Snoozemonster

My name is Amanda. I am a snooze-aholic.

Someday, I am going to find the person who invented the snooze button on the alarm clock. And we will have words. Because the snooze button - it's been a monkey on my back ever since Mom stopped waking me up for school.

I am not your casual snoozer. I know some people can hit it just once or twice and then hop out of bed. Not me. I am actually afraid to admit how many times I can hit snooze in one morning. To be honest, most of the time I couldn't even tell you. I have learned to incorporate the snooze button into my dreams. I am like a snooze sleepwalker. I have tried every trick in the book to make myself GET UP! when I hear the alarm, but nothing seems to work.

My freshman year in college, I slept on the top of a bunk bed. I purposely stationed the alarm clock across the room so I would be forced to jump off the top bunk to turn it off. Sadly, this did not curb my addiction. I would still manage to hit the snooze button five times. After each time, I would simply climb back into my bed for that extra five minutes. Even on the sixth time, I did not completely give up. I would press the button and then, instead of crawling back in my bed again, I would take a little power nap on the couch. Unfortunately for me, I had no roommate to put me in my place - she was a townie who rarely slept in the dorm.

In the years since then, things have not improved. No matter where I put that alarm clock, I will find a way back to my little nest. I have even mastered the art of hitting snooze with my big toe. Many people are baffled by this. They ask me why I don't just set the alarm for later so I can get more time of undisturbed sleep. But to me, the best sleep in the world is "five minutes more . . ."