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My alarm clock broke. Or, to put it more accurately, George broke my alarm clock.

I loved that alarm clock. It was a funky little round one designed by Michael Graves for Target. I'd only had it for a few weeks, but every night before I went to sleep, I'd look at it fondly and say, "I love this clock." It was quiet, it didn't glow annoyingly, it had a cute retro look.

And then I asked George to vacuum the bedroom.

"It was round," he said in his defense. "It rolled right off of the table and shattered. This is why they don't make round alarm clocks."

So I headed back to Target for a replacement. But, alas, they were sold out.

I've been trying to track down a replacement clock, and it's harder than you might think. In fact, I've wasted not one, but two, afternoons when I was supposed to be working browsing clock sites on the Internet. (Can you say procrastination? PROCRASTINATION.) Most of the clocks out there are digital, and I can not abide having a glowing light one foot away from my face when I'm trying to sleep.

I thought I'd found my winner with this one, the retro Moon Beam Clock, which apparently made an appearance in the movie In Good Company. But then I read the Amazon reviews, and saw that they major complaints were that it was (1) big, (2) loud and (3) bright. All bad.

So now I'm leaning toward this one, mostly because it suctions on to the table. And it has a cool rooster wake-up tone.

But I'm still as yet undecided, and open for recommendations for cute, quiet, non-glowy clocks. In the color chartreuse, if at all possible.

Update: A-ha! Ahahahaha! I finally found a clock! And a green one, at that. Check it out here.

Update: OK, this alarm clock is going back. All I could hear last night was TICK TICK TICK. I had on a white noise machine and was wearing ear plugs, and still: TICK TICK TICK. It is quite possibly the loudest clock in the history of clocks.

Posted 21 February 2006 at 09:01 AM