake or I will be vile and feel off-kilter the rest of the day. So I tend to pick music that eases me into my day-- for a long time it was Brubeck's Time Out, lately it's been The California Guitar Trio.

As far as appetizers for tonight, I'm making a baked brie with raspberry and almonds, plus a bought spinach and artichoke dip from Fresh Market along with assorted chips & crackers and for the slightly health conscious, some organic baby carrots.

I wish that Sleep Cycle app worked on a Touch. Some days I wake up completely refreshed and some days I don't seem to wake up at all, and it seems like I'm getting the same amount of sleep for either so I'm thinking it may be a matter of where in the cycle I wake up. Or some other thing I haven't considered. Anyway, I want to try something like that app.

I also wake up to the news and gives me weird dreams. Sometimes that gets me out of bed in a "Oh, no, I don't want to hear this" way but not always.

Ha! The app I just downloaded has "evil laugh" for one of the alarm sounds.

I'm setting up a playlist from the Glee soundtrack to try out tomorrow morning.

About the sleep cycle one, I thought the cats might set it off. If this one doesn't work I'll try that one.

Tep, this is one I just found out about - [link]

If my family will keep storming off with their own issues and stress and fights into my room and then wonder why I'm affected and in a suddenly bad mood, I'll have to kill them.

I'd love to tell them to keep off my room, but a. the huge mess of scattered boxes and b. I need their help and they need mine.

Still, it's not a reason for throwing at me their shit.