No Snooze Actually = More Z's

First of all, I'd just like to say thanks for your patience ... the great thing about having your boyfriend home for a little while, is that you don't need to rack your brains for something great about him being away! :P

So as great as it was to have Dan home again for a little while, I did not miss the snooze alarm.  Let me stop here for a moment.  Here is what I have discovered about snooze buttons: You are either a snooze lover, or a snooze hater.  I have also recognized that your love or hate of the snooze button is directly related to if you are a light sleeper, or a heavy one.

Heavy sleepers love the snooze button, because really they didn't wake up in the first place, so they just roll over and continue to sleep as if nothing has happened.  When it is finally time to wake, and actually get out of bed, they feel like they've scored an extra 10 minutes of sleep (or more, depending on how many times they press snooze).  Light sleepers however, hate the snooze button.  Here is why: we actually wake up when the alarm goes off the first time, enough awake, that the 10 minute interval is not near enough time for us to fall back to sleep.  So we just lie there, anticipating that alarm going off again, and waiting for it to happen so we can shut it off and get up.

So this brings me to my next enjoyable thing about Dan being away... he is a snooze lover, and I am a snooze hater.  So when Dan has to get up for 7:30am, his alarm starts going off at 6:30am... and keeps going and going and going every 10 minutes until he finally drags himself up.  I on the other hand, wake up at 6:30, and lie there tossing and turning for an hour until he shuts that damn thing off for good.  And while he goes about his day feeling vibrant and refreshed cause he got an "extra" hour of sleep, I go about feeling drained and tired, because my last hour of glorious, warm, mind-healing, body-soothing sleep was completely disturbed by listening to his alarm continuously go off!

I never really understood the snooze button to be honest.  I mean, I like anyone else, love to sleep.  The worst part of sleeping, is hearing the alarm go off and knowing that it is time to get up.  So I cannot imagine why in the world someone would want to prolong that feeling, or experience that sensation over and over and over... I figure the "band-aid solution" works best: Like ripping it off quickly and having it over with, I wanna hear that alarm once and just get up and deal with it.

Accordingly, for the next several months I can enjoy sleeping all the way until 7:30am.. or whatever time it is that my alarm will go off only once :) And that last glorious, warm, mind-healing, body-soothing hour of sleep will be all mine until Dan comes home!