This is from the earlier discussion in the happy item about routines.32 responses total.
Now that I have a job teaching future criminals of America (junior high kids), I have had to settle in a routine against my will. I like some stability and order, but I hate when things get TOO structured. Five days a week, my mornings are predictable as hell: 6:00-- alarm goes off. Hit snooze. 6:10-- alarm goes off. Hit snooze. 6:15-- alarm goes off across the room. Forced to get up. 6:20-- take care of various bodily elimination functions 6:25-- stumble to kitchen, dodging cat underfoot. Fill cat's bowl with food. Fill cat's bowl with water. Not just any water, but the chilled and filtered water from the fridge, since his royal heinie won't drink regular water. 6:30-- Eat either cereal or waffles while watching morning news. Surprised to learn that only two people were killed overnight. 6:40-- shower time. 6:55-- try to dress myself and mold hair into something that doesn't look like I cut it with a fork. Fail in this endeavor. 7:00-- get water bottle and requisite Diet Coke. Sprinkle treats on cat's food. 7:10-- Out the door. Puts on mean teacher face for school. Oh boring me.
Are you sure you are cut out for this occupation?
7:40-- Julie gives me a smooch and tells me it's time to get up. so then I lift the sleep mask from my eyes and go get Sarah from her crib with a "Hey, baby boo" in a voice that resembles Cookie Monster's. She usually hands me her blanket, which I'll refuse and grab her instead, and give her a smooch. I'll let her down to toddle into the kitchen. I come in, Julie's usually on the computer and I step on the scales... it takes my readings and she puts them into the Excel file. We sit down for breakfast and then I stumble into the shower... it's 8:10 or so when I'm dressing and off for work. I come home and have myself a salad, started doing that when conscience pricked me twice... eating out for lunch was breaking the budget and the diet. Besides, Julie has been nice to get good fixings. It's about 1:10 or so. I might sleep, it depends. Damn sleep disorders-- I'll sleep for hours if I do sometimes. I may or may not have an afternoon routine, depending, but if I'm on the 'Net, it's pretty predictable. Check e-mail, start Trillian to see who's on, check Grex, check IRC for my usual channels. I might practice the guitar. Need to make that a habit. But I'm getting a routine there, too. Assasi finger warm-ups, finger stretches, barre chords, scales, arpeggios, maybe go over the repetoire.
Assuming I've showered the night before, my morning goes something like this: 7:10 Alarm goes off. Hit snooze. 7:20 Alarm goes off. Groan. Hit snooze. 7:30 Alarm goes off. Hit snooze. 7:40 Alarm goes off. 7:50 Look at clock in half awake state. Curse. Finally drag myself out of bed. 7:51 Go to the bathroom. 7:52 Get dressed. Somewhere around here I usually end up spending a minute or so just staring at my feet as my sleep-deprived brain shuttles thoughts around slowly, like supertankers making three-point turns in the English Channel. 7:55 Comb hair, brush teeth, shave. Realize how shitty I look at this time of morning. 8:00 Grab Coke and yogurt cup from fridge for breakfast to eat at work. Get out the door because I'm already late.
I don't really have an evening routine. By the time I get home from work I feel too drained for anything very ambitious to seem like a good idea.
Wake up every two hours. Try to get back to sleep until at least 8. Get up. Wake Jim and think of something for him to make for breakfast. The rest of the day has no particular routine except for eating every few hours and taking a walk somewhere in the afternoon. A nap when I need it. Checking email once in a while. But we never did have much of a routine. I make lists of things that I ought to do some time in the next week or two such as juice the grapes and pick apples but these are not repetitive chores therefore not routine. Nor is work a routine for the self-employed. No pets or kids demanding things be done at any particular time. One monthly lecture series.
7a-ish - wake up. no alarm though. I hate those 7:05 - pee 7:07 - let dogs out 7:10 - shower (unless I showered before bed) 7:15 - let dogs in. feed them. give pill to the old one. 7:20 - go back to bed and listen to NPR. 8:00 - wake up and let dogs out and get dressed 8:05 - let dogs back in 8:10 - leave for work
wake up do stuff go to bed repeat
Hear alarm go off at 6:30 am. Ignore. Go back to sleep Hear alarm in sleep for another hour. Wake up. Switch off alarm, go back to sleep. Wake up at 8:10 am "Shit, I'm late" Go weigh myself, growl at weighing machine Go pee, brush, weigh myself, do victory dance at half pound loss after pee. Drink tea that fiance has made Laze in front of TV watching morning programming. give fiance kiss good bye Shower Make cooing noises at cat Dress Feed cat Shutdown laptop and put in bag Grab laptop and bag and leave for work.
Re #7: Heh. If I didn't use an alarm I'd never wake up before 10 am.
CRY ME A RIVER YOU LOTUS EATING LOSERS...you don't know what it means to suffer.....yet.
Wake up at random time Go to class Work Do homework Mess around on computer Work some more Read Go to sleep It's fairly standard stuff, except for dance practices, occasional weekends with Ken, bowling, dancing, etc.
wake up around 9 say howdy to the baby if she's awake pee let the dog out pour coffee feed the dog see if the baby's awake fix a bottle of formula put on some oats let the oats cool wake up the baby and change the diaper watch the baby laugh feed the baby while watching CNN eat oats play with the baby put the baby down for a nap when she's ready shower straighten up house load up the baby and run some errands
That sounds really nice, Barry :)
best job ever. :) she even lets me practice banjo now, but my playing is so crappy that i'm afraid that my neighbors might call CPS.
CPS *and* the Humane Society! aroooo
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"Hit the toilet, wash my face" How disgusting! Do you not have a sink??
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i had a friend like that once...he would smoke pall malls while brushing his teeth. :)
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ew. Wouldn't that kinda defeat the purpose?
hmm, 6.30 radio alarm goes listen to the news at maximun volume 6.35 turn off the radio, get out of bed do personal hygiene stuff 6.45 walk to kitchen turn on coffee machine, 6.50 watch morning news while eating either oatmeal or two slices of full corn bread. 7.00 eat some lotus to top things off ;) 7.05 drink a mug of coffee (very strong and hot) 7.10 brush teeth 7.15 put in contacts 7.20 leave for work 17.45 get back home 18.15 start cooking 18.35 - 18.45 have diner 19.30 - relax, read, game, work out, go out or whatever 00.30 get to sleep
Get up (differs every morning) Shower, shave, etc. Breakfast w/ Internet Go off and do stuff, or stay home and do other stuff Lunch Often a short nap More stuff Dinner More stuff Bed
I suspect clee's "full corn bread" is "whole wheat" or "sprouted wheat" bread, not American cornbread.
You are right. The proper term evaded me.
I've discovered that I will wake up IMMEDIATELY with my heart pounding and no hope of falling back asleep if I set my alarm to "radio" instead of "buzzer". I woke up and thought people were in my room yelling at me. :-P
I have the opposite reaction. I can't use the 'buzzer' setting because it causes me to startle awake with my heart pounding. While that's effective in getting me out of bed on time, it's kind of hard on the body to have an adrenaline rush first thing in the morning. :P
Daily routine, eh? Well, they vary a bit, but kind of goes like this:
1:00 AM - go to bed. Take or give two hours.
2:00 AM - Kendra wakes. Valerie moves to her bed, and likely spends the
rest of the night there.
6:00 AM - Arlo wanders into the room. Says he had a bad dream. He didn't
really, it's just an acceptable and irrefutable excuse for waking
a parent when he wants company at 6:00 AM. I escourt him back
to his room, and then go back to sleep. This may happen several
more times.
7:30 AM - Wake up for real this time. Take or give a half hour.
Dress, head to kitchen make lunch for Arlo. Possibly also
breakfast, if Valerie hasn't already fed him.
8:00 AM - Nag Arlo till he gets dressed and ready for school. Load him
in the car seat, and drive to school. If it's MWF, Valerie will
be bringing Kendra to her school. Otherwise I usually take Kendra
along for the ride to drop off Arlo.
9:00 AM - Arrive at Arlo's school. Actual arrival time varies between
7:30 AM and 9:00 AM.
9:15 AM - Back home again. Time to feed myself breakfast.
9:30 AM - Down to the basement to fire up the computer for about three hours
of worrk.
12:15 PM - Time to go pick up Arlo.
1:00 PM - Arlo is home, time to eat lunch.
1:30 PM - Afternoon activities begin. These vary a lot. Basically either
Valerie or I watch the kids, while the other either works or does
household stuff, like getting groceries.
3:00 PM - Afternoon snack time for the kids.
5:00 PM - Time to start cooking dinner. Valerie does Tues, Thursday, Sunday.
I do Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Other parent either works or
watches kids, depending on whether the kids are in a fit state to
watch while cooking.
6:00 PM - Dinner. Start time varies with recipe complexity. Kids often
eat earlier. After dinner, whoever cooked cleans kitchen.
7:00 PM - Bedtime for kids starts. Mostly Valerie puts Kendra to bed, and
I put Arlo to bed. Bedtime starts with a snack (unless dinner was
so late it ran into bedtime), then clean up of toys in living
room, den and kid's rooms. Then toothbrushing - I brush Arlo's
teeth twice a week, he does his own (not very thoroughly) the
other five days. Arlo dresses for bed. Then Arlo can choose
a book to read. After that, we tell made-up bed time stories.
Theoretically Valerie and I alternate telling stories to Arlo,
but most nights Valerie is still busy getting Kendra to sleep,
so I do most of them. Lately Arlo has been telling them to us
a lot.
8:30 PM Arlo is probably in bed now. Probably not asleep yet. Time
to go downstairs, get back on the computer, and get in a bit more
work. However, often I'm just too brain-fried to do much work
by this point. Then I do Grex or watch a video. or do something
else pointless till I tip over from exhaustion.
teh above is neraly compatible with ocd .. think about it. aside frome that .. #8 is about rigth for me as well ....
since i don't have class till noon, i'm frequently not up till 1030 or 11. shower, shave once or twice a week, and out the door to class around 1145. MWF, second class at 1, then work 2--5. T/R, lunch or reading or homework till second class at 230, then more reading or something 345--later. Dinner at some point, if I feel like it. The last few weeks I've been working on a show, so a couple times a week, i went in at 530 to start that.; done 11ish. If I have a 'routine' beyond that, I don't recall it.
Ah, to be in college again. ;>
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