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Another day, another drama...
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Another day, another drama [message #31731 is a reply to message #31730 ] |
Thu, 22 July 2010 23:29  |
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Wishing you a better day for tomorrow... er... today... heck, wishing you a better day for the rest of this week!
FairyTales - http://xkcd.com/872/
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| Re: Another day, another drama [message #31732 is a reply to message #31730 ] |
Fri, 23 July 2010 03:29 |
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. . . Oh I’ll just lie here a minute listening to the nice radio.
Snork. Famous last words . . .  Some people's dogs will get them up, but mine like to sleep in. I place a battery-operated ring-until-stopped alarm clock far enough away from the bed so I've got to get up to turn it off when I have to be out of bed on time. Needless to say, those are not my favorite mornings.
At which point the day had definitely gone off the rails.
Some days you get the, um, critter, and some days the critter gets you . . . Still, you exercised your own glittering eye on Niall and Bronwen had a substantially complete bell experience, so you got a piece of the critter, anyway.
::sends good wishes for better days and less drama::
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Another day, another drama [message #31734 is a reply to message #31730 ] |
Fri, 23 July 2010 06:48 |
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I hope that you have recovered from your day, that Rajan worked some healing magic and the hellhounds have dried out and become light and fluffy once more!
Hellhounds, among the sweetest††† of creatures under most circumstances, grow sullen when wet.‡ I think they actually absorb water, like sponges, which is why they get so ungleblarging heavy, dragging at the furthest ends of their leads and glowering. Feh. Bah.‡‡
I both love and curse my snooze button, and on important days, like Diane, I can only guarantee to surface if the alarm is well out of reach; mind you the comments I make as I fall off the bed are not for the faint hearted listener 
Any pictures of you modelling this denim jacket?? *ducks and flees*
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Another day, another drama [message #31740 is a reply to message #31730 ] |
Fri, 23 July 2010 10:48 |
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Also it’s been so dry for so long that the water doesn’t soak into the ground. It bounces, and then waits at its leisure, swinging back and forth in the various grass- and leaf-pockets and the elbows of trees and hedgerows^, ready to dump itself generously down the backs of hellhounds and the jeans-legs and un-waterproof Goretex shoes of cranky women.
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Yup! Mind you, I can't remember if I've already mentioned this somewhere here (middle aged brain + Friday pm = few functioning grey cells left) but it's not only natural materials that store water surprises. Summer before last I was having a 'family meet with tea' at a nearby garden when it suddenly started pouring. We went under the nearby cafe awning, sat down (me in sheltered space near building wall), rain kept on coming down as though a new ark might be needed soon - and then stopped. At which point a sudden gust of wind came in under the awning, lifted up the pool of water that had collected in it and dumped it en masse over the awning edge I was sitting underneath... It's a tad trying, trying to maintain a polite conversation with one's brothers-and-sisters-in-law in such a situation!
I hope that all your numerous activities have run easily to time today, leaving you breathing space in between them.
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: Another day, another drama [message #31745 is a reply to message #31742 ] |
Fri, 23 July 2010 13:11 |
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| southdowner wrote on Fri, 23 July 2010 09:03 |
| Robin wrote on Fri, 23 July 2010 15:49 |
Snooze button? Snooze buttons are for sissies. I go the kitchen timer route: BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT THE BREAD IS BURNING BLAT BLAT GET UP YOU LAZY SLUG BLAT...
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Yes, I'm a sissy! I admit it! If I throw myself off the bed and try vertical too suddenly in the morning my brain overides the automatic function and I might as well be horizontal for all intents and purposes... repetition seems to work better for me. I'm obviously not a morning person
(Though a cold nose and warm tongue in my ears and nose are much more instantaneous waker-uppers - dratted dogs )
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I'm a sissy too.
The alarm clocks (yes, plural) start approximately 1 hour before I *have* to get up (which usually, but not always, translates to about 30-45 minutes before I actually get up). And the rise to consciousness is usually a very slow, gradual thing, even with the help of alarm clocks and cats. And putting alarm clocks out of reach doesn't do any good - I apparently have the ability to get up, hit the snooze, and go back to bed. Or turn it off if the alarm clock in question doesn't have a snooze function. I learned this in college, and have tried it again periodically - standing up doesn't actually wake me up (actually, sometimes neither did breakfast, shower, dressing, and biking to school in the cold rain).
I am *not* a morning person under any definition of the word. My boss (who is) tries not to talk to me before about 10:30 or 11am. Sigh.
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| Re: Another day, another drama [message #31757 is a reply to message #31756 ] |
Fri, 23 July 2010 19:39 |
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| GraceNotes wrote on Fri, 23 July 2010 16:24 |
A few years ago a female student at MIT designed an alarm clock on wheels that travels around on the floor so one MUST get up to turn it off. It was done as a student design project and is now on the market.I don't know its trade name, alas.
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I loved this idea, so look what I went and found!
http://www.uncommongoods.com/item/item.jsp?itemId=15888
it even has a sample of what the alarm clock sounds like and a cute (cute, cute, cute!) little movie of it in action.
(I love the internet)
FairyTales - http://xkcd.com/872/
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| Re: Another day, another drama [message #31760 is a reply to message #31758 ] |
Fri, 23 July 2010 20:59 |
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What a TRULY OBNOXIOUS din! If I could bring myself to set it, I think I could guarantee that it would get me up. And with all that variation, my subconscious would have a hard time manufacturing a dream to put the noise into for me to ignore.
Though it could probably manage it. This morning my phone alarm, which I had forgotten to turn off, and which was in the next room, evidently went off three times at 10-min intervals. In my dream, three times I got a call where I was unable to manage to push the right buttons to answer, so the dream-phone just went on beeping at me.
Once the clock-radio came on to classical music that segued into the rather obnoxious tending-toward-fundamentalist church service that WRR carries on Sunday mornings. I dreamed a detailed dream of being in the kitchen of our little Unitarian church, listening to our member Norma who is a professional violinist and sometimes plays for us. She was followed by a sermon about which my dream-self got progressively more bewildered, since it was so different from our usual laid-back discussions. Evidently, even asleep, I was comprehending the words, and disagreeing. But NOT waking up!
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| Re: Another day, another drama [message #31768 is a reply to message #31730 ] |
Fri, 23 July 2010 23:48 |
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I need to do the snooze thing; every time I jump up as soon as the alarm goes off, I get totally nauseated. This happened to me in the late stages of my first pregnancy; hubby was the on-call deputy prosecutor, so cops would call him during the off-hours if they needed a warrant, etc. So, one night, around 2:00 am, the phone rings. Hubby is a SLEEPER, almost nothing will wake him, including the huge siren half a block away that would go off for hurricane/storm warnings. I jumped out of bed to answer the phone, then spent the rest of the night being sick. Hubby chewed out the detective who had made the call, especially since there was really no need to call until a decent hour in the morning. And yes, we've tried to get the most obnoxious-sounding alarms possible; they will wake ME up, and then I have to spend the next five or more minutes vigorously shaking HIM to wake him up.
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| Re: Another day, another drama [message #31779 is a reply to message #31758 ] |
Sat, 24 July 2010 06:16 |
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Snooze button? Snooze buttons are for sissies. I go the kitchen timer route: BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT THE BREAD IS BURNING BLAT BLAT GET UP YOU LAZY SLUG BLAT.
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What a TRULY OBNOXIOUS din!
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I thought the point of Robin's op was about the value of waking up gently, not being driven out of bed by some cacaphony? Although I was going to mention the bird alarm clock, which sort of does both - starts out with gentle twittering sparrows or something and gradually builds through robins and cardinals until culminating in a very insistent rooster. (Actually there are multiple bird cards so you can change up your morning rise-and-shine.) http://thenaturestore.com/zz239563.htm
Of course if any of us ever got ENOUGH SLEEP, theoretically we would in fact wake up, slowly and gently, on our own . . .
But clearly that isn't going to happen to Robin!
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If I have a friend over for tea and we *sit in the garden* (friend singular: there are only two chairs. Well, I suppose I could stand in the doorway) and the hellhounds want to JOIN US . . . someone has to put their feet on their chair.
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Perhaps you could lie on the ground with your feet up on the chair (which is, incidentally, really good for your back). Of course, one needs to be sure one can get up again. And possibly leave the hellhounds indoors?
Sally W
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| Re: Another day, another drama [message #31801 is a reply to message #31800 ] |
Sat, 24 July 2010 15:33 |
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| Maren wrote on Sat, 24 July 2010 12:15 |
| Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 24 July 2010 15:01 |
| Maren wrote on Fri, 23 July 2010 18:44 |
I was thinking about that too! I couldn't remember either, but I just Googled "alarm clock on wheels" and it's called Clocky. I believe it's even got "memory" so it never hides in the same place two days in a row. Here is a video of it in action.
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Whoa, way to freak out the dog! Although it would probably be pretty effective for me.
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I know, I don't think it would survive Lola. She does not trust electronics that move on their own, such as the printer (it lives on the floor and I have to stay in the room while it's printing or she will try to grab the moving paper) and the little tray on the DVD player.
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Heck with the dogs... what about the cats?! Plus if i were to get this thing (probably effective at waking me up), it would probably keep ending up under my bed, where it can't be reached. Bad idea.
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| Re: Another day, another drama [message #31906 is a reply to message #31845 ] |
Mon, 26 July 2010 00:44 |
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Diane in MN
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| Robin wrote on Sun, 25 July 2010 06:12 |
My bats are getting famous. People are starting to say, rather than, hi Robin, how's it going, hi Robin, how are the BATS?? Of course it's nothing about *me* that makes that fact I have bats so easy to remember . . .
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Well, leaving aside that last sentence, did no one ever notice these HUNDREDS OF BATS before now? Okay, you didn't, maybe you were hurtling hellhounds or at the mews during bat rush hour, but what about the folks who don't divide their time between two houses? I can understand not noticing *SOME* bats, but streams of them--??
But it's good that no one is saying "Eww, bats, you have to get rid of them!" It argues that New Arcadia is, on the whole, a bat-friendly town--at least as long as the bats are in YOUR attic.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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