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Do you have a morning routine, if your lucky enough to play poker for a living do you still set a time to wake up like we 'workers' do?

My Routine

- 7.45 the alarm sounds.  vibrating and making a musical racket (children of the night on my mobile phone) i lean over and press snooze.  I turn on BBC news and wait for my second bought of a dance classic!! 

- 7.54 and i'm ready to sit upright, after i have enjoyed a few seconds of a very annoying tune!  I press snooze again this time not to wake me but to inform me of the time to get out of bed!  This is my fave 9 mins, i am warm sometimes if i'm lucky the missus is awake and we can have a sleepy chat about how we slept (same conversation everyday but i enjoy it all the same)

- 8.03 I'm up and on my way to the shower, i turn it on and flush the toilet (this makes the shower hotter than if i just let it warm up...dont ask my shower is rubbish) I then do the usual stuff and get myself dried and thow on the old suit ready for another day at work.

- 8.20 quick cup of tea (if time permits) and i'm setting off for the 15min walk to work. 

My morning in short!  The reason i post this is because today i changed my routine!  Unbelieveable i know but last night my good lady said i couldnt get out of bed before 8...challenge accepted!  My girlfriend works loads of different shifts and therefore some days is up and out at 7 where others she is up and out at 11, she mocked my little routine so i changed it...that'll learn her!  LOL

Today my alarm went of at 7am and i got straight out of bed!  I have had a good morning watched abit of skysports news (no sky upstairs) and had 2...yes 2 cups of tea!  Maybe this will be my new routine!

What is your morning routine or does it change everyday!?

My morning is quite as well structured.  It's a bit varied from this atm as I have the odd day off here and there, but generally it's...

7.52 my alarm goes off and I'm straight in the bathroom for a wash, shave and brush my teeth (shower time is in the evening for me)  Then it's back into the bedroom to grab some clothes for work, hopefully I've an ironed polo shirt, jeans and the rest are always available

7.57ish, go downstairs, shoes, jacket/hoody, goodbye kisses.

7.59 leave house, let the chickens out and now my Father is waiting outside to give me a lift to work.

I don't like hanging around in the mornings, I'm not a morning person so I like to leave it quite tight.

Alarm set for 7.17

Snooze every 4 minutes til 7.29

Shower, followed by cereal and some OJ

Sort bag for work by 7.50

Leave by 7.55 for the 50 minute drive to work

Non-uni days

??:?? wake up when i wake up
??:?? lie around for a while
??:?? get up

Uni days

40 mins b4 uni: alarm goes off
5 mins later: shower
10 mins later: dry/change
10 mins later: out the door

FYP

7:30  alarm goes off for the older kids.

8:00  they call in to our room to get their lunch money and kiss good bye.

8:10  Himself crawls out of bed and gets the youngest up.

8:30  I crawl out of the bed and head for the shower.  While I'm doing that, hubby is helping 10 year old sort her lunch for school.

8:45  I'm out of the shower and Himself is off to work.

9:00  Dressed and downstairs to kiss youngest good bye as she's collected for school.  Tidy the house a bit.

9:15  Breakfast made and either catching up on news via the telly or here.

Some time after 11:00  Off to the neighbour's for coffee and the ole chat.

The good old days, 9.53am was the record getting up time and making it to a 10am lecture on time...

lol, Effort!

alarm goes off at 7.45 (the time i should be starting to get up), i pick it up and reset it to 8.20

goes off at 8.20

3 snoozes later i get up

shower, dress, brush teeth, look for keys/shoes (always something missing)

get in car, get out of car with de-icer (seasonal)

Drive up the road to pick up indian developer guy who keeps failing his test

drive to work

arrive at work between 15 and 30 minutes late, huff and puff a bit as if it's been a terrible journey or something

check emails

Tea lady brings tea

fire up blonde and bbc

Alarm 1 - 7.20am
Radio comes on  - 7.23am
Alarm 2 - 7.25am
Alarm 3 - 7.30am
Out of bed and into shower - 7.45am
Out of shower - 7.55am
Out the door - 8.03am

Alarm goes off at 5:40, press snooze
Alarm goes off at 5:49, press snooze
Alarm goes off at 5:58, get up, straight in shower, get dried and dressed.
Leave for work at 6:20

6.30am Alarm goes off
6.40am Alarm goes off again, my girlfriend gets out of bed, I roll over and enjoy the full bed to myself
7.20am Girlfriend is out of the shower and has turned the bedroom light on, I try and stay asleep.
7.35am Girlfriends starts using her hairdryer, I am now wide awake.
7.45am Out of bed, shower and brush teeth
8.00am Bowl of Country Crisp cereal and watching whatever I Sky Plussed from night before, kiss the missus as she goes to work.
8.30am Play poker or write about it until she comes back from work.

Notice how it takes her over an hour to get ready and me abour 10.

generally goes something like this,

usually wake up 8ish,
down to kitchen, kettle on, & bread in toaster,
back up to bathroom, fill sink with cold water, place head in,
back to kitchen to finish making tea & toast,
then to office thats next to the bedroom.

So from waking up then getting to work it's not often more than 15 minutes  :)

8:30 wake up
8:45 Wash
9:00 Go to Uni
9:45 Arrive Uni, get cuppa, browse net
11ish Start work :)

LOL - I'm not the only one then!  Must be bloody obvious.


My alarm is set for 7:21, and it is snoozed three times before finally being reset at 7:48.  Get up, shower, clean teeth, get dressed, get car out of the garage and leave it running to warm up the engine.

Grab fruit to eat during the day and bottle of water, leave at between 08:00 and 08:15. 

Get to work between 08:20 and 09:00 depending on traffic and the time I managed to leave the house.

Open up web brower and download my email. 

Open up blonde.

17:30 - 18:30 leave for home.

18:00-19:00 arrive home and fire up web browser and open up blonde...

Cue the hate.

No morning is the same, but almost certainly involves sleeping all the way through it, as I don't go to bed to about 4am.

This morning I decided to set my alarm to get me up at 10:30am, new schedule for feburary ha.

10:30am Crawl across room to snooze the alarm
10:40am Ditto but decide bring the alarm to bed so I can snooze it quicker next time.
10:50am Kill the alarm with lightning speed.
11am      Ditto
11:10     Ditto
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1:30pm Decide to get out of bed, turn laptop on, switch kettle on.
1:35pm Relocate to the lounge, check emails, fire up blonde.
Presently- Posting on here, watching neighbours.
Post Neighbours I will have shower, shave, brush teeth.

Day of lazing starts after that.

Pretty standard imo.

4.30   alarm
4.40 wash
5.00 walk 2 work
5.40 start work
10.00 actually wake up
14.00 go home

Don't push yourself too hard now, have a lazy day every now and then... ;)

I love the snooze button pretty much in everybodys routine!  My new aim is to get up at 7am and wake up fully before work, not sure if i will stick to it!

There's nothing quite like the sleep you have after the alarm has gone off and been 'snoozed'.  I'm sometimes tempted to set my alarm on a weekend when I don't have to get up so I can get the 'snooze sleep'.  But knowing my luck I'll be bloody wide awake and ruin my lie-in completely.

Longy right now.

Mornings for me run like this.

6.35am wakeup and get up, no alarm needed as this is when the wife enters the bedroom to get dressed after showering (she wakes up too early and excersises by this point). Make bed (only bad point about being last one out) go down stairs turn on kettle set up tea.

6.45am  back up stairs do teeth, water on face, back down stairs to make tea and get bag ready for work (keys, money, food etc). Then i sit down and enjoy my cuppa while watching the news and weather.

7.00 am kids up and brakfast sorted (normally mid tea and telly watching)

7.15 am leave for work.

7.25 am arrive at work.

7.17 Alarm Goes Off but jus fall back to sleep.

7.53 Step-Mum shouts "Are you up?", i reply "OBVIOUSLY!!" even tho im not. Thats jus how i roll imo.
Wake up and think "I wish i was better at Poker so i could just play as a job, even tho i have the best job in the world for me and i love it, i cant be arsed to move ever from this heavenly bed"

7.57 Have Shower.

8.04 Dry hair and get dressed.

8.15 Leave Home without time to have any breakfast, a drink or make myself any lunch.

9.00 Start work, load up msn and about 10 different internet pages, including blonde & 2 Plus 2, The Racing Post site & Best Betting"

FYP

7.45: Alarm goes off. Snooze button instantly hit.
7.54: Alarm goes off again. Up, toilet, wash, dressed, downstairs (takes approximately 6 mins)
8.00: Check email, myspace, facebook, blonde.
8.10: Downstairs for cereal and BBC News.
8.30: Leave for work.
9.00: Get to work, fire up BBC News and do nowt all day (cant get on any other site :S)

 rotflmfao

 ;applause;

just lost my long post.  Here's the short version (when I've not got my daughter)

alarm 6.45 with intention of getting up and getting to work early.  Snooze approx 20 times.  Get out of bed between 8-8.15 (time I intended to get to work).  Out of house 8.30-8.45 and in work by 10.

I love snooze sleep too - it's when I have my best dreams.

Such an insitesight ? to other peoples lives, so uncomplicated.

Does no one make love in the morning these days?

My original post was  I am an early morning person ...but thought that was a tad too much info..

6:15 - alarm - Ordinary Man by Christy Moore
6:20 - Snooze 1 goes off
6:25 - Snooze 2 - get up
6:26 - Take a piss
6:27 - Turn shower on/get towel
6:35 - Get dryed and dressed for work
6:50 - Mam comes back from walking dog - I'm still getting ready
6:55 - Mam makes toast and coffee
6:55 - to 7:10 browse the net for latest news and watch tell whilst having toast and coffee,
7:20 - realise I spent more time than planned on net, phone taxi cos I have now missed bus.
7:30 - Taxi arrives
7:45 - Arrive at work
7:45 - 7:58 piss about browsing e-mails, playing games and generally noising anyone else who's in the office up :)
8:00 - Start real work - worse part of the day.

05.20 phone alarm goes off (stops automatically after about 30 secs, dumb or what?)
05.30 second phone alarm goes off
05.33 Bob from work calls me "you up?"........."yeah"
05.35 radio alarm goes off (radio 1)
05.37 Slater from work calls me "don't be late"........."no chance"
05.40 third phone alarm goes off
By this time the cat is standing on my chest tapping her head against mine, purring VERY LOUDLY!
05.45 snap awake, jump up, grab clothes, feed cat, grab various crap and leg it out the door.
06.00 work, if i dodge the plod..

I work from home so this game is easy.

7:10 alarm goes off - hit snooze
..snooze
..snoozzze
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8:40 Brain can now register the hitting of the snooze button and realises that I need to get up, however decision needs to be made... Starbucks or not .... not means 19 mins more of lie in but normally Coffee it is.

So get up Loo, Shave and throw water at face, get dressed, coat?, Scarf?, Gloves? so many questions... so early in a morning.

Out by 8:44 walk to town (6 mins), walk into Starbucks - pick up Times- now comes the chalenging bit need to engage brain to ask for coffee. Get in queue (normally only 1-2 people long) [hope cute girl is on] - smile {if it is not the cute girl then this can be skipped}  "Morning" I say - Usual (they ask) [cos I am here too often] "ya" I manage, hand over money, "thanks" I say, walk 3 paces to bit where they deliver Grande Latte (to go) , get coffee "ta" - open lid, add chocolate, change page of times to p21 (for comment, or a sports story) to read on way home. Walk home.

Arrive 8:59 - enter house - turn on 2 laptops - one for work - phones, email, VPN's & Yahoo and a second for browsing Blonde, THM, 2+2, P5's, hotmail, bbc, ITV F1, 23 other poker sites and blogs I read though the day, while I wait for work to download or process.

Its only 9:01 onward that work gets in the way,and ruins everthng.

No time.  I'd have to set the alarm a lot earlier... ;whistle;

LOL nh.

Not since we live together...same goes for the evening...

rotflmfao

This morning.

Alarm goes off at 6.45 (I'm planning on getting to work early, see?).  Hit Snooze.

8.59 incoming text message wakes me up.  Oh dear, I must have hit 'off' instead of snooze.  Panic.  Jump out of bed, have wee, brush teeth, run fingers through hair, put on yesterday's clothes (clean undies though) and out the door at 9.08. 

LOL

9 minutes, surely room for improvement... Combine the toilet usage and teeth brushing, forget the hair, undies pff... That should shave off 3 minutes...

Two routines

Routine 1
Alarm goes off at 6.03am....6.00 am is just too early
Get up start singing...get sworn at by Mrs. Snat
6.06 Shave
6.13 Shower
6.25 Watch local news on BBC1........never understood why we always get scottish weather presenters on London local news
6.45 wake Ads and get him downstairs for breakfast.....suggest to Mrs. Snat that she might want to get up now and to help her I have left a cup of coffee on her dressing table.
6.55 Downstairs chatting to junior about the day ahead making sure he has right books and done homework
7.05 Wake Rachel....Ads goes for shower and I suggest to Mrs. Snat that her coffee is cold and she is going to be late.
7.10 Make Rachel breakfast chat to her about her day ahead.
7.15 Adam now dressed is downstairs and subjecting me to my first dose of the suite life of Zack and Cody
7.30 Sam the nanny arrives and I take Adam to school bus

Routine 2
Alarm goes off at 6.03am....6.00 am is just too early
Kick Mrs. Snat out of bed
Go back to sleep wake up at 7.20 am by Adam shouting at me that he will miss the bus
Mrs Snat left at some point...I know not when
7.21 shave
7.23 shower....face dripping with blood from shaving too quickly
7.25 Out......
7.28 Dressed in various items of clothing none of which really match
7.30 Kiss Rachel bye bye and take Adam to bus little interaction on my part

Routine 2 is the morning after a night in Luton

Yet another reason to reevaluate why I play

Interesting, a friend of mine swears you should shave AFTER a shower, opens the pores he reckons... But i agree with you Snat...

Shaving in the shower FTW.

Hot water will soften the bristles and also rinse away the detritus afterwards.

Just one comment ...


WTF IS MORNING ??

 ;carlocitrone;

Cut bristles, foam, dead skin, old cornflakes etc....

Chip Prince - not old enough to shave yet. Talking of which has anyone seen JP recently?

 ;iagree;

9:00am: look dejectedly at the alarm clock as the realisation kicks in that ive missed all the best cartoons.

9:30am: breakfast; brandy and coke with a couple of paracetamol topped off with farleys rusks and tomato sauce

10:00am: wait for my £22 giro to come, ive been waiting 3 weeks now so it's due anytime now!

10:15am: kidnap postman after giro fails to arrive again

10:30am: let postman go minus a few envelopes that felt like they've got credit cards in them

11:00am: nip down the shop to get the morning papers, no money though so i just run in there and pick up the first paper i can find and leg it, turns out it's a sun, bollocks, the sport was leading with..."sarah harding fury at fake pics shocker"!

11:30am get ready to go to court, was supposed to be there at 11am but fancy there gonna lock me up anyway cos i pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining biscuits from an old peoples home after claiming to be a baked goods inspector.

11:45am get tooled up before leaving the house, turns out after reading the sun that 67% of the population is either a chav, hoodie, paedophile or kosovan illegal immigrant, i figure as long as i stay in SE London theres a good chance i wont have to bump anyone from the other 33%

12:00 go back to bed

From what I've read and heard, that's not unusual... :dontask:

Tom Jones disease ??

Please I will not have my sarttorial elegance questioned.......
I now have an array of double cuff shirts with Snat embroidered on the chest

Think i might wear the alphabet shoes on Saturday if I play

It's only what I've been told...it's probably misinformation.


Possibly not...