The bells of Christmas they ain't...

[tdjohnsn]

So, Ron and I have one of those Zen alarm clocks. It rings a single chime when the appointed hour to awaken arrives. The website describes it, "The Zen Alarm Clock's long-resonating Tibetan bell-like chime makes waking up a beautiful experience." It works really well since I can hardly wait to turn it off. I hate the sound of it. And what really wakes me up is the click it makes just before it chimes.

Anyway, when I am in a deep sleep, it really does work like advertised. It wakes me up, but only a little bit, and the second chime is the one that gets me out of bed (I dread the mornings when I am too tired to get up before it chimes the third time...*shudder*)

Anyway, this morning the first chime goes off, and I am immediately awake. I un-spoon myself from Ron and start to get out of bed, but billeyler* rolls out of the other side and beats me to the bathroom.

Meanwhile, Ron starts muttering something and I can't understand him, so he has to repeat it, crankily, and all I can understand is that we are supposed to be going to an elegant dinner. Which makes sense, we are in Hawaii after all. Did I set the alarm wrong? I lay back listening for Bill to finish up in the bathroom.

And then the third chime went off and the morning proceeded much more normally.

* For those of you just joining the show already in progress, Bill lives in another state and has a partner. While I have met him in real life, I know him much better from LiveJournal. This was my brain on almost total random shuffle....

Comments

Aha!

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

So it was you and Ron I had to climb over this morning. Sorry I had to be in Santa Fe early today, or I'd have stayed to get acquainted! :-)

Re: Aha!

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

I don't blame you at all. You have to get up early the way Bill hogs the bathroom!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

It works really well since I can hardly wait to turn it off. I hate the sound of it.

Kent programs the TV to turn itself on as an alarm clock, then uses CMT the same way.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

umm...

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

C'mon! Stop hogging the bathroom! :-)

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

I like the random shuffle of your brain! :-)