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[the_rck]

Left on my own, I will sleep longer than Scott will, but I wake up faster than he does when the alarm goes off. For him, it's ideal to spend about half an hour in bed, gradually waking up and looking at Facebook or Netflix on his laptop. He doesn't get to do that on days when he works, but he does, after getting dressed, lie down on the couch for a little bit until his cell phone tells him it's time to leave.

For me, the alarm goes off, and a second or two later, I'm on my feet. I stop in the bathroom to take out my bite splint then go straight to the kitchen to take my morning meds. Then I go back to the bedroom to get dressed. It takes maybe ten minutes. After that, I deal with making my coffee and sit down at my laptop while Cordelia watches TV.

On school days, Cordelia's alarm goes off right around the time I start getting dressed. She hates waking up to her alarm and is always kind of surly. If she wakes before her alarm, she'll often give me a hug, but if she wakes to her alarm, she snarls at me.

On weekends, Cordelia will sometimes wake me up. She doesn't always. It depends on whether or not she thinks she needs me for getting breakfast or on whether she wants to turn on the TV (sometimes now, she'll turn on the TV and simply turn down the volume). She comes in and tells me what time it is. I'm slow to get out of bed on those occasions because they don't feel very urgent. Cordelia won't wake Scott except indirectly. She's afraid of his C-PAP and won't go near him as long as it's going.

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[evalerie.livejournal.com]

I've been reading about exercise trackers, thinking about buying one. The Jawbone is a bracelet that you wear on your wrist. In addition to tracking your daily steps and exercise, you can also have it track your sleep, too, and it can be set to vibrate to wake you up in between sleep cycles, which is supposed to be gentler than waking up at any old random point in your sleep cycle. I wonder if something like that would wake Cordelia more gently. It's probably not worth the $100+ investment. I'm not sure that I'd want to spend that much money for me, let alone for one of my kids. But I am very intrigued by the idea of an alarm clock that is only detected by the person who is wearing it on their wrist, not by anybody else in the house, and which can be set to wake a person in between sleep cycles.

Almost certainly not useful, just intriguing. :)