What's your morning ritual?

[kenobi65]

Some people may also combine showering and peeing I suppose.

Old joke:
Q: What's the definition of a WASP?
A: Someone who gets out of the shower to pee.

 

[Desdichado]

1. Wake up
2. Curse at the alarm clock, and have a deep and torturous mental struggle with the snooze button
3. Wake up my wife and have an hour or so of "wake-up sex" -- yeah, er, not really. I'd have a lot more frequent "great days" if we did, though.
4. Get up
5. Get the two oldest kids up
6. Go downstairs, turn on a light and hit the head
7. Read with the kids (and my wife, who's usually stumbled out of bed by this time)
8. Get in the shower--I also shave in the shower
9. Throw some clothes on, and otherwise get dressed, deoderized, tooth-brushed and combed, etc.
10. Try and grab a bite of something to eat
11. Grab some CDs to listen to at work, and maybe a book to read in the car during breaks
12. Open the garage door manually to try and let the littler kids keep sleeping
13. Drive to work--by this time I'm usually wide awake; it's a 35 minute or so drive
14. Boot up my computer, and go hit the head again, especially if I've brought some Mountain Dew's with me to drink on the way in
15. Come back to my desk and log in
16. Check my calendar
17. If I don't have anything planned immediately (and I usually don't) then I look at all my new emails from my work account
18. Then, I check out ENWorld and Nothingland briefly
19. Then I try to accomplish some actual work, with frequent breaks online, since I have such a short attention span for work.

 

[der_kluge]

I like how some people have added "wake up" to their list of activities!

My morning ritual is a little off since I'm working in New Jersey right now. I usually shower in the evening, so my morning ritual looks like:

1. turn the TV on
2. pee
3. get dressed
4. take my medicine; brush teeth; deoderant; brush my hair
5. collect whatever things I might need (usually just my book bag)
6. turn the TV off
7. drive to work from the hotel.

Before, when I wasn't working, it looked like this:

1. pee
2. take my medicine
3. throw some clothes on
4. change my daughter's diaper (depending on whether she allows it or not right away)
5. go downstairs to let the dog out
6. feed my oldest some breakfast
7. eat breakfast myself (most of the time)

And then after that, it usually just gets kind of chaotic.

 

[Ambrus]

I like how some people have added "wake up" to their list of activities!

Trust me, sometimes waking up is a five step process unto itself.

 

[frankthedm]

Trust me, sometimes waking up is a five step process unto itself.

Most people are not awake untill the morning routine is over. I have made cereal with OJ instead of milk in the past.

1. End sleep mode from stereo blasting metal [or wake up seconds before it goes off].
2. Lunge 6 feet through messy room to the stereo to power it down before my grandführer gets angry. Adrenalin triggers the start of my wake up mode.
3. Lumber to bathroom. Use commode.
4. Go to kitchen to eat breakfast gramps cooked for me. Fried eggs, toast & a banana.
5. Make a soup mug of instant coffee 8 oz. hot water, 1 tablespoon coffee, 8 oz. milk. chug down.
6. Take shower
7. Dress
8. Hustle buns to the car & let the car warm up if there is time.
9. Drive to work & arrive with 1 minute to spare on the punch clock.

 

[Jdvn1]

Trust me, sometimes waking up is a five step process unto itself.

And it is not easy.

 

[JoeBlank]

1. pee (why do others wait? this is important!)
2. shower
3. shave (you heathens who shave before showering have it all wrong!)
4. wake up 2 oldest sons for school
5. get dressed
6. check to see if boys are dressed, help if needed, while checking email and weather.com
7. get breakfast for boys
8. wake up wife
9. leave for work
10. arrive at work, turn on computer
11. get breakfast, usually oatmeal, coffee
12. eat while checking email, reading online comics and a few news sites, ENW
13. start working

 

[Desdichado]

1. pee (why do others wait? this is important!)

We like to wake up and get out of bed first.

 

[loki44]

20 steps:
1. hit snooze
2. hit snooze
3. get up
4. drink water
5. brush teeth
6. put in contacts
7. shave (only every other day)
8. sit on the crapper
9. read The New Yorker (my standard bathroom reading)
10. take a shower
11. get dressed sans shoes
12. take vitimins with a glass of V8 or tomato juice
13. eat a banana
14. gather stuff for the day
15. put on shoes
16. get the newspaper from the front yard
17. read headlines
18. put keys, wallet, etc. in pockets
19. turn on alarm
20. depart for work

Weekends are too variable to list out.

 

[Jdvn1]

We like to wake up and get out of bed first.

Welcome to the world of bedpans.