Time to wake up

Beep, beep, beep.... beep, beep, beep.... beep, beep, beep... there goes the evil alarm clock shaking me out of my dream. I keep my alarm under a pillow, because it's just too loud. So I slap my hand down on the pillow to stop the beeps. Time to get ready, to get out of bed. That's right, I don't immediately wake up. I'll turn on my lamp, it's beam position to glare towards the wall and not at me. I don't need that sudden blast of light hitting my eyes. It's 6 a.m., which for some people may not sound so early, but I'm not a morning person so it takes me a bit of time to get myself out of bed.

I turn to my other side, I stretch my legs, stretch arms, and if I was having an interesting dream, I try to go back into it or at least try to remember some specifics of the dream. This time of the year, it only takes about 10 minutes to finally sit up and start walking about. But the time is changing and soon, I won't see any light from outside instead it's going to be dark and the room cold. I'll want to stay bundled up under the warm covers. There have been a couple of times when I fell back to sleep, but 20 minutes and I was awake again. Not too bad, because I set my clock seven minutes ahead, just in case.

I normally get to sleep around midnight, after reading for about 30 minutes. I know I should get to sleep earlier, but even when I get to bed at 10 p.m., I'm just laying there trying to go to sleep and end up going to sleep around the same time. So I stay up. I'm just a night person.

On August 31st, California lawmakers voted for later start times for schools. Maybe it's time for a later work time. I vote for 10 a.m.

As for today, off to the shower to help wake me up.