The Day the Music Died
Last holiday season, I got the coolest present. It was a cd/alarm clock radio and I'd wanted something like that for over a decade. Basically ever since I got my first CD. The idea of waking up to whatever song I wanted to sounded like my idea of heaven. So when I got this for a present I immediately set it up, read the directions, fired up a CD, and was using it by the next morning. Loved it. Woke up every morning with a smile on my face.
I didn't even care that it was huge and took up TONS of space on my nighttable. I didn't even care that the LED display was SUPER BRIGHT, too bright, as if it'd gone to the dentist for professional LED brightening and slipped the technician some extra money to make the digits extra bright, and it kept me up at night. Waking up to my mix CDs each morning was totally worth it.
It stopped working. The alarm simply doesn't turn on anymore. When I try to play a CD it won't play. I'm crushed.
I was in denial about this all last week. Never mind that I was waking up at 5 a.m. each morning, because I was scared I'd oversleep and be late to work. I didn't care about that. I had turned off my alarm so that it wouldn't fail me by not going off when it was supposed to. Over the weekend I realized this was ridiculous. As someone who is forever having sleep problems, it's stupid to force myself to wake up earlier than I need to.
So last night I unplugged the broken CD alarm clock. I plugged back in my old, purple, Bed, Bath & Beyond alarm clock and set it for 7:30 a.m. I told myself to let my mind sleep, secure in the knowledge that Old Purple would not let me down this morning. Apparently my mind has trust issues, because I woke up at 7:01 a.m.
Sure was nice while it lasted.
I didn't even care that it was huge and took up TONS of space on my nighttable. I didn't even care that the LED display was SUPER BRIGHT, too bright, as if it'd gone to the dentist for professional LED brightening and slipped the technician some extra money to make the digits extra bright, and it kept me up at night. Waking up to my mix CDs each morning was totally worth it.
It stopped working. The alarm simply doesn't turn on anymore. When I try to play a CD it won't play. I'm crushed.
I was in denial about this all last week. Never mind that I was waking up at 5 a.m. each morning, because I was scared I'd oversleep and be late to work. I didn't care about that. I had turned off my alarm so that it wouldn't fail me by not going off when it was supposed to. Over the weekend I realized this was ridiculous. As someone who is forever having sleep problems, it's stupid to force myself to wake up earlier than I need to.
So last night I unplugged the broken CD alarm clock. I plugged back in my old, purple, Bed, Bath & Beyond alarm clock and set it for 7:30 a.m. I told myself to let my mind sleep, secure in the knowledge that Old Purple would not let me down this morning. Apparently my mind has trust issues, because I woke up at 7:01 a.m.
Sure was nice while it lasted.
posted by Green at 4/03/2006 04:10:00 PM
2 Comments:
I have one of those cd player alarms clocks. I couldn't decide on a cd to put in it, so I brought it to work - where I never remember to bring cds to listen to....
I did the same thing. I didn't like that I had to wake up to the same song every morning: whatever was the first track on the disk.
Now I have it at work and it causes every single disk I put in it to skip. Every single one. New. Old. Burned. Sigh.
I need an ipod alarm clock.
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