My alarm starts screaming 5:30 on the dot every
weekday. I shoot up in bed, my
blood-shot eyes snap open, and my hands start slapping down on my nightstand to
keep the shrill shrieks of my phone from waking Indy. It’s pretty horrendous.
Recently I even downloaded a nice new alarm for my phone
that starts out low and gradually gets louder.
I thought that would help me wake up a little easier. I’ve been using it for months. Turns out nothing can make waking up that
early any better.
So imagine my delight when my alarm went off at 5:30 on
Wednesday morning, followed quickly by a phone call from my school’s automated system. The sweet, emotionless robot told me that
there would be a delayed opening.
Classes will begin at 9:30 today, not 7:30 as they usually do.
I was in that beautiful place between sleep and awake when I
heard it. Was it a dream? Did I make all that up? I didn’t care. I set my phone for the new wake-up time, two
hours later than my usual, and
drifted back into a peaceful slumber.
via.
It’s pretty amazing what an extra two ours of sleep will do
for a person.
I woke up fully rested at 7:30. I got 9 hours of sleep! (I’d made it to bed relatively early the night before-
10:30. Bonus!). Even though I had allotted myself
the same hour of prep before leaving for work, I found that I had so much more
time to get ready between 7:30 and 8:30 than I do between 5:30 and 6:30. My breakfast tasted better, the channel 4
news was a little happier, my hair looked great- everything was wonderful!
The school day whizzed by as we kept our usual 2:15
dismissal, and while the periods were significantly shortened (35 minutes as
opposed to 55 minutes) we still had the same number of classes as we do on a
usual day, and my kids still got work done.
By the end of the day, I found myself wondering the same thing as the
kids, “Why can’t we start this late every day?”
I know that realistically it wouldn’t work out. I realize that the twenty minutes of lost
instruction, while not totally missed on Wednesday, would eventually add up and be
craziness for me a few weeks down the road.
But for one day? For one day it
was pretty great.
Anyone else out there start as early as me? Anyone else feel my pain?
Happy Friday, everyone. Sleep in!
I'm up at 5:30 every morning! I drag myself downstairs to make coffee and watch the news for a few while I wake up. I leave around 7 and drop my daughter off at school on my way to work. I get in around 8 and it gives me time to get organized for the day. When my kids were little my morning routine involved getting them ready also and on the bus before I ran to work like a crazy person. For many years I got up at 4:30 am when my husband worked in the city. He would leave at 5 am and I would get up to make coffee and get myself ready for work before I got the kids up. I DO NOT miss that wake up call! :)
ReplyDelete4:30!? How could you do it! I used to have very short hair and I was able to wake up around 5:50, because getting ready was a snap. I've been growing my hair out, though, and the longer it gets, the earlier I need to wake up to get it dry after showering. Right now I'm at 5:30 because of all the blow drying that needs to happen. I've already decided I won't go any longer, because it'll mean getting up earlier! Haha!
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