I have realized I have a pattern. As I head for bed, I know I will do the same thing tomorrow that I did today. Here is my morning routine:
Set the alarm for 30 mins before I have to leave the house. The alarm goes off, I get out of bed, and go to the spare bedroom. I have the alarm in there set for five minutes before I must leave the house. I lay down and doze, sometimes sleep until that alarm goes off. When it does, I dress for Physical Training, grab my wallet, cell phone, and car keys (all laid out in place the night before). I go to physical training, get a ten minute nap in the car before it begins, and proceed to PT. When that is done, I invite Robin Meade into my home and my bedroom as I catch up on the news, maybe doze for half an hour before I shower. Get cleaned up, and go to work.
I am a very punctual guy. . . it’s a pet peeve of mine when I’m late. Anyway, here goes:
0550, First alarm goes off. Hit snooze, sleep in for an extra ten minutes. (I have a Bose Wave Radio, which snoozes for ten minutes, and not the usual nine. )
0600, Second alarm goes off, fiancee whaps me in head to turn it off. I get up. Hit shower, shave.
0620, Out of shower, gettin’ dressed/packing gym bag/packing lunch.
0630, Pouring coffee/dressing/packing/whatever is left.
0645, Kiss fiancee. Leave for work. Listen to NPR or country on the way in. . .
0700, Arrive at gate for work, wait in line, show badge, pass through base gate.
0705, (approx) Park truck, get up to office. Unlock office, start coffee.
0710, Start readin’ e-mail.
0730, Boss walks in, I’m still reading e-mail
0750ish, Bat-shit insane cowerkin’ secretary* calls up, and in Southern drawl swears “the traffic is just crahysee tohdayy. . . Aahhl be in in twehnty minutes. . .” I get her off the phone as quickly as I can so I can get back to work and get stuff done before B-SICS* actually arrives.
0830ish, B-SICS actually shows up. The demon has arrived in my office, and Beelzebub grins. I contemplate just which fifth I’m going to buy at the liquor store that day.
Tripler
Oh, don’t worry. A Pit thread on B-SICS is forthcoming. . . soon.
Wake up, get out of bed, drag a comb across my head.
Seriously?
Alarm goes off at 5:15. I hit snooze until between 6:30 and 6:45 depending on how many adult beverages I’ve had the evening before. Get up and go to the bathroom and read on the john for a while. Take shower, and then (In this exact order) deoderant, hair stuff, mouthwash, brush teeth, shave. Get dressed except for shoes, check the Dope, put on shoes, get in the car between 7:15 and 7:30. Smoke two cigarettes on the way to work, park car, go inside and get started on my day.
Wake up when I feel like it.* Get up…if I feel like it; sometimes I read a while in bed first. Get up, perform quick ablutions. Stumble into the kitchen. Make coffee (unless whiterabbit has beat me up and already has it made). Turn on computer and pet dogs while coffee is dripping. Drink coffee. Surf Dope. When enough caffeine has hit the bloodstream that my brain starts functioning, start working.
*In my defense, I’m self-employed, so I stay up working very late most nights. And I don’t have to punch anyone’s timeclock so I work the hours I prefer. Which include late at night and do not include early mornings.
Alarm goes off at 5:40. Hit snooze until sometime between 6:30 and 6:50. Get up. Shower. Dress. Comb hair and drink a glass of water while reading online comics until 7:20. Put on shoes. Grab a cereal bar to eat for breakfast on the drive to work. Grab purse and cell phone. Drive to work. Park car. Stay in car listening to the radio until the last possible minute before going inside to start work.
Right now it’s largely dependent on how long the baby lets me sleep. In 3 weeks, I will be going back to work, and then the fun will begin. I am hoping it will go something like this:
6:30: Get up & feed baby.
7:00: Shower & get myself ready
7:30: Get 3-year-old up, dressed, and fed breakfast
8:00: Start getting everyone packed into the car
8:15: Leave for 1-hour commute
9:15: Drop off at daycare &/or preschool (some days I’ll have one drop-off, some days I’ll have 2)
9:30: Arrive at my desk
Of course, the baby is the wildcard. Hopefully, he will be happy to eat at 6:30, and not want to eat again until 9:30ish. If he won’t work with me on this schedule, I’m going to have a tough time.
Alarm set for 1 PM. Hit snooze twice to 1:18. Get up, brush teeth, get hair wet, get dressed, check email.
1:25 grab cell phone, keys, wallet. Toss work uniform shirt in backpack (I don’t like being seen as security out of work. No need to help along the burger spit)
1:30 out the door. Get to work at 1:50. Start work at 2PM.
wake up insanely early (thanks, PMS) - in which case, get up, make & drink a hot choc, maybe surf for a bit, if lucky, get sleepy again and go back to bed for another hour or two
wake up shortly before the alarm
wake up when the radio comes on (7 am) - maybe listen to the news or, if I’m really tired, zonk back out until the alarm goes off
or else - turn the radio off before I go to bed because I know I’ll want to sleep until the last chance alarm at 7:30
I get up and trundle out to my desk, where I’ll check my email and board(s) and wait until consciousness occurs. Eventually the fog clears and I eat breakfast - usually whole-grain toast and chocolate milk. I need to eat more fruit and this would be the time to do it but I don’t feel fruity in the mornings. I might put a coffee on if I feel like one. Eat and poke about on the computing machine. Around 8 I need to start getting ready so I go scrub self and dress. I’ll either have started the coffee at home or I’ll put it in a travel mug to take with me. Then I fill my water bottle from my Brita, get my stuff, and head out for my walk to work.
Two words someone would never use to describe me: Morning Person.
Depends when I’m teaching (and on some days, when I have to leave in order to have parking when I teach three hours later). A typical early parking day:
6:00 Alarm rings
6:15 Get up, dress, bathroom
6:30 Inhaler. Onto the treadmill, with a book
7:00 Shower
7:15 Breakfast
7:30-7:40 Leave the house
7:45-7:55 Arrive at work
On a morning when I don’t have to be up early (or when I’m teaching afternoon and night classes), I might stay up until midnight, sleep until 8-ish, and (in the summer) do some gardening or yardwork in addition to the other stuff.
Typical “early” day when my husband and I rideshare:
7:30 hit the snooze button
7:39 roll out of bed and try to remember where the hell I put my glasses.
7:40 BCP
7:41 Put the coffee on, head out to the car to find my travel mugs (I never remember to bring them in.)
7:45 Bathroom, wash face (I shower in the evenings)
7:50 Chomp on my Kashi, read email, cruise the Dope
8:00 Wake husband, retrieve coffee, feed cats
8:05 “Are you awake yet?”
8:10 “How about now?” I get dressed.
8:15 “We have to leave in 15 minutes, you know.” I find the books I need for the day.
8:20 Locate husband’s wallet, keys, watch, and hat. “No, the dark blue one, not the light blue one!”
8:25 Read the Dope.
8:30 “It’s time to go now, are you ready?”
8:38 We leave for 85 minutes of white-knuckled fury on the freeway.
9:25 “Did you remember my cell phone?!!” " Me? You had it last!"
9:55 Dropped off by class with barely enough time to pee and get into class. Husband: See, I got you here on time! Me: :rolleyes:
I’m a houseleech, so I don’t have any set ‘wake up’ time. I’m also an insomniac, so add that into the equation.
I wake up, usually quite early.
Bathroom run.
Feed dogs and cats.
Make coffee.
Turn on computer.
Drink coffee.
Drink more coffee.
Put on a second pot of coffee.
Start in on the housework.
Wake up at 9am
Turn on TV at end of bed, watch news for 20 minutes
Get up, get a drink of water
Go to computer, check email, news, and SDMB. This takes about an hour
Get dressed, run across street, buy a coffee
Computer again for another half hour
Shower, get dressed
Decide if I’m going to be a grown up today and pay bills, do laundry, etc…
Leave house sometime in early afternoon
Get up, shower, dry hair, dress, feed cats, make lunch, grab a cup of tea, head to the bus stop. That’s about 45mins to an hour depending on how much faffing I do.
Your morning? Or my morning?
This is your morning…
Leave work at 7:30. Get home at 7:40. Eat a bowl of cereal and check my e-mail or read a book until 8:00. Watch reruns of Murder She Wrote until 10:00. Watch reruns of old game shows (Let’s Make a Deal and Press Your Luck) until 11:00. Watch whatever is on from 11:00 until 14:00. I Usually read a book or SDMB while watching TV. Make sure the door is unlocked for my nephew (he gets home from school about 14:45). Go to bed around 14:05. Blissfully fall asleep with no trouble by 14:20.
(This quiet alone time will end next week when one of my nephews starts his last week of school. He has half days next week. After that, I will be watching them both all summer and wont get to bed until about 15:45 when my sister and her boyfriend get home from work. It’s the price I pay for a nice room, cable, internet, my car cleaned for me, and no rent.)
My morning goes like this:
Cell phone alarm goes off for the first time at 21:30. This is my warning. I go back to sleep and wake up with no alarm at 22:05. I say hello to my sister’s boyfriend (and my sister if she’s still up). Pee. Shower. Get out of shower at 22:15. Dry off. Dress. Deodorant. Curl eyelashes (mine are rediculously long and annoyingly straight. I don’t wear makeup but have to curl the bastards). Brush hair. Put on shoes and talk to my sister’s boyfriend (and sister if she’s up) about work (we all work for the same company, in the same department - but they work first shift). Leave for work at 22:45. Get to work at 22:55. Go in, put hair up, hairnet on, and punch in. Commence 8.5 hours of hell.
6:30 Alarm rings. I hit snooze.
6:39 Alarm rings. I hit snooze.
6:48 Alarm rings. I hit snooze.
6:57 Alarm rings. I maybe get up, but probably I hit snooze.
7:06 Alarm rings. I probably get up this time.
7:07-7:50: Shower, get dressed, etc.
7:55 Leave for work
8:10 or so, arrive at work.
Wake up when husband wakes me up (anywhere between 5 and 7)
Immediately duck under the covers (dog will be jumping on the bed and I get scratched up if I’m not covered up.)
Drink beverage husband has placed on nightstand while smoking cigarette.
Get out of bed, go to the bathroom.
Put on contacts.
Brush hair.
Brush teeth.
Take off watch.
Take shower.
Leave shower, put watch back on.
Get dressed.
Plug in curling iron.
Put on makeup.
Put away makeup, lock bedroom door.
Dry hair.
Curl hair.
Go downstairs while yelling at the dog to get out of the way (he chases your feet as you go down the stairs.)
Grab purse.
Grab grapefruit or lunch (if bringing either to work.)
Leave house.
Go to Home Depot (if necessary.)
Go to gas station for newspapers.
Get dropped off at work.
5:23am - Pixel wakes me up. The alarm is set for later, but it hasn’t gone off in years. Pixel is much more reliable.
5:25 - Get up, turn on lights in living room, grab reading material.
5:27- Off load material excess to needs, shower, shave in shower.
5:50 - Get dressed, feed and water cats, load up belt and pockets with necessary equipment
6:10 - Kiss wife goodbye, drive to work
6:20 - Arrive at work, fire up computer, check email, then check the Dope to see what’s new with the world.
7:00 - Walk to Main Office with Department Chair, discuss failings of those up and down the food chain, get mail from box.
7:15 - get a breakfast sandwich or breakfast burrito from food service, prep classroom for the day
8:00 - Showtime!
Summer routine:
4:50 Husband’s alarm goes off. He hits snooze. Sometimes I get up, because we have a new puppy, and he doesn’t understand snooze. But sometimes I snooze, too.
4:59 Get up and pee.
5:00 Let dogs outside to pee.
5:01 Feed three dogs, and refill water bowls.
5:03 Let dogs in. Watch them gallop to the food.
5:04 Grab coffee cup, put in 2 tsp of Benefiber and add water.
5:05 Take 4 different pills, wash down with water.
5:06 Refill coffee cup with coffee made the night before and set to auto.
5:07 Sit down and watch dogs play and watch the news. Let them out again.
5:10-6:00 Drink coffee, and let various dogs in and out. (I’m trying to housetrain the puppy.)
6:00 Take shower.
6:10 Comb hair. Brush teeth, floss, mouthwash. Apply deodorant, baby powder, and makeup. Get dressed.
6:25 Let dogs in or out, as required. (My dad is there to let them in again.)
6:30 Grab breakfast (leftovers from the night before) and sugar free creamer. Grab purse, keys, work badge, exact change for coffee stop, glasses, cell phone.
6:35 Stop at store to get more coffee.
7:00 Get to work, check personal email, fire up the Dope.
