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.

I have a Joe. I highly recommend getting one.

I have a Pete, and he's pretty good at making me get out of bed in a timely fashion. Unless it's one of those occasional mornings where NOTHING will wake me, and it's just easier to let me sleep the extra half hour.

I wish that Sleep Cycle app

Buh? What is that?

I am anti morning, but all my life I have either lived with morning people or wide awake once their feet hit the floor people.

So for the first few hours of every day I do things in my sleep. I can feed the cat, sweep floors, do dishes, make basic breakfasts, shower, dress, and even drive familiar routes. The number one thing I can not do -- learn. number two - reason.

I actually wake up before the alarm. I don't use it when Matt is out of town. but, just because my eyes are open , it does not mean I am fully conscious.

I know I shouldn't say it out loud, but I have never gotten not morning people. The worst it gets for me is wishing I could go back to sleep, but I'm perfectly functional and alert if I got more than four or five hours, just unhappy. I called my mother a morning person because she'd be up before the rest of us, but the truth is most of you would shoot my whole family within fifteen minutes and then go right back to sleep if you could.

I'm also perfectly happy to go to sleep late--I don't much care. I just want to have a nice block of uninterrupted sleep, whenever it happens. With age and migraines this is vanishingly rare. Even unemployed I couldn't get more than six hours in a shot. And that's with Ambien CR.

Best alarm clock ever.

I know I shouldn't say it out loud, but I have never gotten not morning people.

It's okay. I don't quite understand the depths of my not-morning-ness either. It doesn't matter how much sleep I've gotten; even if I've medicated myself and gone to sleep at a ridiculously early hour, if I have to be awake before, say, 7AM, I don't feel well. I'll be awake, but I'll feel a bit dizzy and off-kilter and just wrong for the rest of the day.