For all of you snooze button people who are in bed next to a significant other, I can assure you that every time they hear that alarm go off they fantasize about smashing the alarm clock over your head and then stabbing you in the eye with ragged plastic shards. Focus: 6:15 - get up, go pee, poke at Tassimo until finger connects with button, realize I've forgotten to put a cup under it and scramble in panic to get one there in time. 6:20 - morning smoke while watching birds/people doing walk of shame from the house next door that is rented by 4 college students. 6:30-7 - put clothes on, stab self in eyeball repeatedly while putting on mascara. 7:00 - leave to catch bus 7:35 - get off bus, grab large Paradiso blend from Second Cup, walk to office 7:40 - 3:00 - make work-type gestures while perusing every website I can access from my office, liberally interspersed with online shopping. 3:40 - 9:00 - various domestic duties 9:00-10:00 - whatever the fuck i feel like that day, which usually involves an Aprikat beer. 10:00 - proposition the man for dirty things 11:00 - slip into coma.
Fuck a snooze button. Stop interrupting your sleep and wake up when you need to. Jesus. Back in Texas my mornings were - 0418 - wakeup and check phone. 0420 - alarm. 0421 - roll out of bed, pull on workout clothes, brush teeth, find baseball cap, grab keys... 0427 - leave to go to work. 0445 - arrive at work. 0845 - leave work to run back home and pick up dog, make breakfast, shower, clean up, take out food for dinner 1030 - leave for work again 1045 - stop for ice 1100 - arrive at work 1300-1700 meetings, travel, admin work, tourism things, outreach, studying, etc. 1700-2000 - coaching/leading/interacting/programming/schmoozing Then cleanup and whatever work I missed til generally 2115, go home, stare at food I pulled out of refrigerator, order pizza instead, shower collapse, repeat. On wednesdays there was the exception for pint night. Here, mornings are fluid. Back in Texas, my day was scheduled to nearly the minute - because a couple of tics one way or the other and I was late for wherever I needed to be. Here - if I have to be at work at 0630, I'm awake by 0540. Up, teeth, personal hygiene, clothes, coffee, go. I work a mile from my house. If I work at noon, I sleep til around 7. Then get up and get the house straightened before I leave. It's very weird, this whole only working 8 hours a day thing. I haven't done it in so long I don't know what it feels like to not be utterly exhausted from the day like I was for so long.
From now until the twins are born, this is the drill: 3:30am - Out of bed. Shit and shave, granola bar, dressed and walking to work. 4:15am - Arrive at work, bake bake bake...serve serve serve...clean clean clean. 12:30pm - Walk home 1:15pm - Shit and shower, quick lunch, quality time with loving wife before work. 3:30pm - Arrive at work, chop chop chop, grill grill grill, sweat sweat sweat. 11:30pm - Walk home, shit and shower, eat dinner. 12:00pm - Sleep sleep sleep. Sundays are project day around the house. We spend a few solid hours tackling something that we'd like done, and spend the rest of the day goofing off and relaxing. Only got a month left to go before I drop the morning job, which will only change the routine slightly. All of that time will be spent with the little ones and my wife, doing whatever it is that fathers are supposed to do.
5:15-6:00: Hit snooze because I'm a lazy piece of shit. 6:00-6:30: Shower, dress, and do my hair and makeup. 6:30-7:00: Pack my lunch, eat breakfast, feed El Gato, drink coffee, and relax. 7:15ish: Leave for work. What would I recommend to others? Don't hit snooze for 45 minutes. Just get out of bed. This is a bad habit I'd like to break.
6:30: Hit the alarm. The dog has been waiting for this and curls up next to me or sits on my head after I show signs of life, whining and demanding to be let out. 6:31-6:40: I'm out of bed and let the dog out, feed him, and make coffee. 6:41-7:00: Use the bathroom, brush my teeth, shower, shave, etc. 7:01-7:30: Dress, take care of random stuff in my apartment, and head out the door. I usually eat breakfast once I'm at the office, which is greek yogurt, a protein granola bar, and a banana most days. On weekend mornings I'm content with letting the dog out and feeding him then going back to sleep, and laying around in gym shorts reading and drinking coffee until I make a big ass brunch around noon.
Not to derail the thread much, but does anyone here have one of the natural daylight lamps or whatnot that gradually turn on and are supposed designed to gradually wake your body up? My roommate in college had one but he masturbated to the Sharper Image catalog and I have no idea if it actually worked or he just placebo'd off anything they sold...
3:30-4 AM: Wake up, take my adderall. Get my clothes together, shower. Deodorant, teeth and hair after. 4-4:15: Take dogs out, feed them, coffee. 4:15-4:45: Depending on how I feel, get in a game of Madden, breakfast or make my wife's lunch for her. 4:45 to 5: Drive to work. Arrive at 5. 5-1:30 PM: Work. Alt focus: Breakfast is usually bacon, eggs, and a couple of slices of toast. If I'm in a hurry, I take a trip through a Starbucks drive thru and get a bacon and gouda breakfast sandwich and a quad venti nonfat vanilla latte. I used to be a snoozer until I realized that I felt better throughout the day by getting up immediately. When I do hit the snoozer, I feel groggy all day, no matter how much caffeine I'm mainlining. For the record, I'm in bed at 8:30 and usually sleeping by 9. Sleeping while the sun is up really sucks.
I have windows that, while they're shaded, light still streams in on the sides and has the same (free) effect. It's kinda awesome but also...sometimes not because I DON'T WANT to wake up. Dammit.
I believe that's called a window... I find myself waking up earlier and later as the seasons change so 6:30 in the summer can easily change to 7:00 or later in the winter, thanks to the varying daylight hours.
Wake up! I use the alarm on my cellphone. As it goes off it gets louder and louder, it takes about 30 seconds. At the same time, the screen goes from black to a bright white clock face. Same idea, smaller scale, free.
Yeah, I'm thinking more if I wanted to wake up prior to sunrise in darker times...Like waking up earlier is easier in the summer cause the sun starts to wake me around 530 and those next two hours of sleep are easier to break out of without being groggy as shit. I used Sleep Cycle for awhile. It uses the iPhone gyroscope to sense your body movements and sleep patterns so it begins a gradual alarm when you are coming out of a REM pattern within the 30 min alarm range you set. Its decent but I felt like too often I would get woken up 20-30 min earlier than I wanted and not necessarily feeling any more refreshed than if I slept till my alarm.
Just for fun, here's Hunter Thompson's schedule. Spoiler for length and awesome absurdity: Spoiler 3:00 p.m. rise 3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills 3:45 cocaine 3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill 4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill 4:15 cocaine 4:16 orange juice, Dunhill 4:30 cocaine 4:54 cocaine 5:05 cocaine 5:11 coffee, Dunhills 5:30 more ice in the Chivas 5:45 cocaine, etc., etc. 6:00 grass to take the edge off the day 7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jiggers of Chivas.) 9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously 10:00 drops acid 11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass 11:30 cocaine, etc, etc. 12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write 12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies. 6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo 8:00 Halcyon 8:20 sleep Apparently we're all doing it wrong. Forget coffee, we need a couple grams of Colombian pure.
Man this thread makes me miss my dogs so much. I wish I had to get up and do the "let me out and feed me I am eyeballing you" thing. 7am wake up. I'm not really a snooze button lover but some days if I do hit it it's only once and I've learned on those days that it's not about trying to go or get back to sleep. It's about laying there just resting for an easier all out wake up. 7am-8am shower, do the girlie shit I have to do to look presentable. So unfair the SO can be out the door showered and everything in about 20 fucking minutes, 15 in a pinch. 8:30am arrive at work, dick around on the interbutz for about an hour if no appointments. 9:30am-12:30am work work work 12:30-1:30 lunch 5pm done, drink time is soon! 5:30-11pm home (if no plans), beverage, news, food and bed. I'm not a big coffee drinker. I am a creature of habit and I hate mornings. I do almost the exact same thing every single day before I leave the house in the AM and, do not talk to me in the morning unless I speak to you first. This is grounds for a beating.
6:20 - Alarm goes off and the dog leaps out of bed and starts running laps around it, banging into it with his body so as to imitate a low grade earthquake. Get out of bed while he runs all around me stepping on my feet while I find shorts to put on. Walk the dog and hope he poops on the first go-round. 6:30-6:50 - shower and get ready for work. 6:50-6:55 - Snuggle time for a few minutes with the dog and maybe a second walk if he didn't poop the first time. 7:00 - leave for work 740 - 8 - Arrive at work depending on traffic. Start coffee and entering orders for the day that I know will be wrong because everyone is stupid except for me. 8-11 - Work, mixed with internet(this place) and reading. Facebook impotent and inflammatory rage about various news topics and antivaxxers. 11-1 - Lunch with the work wife at some local place. Come back and watch a show on my tablet or read some of my book or something. 1-5 - work mixed with internet and other various bullshit and then go home. 6 - Arrive home and walk the dog. Think about dinner and turn on the tv. Rest of the evening is random bullshit and then heading to bed. Lately it's included a lot of working out. My work day is very much dependent on how many doctors are in the office and how many patients they have. Some days, I will do 40 exams. Some days, I will do 2. Today, I have 5.
^ Right there with ya. Something about those furry bastards... As much as you hate them for clawing your chest or waking you up whining because they would rather shit in the grass and chase rabbits than shit inside, they're awesome. I'm having a hard time nailing down my schedule so I'll range it, 5:30-6:30 open bloodshot eye, lose stare down with alarm coffee, usually misjudge first sip, burn mouth, stomp foot in frustration. 6:30-7 breakfast - I've been pre making casseroles for speed and ease on weekdays- also watching Mike and Mike throughout this pre talking period of my day. 7-7:30 more coffee, shit, shower if I didn't before bed, throw clothes on and run out door. 7:-8 drive to work Around 4 (good day) - 7 (super busy day) leave work and either go work out or cook for the next couple days, mow, or all of these. watch tv, play video games, work on computer at home, go out drinking whatever till 10-12 and then start over. Even though I own the company I need the structure of going to the office at a set time. If I worked from home I just don't think I would work as efficiently. For me that works.
Don't really have a typical time line because I change shifts at least every two weeks but just as an example it might go like this if I'm working days. 5:45AM - Wake up, eat and get ready for work 6:30AM - Leave for work 6:50AM - Arrive at work 7AM to at least 5PM, more likely than not 7PM - Work. There isn't really a typical day. Just whatever airplanes at broken fix them. It it's a busy day work nonstop with no breaks. If no planes are broken get assigned mundane bullshit tasks that are a complete waste of time rather than get cut back. Whenever I get home from work until whenever I fall asleep - drink some beers and watch tv or browse the Internet. Don't really have the energy for other shit any more.
I'm awful at mornings. I've always had a pretty unhealthy routine with getting out of bed, and have spent my life rarely being on time for things in the morning. Over the weekend or when I'm on leave I'll quite happily sleep for 10-12 hours if I don't have to get up for anything. Getting up at 4am like several people here would ruin me, jesus it's not even light yet! Focus: Currently - 6:30 - Alarm goes off, girlfriend hits snooze and gets up to do whatever it is she does. 6:40 - Snooze. 6:50 - Snooze. 7:00 - Snooze. 7:10 - Snooze. 7:15 - Girlfriend comes in and tells me I should probably be up by now. 7:20 - Slowly drag myself up onto an elbow, and then finally up out of bed. 7:30 - Sit on my phone checking news websites. 7:40 - Realise I need to be at work in 20 minutes, chuck a couple of eggs on to boil, get in the shower. 7:50 - Chuck some clothes on, eat eggs, run out the door. 8:00 - If I'm doing well, arrive at work on time. Make coffee. Work until 16:30-ish, then gym/pub/home depending on the day. Alt-focus: The boiled eggs for breakfast are a recent thing when I started trying to lose weight and thought I should probably start having something. Over the weekend breakfast is usually lunch.
5:20 am - get up, stumble vaguely towards my bathroom, splash water on my face, frantic search for workout gear 5:35 - walk across the street to my gym 6:05 - stumble back to my apartment 6:10 - pull an espresso double, fuck it up, and pull another one while frying a few eggs 6:30 - shave and shower 7:05 - leave for work (7:18 - get on go train, 7:50 get on subway, 8:10 re-evaluate current employer and/or living location) 8:18 - get to work, internet for the rest of the day i'm off at 4:30, home at six, put in some quality vape and gaming time
8am - wake up 8:05am - brush teeth then i alternate between drinking tea, reading books and watching the sopranos or something else until i go to work, generally around 3pm. i've forced myself, even in a night owl job, to be awake in the mornings. if i get to bed when my boyfriend does, i'll wake up at 7am. if i get to bed really late, i wake up at 9am. if i sleep past 9, i'm grumpy as hell, because i need time being awake and not seeing people to feel better, and being up early gives me more alone time.