Who else loves to sleep?

[OriginalGeek]

27. Le ft to my own devices

I will often sleep til noon.


Which sucks since I'm "supposed" to be at work by 10.


The alarm clock holds no power over me. I hear it - I just refuse to acknowledge it.


The only time in my adult life I can remember waking up on time and refreshed is several years ago while staying at a cousins house up in Maryland. I assume it was that mattress - no matter what time I went to bed (And I was staying up there because I was attending a 3-day concert event so was up late every night and had to wake up in time to drive into town to find good parking for the day's shows.) I woke up BEFORE my alarm went off and I felt absolutely wonderful. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and ready to take on the day. I attended the festival three years in a row and all three years the bed served me well and the rest of the year was the usual grumpy, tired, sucky chore of waking up. Unfortunately, my cousin said the bed itself was very old and he didn't have a clue where to get another mattress like that. It was his sister's bed from when she was a kid and lived there originally and she's almost 60 now.

My current mattress is one of those memory foam dealies but I'm not completely sold on it yet - it's about 6~8 years old I think. It doesn't leave me feeling great like my cousin's bed did but it's a damn sight better than most of the hotel beds I sleep in (I work overnight out of town fairly often so I get to sample many hotel beds).

I can tell you this, Marriott's aren't worth the price. Sadly, because of the company credit card and corporate rate deals we have I get stuck in a Marriott more often than not and, even with our super-de-duper fancy points upgrade scheme, the beds I get are just plain uncomfortable. It galls me to give Mittens any money but often it can't be helped. Hilton Gardens are usually pretty good though.

And either I don't know how to work them, or you just have to sleep in them more than a couple nights to find the right setting, but those sleep number beds are just gimmicks. Didn't like them a single bit.