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I am trying to find my mind.
I believe that it took off when I was eating dinner last night.

I couldn't find it this morning.

I awoke with a start. Although nothing woke me, my phone decided to ring exactly one minute after I was wide awake... albeit for only a few minutes.

it was my wife. I immensely enjoy when it is her voice that I hear first thing in the morning, and not some alarm or some pre-recorded, wake-up call voice.

I fell right back asleep, because my head hurt and it was only 6:30am.

my alarm went off 15 minutes later.

scratch that.

alarms.

I am a procrastinator.

that means in everything...

which includes waking up in the morning. Put it off until the last possible minute.

So I set three alarms. The wake up call. The hotel room clock. The cell phone.

These items form a triangle around my bed. The hotel phone to the right. The clock on the left. The cell phone on the TV stand toward the foot of the bed.

This requires me to move in three different directions, in hopes that I will move enough to get out of bed.

It worked the first time... like 5 years ago.

since then, all it does is allows me to practice moving about a room, practically physically memorizing the layout, with my eyes closed and with my mind off...

I think what I need to do, is put a row of alarms that lead to the shower, the final alarm being in the shower, which would then turn on, once the alarm was turned off.

that might help.

but then, there is that part in the back of my head...

or the front, rather...

that says, "Hey, you know, most people are sleep deprived. Why don't you just take these few precious moments you have to just allow yourself to be less sleep deprived than others."

Now, how can I possibly argue with such sound logic?

I'm pretty good at debating, but, man, when I know I'm wrong, I will concede...

so there you have it.

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by the way. I found my mind this morning, after having that vitamin supplement orange drink that lorie got for me.

but I am still sleepy.