A Mixed Bag

[mousme]

 I am super tired, probably still paying for going to bed really late on Thursday. I got up early, although not as early as I intended. The snooze button pretends to be my friend, but it's not. On the other hand, I am really paranoid that if I disable the snooze function that I will just turn off my alarm and completely oversleep.

 

I got one bathroom 90% clean today. I just need to sweep and mop the floor, but everything else is sparkly clean. I wanted to clean both upstairs bathrooms, but I ran out of energy, which is very depressing. I will tackle the second bathroom tomorrow, as well as my bedroom if I have more energy than today. I wish I weren't so tired, I feel like that would make cleaning up easier.

 

Anyway. Bed. I will try for a better update tomorrow.

 

Comments

[kiwano.melon.org]

I was unable to kick my snooze habit (on account of similar fears) until I spent a few days at a monastery, where I had to get up around 4 or 5am each day, and was sleeping in a dorm with a bunch of monks who I was pretty sure didn't want to have their sleep disrupted by half an hour (or more) of my snoozes, but was even more sure would make sure I would still get up in time for morning chanting, if my lack of a snooze proved to be a problem. I can sympathize with how hard a habit it is to break (but can confirm how breaking it is totally worth it).

[mousme]

I am even MORE paranoid about waking up other people, so I don't set a snooze when I know I will be around others. At that point my paranoia wakes me up every 40 minutes to an hour until it's time to get up, so I usually don't even let the alarm ring so as not to disturb others.

Alas, for the moment I live by myself, and thus my anxiety about inconveniencing people cannot compensate for my terrible snooze habit the way it would otherwise.

[kiwano.melon.org]

Yeah, I don't think I'm as paranoid about waking other people up as you, but still enough to be all like "I hope the alarm on my watch does the trick", rather than firing up my usual alarm-ness. Fortunately there are a lot of things about a monastery that make it easier not to be kept awake (or reawakened) by worries about failing to wake up for the non-snoozed alarm. I mean monasteries are also environments where people go to quit heroin, so...