Tuesday, July 26, 2011

I was almost left behind

by time.  Yes.....by time.  I came home from work a couple of weeks ago and the power had been off.  You know how it is....all the digital clocks are blinking.  Believe me, it's a pain in the butt to reset the clock and alarm by my bed.  You need to know that I would sleep until 10 or 11AM without an alarm. Not good when you have to work. I totally rely on my alarm to get me up in the morning.  The next morning....no alarm. But I have a back-up across the room and that alarm went off.......also a pain in the butt because I have to get out of bed every 7 minutes when the snooze alarm goes off.  Oh, yes, I need time to wake up, too.  Usually takes at least 30 minutes.  So that evening I checked the alarm and everything seemed fine.  Again the next day it didn't go off.  Crazy.....good thing for the back-up and that's what I've been using. Well, once in awhile, I would come home from work in the evening and the alarm would be quite loud.  It's terrible for my neighbors because I have my bedroom window open.....it's OK.  I'm on the 2nd floor and who would want to come into my place anyway.  And it was ringing again tonight when I came home.  I have checked and rechecked the alarm.....yes it was set for AM.  You see, there's a little light by the letters PM and it wasn't on.  I had just reconciled myself to buying a new alarm (I go through alarms quite often).  I had a brilliant idea. I checked the clock and alarm for about the 5th time and  I had set the clock to AM when I reset it the first time.  So the alarm was going off in the evening. I felt like slapping myself up the side of my head.  Two weeks!  It took me 2 weeks to figure this out. I can always say it's the fibro or my age.  But this felt just plain stupid.

Another Hawaii photo....