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I would like to say that I only recently started pressing the snooze button on my alarm clock, but the truth of it is, I have always been a snoozer. I shared a room with my sister growing up and we both used to snooze, at alternating times, even. She had to get up earlier than I did so she would set her alarm, hit her snooze button three or four times, which, almost always, started mixing with my alarm going off, wherein, I would promptly hit my snooze button.
Back then, our alarms played the radio. We both listened to different radio stations. This resulted in various genres of blasting music emanating from our bedroom, which then, often resulted in our Mother barging into the room and barking at us to “Get Up! You are going to miss the bus!”
As I got older and entered the adult world of full-time employment, I began setting my alarm 30 to 40 minutes earlier than I needed to actually get out of bed, just so I could snooze. I’m not sure why I think snoozing allows me to get more sleep, or stay in bed longer, but I can admit, that after decades of snoozing, I am now so used to it, that it is actually how I like to start the waking up process…
If life allowed me to wake up naturally, on my own, every day, I would not be a snoozer, but life is somewhat structured and employment or appointments have schedules, and so, I find myself gradually easing myself into my day. I’m not sure if I actually go back to sleep in the nine minutes I have between snoozes, but I do know that the additional time makes me feel like I am squeezing out a teeny tiny little nap before I start my day. And if I can eek in one nap, why not try for three or four?
Lately, however, I have noticed that I have started using the snooze button, not as an opportunity to get more sleep, but rather, as an opportunity to catch-up on some of my daily communications and scheduling. I find myself hitting the snooze button and rather than returning my phone to its charging cradle, I pick it up and start going through text messages or emails I might have missed. Or I open my calendar and see what my schedule looks like for the day or what the weather is going to be. I check to see if I scheduled a reminder or if I actually pressed the ‘snooze’ button and not the ‘off’ button.
Sometimes, I just roll over and start wondering whether or not I should just get up and see how close I can cut it until I beat the next alarm, shutting it off, before it starts blaring again. I am aware that my snoozing habit can sometimes drive my husband crazy, but then again, he has become a snoozer himself, most likely coming from the viewpoint of “can’t beat her; join her!”
Yawn…Yawn…
Kathy Naumann, possessor of NATURALLY curly hair and the understanding that you can’t control everything!
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