What gets you out of bed?

In My Humble Opinion
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The alarm clock wakes me up. The dogs get me out of bed. Nothing like 2 cold wet noses in your face at 5 am. What keeps me from climbing back in bed and hiding from the world is the pure fact that I have to earn money to support my family.

As for what I have to live for? Well lets see…

Sunday - broke up with BF

Monday - landlord told me he is removing my washer and dryer so that he can put in another furnace and hot water tank in the laundry/furnace room so the tenant in back can have more heat and hot water. So now I have to go to the laundry mat every weekend and wash clothes for 4 people. What fun!

Tuesday - I found out me ex FIL is in the hospital. My children are pretty upset as they are worried about their grandfather. The workers came to measure for the new furnace and water tank. I was told I had till Friday to get the washer and dryer out. I made arrangements to get them out on Thursday evening and put them in storage

Wednesday - My 2nd ex husbands uncle died. The slumlords cronies ripped out the washer and dryer while I am at work and stuck them in an empty apartment. There were cloths still in them. :wally
The person who was going to help me move the washer and dryer can no longer help because his uncle died. (see above)

Thursday - I found out my ex FIL is still in the hospital. He is in his late 70’s. My ex is not sure what is wrong with him other than his heart is beating twice as fast and its something to do with his Thyroid. This was just a plain sucky day all the way around.

Friday - I went to get gas and cigs this morning before work but my debit card did not go through because my direct deposit check from work has not been deposited. I have an entire $10.29 in my account.

Its now 8:46 am. It can only go uphill from here, right? :frowning:

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Spiders.

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On the weekends the baby waking up gets me out of bed, naturally :slight_smile:

During the week I get up before he does and jump in the shower as early as possible. I only get an hour or so with him in the morning and about 2 hours in the evening after I get home from work, so every moment is precious. The morning is his best time of day, he’s full of smiles, giggles, baby talk, etc. and I try to make sure I can savor every moment of that.

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Right now I’m interning but I don’t think I want the job I’m interning for. I get up everyday knowing I’m one step closer to switching professions.

That and my bed makes my back hurt.

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Bad music on the radio. I use my stereo as an alarm, so there’s no snooze button. So if something comes on I hate, which usually doesn’t take to long, I have to get up and walk to my stereo to turn it off. Seems to have worked pretty well this semester.

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Until September, I would have said “because I have to go to work”

I’ve gotten more reasons since then, when we got The Two Bestest And Cutest Cats In The Whole World.

Now:

Because the cats are so CUTE when they follow me into the bathroom. They bat at the tie-belt of the bathrobe hung on the back of the door. They lie in the sinks. They stand on the edge of the tub between the inner and outer shower curtains while I’m showering.

By the time I’m done showering, they usually let me know that it is time for good kitties to be fed. They probably still have food left over from last night in their bowls, but they still get excited when I give them more. Go figure.

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5:30 almost every morning; never later than 6:00. Hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

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I am graduating in June.
I am graduating in June.
I am graduating in June, come hell or high water. And I just found out that there’s a lot more work to go on my thesis than I thought there was. And much of that work is time-consuming and massively tedious, but it’s all necessary. To get it all done, at least a little of it has to get done every day. So every morning, I wake up and say to myself, “Hey–you wanna graduate? Well, then, better get a move-on.”

That and the fact that, if I don’t show up to teach, I get fired. That wouldn’t be good. And if I did a lousy job of teaching, I’d feel lousy, myself. My students depend on me to learn the material they need to know.

As far as the stuff that keeps my spirits up and keeps me going thoughout the day:

  1. I am, in fact, graduating in June. I’m not yet sure of what I’m doing next, but I have some ideas about what I want. And I can move somewhere new and exciting once I get that extra piece of sheepskin. What a cool adventure!

  2. There are lots of beautiful, fun, and fascinating things in the world. Some of them are easy enough to anticipate. Others show up in ways you’d never expect. There so many little ephemeral sources of joy, of pleasure, and of interest.

  3. I have meaningful work. My students benefit from what I do, and hopefully my research will be useful and/or interesting to other people in my field.

  4. There’s too much cool stuff to do for just one lifetime! I want to travel to just about everywhere and learn about almost everything. You can’t do those things if you keep spending tons of time lagging around, you know?

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At 6:21 a.m. I wake up to Circadian Rhythm, usually. (Mon-Fri)

At 6:22 my first alarm sounds (it’s one of those clocks that announces the time in an electronic voice-repeats until I press the button. That silences that one until the next morning)

6:30-the radio alarm next to bed sounds and I listen to trivia and news for a while.

6:40-a second radio alarm (out of my reach) sounds-same station-in case I turn off the first one. It’s on my way to the bathroom where I head to do # 1 again (I’ll have done it during the night, either when the 4:45 jet overflies or the random freight train sounds its blahhhh, blahhhh, blah, blahhhh at a couple of nearby xings)

6:45- the second electronic voice clock tells me the time is 6:45 a.m. I push its button. That silences it for exaclty 10 minutes.

6:55-the second voice alarm tells me it’s 6:55. Push either its snooze button or the other one that silences it until tomorrow. Just in time for the police log-telling us that they had between 190 and 350 calls last night and for what classes of violation.

I get up and go the front door and pick up the daily newspaper from the doorstep.
Take it to the kitchen and eat a banana skim it for earthshaking news and start the Cryptoquote and easy xword. Go to bathroom, pee (if not done earlier) , bathe (wash or shower, depending). Gave up shaving couple of years ago.

Make breakfast–raisin bran then skim milk powder (from the BIG box) then filtered water from Brita pitcher then canned diced fruit on top. Every damn day.

Get dressed. Go to car, leave for work at 7:35 a.m. Get to work 11.2 miles away at 7:50 to 7:55, depending on how many of the 7 traffic signals I traverse are red, reverse commuting at 70 mph on freeway.

I know, TMI, TMI. What a ruckin’ fut. I slept ‘til noon (12 hours) yesterday (Vets’ Holiday).

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Mostly, the alarm, six or seven snoozes later.

Really: the dream of someone to wake up for.

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  • Desire for coffee.

  • Anticipation of working at a job which gives me a lot of pleasure.

  • … and the alarm, of course!

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Thoughts running through my head…“how will I put together that new greenhouse”…“Maybe I should order my garlic for planting now”…etc, etc.