My husband and I go to a church on the south side of town. This weekend, we had a Disciple Now kindof thing. It was called "United." We spent the weekend going to services with other south side churches, playing lazer tag, doing stupid human tricks, talking (a lot), and not sleeping. It was so much fun! I haven't done this type of thing in a long time. It was great to watch all the the girls that came grow and step out of their comfort zone!
However, currently, I am attempting to write my paper on blogs for this class, and I'm running on very little sleep. Hopefully this will work! And hopefully this paper will make sense!
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Why I'm addicted to snooze...
This year, I have discovered many bad habits that I've created over the past 22 years of my life. I don't really believe in setting New Year's resolutions, because they never last for me; however, I've made a pact with myself to work every day on breaking some of these habits. I'm hoping that if I can create new habits slowly, the old ones will eventually go away. So, one of my terrible habits is the use of my snooze button. Typically, I press snooze for 1 to 2 hours almost every morning (terrible, I know). Thus far, I've failed terribly at breaking this habit.
I've been very frustrated with my inability to awaken at my first alarm's call. Therefore, I started to think through this problem, and I think I've figured it out: My husband for the past 3 or so months has been working a completely opposite schedule than me. I go to school and work during the day, he works until 10 (some nights 11 or 12) at night. By the time he gets home, I'm exhausted and ready to go to bed, and he's ready to sit up and play video games to unwind. So, the only "quality time" we get during the week really is from 10:30 to midnight. In the mornings, I wake up before him. However, I've realized, it's so hard to leave him. He pulls me too close, and his unconscious call to stay in bed for 30 more minutes is much more appealing than my alarm's call to get out of bed.
Good news out of all of this, his schedule changes Saturday!!! No more working nights for three more months! I'm super excited! He's going to have to start waking up earlier than I do. SO, I guess I'll have to start giving up my snooze alarm for real next week.
I've been very frustrated with my inability to awaken at my first alarm's call. Therefore, I started to think through this problem, and I think I've figured it out: My husband for the past 3 or so months has been working a completely opposite schedule than me. I go to school and work during the day, he works until 10 (some nights 11 or 12) at night. By the time he gets home, I'm exhausted and ready to go to bed, and he's ready to sit up and play video games to unwind. So, the only "quality time" we get during the week really is from 10:30 to midnight. In the mornings, I wake up before him. However, I've realized, it's so hard to leave him. He pulls me too close, and his unconscious call to stay in bed for 30 more minutes is much more appealing than my alarm's call to get out of bed.
Good news out of all of this, his schedule changes Saturday!!! No more working nights for three more months! I'm super excited! He's going to have to start waking up earlier than I do. SO, I guess I'll have to start giving up my snooze alarm for real next week.
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