How you start your day ?

Put in my eye drops. Toilet. Put on coffee. Go back to bed and read.

I put eye drops in the coffee, then I switch the power on the toilet.

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Typical engineer...
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After you've witnessed my ability to fold a map, you'll eat those words.
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How many eye-drops did you take to-day ? My newspaper just arrives... Finally some time to relax with some thing printed

When I wake up:

Use toilet
Put on gym clothes
Eat 56g raisin bran with 1 cup soy milk
Drink 2 cups of water
Go to gym in my apartment complex
Run for 36 minutes
Do various exercises for 15 minutes
Return to Apartment
Use toilet
Put music on
Start shower
Brush teeth
Get into the shower
Shave
Get dressed
Drive to deli and eat a salad and veggie wrap with unsweetened black currant tea
Drive to work

I work days and nights, so when I'm working nights (like I am right now!) "starting my day" begins when my alarm goes off at 2:58PM and I arrive at work at 6:45PM.

I have a completely different schedule for when I work during the day.

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Rise and shine!
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I fend off two dogs who get their first morning thrills by doing belly flops onto my stomach to see if I'm awake yet. Once they realize I'm awake, I then have to defend against a relentless double-barreled face licking until I give in and play with them. If I feign sleep, they just pitifully whine in my ear until I cry Uncle! and give them attention.

When their thrills are satisfied, I then try to make my way to the bathroom while they chase my feet and attempt to lick my toes while I walk.

Look out the window and check the weather. If good, have a quick breakfast and had out to sea for a spot of fishing.

Usual ablutions then lift weights and pull on resistance bands. Weigh myself, but only record it on Mondays. Switch on Carl (the laptop computer) and Betsy (the desktop), assuming RP hasn't turned on the computers yet. Grab breakfast and the newspaper. Place previous evening's dishes in the dishwasher or empty the dishwasher, depends of course on the condition of the dishwasher's contents. Then open A2K, personal email, work email and my schedule.

Then the schedule and email decide what else I will do for the day.

get out of bed
put on robe
toddle to the bathroom
rinse out coffee pot and filter.
start coffee
grab laptop and sit in bed until coffee is done

out of bed at 06:00 (usually)
toilet
dress, grab ipod, go for 45 - 60 minute walk
breakfast (usually some yogurt and tea)
shower

Work day
roll out of bed
shuffle to the restroom while nearly tripping over 2 or 3 cats who insist their food bowls are empty and they haven't eaten in a week
take a shower & do the normal dress, make up, hair prep things
feed the cats
head to work

Weekend
sleep in late
shuffle to the restroom while nearly tripping over 2 or 3 cats who insist their food bowls are empty and they haven't eaten in a week
feed the cats
start the coffee pot and read e-mail, FB until ready
play FB games until coffee cup is empty, then decide the plan for the day which usually involves a bit of house cleaning, playing with the cats and taking a nap.

Glad you asked, Pepi.

At the crack of dawn, every single day, I spring out of bed with great enthusiasm!
First, 20 push-ups.
Followed by half an hour of yoga.
Followed by a vigorous 5 km run.
Followed by a bracing cold shower.
Then I make my health drink/breakfast from fresh fruit & vegetables (usually about 6 different varieties), wheat germ, etc ..
Then (after getting dressed, of course!) I rush out & embrace the day.
Ah! Another day, another adventure!






(All of the above details are bare-faced lies. But it sounds pretty impressive, yes? )

until i got to the last line i was thinking, well this is aside of msolga i hadn't seen before

.. and it's a side of me you're never ever going to see, Joe!

I am not a morning person. This takes 40 minutes from the first alarm going off to leaving my house. I shower before bed.

Hit the snooze alarm several times on BOTH alarm clocks (I am serious).
Get up.
Start heating water for coffee and put two slices of toast in the toaster.
Bathroom to toilet and wash face.
Pour first round of water into cone filter.
Get dressed and brush my hair.
Pour second round into cone filter.
Put lunch and water bottle in bag.
Toss out spent coffee filter, rinse and replace coffee cone.
Slap some almond butter (or cheese) on toast.
With coffee, toast, bag and keys in hand I leave the house.

Go straight to kitchen, turning on the TV news on the way by, turn on the coffee pot, give the dog a small tidbit, drink my two ounces of H30, go to bathroom, watch news. Get coffee, spend a few minutes at the computer, take herbal tonic, eat breakfast, dress, head out to work.

Wake up, bathroom, throw on robe, take dog outside, get newspaper, feed dog, eat breakfast (usually low-cal yogurt smoothie and a breakfast bar), read paper, check e-mails (both addresses)...

I don't get cleaned up and dressed until an hour before I have to go someplace. During the school year, my teaching schedule varies. And now, during the summer break, my schedule is even less regular.

idem dito

OH I smoked a cigarette, or two, in my Kitchen