What wakes you up in the morning?

[slackmaster]

Inquiring minds want to know.

With me, I'm usually awake well before the time I need to actually get out of bed. Cats start making a fuss when the real deadline nears.

[kedrys]

1. The little black cat is a diva

She has the attitude, and unfortunately, the voice. Plus her internal clock runs 20-30 minutes ahead of mine.

[gollygee]

2. Young child who appears to be a morning person

where the hell did she get that?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

19. Same thing here.

I wake up to the sounds of my two year old son playing in his room.

[RaleighNCDem]

3. Alarm clock placed on the other side of the bedroom.

So that I have to REALLY want to sleep in to keep hitting snooze.

I do not wake easily.

[slackmaster]

8. I used that when I was a teenager 30-ish years ago

The alarm sound was so harsh, my body leaned to wake up with a start about one minute before the clock was set to go off.

[Bouncy Ball]

16. I STILL have to place my alarm clock all the way across the

room and I can still sleep right through the bastard and it is LOUD.

[foxy]

4. It depends on how deep in sleep I am. Sometimes..

I am harder to get up than the kids are and that is hard to do.

[ffm172]

5. radio alarm with snooze

and I need an hour till I finally get out of bed

[Zuni]

6. alarm on weekdays, cat on weekends

[Bertha Venation]

7. Daddy the Cat, making biscuits on me at 4:30.

After that, Toby starts rumbling for his morning treats, and I never quite get back to sleep for that last hour. But it's kinda okay because Daddy LOVES to cuddle with me for that hour. :loveya: kitty love.

[SarahB]

9. Kids and coffee!

[TX-RAT]

10. Usually one of the cats.

Never get an alarm clock with buttons on the top. I might add, if you have a phone by the bed, make sure it doesn't have buttons on the top.
we have a Bose radio CD combo by the bed, cats love to turn it on at 3:30 AM.

[slackmaster]

11. Wow, lots of wake-up cats out there

I thought my kitties were SPECIAL!

[no name no slogan]

12. Divebombing cats at about 5:00 AM

Our two cats climb on top of a 6' armoir in our bedroom, and take turns jumping onto our bed from it. A couple of those, and we're both wide awake-- even on weekends.

Here's the culprits right here:

[slackmaster]

14. My 18-pounder jumps over my head repeatedly or claws the wall

He's got me figured out.

[TX-RAT]

18. I'll see your 18 pounder and raise you 3

We just brought Otto Man back from his yearly at the vet. He topped out at 21 pounds. He's too fat to jump on the alarm clock, he's more of a I'll lay in the floor and you can go around type cat.

[TX-RAT]

23. Slack, how are you holding out against the weather there.

The house my brother used to have in Vista had to bee torn down due to damage from the mudslides. Hope you haven't had any problems.

[slackmaster]

30. No floods or mudslides for me, just an outbreak of snails and slugs

:scared:

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. The cock.

[Bouncy Ball]

15. My daughter wakes me up.

I used to wake HER up, but I told her this year, you're in fourth grade, you'll set your alarm, turn it on each night, get up in the morning and get yourself ready for school.

So she has been. She gets me up right before we need to go, then I come home and get ready (my work hours start after she's already in school).

[unblock]

17. 50lbs of dawg sleeping on my forehead

she sleep at my feet but when it's wakeup time, she climbs onto my head. when i push her off or shift or whatever, she just gets up and lies down on my forehead again until i wake up.

what wakes HER up is my alarm clock, which is on radio but so quiet you can really only hear the initial click. unless you're a doggie, apparently.

on weekdays i do have a foghorn-like backup alarm clock, though i'm almost always awake to turn it off before it can wake the entire neighborhood.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

20. A chemical reaction in my brain that causes me to gain consciousness

Maybe a pharmacologist could elaborate. :)

[Freebird12004]

21. I wish I could sleep later

But No!!! Everyday I get the pleasure of watching the sun rise. I thought that I was hearing the birds that start to sing before dawn, now I know - that's not it.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

22. Noah gently tapping my face, or Reno meowing loudly in my ear

either way, I'm a slave to their feeding time.

[guitar man]

24. alarm clock

I have to set multiple clocks friday morning. I get off shift at 11:30 pm and am back on shift at 5:30 am. I have to be dragged kicking and screaming to consciousness after about 4 hours sleep.

[radwriter0555]

25. I 'set' my internal clock the night before and just wake up when I need

to...

I haven't used an alarm clock in decades. Never been late for anything, either.

[Love Bug]

26. "Morning Sedition" on my clock radio!

[LVT]

27. kids. n/t

[fudge stripe cookays]

28. reprehensor....

gently waking me up on one side,

and Fargo's drooly wet nose pressed into my hand on the other.

FSC

[Maine Mary]

29. I always have to pee @ 6am

And when I get up for that, the cat pesters for "breakfast" and the dog has to go out and pee too. By the time I've taken care of myself and those two jokers, I'm wide awake.

I wish I had a more dignified answer but, oh well... :-)

[Skittles]

31. don't assume everyone wakes up in the morning

I work nights and usually get up at 5:00 PM. If I am awakened in the morning it's usually by f***ing WEED EATERS and LEAF BLOWERS. I think the lazy ass people who use those things should have to hear them at 02:00 AM to see how they f***ing like it.

[slackmaster]

33. Skittles, poll has a response just for people like you!

"I work the night shift, therefore go to sleep in the morning"

Have a good, uh, evening.

:toast:

[Skittles]

34. sorry, missed that

tired from lack of sleep (:o) and sat on my damn glasses

[BiggJawn]

32. A Gawd-dam blankety-blank Alarm Clock.

Transcends just a plain "alarm clock" by SO many more degrees....

[tjwmason]

35. Damn loud Radio

Followed half an hour later by the alarm-clock on my mobile phone (placed at the other end of the room so that I have to get out of bed totally), then finally come round about 15-20 minutes later and stagger downstairs to make coffee.