I won! I beat the alarm clock!

Wow, sounds like you are keeping your New Year's Resolution! A positive outlook will do that over time. Every day should be an enjoyable day. Yes, thank you, we are quite enjoying ourselves. Of course the nice weather will do that, too!

Baby has another ear infection... of course he is my alarm clock, but I just wish i could set him to go off closer to 7 am rather that 2 am. As for grumbling... me never!

The day seems to go better when I wake up before my alarm goes off. Unfortunately today I didn't want to get up and got up way after the alarm and the snooze went off. Enjoy your days at your job. Sadly we are wearing coats, scarves and hats here today. Will get down to about 12 degrees this afternoon.

yesterday,i also had to go to bed early but sleep wouldnt come and today being sports day for my kids,i didnt have to get up early,so i didnt need the alarm.does that mean,i won??

There have been times where I woke up a few minutes before the alarm. When I get a good night's sleep, it feels nice. Of course, if I only get a few hours of sleep, it makes me wish my brain had let me sleep a bit longer.

Right now I'm frequently up before the alarm clock but rather stay under the covers. It's soooo cold out there, lol. Besides that it's still dark. It has one advantage if I beat the alarm clock. I can turn it off and avoid that it wakes up the the whole house. I always keep my fingers crossed that my youngest won't get up before I have seen the girls off to school. Unfortunately that little boy is a light sleeper:(

Ahhhhhhhhhh NOPE! My alarm clock despises me and I despise it in return. The closest I come to beating the alarm clock is actually BEATING it as I grab it by it's vile throat and attempt to choke the very life out of it. LOVE the snooze button though! If it wasn't for the alarm clock's trusty friend snooze button, I would have killed it years back.

[i]Hi Anne, wow..that's cool! When I was working, I am very paranoid about time...LOL! I always want to report in the office 1 hour in advance or more! I don't have alarm clock that time! But, here I guess when I will start working, I will really need an alarm to wake me up, it's just too cold here plus I also sleep late so another reason why I love to sleep long[/i]er!

I don't know if you ever heard of EST (Erhard Seminars Training), but I took his INTENSE 2-weekend seminar back in the late '70's and have not had to use an alarm clock since. They started out the seminar with a guy on stage screaming what a bunch of a$$holes we all were, and anybody who came in late was verbally abused in front of the entire room, hehehehe. So, one day I slept through my alarm and at the precise moment that I was supposed to be walking into the training room, a cacophony (hehehehe) assailed my sleeping ears... my roommates baby started crying, the doorbell rang, the phone rang, and a car backfired right outside my bedroom window, all at the same time. Needless to say I woke with a start, and when I looked at the clock I absolutely panicked... I flew out of that bed and to the hotel practically still wearing my pjs. (I didn't get singled out, hehehe... there were a slew of late people that morning, whew!) I'm glad you're enjoying your work! But that experience showed me that I have an 'inner alarm clock', which the physical universe cooperates with. When you go to bed at night, and deliberately decide what time you want to wake up, you will wake up at that time, even if it takes some outside assistance, hehehe. I no longer require such drastic measures anymore, and my eyes just pop open at the time I wanted to wake up. Every time. No matter what time I go to bed.

hey hun unfortunately i'm the opposite at the moment no matter how early i go to bed i toss and turn and the alarm clock seems to simply remmind me that i've only just fallen to sleep and have to get up and go through the rest of the day with cold tired eyes, achey body and the need for sleep that just doesn't appear to be being satisfied. I'm happy for you though you seem in a fantastic mood so the sleep pattern is definately working for you enjoy :)

I am with you on that one. All this week in fact. But then again, I am up early because I need to divide my wordly possessions in half for my move in February. In addition, the mornings are beautiful. One of the rare times idiot tourists aren't wandering around drunk and stupid. :D

Early rising is a good habit.If you make it habit no need of alarm .I rise early morning regularly and go to nearby park.I walk there for about an hour.I take fresh morning air.All the day I feel freshness. Night is also enjoyable to me because of deep sleep.

I am usually up every before dawn every day (that's just me) and some days it is harder to get out of bed than others. Not today, I live in Australia and it very, very hot! It is around 40C (104F) right now and at 430 this morning it was already 29C (82F). This morning it was just too hot to sleep in! I agree that getting an early night sure helps with waking up early.

I often sleep and woke up later ago.But now I can woke up earily because I must go to work.If I don't work I don't have money to live.This is a habit

The funny thing is that i normally have it in my head these days that i have st the alarm and invariably land up in beating it by a good half an hour atleast. Look at the time realise i have another half hour and then get back to sleep to be then woken up by the alarm. And that happen no matter what time i go to bed.

if you go to bed early then you will be able to get up before alarm clock. I always get up at 4am every single day, but I still go to bed at 10pm or 11pm. I can't help it, just hanging on mylot or do something else.

hmmm--I guess i can never beat the alarm clock not unless when I am not sleeping at all! I work on night shifts and so its really hard to stand up and wake up before the alarm clock is set...I sleep at 10 in the morning and have to wake up at 4 in the afternoon--can't beat it i guess..

Hi there! I always wake up the same hour every morning. Since I started living alone and decided to have a walk with my pets for their morning rituals I wake up every 6am. No matter how late I sleep I don't get the hard time waking up early. Maybe it's my body clock and I'm so used to it. I believe its the subconscious mind that tells us to wake up before the alarm sets off. There are instances that I experience waking up before the alarm. Maybe I think I have set my mind before going to sleep that I have to wake at a certain hour and I know that the alarm will set off. As if my mind didn't sleep at all and rather waiting for that hour that I have to wake up. Those instances always happens to me but still I try to set the alarm in case I wasn't able to wake up before the time. Ciao!

I have done that, too. About 15 year back I participated in a one act play. In those days, we had to go for rehearsal at 7 AM. I used to wake up at 5 AM and I always set alarm clock to wake me up at 5AM. After a week, I noticed that I waking up exactly at 5 AM sometimes just before 5 AM. I was so excited then.

I agree totally with you on that one! Every now and again, I manage to beat the alarm clock, sometimes by an hour, sometimes by 5 minutes! The majority of the time I feel groggy, and like something you would pick up off the floor with a plastic bag! ;)