Routine or take things as they come?

[Will]

Originally Posted by Feek

I find it very hard to believe that anyone who gets up at the same time each day and goes out at the same time each day hasn't settled into a repetitive routine for their morning activities.

Was that aimed at me? I don't shower always before b'fast, I don't always get dressed first, sometimes I don't have a shower (if I'm running late and had a shower the day before). Sometimes I get up at 530, sometimes at 430, it just depends. Sometimes i'll watch a bit of tv, or go on the net - it all depends how much time I have. When I wake up I just get up, I don't bother lying in bed so I sometimes have longer mornings than others. Sometimes I have porridge, sometimes I have cereal or some beans on toast. There's no order I do it in, I just do whatever I feel like. Some days I'm not in work until 7am.

Ok everyone has a "basic" routine, i.e. you wake up before driving in your car - but that's just common sense and basic fact that you can't drive a car whilst in bed. I have about as much routine as X Factor wannabes dance routines.

[Haly]

I have a morning routine sort of, now that I'm working. That's about it.
8am: Get up (Sometimes this is 8.10 if I cba and press snooze on the alarm)
8.01am: Turn PC on while getting dressed, then go to the loo, wash, brush hair and teeth.
8.10am: Check emails, read BD, read BBC News, anything else I can fit into the time
8.25am: Go downstairs to stick some bread in the toaster while making my lunch for later.
8.30am: Sit downstairs for a bit to chat to my Mum while eating toast.
8.40-8.45am: Leave for work and hope no one's been a noob and crashed on the M4.
9.25am: Arrive for work for a 9.30am start

When I get in from work, I don't bother with a routine as tbh I hate feeling controlled by routines and timetables. So I cook food when I'm hungry (Although that now tends to be 7.45ish as I like to eat dinner with my parents unless I've got other plans) and anything else that needs doing is on a 'To Do' list and does actually get done by whatever deadline there is

I reckon once I'm out of training and understand my job fully, I could manage to get up at 8.30am and still get to work on time. When I worked for CPW I used to regularly manage it for a Saturday morning, it's just i'm trying to be sensible now

[Rich_L]

Originally Posted by Feek

I find it very hard to believe that anyone who gets up at the same time each day and goes out at the same time each day hasn't settled into a repetitive routine for their morning activities.

Heh, when you're in a house with 3 other guys all doing the same things (breakfast, shower, ironing) at roughly the same times with 1 bathroom, 1 iron and 1 kitchen, you tend to fit in activities around everyone else rather than have a routine as such

[Pebs]

I have a new routine this week...

7am alarm goes off (I get up first time, I don't understand how people just let it go off and off...just accept you wont get up at that time and set it for when you WILL get up and get an extra half hour sleep!)
7.01 wake the girls up and tell them to all get dressed
7.02 get in shower
7.10 head downstairs, put on radio, check that everyone has underwear on
7.15 sort food for whoever wants food and iron stuff
7.20 dry hair
then I spend up until 7.45 nagging people to put socks on/brush hair/give me water bottles
7.45ish leave house
8am drop kids off at breakfast club
8.15 join the rugby scrum that is WPC car park

[goldilocks]

6:00 alarm goes off *snooze*
6:10 alarm goes off - he gets up, and runs the bath, goes the the loo, and generally fafs around until 6:30
6:30 get woken up by him - have a wee, brush teeth (if morning breath is too bad to stand any longer), have bath / wash hair, cleanse/tone/moisturise, wrap myself in a towel
7:00 eat breakfast whilst watching the news (BBC 1 ofc) and checking emails / forums etc
7:15 dry hair, get dressed (in 'casuals'), pack bag
7:30 final messing around in the bathroom, put on mascara, try and wrestle my hair into a pony tail, brush teeth (again)
7:40 either get a lift (if he's feeling kind) or walk to the bus stop
7:54 (if it's on time) get on the bus
8:10 arrive at hospital, get changed - text him, sort things out for the day - start at 8:30

we tried me getting up at 6:10 and him getting a lie in, but i just can't do it!
those extra 20mins make all the difference

[Will]

Originally Posted by Pebs

I get up first time, I don't understand how people just let it go off and off...just accept you wont get up at that time and set it for when you WILL get up and get an extra half hour sleep!)

I agree!

[Dr. Z]

Snoozing is so much nicer than sleep.

Sleeping is wasted on people asleep, its between being awake and asleep that is the best time

[Haly]

Originally Posted by kitten_caboodle

I don't. I just like to wake up slowly. Alarm goes off, I'm out of the 'deep sleep' zone but still groggy I doze for 10 mins enjoying the moment and being lazy in my nice, warm & comfy bed, then wake up and either torment Leo or get up.

That's what I do too

Except the tormenting Leo bit

[Haly]

I bet he'd love a tormenting phone call first thing in the morning

[Will]

Lazy arses

I'm a morning person anyway - when I wake up I'm fully awake and lucid. I can't really "do" lie-ins either, I just get restless and fidgety and just get up

Everyone's different - I just like to get up and go. I love my bed, but getting in it and feeling comfy as I fall asleep, when I wake up I lose that feeling.