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What gets you up in the morning?

Most times my mom, but when she is busy my sister wakes me up in the morning, if they don't wake me up then I'll be asleep until someone feels like I should wake up
 
Weekdays - the mister bringing me a cup of tea in bed. :eek: :)
Weekends - Circadian rhythm*, I guess.




*I just stared so long at the spelling of this word that I became completely unconvinced that it was even a real word. the rhythm is gonna to get me.
 
The PB also seems to be able to predict when I am in the "good" part of a dream. A nice loud beep to end that nightmare. Or my favorite song.

Although what puts you to sleep would be a better question. Just about nothing is my answer
 
My Bladder with out fail around the 5:30am mark i am awake, really depends how tired it am sometimes i will sleep straight throught to my alarm which is set for 6:20am.

And it's great that i wake up every morning, because others don't.
 
Honestly, nothing gets me up. I graduated in May and still haven't found a job. So I'll wake up at around 11:00 (now) and start applying for jobs and making calls to HR departments. I head to bed around 3:00AM after watching some movies and TV and it all starts over again. Once or twice a week I will wake up before 6 o'clock in the morning, because a local golf course has an "early bird" special for 20 bucks w/ a cart before 7:00.
 
Weekdays for work at 8am Mon-Fri: Alarm clock that could raise the dead, followed by a shower and some waffles.

Weekends: The alame clock get unplugged, Unspoken sleeps until noon, then the girlfriend and I have some...quality time.

What gets me up in the morning? If I dont go to work I get no money, which means no paid bills. Which means horrible things.

I cant afford to lose my job.
 
I get up for work in the summer, school during the school year.

I still think I have the best alarm sound of all time. Carmina Burana: O Fortuna by Carl Orff aka the song from the Gatorade League of Clutch commercials.
 
I also find my job boring and unsatisfying though I'm trying to think of ways I could turn that around. What gets me up is that fact that in this recession I haven't found anything better and what I do now pays the bills. If I got laid off or fired I would get a crappy severence and be pretty desparate after about two months.

I defintely think its worthwhile to do what you love if you can pull it off! It's what I aspire to.
 
xbuddycorex said:
The morning doesn't get me up ... I get the morning up.

Okay, in all honesty ... What gets me up is knowing that others lives literally depend on me being at work, and prepared, on time. I'm one of the people that truly loves my job, and while I may not want to get out of bed ... once I am, I am stoked about the day.
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I hope I'll be able save peoples' lives when I get older. In the meantime, the alarm gets me up to volunteer at the local hospital. I work with terminally ill children. I just love seeing them smile. Then I truck along to my job who can legally pay well below minimum wage.

MegaMillions said:
What's your job?
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I believe he is a cardio-thoracic surgeon. :cool:
 
This time of year, the morning light generally wakes me. Since it has been grey and gloomy most of the summer so far, I have overslept on many a morning.

Failing the light alarm, my backup is a calico cat with the face of a clown, a heart of stone and an all-consuming anxiety over whether there will ever, ever be another breakfast served in this house. She has a voice that could wake the dead.

I think the other cat sleeps down in the studio at the far end of the place, just to avoid the hungry one's tales of woe every morning. That studo-sleeper is my time-to-go-to-bed alarm cat. She likes the lights to be turned off in the studio when she wants to sleep and will come and harass me to kill the lights in there.

In winter, nothing wakes me except my bladder. Both cats are then under the comforter at the foot of the bed and refuse to come out until they sense that the woodstove downstairs has been fired up and is finally wafting some heat to the bedrooms. Then they bring their wussy little selves down for breakfast on demand.
 
Three things:

- Work. I still like what I do, though not necessarily the company I work for. It pays the bills and I have many more good days than bad so I think I'm doing pretty well on that count.

- The Colm and Jim-Jim Breakfast Show. As morning radio shows go, it's actually fairly entertaining. A damn sight better than the 98FM Morning Crew, which we used to have on (at the wife's insistence.)

- A very loud eight-month old. As much as I wish I could sleep past 6.30am (not an issue during the week, but at weekends...) without hearing 'BA! BA! BA!' over the baby monitor, the subsequent sight of the little guy grinning up from his cot is a great way to get started.
 
Checking my overnight sales.
I'm on some medicine at the moment that knocks me out at night and keeps me that way into the next day. So it takes a lot of effort to just get out of bed, heh.
 
LizKat said:
Failing the light alarm, my backup is a calico cat with the face of a clown, a heart of stone and an all-consuming anxiety over whether there will ever, ever be another breakfast served in this house. She has a voice that could wake the dead.
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I think her brother lives with us…

:D
 
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