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.

I don't quite know what happened to me. When I was working in the office, it took all my willpower to be awake and dressed and at work by 9am. I was usually late. Now, I work at home, my commute is down the stairs, I could wake up and be at work in like five minutes. What time do I now wake up at, every day? 4am. Doesn't matter if I went to bed at 9pm or 2am, I wake up between 4 and 5am. This is proof that while the gods are mostly kind and generous to me, sometimes they just like to fuck with me.

if I have to be awake before, say, 7AM

What time do you go into work? When I worked ten minutes from home I could have gotten away with that, but that was only for about a year and a half of my entire working career. 7am or earlier it has to be. And I can't imagine the effects lasting all day.