Daily Routines

Zombie · #1 01-22-2010, 12:33 AM

I just ran across this site http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/ and found it really interesting. People have so many quirks that are revealed by what they do every day.

My daily routine is probably considered a right mess by most folks, but it works for me. I sleep while the kids are at school and do all my work at night because I can't function properly before noon no matter how much sleep I've had. I like how 4:30 AM looks, but I have not the fortitude to actually wake myself up at 4 AM to see it, so that works out pretty well.

**mylittledemon** · #2 01-22-2010, 12:46 AM

The only daily routine I really have that is always guaranteed... is that I have to take a #2 in the morning... and it's always after I've had a shower.

Zombie · #3 01-22-2010, 01:10 AM

Thanks for sharing!

vivfox · #4 01-22-2010, 01:50 AM

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I can't function properly before noon no matter how much sleep I've had.

Exactly the way I feel. Luckily I'm self employed. But I do all my work in the afternoon.

Zombie · #5 01-22-2010, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by vivfox

Exactly the way I feel. Luckily I'm self employed. But I do all my work in the afternoon.

Ha!

I'm also self-employed. I discovered that while being freelance can be scary, it's worth it to me to be able to yell "I DO WHAT I WANT" and mean it, even though this time of year is never kind to those in my field.

GODDESS6 · #6 01-22-2010, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Zombie

Ha!

I'm also self-employed. I discovered that while being freelance can be scary, it's worth it to me to be able to yell "I DO WHAT I WANT" and mean it, even though this time of year is never kind to those in my field.

i'm self employed too~ but i open my daycare at 6 am, close it at 5 pm~ i can't sleep past 5 am for anything, i don't care if i just went to bed, when it turns 5, my eyes open on their own~ even if i have been tying one on, those damn eyelids, manage to pop right open~

i am very routine-ish~ w/ everything in my life~ i am anal about cleaning & vacuuming everyday, i have to do it or i can't sleep~ i make my bed right when i wake up, even before having to go in for the morning tinkle~

i don't freak tho if things get off track tho, having a kid has taught me tons of patience, i can get things going again w/out a hitch~ & i am one helluva multi tasker

~

chriskisn · #7 01-22-2010, 08:05 AM

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I can't function properly before noon no matter how much sleep I've had.

Sadly I'm the same although I can usually function by about 10am after a couple of cups of coffee. Sadly I start work at 9am. My manager (there are only two of us in the store) is the same, so any customers turning up before that first coffee are greeted with two surly sarcastic salesmen.

We will even make customers wait while we make a cup of coffee. Anyone who is sitting outside the shop before 9am deserves to be made to wait.

Zombie · #8 01-22-2010, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by GODDESS6

i'm self employed too~ but i open my daycare at 6 am, close it at 5 pm~ i can't sleep past 5 am for anything, i don't care if i just went to bed, when it turns 5, my eyes open on their own~ even if i have been tying one on, those damn eyelids, manage to pop right open~

i am very routine-ish~ w/ everything in my life~ i am anal about cleaning & vacuuming everyday, i have to do it or i can't sleep~ i make my bed right when i wake up, even before having to go in for the morning tinkle~

i don't freak tho if things get off track tho, having a kid has taught me tons of patience, i can get things going again w/out a hitch~ & i am one helluva multi tasker

~

I commend you for having all that discipline. Though maybe it's not really discipline if it's what comes natural to you? I don't know.

I have the relative luxury of choosing my own hours simply because I'm a writer. I do have deadlines, but I try to make sure those deadlines don't mean I have to wake up to send something in at 9 AM or something. When I get hired for a long-term project, I usually tell people flat out that if they email me during the day and I don't answer right away, it's not because I'm ignoring them, but because of the hours I keep.

Unless they are paying me a higher rate than usual, of course. Then I will adjust accordingly.

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Sadly I'm the same although I can usually function by about 10am after a couple of cups of coffee. Sadly I start work at 9am. My manager (there are only two of us in the store) is the same, so any customers turning up before that first coffee are greeted with two surly sarcastic salesmen.

We will even make customers wait while we make a cup of coffee. Anyone who is sitting outside the shop before 9am deserves to be made to wait.

Ahhh, I hear ya. I had a "regular" job for a time before I went freelance, where I went into the office right after I herded my kids onto the school bus. I didn't end up actually waking up, though, until around noon. After a time, they closed the office and we all scattered to the four winds and worked from home. I thought at first that this would be excellent - work in my pajamas! I don't have to brush my hair, because no clients will be here! No one can tell my surly-cos-I'm-too-tired-to-give-a-damn-about-your-problems tone of voice via email! Huzzah!

Wrong! I found that, for that particular job - and I think this is likely a problem a lot of work from home types that aren't their own boss experience - is that my superiors decided that since I was at home, that meant I was ALWAYS at work. If they emailed me at midnight and I didn't reply right away, it was like, "Where are you?????" Pfft, back off.

holidayroad · #9 01-22-2010, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Zombie

I just ran across this site http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/ and found it really interesting. People have so many quirks that are revealed by what they do every day.

My daily routine is probably considered a right mess by most folks, but it works for me. I sleep while the kids are at school and do all my work at night because I can't function properly before noon no matter how much sleep I've had. I like how 4:30 AM looks, but I have not the fortitude to actually wake myself up at 4 AM to see it, so that works out pretty well.

If I lived alone, I would follow your schedule! I am a total night person!! Right now, though, I awaken at 6:45 am, 5 to 6 days a week. I have tried sleeping in the day, but it never works because people call me even when I ask them not to. I would turn off the phone, but my son has a lot of medical problems, so I need to be available, just in case. I never feel awake until it's almost time to go to sleep!! I usually go to bed at 11 pm. In the morning, I'm fixing lunches, making sure my son takes his medicines, fixing up medicine for later in the day, making sure everyone leaves the house with what they need for the day. During the day, I do whatever needs done (house cleaning, bill paying, laundry etc.). In the evening, I'm helping with homework, cooking dinner, making sure everyone has everything they'll need for the next day. I have a lot to remember every day (and it seems I'm getting worse at remembering it!) On the weekends, I try to just find some time to sit down!!!

vivfox · #10 01-22-2010, 12:38 PM

I can't believe it but I actually slept until 11:00am today! Eight solid hours of sleep.
unfrickin believable! I feel so well rested. I had some interesting dreams. I dreamt about Stevie's new song with Peter Asher, I dreamt about my deceased cat Snifflitt. After Convincing her to join me in the car I took her to a cat school where they taught her how to communicate with me using colors on sticks. It was cool. She learned the trick in less than 3 hours. Then I dreamt I went to the bank with my friend Donna who lives in Indiana. I dreamt about Donna two mights in a row, I wonder what this means? Anyway we were in the bank and the teller was cashing my check and tried to give me fake money. I told her to get her supervisor and the bitch took the cashiers side and tried to intimidate me. All the other cashiers clapped for their bosses behavior and then the boss said she was calling the cops on me! Donna and I scooted outta there quickly, as if we were the bad guys. The next dream had me going to a friends house looking for my car and her mother telling me the friend drove it to another location. So I went in the house to wait and there were these weird cat sized spiders-3 of them-running around her living room and I was terrified and the mom of my friend wasn't and then Snifflitt appeared and scared the spiders into the wall.
I know this spider dream came from me being freaked out by Shane's(fringed and fab) story of that hairy creature coming in and out of the living room walls in some lady's house.

HomerMcvie · #11 01-22-2010, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Zombie

Ha!

I'm also self-employed. I discovered that while being freelance can be scary, it's worth it to me to be able to yell "I DO WHAT I WANT" and mean it, even though this time of year is never kind to those in my field.

Me too, on the self-employed. Noon, is the earliest, I EVER want to be up. I'm just not a morning person, and I never will be. And I knew, at about 14, that I HAD to find a job that didn't involve mornings. I literally SHUDDER, just thinking about mornings! Bleck!

David · #12 01-22-2010, 04:41 PM

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Noon, is the earliest, I EVER want to be up.

I'm happy getting up between 7:30 & 8, having breakfast, showering, getting dressed, & starting my day!

But sometimes I like to get up at dawn to do some yoga or meditation, which puts my soul in balance with my body.

**mylittledemon** · #13 01-22-2010, 04:59 PM

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Thanks for sharing!

Well it seemed a little (albeit sick) more interesting than discussing my sleep patterns.

Stew_Matthews · #14 01-22-2010, 05:23 PM

I'm in the morning person camp. I wake up at 5am, take the dogs for a run on the shore and then get into work about 6.30. I love driving through Chicago at that time in the morning, particularly in the summer. I finish mid afternoon. If I know I have to work, I just don't see the point of staying in bed - I may as well get up and get the work done.

Angel69 · #15 01-22-2010, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Me too, on the self-employed. Noon, is the earliest, I EVER want to be up. I'm just not a morning person, and I never will be. And I knew, at about 14, that I HAD to find a job that didn't involve mornings. I literally SHUDDER, just thinking about mornings! Bleck!

But wouldn't that make any time you woke up your "morning"?