Be honest, how many times do you hit that snooze button in the morning . . .
Do you ever feel like you’re getting more actual sleep — like, does that extra bit more help — or is it making it even harder to for real get out of bed and not go for that snooze a third, fourth, or even tenth time?
Fletch is someone who when he wakes up, he can’t relly go back to sleep . . . he has to get up. I (Jai) am so not like that!
Not to toot my own horn, but I can’t remember the last time I hit the snooze button. OK, full disclosure, just because I don’t hit the snooze button doesn’t mean I’m not snoozing more when I should be getting up.
I’m one of those people who has a bunch of alarms set (because I don’t trust myself to think I’m hitting snooze when I’m really turning my alarm totally off); and each alarm is named accordingly with music to get the point across . . .
There’s my 2 AM wake-up alarm appropriately titled “Let’s Get Vertical, Vertical” with inspo from that Olivia Newton-John song “Let’s Get Physical,” and the alarm song is Phil Collins “In The Air Tonight.”
Then there’s my 2:05 AM alarm called “OK, enough snuggled time. GET UP!!” with The Shins song “New Slang.” That’s supposed to end my extra bit of snooze, but it doesn’t.
The third alarm is “10 Min Spin” that sounds off at 2:07, which is supposed to initiate my ten minutes on the exercised bike using the Maren Morris song “Sugar” to get me going, but nine times out of ten I use it as an additional snooze.
After that is my 2:18 AM to get ready, labeled “Primping and Farding” (because after learning there is an actual term for applying make-up and it’s called farding, how do I now try to use THAT regularly). This is suppose to ignite the getting ready step in the morning routine of rinse off and get ready . . . but it’s really just another snooze button because the chances that I’m still in bed are pretty high. Oh, and the song “Hey Girl” from O.A.R.
At 2:30, my “Get Gone” alarm sounds with Eric Church’s “Hanging Around,” letting me know it’s time to gather my items, take my dogter Daisy outside to do her thing, and then hit the road. The actuality of it, though, is that this is when I finally roll my rear end out of bed, get dressed, take make up and a brush to work with me and do it there if I have to have a photo taken or be on camera for any reason, let Daisy do what she needs to do outside, grab my stuff and rush out the door.
There is one final alarm, just in case I lose track of time during my rushing around because now it’s 2:39 AM and I’m barely because I haven’t been out of bed for more than ten minutes. It’s my “SERIOUSLY, GET YOUR [expletive deleted] IN THE CAR!!!” alarm that goes off at 2:45 to the STYX tune “Renegade” . . . and I am finally and truly out the door.
According to a new survey, on average people hit the snooze button twice and try to take an extra 24 minutes of sleep before getting out of bed.
More stats found in the survey are:
1. The average person sets two different alarms each day.
2. We tend to change our alarm times an average of 38 times a year.
3. 1 in 4 people opt for the traditional alarm clock instead of a smart phone.
4. When we wake up late, we’re likely to skip tasks like making the bed, making breakfast, making coffee, and brushing teeth. (Ummm, still brush your teeth, though)
5. The #1 reason claimed for waking up in a bad mood is because we didn’t get enough sleep . . . from staying up too late watching TV.
6. As for how we feel when we wake up in the morning, the #1 answer was “groggy” . . . but 18% of people did say they wake up happy . . . while 11% claimed they wake up feeling motivated to take on the day.
7. 2 out of 3 people say having something exciting to look forward to helps getting up in the morning.
8. 75% of people think having a morning routine helps them.
9. 52% of people in the survey even admitted they would actually prefer it if they could still have their parents wake them up each day.
(SWNS)
