#285 - lay off the snooze

6:15 am - my dino buddy wakes up (remember him? i bought him an electrical timer so his light turns on and off automatically to give me some wake-up-with-the-sunrise-i-ness in the mornings)... i stay in bed

6:30 am - radio turns on... i stay in bed

6:40 am - cell phone alarm goes off... i stumble to the living room, turn off the phone, turn on the ipod, collapse again on the couch

6:45 am - more annoying cell phone alarm goes off... i get off the couch and turn off the phone... from here my morning diverges into one of two possible paths:

#1 - i force myself into the shower, actually wake up, clean up, make/eat breakfast, get dressed and get out the door early enough to beat the retarded mauka traffic and make it to work in time

or

#2 - i crumple up on the carpet beside my phone and snooze. when i wake up i berate myself for falling asleep again and rush through the rest of the morning routine, get stuck in traffic, not find parking at work, and go through the rest of the day grumpy

i gotta lay off the snooze. this saturday i had a tennis match at 10:30 am. okay, so i thought, no problem right? who needs to set an alarm? of course i'll get up by 10:00 at least. well, i did get up at 8:00 am... then i looked around, said to myself, "self, what are we gonna do until 10:00?" then decided the best course of action was to go back to sleep. i only woke up at 10:45 am because my team captain called, asking if i was planning to make it to the match. how embarrassing. i actually got ready and made it down there by 11:00 am, but it was way too late and i had to default (and it's only a 2 out of 3 matches kinda thing so i probably ruined it for my team, grr). so embarrassing! plus i was really excited to play that day too, ugh, i'm such an idiot!

anyway, let's learn from our mistakes (just like serena at the us open huh? haha, man, she's scary, i might've gone running to the chair umpire too if serena was yelling at me like that, haha)... so no more missing those tennis matches, and no more being late in the morning and getting stuck in traffic and getting caught without parking. no, from here on out it's time to...

SAY NO TO SNOOZE!