I’m NOT a morning person. Thank heavens Mr. Adoptamom leaves before I ever think of getting up.
Up at 6ish. Dr. Pepper, cigs and newspaper until 7ish when I wake up the kids. Into the shower, clothes, hair and face by 7:45. In the interim, the kids wake, eat breakfast, get dressed and leave me completely alone until it’s time to leave the house. By then, I’m awake and able to converse without biting anyone.
6:15-6:30- Alarm goes off. Lie in bed for 15 minutes.
6:30-6:40- Get out of bed, go to bathroom to brush teeth and shave
6:40-6:50- Shower
6:50-6:55- Get dressed
6:55-7:10- Breakfast
7:10-7:15 Grab keys and other things to take to work, head for door.
7:30- Arrive at work
This is my “holy shit, I overslept!” schedule:
6:45-6:50 Get out of bed, quickly brush teeth, hell with the shave
6:50-7:00 Shower
7:00-7:05 Get dressed
7:05-7:15 Eat quick breakfast (if time permits) go out the door
I have to straighten my hair, but I take night classes this summer so it isn’t a problem. I take a shower at 2, and blow dry my hair and put it up in rollers. I’m out the door by 4:30. But, when my hairs already straight, it only takes me about 30-45 minutes
Let dogs out, turn on iron, shower, iron clothes, feed dogs, dress, let one dog in, other dogs stay out, make sure cats have food & water and leave at 7:45. If I iron and shower the night before it’s 10 minutes less.
4:24 Hit snooze
4:35 Silence alarm and shuffle to bathroom
4:45 Take wardrobe and coffee and food to computer to get ready whilst surfing
5:15 Wake and dress child
5:25 out the door to sitter’s
6:00 begin work
Mattress to doorknob-50 minutes
The instances where I compress this feat into 1/3 hour after the sitter calls at 5:40 and screams on the phone machine for me to WAKE UP are legendary. There oughta be an Olympic category for it!
Technically I can be ready in about ten minutes, but nobody really wants that BadBaby around.
6 am- Ear drum shatteringly loud music deliberately set on an annoying AM station jolts me out of bed.
6:15- Makeup’s done, cats have drunk their fill and frolicked in the sink
6:20- Breakfast shake and vitamins swallowed
6:20 to 7- Read a book and listen to music
7:10- I’m dressed, toofs brushed, and doing a makeup re-touch, hair wrestled into submission
7:22- Sippy cup filled, tote bag packed, shoes on, cats shooed out of bedroom, out the door.
If I’m going for speed, I’ve gone from asleep to shaved, showered, dressed, out the door in less than ten minutes.
But usually, about an hour. Of course, since it’s summer break now, and I’m not working, things slow down a little. Been up for 2 1/2 hours now, and haven’t gotten around to getting dressed or eating.
Up at around 7:33am, out of the house by 7:40am. I wear a uniform to school (I can get dressed in about two to three minutes) and I have just enough time to eat and leave.
Alarm goes off sometime between 9:40 and 9:50. Snooze until some time between 10 and 10:20. Then out of bed to bathroom to read a random magazine for 10-15 minutes. After that, showering, shaving, toothbrushing, dressing takes 30 minutes, and then I’m out the door.
It usually takes me about twenty to twenty-five minutes. I depends on if I need to shave that morning or if I’m really groggy when the alarm goes off. That’s enough time for me to use the toilet, shower, brush teeth, comb hair, get dressed, fix a soda, take medicine, and toss the newspaper up to the front door.
This summer, I’ve been getting up at 6:00 a.m. and leaving for work about 6:20 to 6:25. I usually make it into the office about 7:05 to 7:20 depending on traffic.