Erika Bonham dot com

August 8, 2005

I am one of those people that wakes up the minute the alarm goes off in the morning. I used to wake up to the clicking sound it made as it turned on before it would even start to go off. I rarely ever hit the snooze button because if I actually had time to snooze, I would set the alarm for that much later so I could really sleep that much longer. Shane, on the other hand, is a snoozer. I have heard stories from past roomates of his alarm going off for an hour and he slept right through it. I won't let that happen so instead he snoozes. The alarm is on his side the bed. He will snooze for up to 45 minutes some times with me nudging him every seven minutes to get up and turn it off. It drives me insane. I get grumpier and grumpier and my nudges get harder and harder every time that stupid buzzer goes off. I don't blame him for being tired, but if he isn't going to get up, just turn the thing off or reset it for later. I think part of my problem is that I don't fall back to sleep enough in that seven minute period so I pretty much stay awake for the 30 to 45 minutes he thinks he is sleeping in. I just don't get it. I know he is not alone and there are a lot of people out there that do this every morning. I have even caught him snoozing to my alarm before...I got up and got in the shower and he snoozed through my shower instead of turning the alarm off. I suppose we could just move the alarm to my side of the bed, but then he would never get up because I would turn the thing off the first time it sounded and he would fall back asleep. But I would probably stay awake, nudging him every few minutes, growing more and more frustrated as he continued to sleep and we would be in the same spot we are in now. Luckily it isn't too big of an issue as I am up before him for work 2-3 days a week and Ethan has us up by 6:30 to 7 every morning, so we aren't really sleeping in too much anyway. But when that alarm goes off and he snoozes between 6:00 and 6:30 and I lay there awake knowing my little alarm clock I like to call Ethan is going to sound any minute, I am not a very pleasant person to sleep next to.

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