Us? We celebrate christmas in summer. My morning ritual is something along the lines of that, except I wake up to hear my alarm go off and we use ice imported from the South Pole to keep us cool while we leapfrog over native wildlife (naturally inside our homes as well) to shady and cold spots.

We whip out the sweaters when it gets below 40 degrees (Fahrenheit maybe). In all seriousness, we never get days when it’s too cold to warrant heaters, and those days that do usually involve golfball hail.

If I snooze my second alarm then my first one will go off again five mins later and five mins after that my second alarm comes off snooze. Works a treat :p

Only managed that 1 day out of 5 this week though, rest of the time took me between 20-30 mins to get up.

Thankfully, it’s only cold enough to require that for a couple of weeks in Brisbane.

My main problem is getting up to go to the shower; I have three alarms (two alarms on my clock/radio thing, and the alarm function on my phone) and I have learnt how to disable all of them whilst semi-conscious. It takes a lot of willpower to stop myself going straight back to bed.

My ritual is an exercise in self-flagellation and cold floor-boards, actually floor-planks is more accurate, there’s some pretty big gaps in them and it certainly doesn’t help that it’s a ground floor with so many windows.

Getting out of bed is easier if you pretend you’re Andrew WK.

Buying a new, warmer blanket may have helped for in-bed warmth, but it makes the rest so much worse… x_x

http://www.firebox.com/product/2249/The-Slanket

Best purchase I ever made.