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Wake 6am
Finally drag myself from bed 6.30am
Fell like s**t, drink water, eat something, get ready.
At work 7am
I need to get up earlier!
Up at 20 past 6, quick shower while coffee machine warms up, drink coffee then 'deploy 3 para' as I am now, then grab some fruit & off I go at ten past 7 to get to work for half past.
My routine.
5:50 alarm
5:51 perform my various ablutions
6:30 iron shirt
6:35 empty dishwasher
6:40 get my son up
6:55 shuffle the cars about as the wife goes to work
7:00 breakfast
7:10 get my daughter up
7:30 aim to leave the house
7:40 leave the house
7:50 drop daughter at nursery
7:55 drop son off at M I L's
8:00 get on the motorway
8:29 arrive at work
5:30ish. Go downstairs. Wake computer.
5.55 am - panic
6am- alarm goes off *snooze*
6.20 am -run
7am -shower
7.05 am coffee and food
7.30 am get dressed
7.40 am walk/cycle to work.
I have startedcthis new thing where I pre iron all my shirts, its amazing!
7:00 Alarm
7:01 Sh*t/Shower
7:08(ish) Dry/Clothe
7:10 (ish) Cereal/feed cat
7:25 (ish) Brush teeth
7:30 Pick up lunchbox, leave.
Never understood the 'hit the snooze button as long as possible' people, surely if you're efficient at getting ready, you can stay actually asleep for as long as possible..
4:50 Alarm
4:51 Get kit on
5:00 - 5:20 sh*t whilst browsing STW/google weather/e-mails on phone
5:20 - 5:30 let dog out/feed dog/ignore cats
5:30 - get on bike to ride to work
6:10 - 6:20 arrive at work
6:20 - shower/change
6:50 - start work
5:45 alarm
5:50 Shower/shave
6:02 Dress
6:05 lay breakfst board for the fmaily and eat breakfst, check news
6:27 brush teeth
6:30 drive into village
6:42 bus into town
7:15 tram to work
7:30 at work
I need at least 30 mins in bed with a cup of tea first. That time is now.
Up about 7, fanny about till about 8.15 then ride to work for 9 🙂
Though this morning it was up at 5.20, out the door at 5.55 then train to London where I am currently abusing the free Wifi 😉
5.50 alarm
10 mins drowzing/chatting to gf
shower/shave/sh etc
coffee
dress
out of house by 6.20/30am (*delays on bin days etc)
alarm goes off (or not)
10-15 mins catching up with news/social media
get up
30 mins pot of tea decide on breakfast, browse work e-mails deal with urgent
30-60 mins breakfast, news, work, singletrack
maybe make it down to the actual office rather than the laptop in the living room before lunch..
[edit] no. [/edit]
Woken by my wife getting up at 06:30
roll out of bed about 7
walk across the landing to the office, start the pc
wander downstairs and make breakfast about 7:30
I do always try and make sure I'm showered and dressed by 11.
Surprised your awake whippersnapper
4.30 - 6.20 get woken by those pesky kids
6.20 - 7.10 take dog too see his friends in park
7.10 - 7.30 shower dressed
7.30 - 7.45 make breakfast and lunch for me and wife
7.45 - 8.00 eat breakfast, watch pepper pig and stw
8.00 - 8.15 panic dress children and run round house looking for stuff
8.15 - 8.50 take no 2 son to nursery
8.50 - 9.00 take no 1 son to school
9.10 arrive at work
That's right it takes 3 hours to get to work
Never understood the 'hit the snooze button as long as possible' people, surely if you're efficient at getting ready, you can stay actually asleep for as long as possible.
I am neither pushed for time nor short of sleep its a 20 buffer zone, sometimes I read sometimes a doze sometimes not.
06:26 Radio alarm, listen to Radio 4 doom and gloom
06:50 Get up, shave + brush teeth
06:55 CHange into bike gear + pack work clothes in rucksack
07:05 Leave home for work
07:20 Arrive at work
07:25 Shower
07:40 At desk
08:00 Coffee! (off now for a brew)
Working from home, FTW. 😀
Alarm goes off, 4.55am. Log on, 5:00. Amble downstairs and get the coffee on. Proper breakfast about 9ish. Finish work, 13:00. Get dressed.
0720 - alarm goes off, snooze x 2 so that the wife and I can have a cuddle
0740 - drag my ass out of bed, No. 1/2 (if required)
0745 - feed dogs, breakfast
0750 - make tea/coffee
0755 - wait for wife to get out of the shower/read paper on the internet
0810 - shower
0815 - press-ups, planking
0820 - get dressed
0830 - walk dogs
0845 - leave for work
0900 - arrive work
7.45 wake up and shuffle to kitchen
Make coffee, shuffle back to bed with brew
8.00 get up, shower, shave, dressed
8.30 leave house to drop girls at school
8.45 arrive at office
Depends if I'm working from home or going into the office.
Working from home:
8-9.30 Wake up and get coffee
Go upstairs and log onto laptop
Office:
8.30-9 Wake up, shower, get dressed
8.55-9.15 Leave
9.45 - Arrive at work.
I tend to do much longer days when I work from home, which is 3/5 days typically.
On shave days I wake at 6.30am, ready by 7.20am and leave the house at 7.30am to take eldest to school bus.
On non-shave days I wake at 6.40am, ready by 7.15am and leave the house at 7.30am to take eldest to school bus.
0725 alarm goes off
0735 snooze goes off and I get up
0736 toast goes in, coffee poured
0737 piss
0738 prepare toast
0740 eat toast
0815 make lunch
0820 don lycra and pack bag
0830 depart on bike
0915 lock up bike at work
0917 shower at work
0930 buy cinnamon roll
0935 at work, have coffee, have cinnamon roll
I used to go either swimming or running most mornings before work, got up at 6 easily and was usually in bed by 10 the night before.
That gradually faded away as I let my life become cluttered with unimportant junk (about 20 years ago), and now I really struggle to get up in the morning. I try to get back in the rhythm, but it never seems to last for more than a couple of weeks until bad habits start to take over again.
I read this on the BBC yesterday, found it quite interesting. It is easy to forget how badly poor sleep can effect our health.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24444634
I was thinking of setting an alarm on my phone for 9pm every night, to switch of my TV and computer, try and remove some of the junk from life that just kills time.
cycling day
5:30 - alarm goes off
5.35 - coffee, yogurt, read internetz
6.10 - pack bag , get dressed
6.30 - leave
7.45 - arrive
7.50 - shower
8.00 - at desk eat breakfast
driving day
7.00 - alarm goes off
7.05 - in shower
7.15 - coffee on
7.20 - get dressed
7.25 - dump coffee in cup and jump in car
8.00 - at work
try and remove some of the junk from life that just kills time.
thatll be STW then 😉
Oh god
6 alarm in shower before smelly housemate
6:20-640 out of shower, hair, make up
7:15 start to choose clothes
7:30 panic about clothes
7:45 get dressed ( maybe redo make up hair depending on clothes)
750 coffee
8:00 leave for work
8:45 arrive desk
9:15 think about clothes I should have worn, depressed
Blimey, STW reaches a new low in the world of the mundane.
[quote=DezB ]Blimey, STW reaches a new low in the world of the mundane.
Would you rather another 26v29" wheel debate? :p
I work afternoons so...
up at 7:30 for the school run,
coffee,
breakfast,
ride bike,
shower, dinner and a kip by 13:00,
leave for work by 13:50.
7.00 Alarm goes off
7.50 Stop pressing snooze and drag self into shower
8.05 Iron shirt
8.15 Finish dressing
8.25 Leave for bus stop
8.28 Catch first bus
8.40 Catch second bus/curse that first bus was late so missed second bus, hail cab.
8.55 Arrive at work
8.56 Start posting on here
never had a problem getting out of bed - spent years at boarding schools where a scary matron would shout at anyone still in bed after alarm call
can get up and out of house, including breakfast and ready to ride to work in 1/2 hour
up at 06:30 when the boy wakes up
change his nappy
give him breakfast
game of indoor football/ wrestle/ throw things at Dad
throw work clothes in bag
07:30-08:00 ride to work
08:30-09:00 dullness ensues
06.53 alarm / snooze button
07.02 2nd alarm - get up
07.08 finish shower / shave in the shower
07.10 finish brushing teeth
07.15 finish getting dressed
07.18 finish small bowl of cereal
07.19 leave the house
04:00 Alarm, drag carcass to bathroom, trying not to wake SWMBO
04:02 Finally arrive bathroom after bumping into various walls\doors that have inexplicably moved overnight. S.S.S.
04:40 Dress in spare bedroom, then let out\in dogs
05:00 Leave for work
06:10 Arrive work, make a brew and let previous shift away
18:15-30 Leave work and attempt to escape Aberdeen
1940 Arrive home, catch up with SWMBO, shower.
21:00 Collapse into bed and repeat
Depending on demand I may get a rest period to eat.
6am alarm, straight out of bed to shower.
6:03 out of shower for shave and tooth clean
6:08 back to bed room shaven with better breath. Get dressed, grab tie but don't put on yet.
6:13 grab lunch box including breakfast, put in bag with tie.
6:15 leave house and walk to station,6 minutes walk.
6:23 train leaves. Eat breakfast, buy coffee and put on tie on the train.
I love sleep and do all I can to maximise my morning efficiency. This obviously relies doing the prep the night before but it does work.
7:00 Alarm
7:01 Kettle on
7:02 In shower
7:05 Out of shower
7:06 Hot water on teabag.
7:07 Clothes on
7:10 Teabag out. Milk in.
7:11 Pack bag
7:12 Walk to car
7:15 Drive off
9:00 Arrive PX Global HQ
get up, coffee, breakfast wander upstairs, surf for a bit, more coffee, email, prevaricate a bit more, more coffee, do something productive for about 30 mins get bored.... coffee surf....
Use to be about 15 mins from getting up to getting out the door. Now with a toddler that seems to have stretched out to about 2 hours! WFH definitely FTW.
after posting my new work from home part time routine I have to confess to being in the 20 minute camp a few years back when commuting round the M60. Had to get a faster boiling kettle at one point
Depends on the shift, if it's a proper early one then I'm up at 5 to leave at half 5 and arrive at work at half 6. On a later one I'll take more time and actually have a shower and breakfast before work.
Up at 6, leave at 7 for 20 mile ride to work, in work about 8:15, at desk for about 8:40
6.20 - shower
6.30 - dressed
6.40 - out front door
7.10 - arrive office
Depends on what day, either I'm doing some housework or getting the little one ready for a tow to nursery. Either way the alarm goes of at 7:00, drag my arse out of bed by 7:15, out of door around 8:35 or 8:15 if doing the nursery run, ride 6 miles, get to work for 8:55.
Cheers,
Jamie
5:15 - alarm
5:16 - ablutions
5:20 - training kit on
5:30 - out the door on bike
6:00 - in the pool
7:00 - running
If not a swim/run day it'll be a longer bike instead
8:00 - heading home on bike
8:30 - into the shower + shave
8:40 - get dressed
8:50 - out the door on motorbike
9:00 - in the office to munch on breakfast
Nearly 4 hours from waking to office, but I don't just lounge around 😀
Cheers, Rich
When I commuted to London I woke up at 0655, left the house at 0705 and caught the 0717 train from the station which was a mile away. I'm not quite sure how I managed it!
5:30 Alarm goes off
5:40 In shower
5:55 Leave house
6:07 Get train
7:07 Sat infront of 6 bl00dy screens for the next 9 1/2 hours
Shower and shave the night before.
5:15 Get up
5:16-5-29 brush teeth, splash face, get changed, spray sure on and question life.
5-30-5-40 walk to work
About 8 mins from getting out of bed to getting in the car.
Shower at 10.30am in gym.
6:30ish Missus gets up, I listen to her getting ready while I snooze
7:00 Alarm
7:00 - 8:35 Coffee, Toast, then morning ablutions, interspersed with procrastination. It's mainly procrastination. This morning it was watching 'This is Peaty' on Youtube.
8:35 - Time to leave. Blunder round the house looking for bike kit and cursing. Usually a missing arm warmer, glove, or bike lock key. Leave the house when I have finally got it together.
25 minutes of nailing myself on the bike.
9:15ish Work.
7.00 first alarm, ignore it
7.15 second alarm, get up, make breakfast, take it back to bed, catch up on news and forums
7.50 sh!t/shower/shave
8.20 make pack lunch, leave for work
8.45 start work
I have a regime.. I de-cloak when I get in the night before, then set out new clean Shirt, get another Suit out, new Tie, clean undies then hang that lot up whilst I shower.. This leads to me getting out of bed the following morning, showering and re-cloaking in 15mins and out thas door like.. 😀
6.50 - alarm goes off
7.05 - rush out of bed
7.06 - wake kids up, tell them we've overslept again and they need to get moving
7.07 - bathroom
7.10 - get dressed
7.11 - help kids to get washed and dressed - usual arguments about not liking any of their clothes, school uniform suddenly being too small, etc
7.35 - load kids into wife's car
7.40 - drive to work
8.20 - arrive at work.
...and relax.
Depends whether Susanna Reid is on Breakfast or not....
6:00 Wake. Read nuclear physics magazines and plan world domination.
6:15 2nd personality wakes. shower while whistling cheery tune
6:30 exit shower and put away magazines ?housemate? has left out [odd]
6:32 toaster/kettle on
6:33 [switch]
6:34 Head down to lair.
6:35 Warm up centrifuge, acid bath and activate drone scouts.
6:38 Observe mortal enemies and work on second fission stage drawings .
7:00 Head back up.
7:01 [Switch]
7:02 eat cold toast [odd], drink cold instant coffee [odd], read grauniad
7:20 notice time and am surprised
7:30 [switch]
7:33 Incognito browsing, switch to secure network, TOR. Brief henchmen via scrambled comms.
8:30 Head back up.
8:31 [Switch]
8:32 look for rest of breakfast, always seem to eat it in a daze.
8:33 notice time, panic. should leave at 8:30
8:40 exit house with wet hair, loo roll stuck to feet and half my lunch
9:05 arrive work, make excuses set the tables out for first customers in organic cafe.
various times during day - puzzled by nods and winks from men in trenchcoats who keep passing the organic cafe.
...i never seem to have enough time to do anything and I always set off alarms in airports. very puzzled.
5:50 yoga
7:00 Alarm, light boxes and Radio 2
7.30 Go downstairs, feed cats, make tea for Wife and I
7.35 Back to bed with tea and cats
8.00 Shower
8.15 Breakfast
8.35 Clean teeth
8.40 Ride bike to work
9.00 Arrive at work
7:35 Drag my ass out of bed, brush teeth & quick wash
7:40 Leave for work
7:50 At work, sit at desk, try and wake up
Even though I'm in work before 8 I don't really wake up until about 10:30.
6.45 get up.
6.50 in shower
7.15 iron shirt
7.30 leave house
7.35 join rat race
8.45-9 arrive at work.
on a good day
6.15 alarm
6.30 out with dog
7.00 on bike
7.30 get to work, shower, hair wash
8.00 at desk
Something like this....
0700 Alarm (radio)
0710 Alarm (buzzer)
0730 Finally vacate bed
0750 On bike
0820 Arrive at office bike shed
0825 Fire up laptop, pick up shower kit/clothes
0830 In shower
0845 At desk (coffee/breakfast consumed at some point)
I'm shocked at the complete absence of slackers posting on here so far.Probably all still in bed 😉
tlr - MemberDepends whether Susanna Reid is on Breakfast or not....
Need to factor in an additional 5 minutes if so? 😉
It's funny how much it can vary with the weather. If it's bright and sunny outside, everything seems to happen faster; if it's grey and overcast, everything's in slow-mo.
7:30 Alarm
7.40 on bike
8:00 Start work
Wake up about 9ish
Grab a coffee
Start work
Usually have a shower at some point
03:45 Alarm goes off
03:50 Drag ass out of bed
03:52 Jump in shower
04:05 Get dressed
04:10 Have breakfast
04:20 Leave for work
04:30 Arrive work car park
04:45 Go through Security checks
05:00 Start work
[i]Shower and shave the night before.[/i]
Yuk, I couldn't go to work without having a shower in the morning.
06:00 Alarm
06:02ish Shave
06:15 On bike
07:30 Arrive at work; quick shower
07:45 Desk
03:00 1st alarm goes off, press snooze
03:15 2nd alarm goes off, press snooze
03:30 3rd alarm goes off, Get up
wash reluctantly, get dressed, make coffee
03:45 check ebay and pistonheads and ebay
04:00 in the car and off down the m11
04:35 arrive at work
04:45 check singletrack for sale
15:15 leave work
15:45 get home
15:50 fall asleep in armchair
kinhell gotta go i should have left work 2 mins ago 🙂
I work nightshift now so it varies. Used to be down to a fine art when I started at 6.45 though. Alarm was 5:52, needed to be on train station by 6:09. There was about 30 seconds spare for things going wrong. Amazingly in 3 years it only went wrong 4 or 5 times.
No-one has mentioned a "clash of clans" attack.. surely everyone has to fit one of these in before work?
No-one has mentioned a "clash of clans" attack
I thought this may have been a euphemism for something I and the missus rarely do.
6.20: My alarm clock goes off - the alarm consists of the neighbour's daughter arriving to park her car outside parents house so I get woken by shouts of "back a bit! turn yer wheel! well done luv!"
The daughter is 37. She's needed the same instructions every weekday for the 6 years I've lived in that house. 🙄
6.30: Get up, have breakfast
6.50: Put on whatever bike kit the weather dictates
7.00: Pack work clothes, lunch etc into rucksack
7.10: Ride to work
8.15 ish: Arrive at work, shower, change
8.40: Office.
Up, showered, dressed, teeth brushed and out the door in 20 minutes.
7.50 Alarm
8.00 Other alarm
8.10 Alarm that I actually pay attention to
8.11 Minimum possible morning cleaning stuff
8.30 Make breakfast and lunch
8:45 get on bike
8:50 get off bike
8:51 get to office, change
9:00am go on STW.
What time do all you early risers get to bed?
c30 minutes. Maybe 35 if I have breakfast at home.
Mrs North, Mme North and I are all terrible in the mornings. For me and Mme North, this is explained by being nightowls. For Mrs North, she can go to bed early, have 12 hours sleep and still feel ropey in the morning.
Alarm went off 7am this morn , was on bike at 7.10am and at work at 7.20am to clock on at 7.30am bollocks to spending life on trains or in cars or fackin shaving!
Quite intersting reading! pottering /efficient schools of thought. Definitely more towards the efficient myseld.
6.50 alarm
6.55 up
7.00 cup of tea and cereal
7.10 brush teeth, maybe a poo
7.15 kiss kids/ wife goodbye
7.18 on bike
7.35 at work - get changed
7.45 coffee, work begins.
Unless I'm doing a 1pm-10pm shift. Then it's..
Get up whenever. Waste the morning faffing about. Get on bike for work 1240. Arrive 1250. Clock in at 1
Mon - wed
6am up dress walk dog.
6:30 breakast coffee
6:45 shower dress
7:00 leave
7:45 arrive at work.
Thurs and fri similar but dont walk dog.
630-645 wake up
Put kettle on and radio
Shower
Dress haphazardly
Play guitar or read for 30 mins
Get to work by whatever method I feel like
Arrive at work no later than 840.
Import and price and sort stuff out till 1730
Other stuff.
3.00am - 7:30am: Get woken up by toddler(s) wanting to get up. CBEEBIES on
8:00am: Feed toddlers breakfast, throw dog out for a wee
8:30am: Panic that it has got that late and rush out the house to get to work!
2:00pm - 5:00pm: Get home, have a shower, feed boys etc
12.00am: Bed and wonder why I am so knackered!