ninanevermore

Chirping birds woke me this morning. Somehow I switched the sounds trying to turn the clock off this weekend.

There are sounds for falling asleep to, on the clock: crickets, ocean waves and a waterfall. Two sounds make me have to pee, the other is irritating. The crickets say, "chirp-chirp-chirp," three times, over and over. Chirp-chirp-chirp. Pause. Chirp-chirp-chirp. Pause. Chirp-chirp-chirp. Pause. Chirp-chirp-chirp. How this is supposed to be soothing is beyond me.

This morning I dreamed that I shot all of the seagulls, one by one. As a result, I slept for an extra 15 minutes.

I woke up this morning thinking, "Damn, is the weekend over all ready?" forgetting that it had already been over for a day and a half.

My new alarm clock sounds like seagulls, and when I hit the snooze it's like shutting the window to my dream created beach house to make them shut up and go away for 9 minutes. My other options are a crowing rooster or generic songbirds or the standard annoying buzzer. It's summer, so I let electronic seagulls rouse me.

My husband got me a new alarm clock for my 36th birthday. He was very disappointed because it took me a week to plug it in and set it and try out the rooster and the songbirds and the seagulls. He was excited about the alarm clock. I thought it was quaint, but not exciting.

Maybe this is a sign of my general shallowness and greed. To my mind, a 7' tall hand-carved hard wood grandfather clock with chimes would be exciting, but an electric alarm clock that sounds like seagulls is not so much.

What the hell is wrong with me???