That’s it! I must not be doing what I should be with my life. College is getting harder, life at home is getting harder, work is getting harder, and now I officially can’t wake up when I want to. Maybe I need to take a different path in life because right now it feels like I am trying to put two magnets with the same charge together. For the past two weeks, I have slept with my phone directly next to my face. The alarm is set for seven AM. At seven, I am supposed to wake up, get myself ready for school, and get my little brother ready for school. Then I am supposed to feed him and take him to school on the way to OSU. Not happening. The past two weeks I have been woken up by a phone call or some crazy voice in my head saying, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” as opposed to my regular alarm. I then spring out of bed, throw on whatever’s closest, sometimes I don’t even brush my hair, quickly yell my brother awake, hand him a pop-tart, and get him in the car. For some reason the sound of the alarm is not registering in my brain anymore, and is not enough to rouse me from my sleep. So now I have taken to setting double alarms, one at 6:45 AM by my face, and one at 7:00AM across the room. That way if I silence the one by my face while in my zombie-like state I can’t go back to sleep because the one across the room will start ringing at 7AM and won’t stop until I get up to go get it. Sad, huh? Oh the trials of life.
The same thing happened to me in 8th grade. I became immune to my alarm clock so I had to do the same thing you're doing now. It worked for me so I hope it works for you too, good luck!
ReplyDeleteWow.. you are already on Blog 33. That's so sad that you always should wake up at 7AM. I also couldn't get up in early morning. I'm taking physics on this quarter at 8:30AM, and I always miss most of the class lecture..
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem and i also employ two alarms to get my ass out of bed in the morning. Almost all though my time in the military i was on night crew, ive been out 6 months now and still havn't got used to getting up in the morning; i guess i shouldve went to night school.
ReplyDeleteGod sounds like you are already a Mom! I can't imagine what it's going to be like with work and kids I will probably have to set 3 alarms to get moving! Good luck I hope it calms down for you!
ReplyDeleteI can sor tof relate to the chaos. I took care of my younger brother too when I was in high school. Then the fmaily life got more complicated ym senior year and deadlines piled with homework and work. It will phase by eventually, just one of the times where you wish somethign would do right for at least a little while. I will start to feel tat way this coming week. Congrats on being miles ahead blog wise. A good idea to knock a small task out in advance so you can ignore it. I might do that as well.
ReplyDeleteOver achiever.. already on blog 33. Way to get ahead though, maybe that will make your days less stressful. But I sleep through my alarms all the time. Try setting them to weird times like 6:54 or something like that. Whenever it's not my normal time I usually wake up easier.
ReplyDeleteI would trade you problems. I have a nasty habit of waking up way too early all the time. And another one of not being able to get back to sleep. My problem is that i get on a schedule too fast and can never get off of it. Life's trials indeed.
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