3 posts tagged “sleep”
What time is your alarm clock set for? Do you use the snooze button?
Currently, it's 8:06 AM. I did this so that hitting snooze once (a 9-minute snooze interval) brings you to 8:15 AM, which is a nice, even time that I intended to psychologically stimulate me into getting out of bed. So far it hasn't worked, though, and I keep snoozing until about 8:33 AM, when I generally drag myself up. Most of the time. Sometimes I sleep later than that. And yes, I'm supposed to be at work at 9:30, though arriving anywhere in the 9:30 - 10:00 zone is generally acceptable.
I am a constant, inveterate snoozer, and nothing has ever worked to stop it. This is actually the smallest amount of snoozing I've consistently done for a while -- I used to have the alarm set to 7:45 AM and I would consistently snooze over and over for an hour. And before you suggest it, putting the alarm clock across the room doesn't help -- I'll always stretch as far as I can to hit it (my room isn't very big), stand up and hit snooze and fall right back into bed, or half-wakingly move the alarm right back next to my bed so I can keep delaying the inevitable. Uncool.
My Crate & Barrel bed finally arrived, and it has already brought me great joy. Since it's clear that the entire point of the Internet is now product reviews, allow me to offer my opinion that this bed is (puts on salesman voice) a great buy! Seriously, $400 is kind of a lot for a pauper like me, but it's the cheapest bed C&B have and I feel like I got every penny of the price -- the construction process was a snap, requiring nothing but an Allen wrench. That includes a shockingly painless process of putting in the support slats, which are bowed wood and required absolutely no screws, just the simple act of sliding each one into a plastic insert that snapped onto the metal frame. That might sound flimsy, but this thing is rock-solid -- it doesn't even squeak or clatter a tiny bit when I bounce on it (not that I'm jumping up and down with all my body weight, but I tried to simulate, err, normal wear and tear). Literally my only two complaints are that the bed isn't as silver-looking as it appears on the website, which slightly frustrates my bedroom's design scheme (but I'll live), and that there is an absolutely ridiculous amount of trash involved in the packaging -- but while this is admittedly ridiculous for the environment, the bed did arrive in perfect shape as a result. So yes, if you're in the market for a bed, and you like the way this one looks, then buy, buy, buy.
Of course, unfortunately I wound up with exactly one inch less space than I needed to fit both my chests of drawers next to this new bed, making my room look kind of awkward and unfinished. I'm thinking I'll buy a new and more capacious chest to fill the space (I've got about 30 inches to play with), but literally everything I like from Ikea is 31 1/2 inches. Sigh. This thing from Target looks alright, I suppose, and it would fill the space just right...
THIS IS THE MOST INTELLECTUALY STIMULATING WEBLOG POST I HAVE EVER WRITTEN. Sorry, folks.
Are you a morning person or a night owl?
Night owl, I guess. Frankly, I don't think I'm really at my best at either time. I guess late afternoon is when I'm really firing on all cylinders. I have a terrible time waking up in the morning -- I generally tap my alarm clock's snooze every five minutes for about an hour before I can finally get up -- and left to my own devices I will stay up late, but I'm rarely particularly peppy during that time.
