CHATin' time
I thought of a clever joke to tell..... but I'll tell ya'll later. 
I have seen another version of that concept where, when the alarm goes off, the top of it pops off and flies across the room and you have to get up, find it and put it back on the base before the alarm will turn off. Great idea, but my husband trumped even that this morning...
He works around a lot of power tools and has a massive jar of little orange ear plugs. I don't know why he did this, but he used them while he slept last night. I don't snore or anything. So the alarm went off and we both slept through it. Both of them, actually. He has his cell phone set to go off a few mins after the other one as a backup. So he woke up an hour or so late and complained, asking why i didn't wake him up. I usually am a pretty light sleeper, but I have been taking Ambien lately so I musta just slept through it.
No matter how abnoxious your alerm is, earplugs will defy it!
I am procrastinating and really shouldn't be.
I don't know if using the excuse of being too tired from shopping all day is valid for avoiding exercise. But I used it yesterday and am using it again today... that is, if I can manage to unglue my rear from this chair an get in the shower.
I procrastinated my evening shower-off last night, though I took a shower during the day. My head itches.
I have to find a dress for this wedding on Sunday and Saturday is all tied-up in cooking for the chili diner my in-laws are hosting in lieu of a rehearsal dinner. I am making cornbread. So I have to do this in three days.
I also am trying to get legal aid on the line and its perpetually busy. We are not the only ones filing Chapter 7.
I have already spent the time allotted to my morning yoga session on this community. Jeez, I haven't even brushed my teeth yet!
i did just manage to brush my teeth, though i should have been at work 15 minutes ago. i was supposed to wash my hair last night, but didn't. now i look sorta like a sewer rat, i really need to wash it. so before i can leave my house, i still have to make myself look good in a do-rag, put my make up on, get outta my pj's and into some work cloths, and make lunch. and maybe eat something.
i will never be allured by earplugs, lord only knows what would happen. i'd probably sleep straight for 3 days. they have another clock that i was gonna get, but then realized it costs something like $150. there are 4 blocks that fit together on top of the alarm. when it goes off, the pieces come flying off, and the alarm doesn't stop till you put them all back together. ugh, the torture.
good luck with all yer stuff today, i'm actually gonna try getting more ready now.
Ooooo... that alarm clock IS pretty cool!! nice to know I'm not the only one who sleeps through alarm clocks :D
truth or dare?
ummmmm.... TRUTH -->> in order for me to be able to wake up with an alarm clock... it has to be one of those clocks that has multiple alarms on it. My alarms have to be set back to back. The alarm HAS to be beeping consistantly for at least an hour... at least! if someone turns the alarm off before the hour's up, I'm screwed because I wont wake up :/ for best results.... leave my freakin' alarm clock ALONE!
one time my husband stayed home from work because he was trying to use up all of his 'use or lose' sick leave he was sick.... but I was working at the bank at the time and had my alarms set to go off every 30 minutes for two hours. (ya know.... so I can get goin' in the morning) anyway... he was amazed that I could sleep through an hour and a half of high-pitch beeps and not move a muscle.
it's strange because it's like my body/brain knew when I had to get up! (which was the last 30 minutes of the two hour beeps)
*sigh* those were the good Ol' days of SLEEP!
I don't get much of that anymore :(
...ps
I haven't brushed my teeth yet either cyn... :/
I'll go do that RIGHT NOW!
.....after I check my e-mail (I've been meaning to do that)
All y'all silly ladies hangin' out in here with sweaters on yer teeth! I finally brushed 'em, and actually took a shower. Now shaving,... well, that's a whole other issue! That won't happen until the weekend. My husband has already been laid twice this week! LOL!
I have a bladder infection. I have this miricale stuff called d-mannose which works better than any antibiotic and hasn't tendency to kill of natural bacteria, causing yeat infections. It does have one unfortunate side effect. I dunno if anyone here had ever heard of mannitol, but its a sugar used in baby laxatives. Its chemically very similar to d-mannose. So, uh, I'm a little gassy and, er, well, you know. But that paired with some baking soda and uva ursi has the pain receding already. I have dealt with chronic utis for a few years. I was in constant pain for like 2 years until the last 6 months or so, it has almost completely disappeared. Now, suddenly, I am in pain. well, not so suddenly. It started yesterday and built to a crescendo today. I threw everything I have at it and its getting better. And I was just starting to have a libido again! Sh**!
Gee, I hope this wasn't a physical manifestation of my procrastination of hitting the pavement to find a dress for the wedding of the two ppl in my husband's family who dislike me the most. Hmmm, am I being overanalytical? Maybe. Truth is, I'd rather do that than pay my doc for a visit so I can sit in a stirruped exam table while he probes me for anomalies then blow my week's wine-budget on antibiotics which will inevitaby start a yeast infection, requiring more drugs and dietary restrictions. Come on baby laxative!
I am having a wonderfully procrastinative day (I don't even think that's a word, but darned if I'll be bothered to look it up either).
Kids off to school, on the computer for 2 hours, bath for an hour, nap for 2 hours, and now back on the computer! Marvelous!!
I sleep with ear plugs in when I have to nap for the midnight shift. I also set up two alarms, one for 8:50 pm and my cell phone for 9 pm. The cell is one vibrate and I hear that before I hear the alarm.
I love the sleep button, I can press it three times before I have to get up.
All you poor souls who don't know the joys of waking up at 4:30 AM before the 5:AM alarm goes off! Wide awake!
LOL -- I know there's something wrong with me.
Original Post by windrinre:
All you poor souls who don't know the joys of waking up at 4:30 AM before the 5:AM alarm goes off! Wide awake!
LOL -- I know there's something wrong with me.
you get up 30 minutes BEFORE the alarm?? well.... I'll be damned!!
is there a 'shrink' in the house?? we got ourselves a nut-case here ;)
I think I'm a cashew flavored nut 
It's probably conditioning from years of procrastinating. You know the drill, the I'll write my paper the day it's due kind of thing.
That or just plain old garden variety crazy.
The funny things is that if I don't set the alarm I'll sleep until 6-7. But it never gets to go off when I do set it.
Windrinre, are we sisters.
I wake before the alarm (set for 5am) and procrastinate till it twills and I hit the snooze just cuz I can, and sometimes wait for the second twill to wake up hubby and I lay there letting him deal with the Dogs of Doom and pour the first cup-o-coffee while I languish amongst the warm covers for an extra minute, or two which is really like a quarter hour.
But I aint no cashew, nope, I be more of a pecan.
Hey - that'd be a pe-can down here in georgia!
I finally got a dress. God god all freakin' mighty! 200 try-ons later, I got one! It aint nothin' to write home about but it'll do for a weeding nobody wants me at to begin with.
I was so stressed-out by the time it was all over-with I went to the pub and had a beer and actually cried halfway through it! country music - now I understand!
More later. I got groceries to put up.
Original Post by bagga:
Windrinre, are we sisters.
I wake before the alarm (set for 5am) and procrastinate till it twills and I hit the snooze just cuz I can, and sometimes wait for the second twill to wake up hubby and I lay there letting him deal with the Dogs of Doom and pour the first cup-o-coffee while I languish amongst the warm covers for an extra minute, or two which is really like a quarter hour.
But I aint no cashew, nope, I be more of a pecan.
<edit>I think we could be sisters! Early mornings, general nuttiness... it's looking and walking like a duck! </edit>
I'm convinced that nice warm covers are the cause of 81.73% of all morning procrastination. (In case you're wondering the other 18.27% is caused by procrastinating on drying the covers <edit>(after washing)</edit> so you don't have any to blame it on 
). I could spend nearly all day in bed the entire weekend and not regret it. In fact, that's my preferred way to spend the first two weeks after school lets out.
Let's see, we've got a pecan and a cashew... now we need some other nuts to have a real party mix!
Glad you found yourself a dress there mspw. At least that's done and you can move on to procrastinating about bigger and better things!
On an un-related note: This Orville "Natural" cracked black pepper pop corn is ick. And I love black pepper let alone pop corn. It's too... salty.
*raises hand*
I'm an almondjoy since the pecan's already spoken for :D
it's ok... I like almonds and pecan's almost equally
I feel like a peanut. Its underrated and highly nutritious. Most ppl mistake it for being a nut, when, in actuality, it is a legume. I have often been mistaken as human, while in fact I am not. While I am not so exotic as the cashew or macadamia nut, I am always there, dependable and sturdy. I am versatile and can be spread thickly or thinly. I have many recipe uses and many more health-related uses. I can grow in shallow earth and don't require much attention, unlike nuts which come from trees. I grow on a vine, and even underground.
I actually kinda looked like a peanut squeezing myself into some of those vintage dresses today. It sucked.
I'd rather look like a peanut squeezing into dresses than a sausage squeezing into spandex :/
man! i really need to get back to counting calories and exercising!
*looks in full length mirror..... see's a sausage mcmuffin lookin' back at me..... cries*
mspw, i also have chronic uti's. ugh, there ain't nothing worse than a good ol' bladder infection. been getting them regularly for 6 or 7 years now. i feel your pain :'(
i only get em after sex, doesn't matter if i pee before/after, shower before/after, different positions don't make one difference. cranberry, blueberry, uva ursi, d-mannose. all i can do is take the low dose antibiotic every time i get laid. it's the only thing that wards the mo-fos off.
last year, i was really trying to experiment to see what else could work, but i kept on getting them anyway. then i got one that wouldn't go away, the docs gave up on me, and i felt a sometimes low grade/ sometimes high grade uti for 3 months. 3 months! then i saw an acupuncturist who finally got that one to go away after a month of treatment. he's wonderful, i still see him all the time. but i don't f*ck around without my antibiotics anymore. it sucks. except a few weeks ago, i started feeling one, got the heavy duty unsweetened cranberry juice, drank it all night along with water and slept with a heating pad on my belly/crotch, and i woke up all better!
anyway, i didn't mean to complain all about myself just then, just wanted to let you know that you're not alone.
*knocks on wood*
I've never had one before, so i can't say i know how you two feel.... BUT man, that DOES suck!! especially when doctors give up on you :( that's not right...
if it makes you feel better.... sometimes I have my period for like 6-7 weeks straight :/ (who the f*ck wants to bleed for 7 weeks straight?) bah!
or don't have a period at all for months :/
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