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Quotes For When You’ve Hit Snooze For The Fifth Time

On a work day, my first alarm is set for 5:30. If I actually get up, I will have plenty of time to casually make coffee, get myself cleaned up, and even read for a bit before I need to settle down and get some work done.

Admittedly, I follow that first alarm’s advice only, like, ten percent of the time. More often, I tell it to shut up — literally, since it’s voice-activated — and roll back over to doze until the last possible minute.

I have to be really careful, though, since I also have two dogs.

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If I push getting out of bed too late, then I’m stuck launching myself out from under the covers to race a pupper’s bladder to the back door. Eventually, their little bodies just can’t hold it anymore.

It’s just that the older I get, the harder it becomes to force my bones to get moving in the morning.

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By the time that alarm sounds, my muscles are all relaxed and I’m cozy under the duvet, and getting up seriously ruins the zen.

As someone with chronic hand pain, that few minutes in the morning are bliss.

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It’s the only time when my hands have properly relaxed and all the strain of the day before has been washed away. The achy process begins again as soon as I bend my fingers for the first time.

I still sort of wish I could get up a little bit earlier, if only for the reading time.

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That half an hour with a dog snoring on my lap and a coffee mug in my free hand is a bliss that I really should make an effort to achieve more often.

But those people who make the effort to get up and work out? Those people are crazy.

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