What's your daily routine?

[Gratch]

I've been thinking a bit about this post and how/why my gaming time has simply disappeared over the last few years.  Realized this morning that my routine is such that I don't even know where I'd fit in much gaming, even if I wanted to.  Every Mon-Fri (that I'm not traveling) looks something like this:

4:45am - Wake up, get dressed, breakfast
5:15 - Drive to gym
5:45 - Workout & shower
7:00 - Get to work
4:00 - Leave work
4:30 - Watch Little B (my 2 year old) while Mrs. Gratch goes to work (she typically works from 5:00-11:30)
8:00 - Put B to bed, tidy up house (wash dishes, feed animals, pick up toys, etc), get ready for the following day (i.e. make lunch, put gym bag together, etc.)
8:45 - Free time...yay!
9:30pm - Bed

I literally only have about 45 minutes in the evenings that I can spend doing anything other that working or watching the little one.  No wonder I'm feeling like my days are completely getting away from me lately! 

With the wide variety of professions and personalities we have around here, I'm curious what daily routine folks have.
 

[wonderpug]

7am - wake up, spend time with child
7:30 - get ready for work
8:00 - not leave when I should so I can sneak in a little more family time
8:10 - rush out the door
8:50 - get to work
5pm - leave work
5:40 - spend time with wife & child, scarf down dinner as fast as possible
6:20 - head to night class
9:40 - return from night class
9:40 to 11pm - visit with wife, work on school assignments, check email, clean house, catch up on tv shows, etc.
optional: 11pm - forgo some sleep to sneak in some gaming time

[naednek]

Yikes that's a rough schedule, no quality time during the week with the wife (not judging), just sucks.

6:30am wake up
7:30am go to work
5:00pm get home from work
5:00pm Hang out with fam, play with Ethan
5:45pm give Ethan his Chest Treatment/and or nebulizers if he's sick
6:15pm, cook dinner
6:30pm eat dinner
6:45pm go out for a walk with fam
7:45pm put Ethan down for bed
7:45pm - 9:00pm watch TV, or play card games with the wife
9:00pm wife usually goes to bed
9:00 to whenever I'm tired, usually by 10:30, game.

[Gratch]

Yikes that's a rough schedule, no quality time during the week with the wife (not judging), just sucks.

Yeah, that's been the toughest part over the last couple years.  We're finally getting to the point financially where Mrs. Gratch won't have to work as much (paid off the last of the credit card last month, paying off the car this month...will have no debt other than house payment ), which will hopefully give us some time together in the evenings at least a couple days a week.  Will be nice to get that back. 

[rickfc]

4:00am - Wake up
4:45am - Workout, shower, help get my daughter ready for school and drink protein shake
6:45am - Drive to work
7:30am - Work
4:30pm - Drive home
5:15pm - Watch news, play with my daughter
6:00pm - Eat dinner
6:30pm - Relax with my wife and daughter
7:30pm - Give my daughter a bath and get her ready for bed
8:00pm - Get my daughter to bed and read to her
8:30pm - Read
9:00pm or 9:30pm - Go to sleep

I guess I could sneak in some gaming time in there, but I would have to forego time with my wife and daughter if I did that.

[CeeKay]

roughly

9:30am  wake up
10am work
7pm get off work
7:30pm dinner
8pm doggie time
9:30pm fiancee time
11:30pm my time
1am attempt to sleep
4:30am dogs outside time
5am get some more sleep

I had a schedule where I kept taking out the dogs around 4am and unfortutnately it kind of stuck with them.  I've been slowly trying to break them of it, so hopefully that 4:30am outside time will go away eventually.

[TK-421]

I don't have a routine.  Every day is a new adventure.

However, on average, my days go something like this:

4:30 AM - 5:00 AM : Wake up, make coffee, breakfast
5:00 AM - 7:30 AM : Email, internet, PC gaming
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM : Drive wife to work, drive self to work
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM : Pick up wife from work, drive home
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM : With wife, prepare and eat dinner
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM : TV, internet, movies, PC gaming
10:00 PM - 11:00 PM : Sex with wife
11:00 PM - 11:30 PM : Reading until asleep

Naturally, not every day is like that as we sometimes go out or run errands etc.

Weekends are much more active with lawn care, hot rod project, etc

[JayDee]

The past couple of weeks it's been....

6:30 AM - Wake up
6:30 - 7:00 AM - Dress and feed my son breakfast
7:00 - 7:25 AM - shower, change, get ready for work
7:25 - 7:45 AM - drive to the train station
7:50 - 8:50 AM - train ride to work
9:00 - 5:00 PM - work
5:15 - 6:20 PM - commute back home
6:30 - 7:00 PM - dinner
7:00 - 7:45 PM - spend time with my son
7:45 - 8:30 PM - get my son ready for bed (bath, read stories, etc)
8:30 - 10:00 PM - tidy up house, make lunches for the next day, study course material, other chores, etc
10:00 - 11:30 PM - me time (gaming, reading, sports, etc)
11:30 - 12:00 AM - head to bed

[Booner]

Pretty typical weekdays for me....

7:30 AM : Get awoken by dog in one of several annoying ways. The face nudge, the lay on my feet, the rope toy on the chest, the repeated dropping of the food bowl on the tile...all in play.

7:35 AM : Get out of bed, make coffee, feed dog, brush teeth, check e-mails and the happenings in the world via internet.

7:45-8:00 AM : Drink coffee on deck, have a smoke or two.

8  AM : Sit down at PC and check work e-mails.

9  AM : Make work related phone calls.

9:30-noon : Draw lines and circles for money while consuming vast quantities of coffee and nicotine.

Noon-1 PM : Cook lunch, eat, wrestle with dog, shower, powernap.

1-4:30 PM : Draw more lines and circles.

4:30 -5 PM : Make final work related calls and e-mails.

5 - 6:30 PM : Chore time, cooking, eating, feed the beast...another powernap if I'm not in a rush to get out of the house.

6:30-11:30 PM : Twice a week means off to the studio for a music session, all other weekdays are a various mix of practicing on an instrument, gaming, doggie play time, visiting family/friends, going out socially, perhaps more work if a deadline is coming fast.

11:30 PM-1 AM : TV time, late night snack, last check of the world via internet...then crawl into bed.

1 - 2 AM : Slowly drift out for a few hours of REM.

[Ironrod]

The amount of time that I spend working is seasonal. During the summer it's only a few hours a day, during the fall and winter it's more, and during the xmas season (Halloween through January) it's something more than fulltime. But, in general, it goes like this:

7:30 alarm goes off
8:30 get out of bed, get coffee, get newspaper, take a dump
9:30 go walking (3-4 miles), weather permitting
10:30 sit down to work
11:30 check message boards
noonish lunch
1:00 - 5:00 some mixture of working and screwing off, depending on workload and motivation
5:30 start dinner
7:00 eat dinner, watch TV or a movie
9:00 message boards and gaming
2:00 bed

[Boudreaux]

Damn, some of you guys get up early.  I gradually adjusted myself to be able to wake up without an alarm, usually about 20-30 minutes after the sun comes up.  Which means I get up late in the winter, and earlier in the summer.  But a typical day would be:

out of bed by 7:00-7:30
off to work by about 8:00
work until 4:00 - 5:00, head home
5:00 through 9:00 is family/activity time - dinner, kids, maybe a bit of work follow-up or emailing, occasional events or martial arts practice, then bedtime routines for the kids
9:00 - midnight is free time for me and the wife.  Usually we'll hang out and watch TV, I'll do some gaming, email, etc.  Sometimes we work out together, or play board games. 

The period between kids' bedtime and my bedtime is my only chance for gaming or "me time".  It irritates me sometimes that I have to spend my entire day doing things for other people before I finally get some time for myself.  I suppose I could flip it around and get up early and do my own thing before work, but I'm not much of a morning person.

[Arkon]

My routine depends on whether I am teaching a class for work or not, and whether the class is in town or on-site at a customer location.  When teaching a class in town my routine is roughly:

4:30 AM - Wake up, shower, read some comics/news/email
5:30 AM - Leave for work, drive through bad traffic
7:00 AM - Arrive at work
5:00 PM - Leave work
7:00 - 7:30 PM - Arrive home from work
7:30 PM - Spend 15 minutes with the kids before putting them to put.
7:45 PM - Put both daughters to bed, sit down and watch some TV with the wife.
9:00 PM - If nothing much is on, or we have little taped, my wife will read a book and I will do some gaming
10:30 PM - Go to bed

[gellar]

Yeah my routine is hardly routine given that I am not in SF 50% of the time and even when I am, I don't always go into the office, but let's do one of those days since they are the most routine I've got.

Sometime between 6am - 8am - Wake up/shower/dress and stuff
Sometime between 7am - 9:30am - Leave for office
10 minutes or an hour later (depends on which office I go to) - Arrive at office
Sometime between 3:30pm - 7pm - Leave office
10 minutes or an hour later - Arrive back home
After that, I either watch sports, tv, play games, read, go out to dinner, meet friends at bars, play with the dog, or tidy up the house a bit.  It really just depends on the day.
Sometime between 10pm - 2am - Go to bed

I suppose even that is not very routine, after typing it out.

[kratz]

These days, a typical weekday:

5:40 - get up
6:00 - work out (@ home, or like today, some running outside)
7:00 - breakfast, shower, coffee
8:15 - work
12:00 - lunch
12:45 - work
5:00 - home, talk to wife/kid
5:30 - 8:00-  
 - Sometimes (less as fall advances) I go do 60 - 120 minute mountain bike training rides
 - Sometimes I cook dinner, or, like tonight, go BBQ w/ family and friends and work on bikes, etc.
 - Eat dinner
 - Sometimes watch a movie w/ the kid
 - Sometimes do whatever... walks, bike rides,
8:00 - 9:15 - at some point we do (or don't do) a kid bath, brush teeth, read stories, etc.
9:15 - 11:00 - read, play games, watch a movie, sometimes meet up with friends, whatever

So, so glad my commute is about 3 minutes.

[hepcat]

noon - stagger out of strip club
12:05pm - return to strip club for wallet
1pm - nap in parking lot
2pm - prank call zekester about a running refrigerator...odd that he's fallen for it 7 years running
4pm - watch porn at best buy on a big screen tv from a dvd i brought with me.
5pm - wash and style hair
9pm - blow into tube to get car started and head to strip club
midnight - nap in parking lot
1am - champagne room.  if i don't have the cash, janitor's closet.
3am - drunk dial toe and let him know that Drive was a great movie
4am - check to see if OO is online
5am - write something for the Huffington Post
7am - fall asleep face down in my own vomit

[Scuzz]

7:15......Get up and go to work
MWF....11:45-1:00...go to the gym
Tue.....11:45-1:00...visit my aunt at rest home
Thur.....12-1.....do chores
5:15...get home from work, do little things, interact with wife and remaining daughter, have dinner etc
7:00....computer gaming
8:30....try to be semi-social until bed time
11:00.....sleep

of course not of this counts on a weekend

[EngineNo9]

My schedule is pretty flexible, but in general these days it goes about like:

8:15am - wake up, shower, dress, etc
8:45 - eat breakfast, brush teeth
9:15 - head to work
9:30 - arrive at work
12pm MWF eat at work, T/Th grab lunch out
6:30 - head home, possibly stopping at the grocery store
7pm - eat dinner
free time (surfing online, games, movies, TV, etc)
12 - head to bed and read
1-2am lights out

[tiktokman]

Here's a typical weekday routine -

5:45am - wife's alarm goes off, I doze
6:00am - my alarm goes off, wife gets out of bed, I hit snooze and I doze
6:09/6:18am - my alarm goes off again, I get out of bed, take a piss and kiss the naked woman in the shower
6:20am - get 2 year old daughter out of bed and carry her downstairs where we lie on the living room carpet a bit until she's kind of awake
6:30am - go to the kitchen and fix daughter breakfast
6:40am - 2 year old stumbles into kitchen and eats her breakfast
6:50am - wife comes down and eats with the kid, I take the dogs out
7:00am - clean food off of daughter and get her dressed
7:15am/7:30am - get wife and daughter out of the house
7:30am - 8:00am - play some guitar or take a dump if the need arises
8:00am - shower
8:20am - leave for work
8:30am - arrive at work
12:00pm - head home and meet my dad at my house for lunch and watch a show on Netflix. Right now we're on season 3 of 'Cheers'.
12:50pm - take the dogs out then back to work
1:00pm - arrive back at work
5:00pm - head home
5:15pm - 5:45/6:00pm - play some more guitar usually
5:45/6:00pm - greet wife and daughter when they get home from work
6:15pm - make some sort of dinner while wife entertains the kid
6:45pm - take dogs out then eat dinner with family
7:15pm - 7:45pm - play with kid
7:45pm - 8:00pm - one of us bathes the kid while the other cleans the kitchen
8:10pm - 8:30pm - let the kid watch a 'Dora' while I read something and the wife plays on her iphone
8:40pm - kid to bed
9:00pm - 10:30pm - watch some TV with the wife. If she falls asleep on the couch I play some guitar or read. Occasionally I'll fire up a game.
11:00pm - take dogs out then off to bed

Rinse repeat

[metallicorphan]

2pm - prank call zekester about a running refrigerator...odd that he's fallen for it 7 years running

 


not really fair,because you guys all have lives I don't really have a routine with me still being unable to work(and i certainly don't have a family),but i have started to get a pattern going when not meaning to,and with me used to working nights its a little fucked up

12pm-1pm wake up
1pm-Feed Moggy and then ignore her refusing her food
1.05pm-PC browse forums and sites
3pm-watch TV/Xbox 360
5pm-nap time
7pm-give cat evil stare for waking me up
7.30pm-PC browse Forums and sites
8pm-get something to eat and watch TV
10pm-Xbox 360
3am-wash/shower(depending on how shitty i feel)+Change Urostomy bag(hey,you asked!!)
3.10am go to bed and read(currently on the last Harry Potter book again)
6-7am go to sleep

the time i spend playing on the 360 really does vary depending on mood or game

[wonderpug]

For reference, my routine 10 years ago was:

11am - wake up
11:02am - log onto an MMO
2am - log off and sleep
??? - find and consume cold pizza

[Creepy_Smell]

6am - 8amWake self, wifeand kids up. Get myself and kids ready. Drop 1 off at grandmas, 1 at school then me to work
8am - 5pm Work
5pm - 8pm Drive home, while wife cooks play with kids/help older w/ homework, feed kids, clean kids, play a bit, then youngest to bed
8pm - 9pm Finish up other chores and get older kid to bed
9pm - 11pm TV, gaming, websurfing or do a few other chores then to bed

[Ironrod]

I could condense mine like this:

7:30 alarm goes off
8:30 get out of bed
9:30 ????
5:00 profit!

[The Grue]

I wake up every morning and try to remember what town I am in and what day it is.

[rshetts2]

 7:00  Woke up, got out of bed
 7:10  dragged a comb across my head
 7:35  Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
 9:00   looking up, I noticed I was late
 10:45  Found my coat and grabbed my hat
 10:45:07  Made the bus in seconds flat
 11:30 - 4:30  Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
 4:30 - ??  Somebody spoke and I went into a dream

[WorkingMike]

7ish - listen to podcast while making coffee, puttering about
7:30ish - hang out with dogs in backyard, drinking coffee and reading
8:30ish - evaluate and start chores (sweeping, dusting, yard, cleaning bathroom, etc...)
10ish - play Xbox or go for a bike ride
Noonish - go to work
10ish - come home from work, hang out with the missus, watch tv for an hour
11ish - go to bed

We also have a weekly and monthly schedule. For instance, Sunday nights is usually an evening with friends. Tuesdays the wife and I usually go ride bikes and take in a movie. Wednesday nights is usually a pot luck barbecue, where anywhere from 1 to 5 people are likely to show up. although sometimes it's just us. This week is beef back ribs on the smoker.

We are pushing 40 and childless, so obviously we haven't the pressures of domestic life like most people. If anything our time is too limited, but we try to make the best of it.

[Purge]

noon - stagger out of strip club
12:05pm - return to strip club for wallet
1pm - nap in parking lot
2pm - prank call zekester about a running refrigerator...odd that he's fallen for it 7 years running
4pm - watch porn at best buy on a big screen tv from a dvd i brought with me.
5pm - wash and style hair
9pm - blow into tube to get car started and head to strip club
midnight - nap in parking lot
1am - champagne room.  if i don't have the cash, janitor's closet.
3am - drunk dial toe and let him know that Drive was a great movie
4am - check to see if OO is online
5am - write something for the Huffington Post
7am - fall asleep face down in my own vomit

LIAR!

CeeKay swiped your diary (the words Hepcat Bible etched on the leatherbound front, with ... stains on it), and faxed it over to Kanukistan.

In the HB it states your daily ritual is:

6:30am - make belly-button jello-pops to guest of Sesame Street.
noon - wake up to a sticky belly.
1:30pm - head to the pound and pretend something likes you.
4:00pm - eat advil and begin pounding non-alcoholic beer, occassionally pseudo-drunk-dialing zekester.
8:00pm - get home with McDonalds, call mom and whine that you can't find anyone that's right for you.
9:00pm - put your teddy in the wash, start reading cosmo, switch to dryer.
11:00pm - take teddy out of dryer, set TV to PBS and curl up on kitchen floor.

[JayDee]

Sometimes my mornings go like this.

7:45 - Waking up in the morning
8:00 - Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs
8:15 - Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal
8:30 - Seein’ everything, the time is goin’, Tickin’ on and on, everybody’s rushin’
9:00 - Gotta get down to the bus stop
9:15 - Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends
9:30 - Kickin’ in the front seat
9:35 - Sittin’ in the back seat
9:45 - Gotta make my mind up, Which seat can I take?

[hepcat]

9:00pm - put your teddy in the wash, start reading cosmo, switch to dryer.
11:00pm - take teddy out of dryer, set TV to PBS and curl up on kitchen floor.

"Mr. hossenfef-fur" is dry clean only.  That you don't know this seriously casts doubt on your assertion that you were able to get hold of my diary.  Also, I would never use the phrase "set TV" as here in the U S of A we actually outlawed that turn of phrase.  We "change the channels" on our televisions, which is far less ridiculous.

[Crusis]

Gaming time? What's that?   

4:00 AM - Wake up, shower and stuff
5:00 AM - Jump on train. Write for an hour
6:30 AM - Stroll into work
11:00 AM - lunch (break out laptop and write)
3:00 ~ 3:30 Head to train.
4:00 PM - Write on train ride
5:30 PM - Get home
5:30 - 8:00 - Write, promote, answer emails, messages, and calls. Sneak in a meal somewhere.
8:00 - 9:30 PM - veg with laptop open, still answering emails, messages and crap. work on blog articles.
9:30 PM - Go to bed and try to read for 30 to 45 minutes.

[Sarkus]

My work schedule is not consistent, so there is really no routine for me to get into - some days I have to be in at 7AM, others I don't go to work until 7PM.  Throw in that I don't have kids or a wife/fiance/girlfriend at the moment and there is really no reason to find a routine either.

[Gratch]

Sometimes my mornings go like this.

7:45 - Waking up in the morning
8:00 - Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs
8:15 - Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal
8:30 - Seein’ everything, the time is goin’, Tickin’ on and on, everybody’s rushin’
9:00 - Gotta get down to the bus stop
9:15 - Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends
9:30 - Kickin’ in the front seat
9:35 - Sittin’ in the back seat
9:45 - Gotta make my mind up, Which seat can I take?

LOL, well played.

[Blackadar]

5:00 AM - Wake up
5:10 AM - Work out
6:15 AM - Shower, shave, get dressed
7:00 AM - Eat breakfast, spend a few minutes with the family
7:30 AM - Leave for work
8:00 AM - Work
5:00 PM - Leave work
5:30 PM - Get home
After that, it all depends on what the kids/wife are doing that night
10:00 PM - Hit the sack

[hepcat]

Sometimes my mornings go like this.

7:45 - Waking up in the morning
8:00 - Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs
8:15 - Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal
8:30 - Seein’ everything, the time is goin’, Tickin’ on and on, everybody’s rushin’
9:00 - Gotta get down to the bus stop
9:15 - Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends
9:30 - Kickin’ in the front seat
9:35 - Sittin’ in the back seat
9:45 - Gotta make my mind up, Which seat can I take?

LOL, well played.

 

[CeeKay]

hmmm.. no one waking up in the morning and getting themselves a gun?

[Ironrod]

hmmm.. no one waking up in the morning and getting themselves a gun?

Well I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer.

[Isgrimnur]

hmmm.. no one waking up in the morning and getting themselves a gun?

Well I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer.

 

[gellar]

Sometimes my mornings go like this.

7:45 - Waking up in the morning
8:00 - Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs
8:15 - Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal
8:30 - Seein’ everything, the time is goin’, Tickin’ on and on, everybody’s rushin’
9:00 - Gotta get down to the bus stop
9:15 - Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends
9:30 - Kickin’ in the front seat
9:35 - Sittin’ in the back seat
9:45 - Gotta make my mind up, Which seat can I take?

LOL, well played.

Yup.  You win.

[Victoria Raverna]

Normal routine during workdays.

5:10 Waking up.
5:10-5:40 Web Browsing or Play some light games like The Sims 3. Having breakfast (sometime).
5:40 Waking my wife.
5:40-6:00 Continue with Web Browsing or Play light games. Having breakfast (sometime).
6:00-6:25 Shower and other bathroom business.
6:25-6:30 Get dressed.
6:40 Leave for work.
7:10 Arriving at workplace.
7:10-7:30 Read newspaper and having breakfast (if I don't have one at home).
7:30 Office hour Start
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00 Back working.
16:30 Office hour End.
16:30-19:00 (Leave office between those hours depend on my wife having overtime or not).
After that 1.5 hours travel time to reach home (took longer on return trip due to traffic jam)
Dinner (and sometime go out to watch movie with my wife).
Arrive home.
Browsing/Play Games/Watch TV/Spend time with my wife.
22:00 Go to bed.

[corruptrelic]

Normal routine during workdays.

5:10 Waking up.
5:10-5:40 Web Browsing or Play some light games like The Sims 3. Having breakfast (sometime).
5:40 Waking my wife.
5:40-6:00 Continue with Web Browsing or Play light games. Having breakfast (sometime).
6:00-6:25 Shower and other bathroom business.
6:25-6:30 Get dressed.
6:40 Leave for work.
7:10 Arriving at workplace.
7:10-7:30 Read newspaper and having breakfast (if I don't have one at home).
7:30 Office hour Start
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00 Back working.
16:30 Office hour End.
16:30-19:00 (Leave office between those hours depend on my wife having overtime or not).
After that 1.5 hours travel time to reach home (took longer on return trip due to traffic jam)
Dinner (and sometime go out to watch movie with my wife).
Arrive home.
Browsing/Play Games/Watch TV/Spend time with my wife.
22:00 Go to bed.

And all this time I thought you a woman, like msduncan! 

[msteelers]

7:00-8:00 Wake Up, coffee, breakfast.
8:00-8:30 Surf the web while eating breakfast. Get ready for work.
8:30-9:00 Drive to work.
9:00-1:30 Work at first job.
1:30-3:30 Gym + Shower. (Sometimes changes to "Working on Show Prep" on days where I have a show to do)
3:30-4:00 Swing by Tropical Smoothie for a post-workout smoothie, drive to second job.
4:00-7:00 Work at 2nd job.
7:00-7:30 Drive home.
7:30-8:00 Eat dinner.
8:30-10:00 Chores and/or web surfing, playing games, watching TV, fall asleep.

Sunday edition:
5:30 Wake up
6:00 Drive to work
6:30 Arrive at work, stay until noon.
12:00 Drive home.
1:00 Turn on Red Zone channel and/or Steelers game.
11:00 Continue watching football until I pass out.