Waking Up

"Wake up. It's Christmas!" <--- Child cruelty. :|

Crouch by their ear and whisper, "Hello, Clarice."

Slip a hose under the mattress, turn it on, and watch as they wake up thinking they had the most epic wet dream ever.

Plastic wrap them to the bed and turn a hair dryer on them so the cling wrap shrinks and they get trapped. 8D

My dad, every single morning, from the time I was in fourth grade until some point in college, would come into my room, start flipping the light switch up and down and singing, "It's time to get up it's time to get up it's time to get up this morning! It's time to get up it's time to get up it's time to get up right now!" to the tune of Reveille.

There was someone on my college campus a couple of years ago who had a bullhorn, and exercised it by parking himself in front of a random dorm, in front of the wall with the most windows, and shouting entirely random things.

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This literally happens to me every morning now... my cat kitten has learned the sound of the alarm clock on my phone. Every morning when it goes off, she jumps out of bed, stretches, and pads off to the bathroom to eat, use the litter box, etc. before returning to paw me in the face until I wake up. She's better at routines than I am. ;-)

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google exploding head syndrome.

grandma screaming "WAKE UP! IT'S LATE AND IT'S RAINING AND THEY'RE ALL IN THE CAR WAITING FOR YOU!!"
happens every morning.

sneak up the stairs. open the door quietly. get as close as you can. turn on the leafblower you're carrying and blast them in the face.

"the difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."
- mark twain

My mother used to wake me up by busting into my bedroom (complete with throwing the door wide open so it slammed into the door stopper and made this God awful sound) while screaming a long line of obscenities with a few "time for school" "get out of bed" "I made you breakfast" etc phrases subtly mixed in. And on days where I refused to get out of bed (or was too tired from staying up all night) she would sit on my bed and start braiding my hair. I absolutely loathe people playing with my hair unless I ask them to style it for me.

Midnight - 7AM drabbling : 2/6 days
Writing cubbyholes : 3
Most words in one sitting : 1596

Currently listening to : Portugal.The Man

1. Water gun attack (my brother)
2. Angry cat deposited on face (didn't happen to me, thankfully)
3. being duct taped to the bed

--Kate

1. Father turned up "Midnight Special" song, aimed speakers right at my bed!
2. Dog sat on my face. Literally.
3. Fell asleep in school with textbook on my face. Woke up to friend calling in an announcer voice "And on tonight's news, there's a lady who got crushed by a book!"

My heart, my life, my praise is all for You

My friend's mom always woke us up at sleepovers by walking into the room and talking in this loud, singsong voice- "Wakie wakie, rise and shakie it's time to get uhhhhhhuupp!" :P

When I lived in New Orleans I met a guy who grew up in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans. Every morning his Dad and his friends would get their instruments together and start a one line band; they would go trapsing through the neighborhood under the windows of kids they knew to wake them up. (best story I ever heard)

When I lived there I would often awake to producers shouting at actors through megaphones for movies being made in the streets around my apartment building - that could be interesting.

Fire alarms work well.

And the best, my friend's mom would pretend to be casually vacumming and just happen to slam it against his bedroom door several times while doing the hallway. Vrrrrrrrmmmm SLAM. Vrrrrmmm SLAM SLAM SLAM. Vrrmmm....

my dad is a multi-instrumentalist. as a child, i was not so infrequently woken up by one of the following being played in close proximity to my head: guitar, banjo, accordion, fiddle, melodica, 2 different kinds of mandolin.

my mom's usual strategy was just to press play on my cd player with the volume turned up absurdly loud. she wouldn't put anything in particular on, just whatever i had been listening to the night before. this was during a phase (age 11-14ish) when i was listening to a lot of musicals and classic rock. i remember having some weeeeird transitional-wake-up dreams to the west side story soundtrack + jethro tull in particular.

On the topic of cats waking people up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ffwDYo00Q

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2009 - Luxury of Doubt. (Better prepared this time around! =D)

keep writing. keep writing. no matter what, keep your fingers typing. they'll straighten up and the shizzle will sizzle, you know. Absinthe helps too, if you have it. Just keep typing,

Lately, someone wakes me up super early every day and makes me write a novel really fast.