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My new wakeup alarm system

I'm working on my NYC birthday seeing Wicked blog recap.  I should have that up Saturday.  But for now I feel like posting a mini blog...

Hmmm ok so I have finally gotten my alarm system down to a science.  It always takes FOREVER for me to wake up in the morning.  You know the type of forever that's in the "I'm Sorry Miss Jackson" song... from back in the day.  For eva eva? Yea. That kind.

Well... ok USUALLY I hit the snooze me  button 32 times.   Until I eventually make it out of bed.  Well what ends up happing is sometimes I actually fall back asleep!  Since snooze goes for 10 minutes I can actually keep sleeping for a LONG time!  Or at least past when I wanted to wake up.  So that means when I finally get up I have to rush around and get all my things together SUPER quickly!  It's not good.

Well so here's what I do now.  I set 3 alarms.

3!?!?!  Yes. 3.

Alarm one is regular alarm.  I snooze that.  Then the next one goes off after about 10 minutes... but after 5 minutes I have alarm 2.  Then that snoozed alarm one goes off after another 5 minutes because it was from 10 minutes previous still snoozed.

Ok with me so far?

OK.  So now alarm one goes off every 10 minutes and alarm 2 goes off every 10 minutes... but they are spaced to go off every 5 minutes.

Enter alarm 3.  Alarm 3 starts going off BETWEEN those.  But after another 15 minutes.  This means I have about 2 minutes between alarms.

I SHOULD be up by now.  And so far it's working!  Although the last time I set it I still snoozed for up to 10 minutes even at snoozing every 2 minutes.

It works pretty well.  So there's my new secret to getting my butt out of bed every morning.  It's like this ever increasing frequency of alarms going off.  It starts off slow... and then gets more and more frequent.

I've always had trouble getting out of bed in the morning.  haha... it's like my one weakness.  Especially now that it's getting colder out...

I just love staying in my nice warm bed with blankets over me!

Am I the only one who never wants to get out of bed in the morning or is that a common thing?

Ok well there's my mini blog... I'll be working on my crazy NYC birthday bash post.  It really wasn't THAT crazy... but it was fun.  A good show, good food, good drinks, good friends.