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[the_rck]

I’ve got to figure out a better way to do this whole sleeping thing. Cordelia wants me getting up with her because she’s afraid of oversleeping. It’s a real risk because she’s very tired most mornings and tends to close her eyes 'just for a minute.' We all know how that one ends.

The difficulty is that Cordelia gets up at 6:30. Scott gets up at 5:00 with a second alarm at 6:00. No matter what I do, I can’t get Scott to bed before 11:30. Every night, I end up getting up some time between midnight and 1:00 to use the bathroom. This means I really don’t get enough sleep. Last night, because Scott knew he had an extra hour and a half to sleep, he stayed up later than usual. I spent a lot of time dreaming that I’d slept through my alarm or forgotten to set it or something.

I’m trying to figure out what to do with today. Scott wants me to come up with things I want to do. I really don’t have ideas except for a handful of errands that shouldn’t take too long. Well, and some more sleep would be nice, but Thursday is a rotten time for that. The morning is the best time to run the errands in terms of me being comfortable, temperature wise, but I can’t nap in the afternoon because that’s when the cleaning lady comes.

I also have to pick a place for dinner which involves deciding how adventurous my digestive system is up to me being. If I’m being conservative then I ought to go for something like pancakes or a very meat and potatoes sort of meal. If I’m being adventurous, there’s Blue Nile or Totoro or any number of Chinese restaurants or maybe Palm Palace or Red Lobster. I don’t think that Cardamom (local Indian place) is a viable option for me for dinner even if I’m being adventurous because the level of spice varies wildly and I can’t eat anything particularly spicy after about 2:00.

Scott and I signed the contract last night for getting more insulation put in. I’m not particularly keen on the process, the jumping through hoops part, and I expect that the part where they pull off part of our aluminum siding will be very noisy. The guy said everything would take about six weeks, but I wasn’t clear if that was six weeks including scheduling or six weeks once they actually start putting stuff in. I can’t imagine how it would take six weeks for putting in the insulation. Our house is not particularly large or complicated.

Comments

[heavenscalyx]

Can Cordelia maybe just snooze her alarm? That way she gets to close her eyes for a few moments and yet still have a wakeup a few minutes later? I find that if I'm having a particularly hard time some week, I'll set my alarm earlier and give myself a couple of snoozes to wake up more completely.

[the_rck]

Cordelia's using alarms on her watch. Neither she not I ever managed to convince Scott that her clock radio losing five minutes a week was grounds for replacing it, and I can't get to the store without him, so... She likes the watch alarm because she doesn't have to reset the watch every few days and because it's quiet enough not to wake me.

At this point, she's programmed in three alarms. One goes off at 6:30. One goes off at 6:40. One goes off at 7:45 to let her know that she has fifteen minutes to get out the door. I don't know how many alarms she could program in.

[lemon_badgeress]

Another thing I do using the clock app on my iPod is that I will set, depending on how tired I am, 5 - 9 alarms about 7 minutes apart.

No matter how tired I am, eventually I am so freaking sick of another alarm going off that I get up to make it all stop.

[the_rck]

That's an interesting tactic. I will suggest it to Cordelia. I will not love it if she needs it because those alarms will wake me, too. She normally uses her watch alarm which is loud enough, being on her wrist, to wake her but not loud enough to wake me.

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

Is it okay to say Happy something here, or is that putting too much personal information online?

I have the impression that most insulation projects are completed in a day, so I am guessing that six weeks is including scheduling. But I don't know much about insulation projects, so who knows?

[the_rck]

I'm pretty sure that I've mentioned that today is my birthday, and I think it might actually be in my profile, so saying it is fine. The main thing I want is for Scott's parents not to find this handle.

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

Ok, in that case: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! :)

[the_rck]

Thanks!

[manoah.livejournal.com]

I hope you have a very wonderful day.

[the_rck]

Thank you!

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

I hope you find some place you like for dinner.

[the_rck]

Thanks! I'm sure we will. Scott and I just had lunch at my favorite Japanese restaurant, Totoro, so I may go more conservative for dinner. I don't know yet.

[ayebydan]

When does Scott leave? Could he not just make sure she is out of her bed before he leaves? Even if she has to concede to getting up a little earlier? She is very lucky to still have you both in home at that point of the morning. By her age my parents were long gone and I just had to take responsibility. Things like multiple alarms or putting her alarm on the other side of the room and forcing her to go get it? If she then goes sleep in and ends up late at school she will face the consequences and I'm sure that will put an end to her 'two more minutes' thing.

Man, I sound so harsh. >___< I don't mean to be but I think in comparison to others she is very privileged to have you around so much.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Can Scott make sure she's out of bed?

[the_rck]

Scott leaves half an hour before Cordelia wants to get up and an hour before she needs to get up. I would like her to sleep until the latter time, 7:00, because that leaves her an hour to get ready. That ought to be plenty of time, and I think the extra sleep would help.

[ramenkuri.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!
Hope it was wonderful!

[the_rck]

Thank you!

It was a most excellent day.

[lady-of-mists.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it went well! :)