Monday, February 12, 2007
The past few days off have been torturous in the morning. You see, someone that lives here has devised a new wake up system for me. Poking. And not in the good way. It’s like this. He wakes up, puts on his t-shirt and leaves the room, but on his way out he pokes me. This is to be ‘my cue’ to get up. I hate it. First it’s rude. I mean, ew. Poking? I open my eyes and grunt about how damn rude it is and try to go back to sleep.
Then the rest of the morning I get to hear about how behind I am making us because I didn’t get out of bed upon being poked. WTF? I’d rather just set my alarm…
How are you normally woken up?
since i live by myself, you’d think that i wake every day in a peaceful manner. not so. at 4:50 the alarm clock goes off. at 4:59 the snooze goes off. at 5:00 my phone alarm goes off just in case the regular alarm didn’t wake me the first two times. then of course the snooze goes off again at 5:08. the last snooze is accompanied by whining doggie sounds.
it all gets so annoying that i just get up to avoid all the noise. i think i would welcome poking (of any kind) at that point!Posted by antisocialite on 02/12 at 07:45 PMI don’t know, sometimes an early morning poke can be a good thing. =P
Posted by outwestau on 02/12 at 07:49 PMI am usually awakened by a sniff-sniff, cold, wet nose to the lips, then a paw, planted on my chest. Then, the moment an eye opens on my face, he stands (still paw planted on my chest) and wags, wags, wags. His name is Pepper, and if he ever learns to poke me, we’re all in trouble. To be honest, though, I wouldn’t have it any other way! (The waggy butt, not the learning to poke.)
Posted by Liar Liar on 02/12 at 08:43 PMi have been known on occasion to be the poke-r, not the poke-ee. but usually the girlfriend knows better than to try and wake me up. if we have to be somewhere, she’s tiptoeing around the bed, talking real quiet like in case i try to punch her or something. i think if she poked me i’d bite off her finger. if i wake up by alarm clock, it’s usually going off for an hour before i hear it—earplugs are great for blocking out snoring, but are dangerous to any kind of schedule in the mornings.
Posted by musikchyck on 02/13 at 01:31 AMI get woken up with the stare. The two year old stare to be exact. He gets real close to your face and just sits there and when you finally sense his presence and open your eyes…“Mommy I wanna some juice now peese - peese mommy, peese can I hava some juice now?”
Posted by soapbox.SUPERSTAR on 02/13 at 07:07 PMat least we are back to a normal work week… my alarm is doing a fine job! heheh… but now i miss the days off. see? never happy.
Posted by daniel on 02/15 at 11:25 AM
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