About an hour and a quarter. I get up at 6:15; I’m at work by 7:30. No breakfast, usually (unless it’s something packaged that I grab quick, like chips or a granola bar), but shower, hair, makeup. I don’t put a ton of time into it, but I think I look pulled together, at least. I consider myself pretty low key and low maintenance.
Alarm at 5:25am. Shower, dressed and in the kitchen by 5:50. Drinking yogurt, get lunch packed, out of house at 6:00am. Sometimes I join early morning prayers at church till 6:15.
One hour drive to work, arrive in time to get a single car park at 7:00-7:15 (too much later, and it is double/triple parking bays, meaning a slow getaway). So ~1:30.
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I walk my dog for 30 minutes in the morning, too. It takes me 2 hours to get ready to head out the door then a 30-40 minute drive to get to work. That 2 hours is walking the dog, feeding him and the cats, and scooping the litter boxes as well as showering, breakfasting, etc. I wish I could shower at night and sleep in but I have ridiculous hair.
I can do it in 15 minutes if a disaster has occurred. Generally I hit the snooze button until 8:10 or 8:15 and still make it in to work by 9.
I’m TRYING to do my running in the morning, but it’s hard. I love me some sleep.
Depends on the day.
Monday and Wednesday: Up at 6, brush teeth, check email, feed dogs and cat, get lunch together, go to pool with SO, swim for an hour, shower and get dressed, get to work at 8:30. Takes 1:30.
Other days: Up at 6, shower, check email and drink coffee, get dressed, feed dogs and cat, pack lunch and gym clothes up, walk to train around 7, get to work around 7:45. Takes 1:45.
The difference is that on the swim days, I get a ride to work in non-rush hour traffic, where other days, it takes me 45 minutes to walk to the train and take it downtown.
Potential:
Wake up, put on robe, take a leak, splash water on my face, grab a bowl of cereal, go to my office, log into work. Time: 5 minutes. (Then I grab a shower on my lunch hour)
However, having a three-year-old daughter means that 99% of the time I have to be up about two hours before I clock in so I can make us breakfast, get her dressed and ready to go to daycare. If I’m taking her to daycare, then I get back home with about 10 minutes to spare. If my wife is taking her that day, then I get in a morning workout before heading upstairs to my office.
By my calculations, you’re taking 2.5 hours on Mondays and Wednesdays.
For me, I’m up at 5, shower/dress/makeup until 5:45, breakfast/newspaper/pack lunch/feed cats until 6:15, at work by 6:45. That’s 1.45.
For me it’s roughly 2 hours.
Alarm goes off at 6:40. I snooze for a bit and get up at 7 ish. Shower, clothes, feed the cats, do the hair, etc. And leave the house around 7:50-8:00. Walk to the train station. Arrive there at 8-8:10. Train gets me to a block from my work around 8:55-9:00. I am at my desk checking email around 9:05-9:10.
So about 2 hours.
I wish that train ride wasn’t an hour, but at long as I have a book it’s not so bad.
:smack:
Can you tell I have water in my head today?
An hour, no including the ~six snoozes I employ. Get up, 20 minute shower (including brushing teeth & a neti pot), ten minutes to dress, and 30 minute trip to work, by foot or bus.
Get up at six, let out the dog, feed the dog, hit the bathroom, hit the shower around 6:20, get dressed and commence wrangling the daughter at 6:40, leave the daughter-wrangling to the missus and start preparing breakfast at 6:50, start eating breakfast at 7:00, leave for daycare at ~7:20, leave daycare at ~7:35, arrive at work at 8:00. 2 hours.
~2 hrs, we try to get some stuff done the night before…lunch prep, homework stowed, showers…
6:30 - Radio turns on, I drift in and out of sleep.
6:40 - Alarms sound, kids get up
6:45 - I get up to make breakfast for kids, get their lunches ready
7:00 - Kids eat, I wake my wife
7:10 - Check on the kids and ask them to finish up, wife gets kids clothes ready
7:15 - I brush teeth/get dressed, etc.
7:20 - Kids get dressed
7:30 - I get my breakfast/lunch ready, kids get school bags ready (this is usually when they tell us about the extra homework they were supposed to do)
7:45 - We all leave for bus stop
7:50 - Kids get school bus, we leave for train station where my wife drops me off
7:58 - Train to downtown
8:40 - Desk, eagerly anticipating my Cream Earl Grey tea.
I would love to fit a half hour of reading the paper at home with my tea in the morning, but we typically get to bed after midnight and I have trouble dragging my sorry behind out of bed as it is…
Typically the alarm goes off at 5:32 and I get up (yes, I’m one of those dreaded morning people);
pee & brush, then grab my running gear & go downstairs so I don’t wake the wife;
dress & do my warm up/stretching routine;
out the door for a run by 6, usually return by 6:30-6:35;
make & eat breakfast;
make & pack lunch;
upstairs by 7:00;
shower, shave, dress, kiss wife and girls goodbye, pulling out of the driveway by around 7:25;
pull into parking lot by about 8:10;
come in, make a pot of coffee and I’m sitting at my desk reading emails by 8:15.
So, around 2:45.
Variables:
-morning sex (add 20 min)
-inclement weather (no running) (out of bed 6:20, at work around 7:50)
-insomnia (I wake up when I wake up)
I can get up as late as 20 minutes before I need to be at my desk and ready for work, provided I have had a shower and prepared a packed lunch the night before. I just get out of bed, pee, dress, and get out the door - the walk to work takes 10-15 minutes depending on how late I am/how hot and bothered I want to be when I get there. Things such as showering, brushing teeth, making sandwiches, shaving, reading, having a bowl of cereal tend to add an average of about 10 minutes each.
Occasionally I like to be really slow and lazy getting up, particularly if I’m at the end of a good book that I just have to finish - I can easily wake up at 6.30 and struggle to get to work by 10. I’m definitely not a morning person either way.
5:30am wake up
5:30-5:45 take shower
5:45-6:00 brush teeth, get dressed, apply makeup
6:00-6:20pm putz around on the computer
6:20-6:30 in transit to local train station
6:39 catch Express Train to New York
7:35 arrive at New York Penn
7:40 grab breakfast
7:50pm at work, ready to go
total elapsed time: Two hours and twenty minutes.
I spend a bit more time in transit on Monday and Tuesday since my shift is 10-7 instead of 8-5, but it’s basically the same.
From in bed to sitting at my desk? ~2 hrs 45 minutes.
I take 45 minutes to an hour to eat a bowl of cereal and drink 2 cups of coffee while I do my morning net-surf. I could get up later but it’s the only time of day when I’m not working (incl to & from), at the beck and call of my two 6yo daughters, or exhausted.
After that ‘quiet time’ it’s wake up the girls, shower, remember where I parked the car, etc.
Wake up: ~7:00 (not counting the 1hr of snooze hitting time as I consider it “still asleep”)
30 min to shower, do hair and makeup, etc., a few exercises/stretches.
5 min to dress.
5 min to feed critters / make coffee / get cereal.
5 min to eat cereal.
3 min to pack lunch.
5 min to brush / floss teeth.
5 min to gather up belongings / put on coat / kiss family goodbye.
2 min to get in car, adjust radio and whatnot, drive up driveway (I don’t know why this takes so long, but it does).
30 minutes to commute.
Total time: 1.5hrs.
8:05: clock radio goes off, I listen to Carl Castle talk about a headline or two, then get up. Get dressed. Comb hair, brush teeth.
8:15: make the long, arduous journey from bedroom downstairs to kitchen. Husband greets me with coffee and a smooch. 
8:20: make the even more strenuous journey from kitchen to home office (same floor, no stairs). Check email, NY Times online, etc.
8:35: mandatory frisbee playing with dog and husband in front yard.
8:55: Back inside to home office; log on to office network and start working by 9. I telecommute! Full time!
When we lived in Austin, I had an evil commute – only 15 to 30 minutes long in the morning, but on some of the most dangerous and hair-raising pavement in the city.
Really? How many days a week do you have to commute? How does it go? I ask because I have this perverse fantasy of paying off my cabin, moving up there and hella-commuting to northern NJ a few days a week and not having to pay rent or mortgage. Like all good fantasies it should stay as such, but I’m just wondering.
An hour and a half or forty-five minutes depending on when you start the clock.
My alarm goes off at 7:00 and I snooze until 7:45, when I finally get up and throw on some clothes. I check a few things online, grab a banana, and and am generally out the door anywhere from 7:55 to 8:05, and I get to work just at 8:30, which is when I’m due to clock in.