To Snooze or Not to Snooze

Lately I've been sleeping in. A lot. I hit snooze at least three or four times per morning. Now don't get me wrong...I have always enjoyed the snooze button. But this has been different. I"m not sure of exactly what has contributed to my recent snooze fetish. It could be that I married a man who doesn't come to bed until 3am every morning. Or the fact that life is so busy I don't have a minute to just talk to Geoff until after the kids are tucked in for the night, so then we visit about our days and what-not until I realize its already 11pm!! Or it could be that our bed is just so dang comfortable I can't peel myself out of it. Whatever the culprit, I have to do something to change my habits.

Yesterday I was supposed to get up at 5am so I could meet at the church to pray from 6:30 to 7:30. That didn't happen. But snooze DID happen..... all the way until 6am. Dang it! So last night I decided I would change my alarm sound and see if that helped. I have happily awoken (is that a word?) to the theme song from Sex in the City now for over two years. I use my iphone for my alarm so I have a plethura of choices when it comes to what I want my alarm to sound like. I flipped thru my choices last night. I saw one that said 'alarm' and quickly chose that one without listening to it. Now, one would think an alarm sound would be like an alarm clock sound, right? Well that is what I thought anyway.

This morning as I was tucked all snug in my bed I awoke suddenly, arms flailing about, panic in my chest!!! My alarm was going off!!! -and it was not the alarm sound I was counting on! Have you ever seen a scary space movie and the space ship is going to collide with a planet or something? And an alarm is going off on the ship....its like a eeerrrr eeeerrrr eeeerrrr sound. I don't know really how to type it, but its very loud and very ALARMING. Like a bomb warning alarm or a 'this ship is going down' alarm. Maybe they play this alarm when a plane is crashing?? I don't know, but it is definately not a gentle 'hey, wake up now' type of alarm.

So needless to say, I woke up on time today.