My dad thinks I am just using excuses to get out of stuff.?

Allright hes a rundown of things. Im 17 years old and I am a very tired kid, because I have busy weeks. Like with school and stuff, so I am always tired on the weekends. And anyways my dad is pretty cool we get along great but sometimes.....grrrr He annoys the heck outta me! Like for example he will wake me up to do yard work at like 8AM on a saturday and I will be all like Im just really tired can I do it later. And he is all like no your just saying that because you will never do it! HA yea right! I eventually do! But yea Im just ranitng here. Feel free to leave your opinions. Btw he does this alot with everything. Like he kind of likes to controll my life in some ways. Like he flips out if me and my sister are 1 minute late for curfew and has a little spaz attack. Help how can I talk with him about this. Im a 17 year old guy.