Alarm clocks.
Before I married Joey, I prided myself on being RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME in the mornings. My alarm would go off and I would pop out of bed immediately, chipper as Tweety Bird. I never slapped the snooze.
Joey is a habitual snooze slapper.
I now slap the snooze up to three times. THREE TIMES, INTERNET. What have I become?!
It’s such a waste of time, and it’s not even good sleep either.
This morning Joey set his alarm for 30 minutes before I set mine, and he slapped his snooze button for all of those 30 minutes and yet never even woke up. The beeping woke me up immediately, though, and after the third (or fourth?) hit of the snooze button, I just kicked him in the shins and said, “GET.UP.”
He was all, oh sorry…I didn’t realize my alarm was going off.
This is the fourth day in a row this has happened. I think he just doesn’t even hear the alarm clock anymore because he’s had that thing longer than he’s had me, and can somehow sleep right through the beeping.
That’s why at this very moment, at 6:45 a.m., I am trolling the Internet for a varying-beep alarm clock without a snooze button.
get him one of those alarm clocks that roll away when they go off. It makes you get out of bed to find it! : )
That’s not a bad idea…I considered it this morning, in fact. Think Geek, right?
This is one of those marriage issues that (eventually …. and…. hopefully… by God’s grace) increase your sanctification. Dad does the same thing, and it hardly bothers me anymore. PROBABLY not because I’m more sanctified, just because I’ve gotten used to it.
But if there is a clock out there that solves the problem, that’s a good thing. I’ll pray you find one
Jenna,
Cameron has an idea. Put the alarm clock across the room so he has to get up to turn it off. Plus, it would have a different buzz so it would maybe “startle” him and he would get out of bed.
Cameron – this was the exact same thought I had. (We must be related, great minds think alike.) We are going to buy a new alarm tonight and put it across the room that way we BOTH have to get up!
Speaking from experience, some people have the great skill of being able to sense the alarm, getting up, hitting the snooze, and then getting back into bed and being asleep the whole time. There is a clock at Target I was tempted to get. It has about 6 or 7 different characters telling you to get up in different ways. Most of them were pretty goofy but funny. A ganster, a cowboy, an international, and on and on.
See, my problem with alarm clocks is that I have to have it wake me to the radio, because people’s voices will wake me up, but beeping is hit and miss. That and I am not someone who wakes up all at once, usually.
In the past, I’ve been known to not talk the first 30 minutes I get up, because I’m still waking up. It’s not pretty.