I will try and remember that every time I get bummed about duty. You have really put a tool in my 'feel better' toolbox! Thank you for THAT gift!
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I get out of bed in the morning because there's no microwave in the bedroom, and my boss still won't let me work from home.
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I get up because, I simply dont think theres enough time to do everything I want to do in my life, but I'll be damned if I dont give it a shot anyway
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For that first step outside...when you realize that it's a new day and anything can happen.
Not much makes me happier than a light breeze on a bright day, but rain, heat, snow, sleet, and fog all have their own particular beauties.
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I have a brother who does everything he does for only one reason--he's tired of whatever he was doing before.
He gets up because he's tired of lying in bed. He'll get of from dinner because he's tired of chewing. He'll watch TV because he's tired of being online. He'll go online because he's tired of watching TV. He goes to bed becase he's tired of being awake.
It's an odd existance, to act only in order to avoid other action, never for the action itself.
As for me, why do I get up in the morning?
If I had a reason, I wouldn't be scouring this thread for one.
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I get out of bed in the morning because it's pretty damn hard to get rid of the morning wood while you're lying in bed.
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quote:I would post something in here but it would only provide ammunition to Lalo and his increasingly childish insults.
Heh. Man, Glynn. I promise I'm not deliberately targetting you for jokes -- I just scan the Foobonic "Recently Commented" section every so often, and when there's an exchange like this:
quote:Picture's title: Oh yeah, this is almost a year ago. Bad hair + no shave = Bad lookin' Glynn
Response to picture: From: ) (Feb 04, 2004 21:40 PST) personally, i think it's just the weird green shirt...*makes a face*
It's just begging for a comment like "No, no, it's definitely his face."
I'm not saying you're ugly, just taking advantage of a clear-cut opportunity to make a joke. A joke which your charmingly insecure self will edit out seconds after I make it anyway.
If it makes you feel better, once I get a digital camera, the poor Internet's going to be flooded with pictures of my face. Feel free to make all the jokes you want -- they're not hard to make, and I like to believe I'm secure enough to handle some friendly kidding.
And yes, my joke was nothing more than friendly kidding. Honestly. I don't like you much, but I certainly hold no malicious intent toward you.
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All of my morning classes have attendence policies. On top of that, I've started waking up at 5:30 in the morning without an alarm going off or anything, and I can't get back to sleep, so I can either lie in bed and think myself to death or get up and be productive. Or something.
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Jenny, I know that feeling of just wanting to stay in bed very well.
I get up mostly out of duty when I'm in those bouts, because I need to get the kids out of bed and off to school. Usually because only then can I go back to bed in peace.
I actually went through a period of time where I did that, I'd get the kids on the bus, then go back to bed and sleep a few more hours, only to get up and fix lunch for the little ones and then nap on the couch.
Life is so much better now that I actually do get out of bed in the morning, stay up with my kids, and actually participate in life. I've found that being awake on the downstairs couch talking to my twins early in the morning is something I now look forward to, instead of dreading.
So to answer the question - I now get up and participate in life because the alternative doesn't appeal to me anymore.
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Does anyone else get the impression Kama, through repeated, failed attempts at sounding scornful, is trying to tell me she has a monster crush on me?
Shh, my darling, our love should not, can not be. Despite our sighs of passion and gasps of lust, despite our pledges of love and vows of eternity, though our love be single -- our lives be seperate. Not just seperated by different continents, but by different worlds. I would not, could not have our passion postponed until the death of summer -- it should drive me mad, my Kama. No, let us say adieu while we may still look at each other without tears blurring our visions of each other's perfection and turn our minds to lesser matters of the cruel world. For who would envy Tantalus his forever forbidden fruits? Not I, love, and my heart should be rent asunder should you seek a love that the gods themselves have damned to less than a fleeting vision of Paradise. No, my Kama, my life, my love, let us share one last kiss of unfulfilled promise and unbridled passion and turn, walk away, live for lesser beings and pettier matters, and devote our attention to the futile hope of forgetting that we ever loved so deeply, with such promise.
One last kiss, love, to imbed the torture of your beauty in my memory, and let us part as halved hearts beating a strained rhythm through bodies forever doomed to unfulfillment and misery for so long as the two remain twain.
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I get up in the morning cause I have to go to work. On mornings I don't have to work, I sleep late, don't set the alarm, and just get up whenever I wake up.
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I get up because our children get into bed with poopy diapers and crawl across my face. It's better (or worse) than smelling salts.
Sometimes it backfires, though, and I lie in bed even longer because I'm knocked out by the fumes.
Also, I make sure before I go to bed that I have something to look forward to for the next day, be it a clean house to wake up to, a new book, working out, or coming here. Posts: 575 | Registered: Jan 2004
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Generally what mack said, although for some reason I do actually get up for work on Saturday despite my better judgement.
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I do not need an alarm clock. i seem to get up automatically at 8 whether i want to or not. then i can roll over and sleep some more or if i have to work at around 3 i can just say, well, i got to have some free time to myself. I hate mornings. everyone wakes up and makes noise.
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Ok, this is going to sound sappy but I heard this once and I totally agree. I see life as consisting of two parts; the part that is and the part that should be. I always get up for the part that should be!
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When I get home from work in the morning, I go to bed right away because that is usually the quietest part of the day--normal people are at work or class. I get up because a) it's time to go back to work, b) I can't sleep anymore, c) ER is on. I am victim to those "depressive moods" but I live alone and nothing can't wait until tomorrow.
I work nights. So, when I get home, I'm usually tired and proceed directly to bed. I wake up and usually just go back to sleep after I turn over or something; I repeat such process until either I hurt, or I actually don't want to sleep anymore. Eventually getting up, before I need to do anything.
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* the fact that i have faith in the world that i will encounter somebody new or have somebody currently in my life remind me that life is worthwhile. not in such a blunt fashion but more in things they say and do, and observations of hte world they make. it really is a selfish way to look at it but its true. and it's rarely failed me.
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I too go to bed in the morning rather than getting up.
Sometimes I don't get up. At least, not till almost time to go to work. Some days I really am just miserably tired. Others, I'm sad to say I really don't feel there's a point to getting up. Three years struggling to make ends meet takes its toll, especially when it's not how you expected to spend your life.
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I hate getting up in the morning. I sleep in until the last possible moment I can before work.
I feel like I'm chronically sleep deprived even when get 8-9 hours of sleep a night. I suspect my body really needs about 10 hours/day but that would be spending almost half my day asleep.
How difficult it is to wake up (when I have to work) partly depends on how much ambient light is in the room. One of those Sunrise clocks is on my wish list.
The other thing is the temperature. During the day from Fall until Spring I am always cold, no matter how many clothing layers I wear. The only time I'm actually at my comfort level of warm is when I'm snuggled under the covers in a cocoon. It does help when Steve raises the temperature to 70 on the thermostat, but I'm still always cold.
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The other morning I woke up to my 2-yr-old giving me a romantic little kiss on the lips. . . That's how his Daddy wakes me up. . . . . Someone's gonna have to talk to that boy.
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I get up because my dormroom matress hurts if i sleep in too long, cause if i don't finish these classes, I'm never goingto get to do what i REALLY want, and cause i'm tired of wasting time sleeping.
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Coffee and work. I usually leave the house at 3:30 to 4:00am, and then go to school until about 6:30pm. Wonderful life. At least I don't work or have school on weekends. Posts: 4229 | Registered: Dec 2002
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If I got up in the morning, I guess I'd have a valid answer to the prompt, but being as I awoke at 11:14, I guess I don't.
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I get up so I can set my alarm back another half-hour and then go back to sleep.
But really, there's something utterly distressing about those first few minutes after the alarm goes off, when I know I have to get up but my bed is calling, calling to me. Once I'm awake, though, I have no problem -- I even like mornings. (Though, in college I'd sometimes go back to bed for a couple of hours after my first class in the morning.)
I'm thinking of getting a Sunrise clock like AJ mentioned, but I feel guilty buying something that is essentially a light on a dimmer for on the order of $100. Especially if it might not even work very well.
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there was a thread on those clocks a while back. They are actually brighter than normal lights, with a wider spectrum. I really do need one come next winter, though now that the days are getting longer again I'm not having as much of a problem. As I recall I found a site online where they were really Cheap.
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"Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning, Oh! How I'd love to remain in bed For the hardest blow of all is to hear the bugler call: 'You've got to get up, you've got to get up, You've got to get up this morning!'"
Someday I'm going to murder the bugler Someday they're going to find him dead I'll amputate his reveille and stomp upon it heavily And spend the rest of my life in bed!
From "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" Words and Music by Irving Berlin, 1918.
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