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This article by Steve Pavlina on how to wake up right when the alarm goes off is the best article I’ve ever read on the subject.

I can’t wait to try it!

I guess I was tired this morning. I got back from Idaho (working for my sister) late Saturday night. I set my alarm for 7:30 so I could manage to get to church at 9:00 (I’m very slow in the morning). I woke up at 10:30. Crap! I once again turned my alarms off without knowning it or something. Maybe someone enters my room and secretly turns them off for me. Or puts plugs in my ears. I don’t know. Anyway, I went to church late (church goes from 9-12) and then decided to go to the church of a friend. He ended up not being there today, but I was quite surprised by someone else. Back in like 1999 or something one of my friends moved away. I think I may have seen him briefly in 2001, but that was it. So today I was sitting in my friends church (which happened to be the church I attended growing up) waiting for the first meeting to start, I glanced behind me and saw someone who looked very familiar. I turned to the buy next to me, another friend, and said “that looks like so and so”. He said “it is so and so”. Well whaddya know! I had no idea he and his family had moved back to Utah. Not only that, but they moved here sometime in 2002. I had no idea. Crazy. He first saw me from behind and kind of to the side and didn’t recognize me until I stood up and said who I was (visitors introduced themselves). It was fun talking to him again. I also saw several other people I hadn’t seen in years. At the end of the meeting the Bishop, who I know, told my friend and I that we had to meet 10 people before we left and that most of them better be girls. I like meeting people, but am not always the best at introducing myself to new people without a good reason, as I’ve said before . So anyway we did it, and it was easy. Why is it that I can’t always do that? It’s so much fun when I actually do it. I will admit it’s getting easier, for which I am very happy.

Idaho is cold.

It was when I wrote this anyway…

I don’t normally post on Saturday’s, but I liked an e-mail I wrote to my sister this morning so thought I’d post it. As a bit of a side note I’m considering making another blog for all my personal ramblings like this so the Ryanware Blog is more ryanware.com specific. Any opinions on the matter? I haven’t made up my mind (hence why I said “considering”) so your opinion could help sway me. Also, the weather has been rather unusual here in Utah over the last week (it’s been raining a lot). My wireless internet connection doesn’t work very well in this weather! Argh! Anyway, on to the e-mail.

My alarm went off at 8:45 this morning. Yes, on purpose. HAHAHAHAHA! What was I thinking? Anyway, my second alarm went off at 8:45:10 so I didn’t get to sleep very long after pressing snooze on the first one. After pressing snooze on that one I thought “just stay up. you can do it.” and I had a moment there where only by sheer will power was I able to get back into bed! Whew! Just kidding. It’s funnier that way though. I actually stayed up even though everything inside of me (and a few other things I’m sure) was screaming at me that I’d die if I even tried to take another step away from my bed. I almost got back in bed at least 30 times. I went to the bathroom (stumbling) only to hear my third alarm go off at 8:47. I have three other alarms I could set, but I don’t like to annoy myself too much. It’s kinda funny actually, one of the alarm clocks is this little spaceman dude coin bank clock with alarm thing. The AA batteries in it are AT LEAST 5 probably 7 years old and it’s still going and keeps the correct time! I just had to reset my almost a year old Timex alarm clock with CD player and other neat-o functions because after having it for the last 10 months it was 26 minutes off!! 26 minutes! And it’s plugged in, has a backup battery and can probably communicate with extra-terrestrials should it need to! Hail the little spaceman dude coin bank clock with alarm thing!

I need to get to sleep earlier. Either that or sleep in more.