Your morning routine.

~*BellaDonna*~ · #1 05-31-2016, 10:55 AM

What do you normally do when you finally decide to get up and stop telling the day to '@$!# off"?

This what I do:
1. When my alarm goes off at 5:00am, instead throwing it at the wall, I will hit the 'snooze' button, and ignore it until Martin (my husband), finally pulls me out of bed.

2. I go to the kitchen and make crack (coffee, of course!) and try to, uh, wake up... and act like a person. Not an easy task for me.
Then, I will make us breakfast, which has been the same thing every morning for at least 15 years now. Here it is, as follows:
-Scrambled eggs
-Steamed spinach
-Toast (usually with either butter or jam)

3. Read a newspaper. Or look at the internet real quick. Neither of us watch TV in the morning. Nothing against it, we just don't find any of the morning talk shows very entertaining.

4. Put breakfast out for our cats. Whiskers and Jojo are their names.

5. I get a shower, throw on a good outfit, put on some makeup, place my contacts in carefully and correctly (hopefully). He basically does the same, minus the makeup.

Then he heads off to work. He works as a plummer. And I go get errands done.

There you go. My morning routine.

Macfanforever · #2 05-31-2016, 11:46 AM

What is morning.I'm a nighthawk as everybody here see my 3am ,4am posts on here. I'm as of now semi retired as some friends say.I do side jobs here and most are not in the morning.Breakfast is more like a brunch since I get up around 10 am.I dont do the bacon and egg thing .I have a bowl of cereal or a tuna sandwich.Never watch morning TV or get a newspaper After that I'll hit the internet and catch up with the news from around the world and hit the forums that I'm a member of and check my emails.After that I take care of some work for my friends .

**SisterNightroad** · #3 05-31-2016, 01:56 PM

Depending on which time I get up in the morning I have breakfast with:

Early morning
- Milk with honey and biscuits, cereals, snack or two rusks with chocolate spreading or jam
- Cappuccino and brioches or cake

Late morning
- Yogurt and a little of puffed rice
- Fruit juice and a biscuit
- Chocolate or Vanilla soy milk and a rice cracker with chocolate

Then I wash and proceed particularly with my skin care (I have a very impure combination skin) and I either:
1) Take the train and go to class until lunch
2) Check on my computer for e-mails and notifications or messages on sites and forums, tidy up and study. When lunch approaches (or someone orders me to) I help a bit around the house, particularly the kitchen.

Missy · #4 05-31-2016, 05:27 PM

What is a routine???

olive · #5 05-31-2016, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Missy

What is a routine???

ha I agree my days are anything but routine it's more of an adventure some days or a catastrophe it all depends but never routine

Aussie W/Heart · #6 05-31-2016, 07:26 PM

Another night owl, usually in bed by 2am, wake at around 9.30am
Breakfast: cup of tea and cereal then coffee 30min later.
Feed my puppy
Turn on computer, check emails, F/B and then The Ledge etc
Do some housework
Quick snack for lunch
Back on the computer, work related lesson plans.
Get ready for work mid afternoon, work from 3pm to 6pm
Shopping
Make dinner, watch the news a little more TV.
Feed our 3 fur babies
Back on computer answer emails, etc.

My weekends are more fun

out and about

~*BellaDonna*~ · #7 05-31-2016, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Missy

What is a routine???

Everything in my life is a damn routine. Guess I'm an 'outcast' amongst some of you self-professed nightowls.

Macfanforever · #8 05-31-2016, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ~*BellaDonna*~

Everything in my life is a damn routine. Guess I'm an 'outcast' amongst some of you self-professed nightowls.

No .There's probably other earlybirds on here.

Macfanforever · #9 05-31-2016, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by SisterNightroad

Depending on which time I get up in the morning I have breakfast with:

Early morning
- Milk with honey and biscuits, cereals, snack or two rusks with chocolate spreading or jam
- Cappuccino and brioches or cake

Late morning
- Yogurt and a little of puffed rice
- Fruit juice and a biscuit
- Chocolate or Vanilla soy milk and a rice cracker with chocolate

Then I wash and proceed particularly with my skin care (I have a very impure combination skin) and I either:
1) Take the train and go to class until lunch
2) Check on my computer for e-mails and notifications or messages on sites and forums, tidy up and study. When lunch approaches (or someone orders me to) I help a bit around the house, particularly the kitchen.

Yes .I have to remember you are about 6 hours ahead of me.I never had soy milk of any kind.I love putting chocolate milk in my cereal like puff rice krispies ,corn flakes or bran flakes.When the Christmas holiday season is here I use egg nog in my cereal.I know it sound strange but it taste yummy.

iamnotafraid · #10 06-01-2016, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by SisterNightroad

Depending on which time I get up in the morning I have breakfast with:

Early morning
- Milk with honey and biscuits, cereals, snack or two rusks with chocolate spreading or jam
- Cappuccino and brioches or cake

Late morning
- Yogurt and a little of puffed rice
- Fruit juice and a biscuit
- Chocolate or Vanilla soy milk and a rice cracker with chocolate

I'd bet you're thin.

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My routine...

My mornings usually start like Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
My bunny slippers sniff sniff.

**SisterNightroad** · #11 06-01-2016, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by iamnotafraid

I'd bet you're thin.

I'm a small/medium size and I'm approximately 5 feet 4 inches tall.

**SisterNightroad** · #12 06-01-2016, 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Macfanforever

Yes .I have to remember you are about 6 hours ahead of me.I never had soy milk of any kind.I love putting chocolate milk in my cereal like puff rice krispies ,corn flakes or bran flakes.When the Christmas holiday season is here I use egg nog in my cereal.I know it sound strange but it taste yummy.

Yes, in fact sometimes I catch you in the mornings...that for you must be late hours.
Try chocolate soymilk sometimes, it's tasty and fat-free.
I love eggnog, during the Chrstmas holiday I always prepare it as a complement for desserts. Here we make it with Marsala.

KarmaContestant · #13 06-01-2016, 02:01 PM

I am a very routine oriented person. I do not respond well to intrusions on my routine, be it morning, my work day, or holiday traditions.

Because I like to cram as much into a day as possible, I stay up until I am physically exhausted. That may be 11:30, or it may be 1:30. 6 hours of sleep is best for me.

I wake up at 6:00, shower, get dressed, feed the dog and the cats. I do not eat breakfast on weekdays. I leave at 6:40 and walk slightly less than two miles to the train. When I get to my destination, I get off the train and walk another mile, uphill, to work. I have three, perhaps four cups of black coffee - a busier day means less coffee, because it just sits there getting cold.

Morning ends around 11:30, when I decide if I am having lunch, or not. It's really a 50/50. I require a minimum fast of 16-18 hours between dinner and the next day's first meal, or I feel bloated. I do not like to feel weighted down with food. But 2 or 3 days a week, I stretch that to almost 24 hours and do not eat again until dinner.

I leave work at 4:00 - no exceptions, ever. I walk/train/walk home, and spend the evening in my garden or doing household chores until dinner. Music is my preferred accompaniment. My spouse is a couch potato and watches politics all night, which sickens my soul. Every now and then I can talk him into a horror movie. Every now and then he talks both of us into watching a documentary.

Food routines are also very important to me. Dinners must be light, vegetarian fare usually. My diet is primarily Mediterranean (Palestinian, Italian, Greek, North African, Spanish) or Mexican influenced, and I prepare my meals using as much from my garden as possible. Maybe once a week I eat chicken or turkey - any other animal flesh is immoral and gross (for me). I haven't had beef since I was 14, or 1987. I deplore the treatment of animals raised for food and prefer to avoid eating them altogether, but gosh damn, sometimes a smoked turkey sandwich really hits the spot.

FuzzyPlum · #14 06-01-2016, 02:40 PM

Monday-Friday
Alarm at 5.40am
Snooze until 5.50am
Shower
Breakfast (watching BBC breakfast news);
*cereals (rice crispies, shreddies or cornflakes)
*tea (milk, one sugar)
*orange juice
Carry our youngest daughter (asleep) out to my wife's car so she can drive her to the child minder
Leave for work at 6.40am
Drive
Get to work at 7.10am
Start work properly 8.00am

Saturday-Sunday
Whatever

Macfanforever · #15 06-01-2016, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by SisterNightroad

Yes, in fact sometimes I catch you in the mornings...that for you must be late hours.
Try chocolate soymilk sometimes, it's tasty and fat-free.
I love eggnog, during the Chrstmas holiday I always prepare it as a complement for desserts. Here we make it with Marsala.

Ya .Sometimes I sign off around 4am New York time so that will be mid morning for you.Thanks I got to check out that chocolate soymilk out .I love milk .I was using the red capped regular milk for years.About 4 months ago I went to the blue capped 2 percent milk.i should get myself into the next cap color which I dont remember what it is.Maybe it was skim milk.I'll should try soymilk but its pretty expensive since sometime I go through gallons of milk .Yes I wish they stock eggnog all year round.