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The daily GRIND

well some people they have trouble feeling refreshed even though they sleep though the night because they never fall into a deep sleep and never truelly fall completely asleep. It like they are only napping which time will pass with out you knwoing it but you never sleep as deeply.
 
The daily grind...

- Get up between 5:30 and 6:00am
- Get Kid #3 dressed
- Take shower
- Eat breakfast
- Feed Kid #3
- Get Kid #2 breakfast
- Get Kid #2 dressed
- Get dressed
- Get kid #1 up
- Get Kid #2 ready to go to preschool
- Kiss wife, Kid #1, Kid #3 goodbye
- Leave for preschool and work with Kid #2 at 7:30am
- Get to work about 8:15. Work until 5:00 or so. Eat lunch at desk
- Pick up Kid #2 at preschool
- Go home
- Eat dinner with the family
- "Relax" with the kids until about 7:00
- Bathtime kids 7:00 - 7:30
- Bedtime for the kids 7:30 - 9:00, depending on moods, books, homework, etc.
- Clean up the house a bit
- Chat with wife
- Exercise when possible between 9:30 - 10:30
- Do more house stuff until about 11:00
- Get ready for bed, get to bed 11:30 - midnight.
 
My schedule is very different than yours.
I don't go to school! I'm only a junior, but I do my school at home.
I always have, and I always will.

The way my boyfriend complains about school does not inspire me to ever go. He's extremely jealous of the way i live (and love) my life.

Here's my usual schedule.

I'm always up at 9am (although I used to sleep in, but got nothing done)
I usually exercise, shower, and go to work at 11:am.
I work at an ice cream sh op, but business is slow, so this time of year, I do my school at work.
I get off around 4pm, I go home, I clean, I do whatever.


On days that I don't work,
I wake up at 9, do school, work out, shower, and see my boyfriend of 6 months.

I usually stay up til 12 or 1
 
xodonniedarko said:
My schedule is very different than yours.
I don't go to school! I'm only a junior, but I do my school at home.
I always have, and I always will.

The way my boyfriend complains about school does not inspire me to ever go. He's extremely jealous of the way i live (and love) my life.

Here's my usual schedule.

I'm always up at 9am (although I used to sleep in, but got nothing done)
I usually exercise, shower, and go to work at 11:am.
I work at an ice cream sh op, but business is slow, so this time of year, I do my school at work.
I get off around 4pm, I go home, I clean, I do whatever.


On days that I don't work,
I wake up at 9, do school, work out, shower, and see my boyfriend of 6 months.

I usually stay up til 12 or 1
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I always wondered if homeschooled children miss the social aspect of high school.... it's one of the few things I look forward to at school (especially because now I have a new one and a clean slate-- nobody knowing about what I was like in 2nd grade) and I don't find the rest of it that bad.
 
iMacZealot said:
...Then, I come home, I fall asleep in the basement for three hours to try and make up for lost sleep time, wake up, eat dinner, talk to my family, ignore my homework until midnight, become extremely bored with the internet, and so I just space out until 4, which I then try to fall asleep before I go back to square one in three hours....
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:eek: I think we've found the source of your problem right here......ignoring your homework until midnight followed by spacing out until 4 when you have to get up so early.....that's a sure way to mess yourself up
 
emw said:
The daily grind...

- Get up between 5:30 and 6:00am
- Get Kid #3 dressed
- Take shower
- Eat breakfast
- Feed Kid #3
- Get Kid #2 breakfast
- Get Kid #2 dressed
- Get dressed
- Get kid #1 up
- Get Kid #2 ready to go to preschool
- Kiss wife, Kid #1, Kid #3 goodbye
- Leave for preschool and work with Kid #2 at 7:30am
- Get to work about 8:15. Work until 5:00 or so. Eat lunch at desk
- Pick up Kid #2 at preschool
- Go home
- Eat dinner with the family
- "Relax" with the kids until about 7:00
- Bathtime kids 7:00 - 7:30
- Bedtime for the kids 7:30 - 9:00, depending on moods, books, homework, etc.
- Clean up the house a bit
- Chat with wife
- Exercise when possible between 9:30 - 10:30
- Do more house stuff until about 11:00
- Get ready for bed, get to bed 11:30 - midnight.
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I'm assuming (and hoping) that your children are not commonly referred to by number. :p
 
Although I have common elements to my day (early morning run @ 5:15am, a healthy breakfast every morning, get ready for work, work from 8-5, etc.) I have varied interests so my evenings and weekends are usually quite diverse.

My personal activities include rehearsing/performing with the Symphony Orchestra, playing City League Soccer (2 teams), going to the gym, doing acting gigs, forex trading, investment research, going out with my friends, doing projects around our home, reading, writing, and trip planning - my wife and I are avid backpackers and love seeing the world.

Variety is the spice of life after all! You gotta keep things interesting - there's far too much life out there to experience (and in so many different forms) to get caught in a rut. :cool:
 
Lol.. sucks to be all of you guys.

lets see.

tomorrow i have to get up at 7 (****ing blows), go to a crappy class at 8 for the first time in 2 weeks because i have a paper due (skipped the last 2 classes and 1 was canceled :eek:), then i have another crap class that i can't skip. then i'm going home for thanksgiving :D

my best day is wednesday though.

I get up at like 9:30, go to class from 10-11, then go back to my dorm and take a nap/watch sportscenter all afternoon. awesome.
 
My mornig routine is similar to yours.
Get up at approx. 7:04 AM.
Get Dressed.
Drink Hot Chocolate,Tea,etc.
Get ready by 7:50 AM .
Run to catch the bus 3 streets over.
I am really supposed to be in bed at 10:00 PM on week nights (yeah, right :rolleyes: ), but I really don't fall asleep until after at least 11:00 most nights. I have noticed that the older that I get ( I just turned 15) the worse it gets. I try to tell my parents that I can't sleep , but they don't listen to me. What do you expect from parents though, eh?
to the original poster: hope things get better for you! I know how it is in HS.:apple:
Thank god I have this week off for thanksgiving! :D
 
Now, and for the past three months:

Wake up, go to class, eat brunch, go to class, then slack off, play StarCraft, lurk at MacRumors, and generally being a lazy ass.

Post-Thanksgiving:

Wake up, cram Contracts/Property/Criminal Law/Civil Procedure, then sleep. Repeat for 3 weeks.

Yeah, I'm basically ****ed.

Hahahahaha
 
Delay getting up until the last minute because I stayed up to 3 the night before, hurridly eat breakfast, dress myself and run out to catch the bus on the 2nd pass. Depending on what day it is (A day or B day) I either go to the middle school and hang around until the bell rings, or go to the high school for band class. If it's an A day, I take the shuttle bus back to the middle school, and go to 2nd period. World Geography. Which is ok, not my best subject, but I maintain my grade. Then off to English. Go to lunch (where I have really no friends, in a fight right now) then back to english, then to computer class, where we're doing Flash animation now. If it's a B day, my 1st period class is Health with the coolest teacher ever. Then Art (which I hate) then Biology (meh) and then Algebra (which I'm failing). Catch the bus home, get on the computer until dinner, do my chores, take a shower, then stay on the computer until 3 AM. Repeat.
 
ideally... it's....

- wake up at 8
- leave the house for work at 8:30
- 2 hr commute to work... (get there between 10-10:30)
- work til about 6:30-7:30 pm
- 2 hr commute home
- gym if i can (not now since i'm getting ready to move)
- sleep at around 11:30....

speaking of sleep ;)
 
EMW I can say two things with some confidence.

First - that YOU probably don't have much trouble sleeping most nights. :p

And having Numerically Addressed children is FINE - just as long as you're dealing with WHOLE numbers....
 
aLoC said:
I have a similar sleep pattern. I can't get to sleep until 4am each night, so by the time I get home from work each day I'm very tired and have to nap from 6pm-10pm. It has been that way for years.

So the pattern is:
8am -> 6pm awake
6pm -> 10pm asleep
10pm -> 4am awake
4am -> 8am asleep

There is a name for this - biphasic sleep. I'm not sure it's a disorder, it's just some people have 2 shorter sleeps instead of 1 long one.
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Have you tried sleeping tablets? What do you do immediately before going to bed? I have trouble sleeping if I smoke an hour or two before bed. I rarely drink coffee or tea, but if I do, never after dinner. The bed is reserved for sleeping and sex, so when I climb in I switch off the day completely :)

I started doing yoga two or three times a week and it's dramatically improved the way I sleep (fall asleep quicker, sleep deeper, wake up feeling more refreshed). Exercise makes a big difference.

Work hard and play hard!
 
I'm sorry - but I disagree with the bed being only for sleep and sex. Sure, lock your sex to that location, but not the sleep! Variety is the spice of life...

And my Couch is a PERFECTLY acceptable venue for a nap - ESPECIALLY when the sun is on it, and I'm supposed to be working somewhere else. I swear it feels BETTER then.

Other good nap venues: Cubicles / Beaches / Chic-Flics / "Fishing", "Yard Work" and "Oil Changes"
 
Big-TDI-Guy said:
I'm sorry - but I disagree with the bed being only for sleep and sex. Sure, lock your sex to that location, but not the sleep! Variety is the spice of life...

And my Couch is a PERFECTLY acceptable venue for a nap - ESPECIALLY when the sun is on it, and I'm supposed to be working somewhere else. I swear it feels BETTER then.

Other good nap venues: Cubicles / Beaches / Chic-Flics / "Fishing", "Yard Work" and "Oil Changes"
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i hear you there! OMG is it just me or can i get to sleep more easily on couch that has a sun patch on it during the day than my bed at night.
 
Wake up between 5-7 depending on what time my neighbours start slamming their doors,
brave the freezing cold british weather :p
wait for the (10-20 minute late) bus to arrive
work
come home at 4-5 depending what bus i can catch
tea
mr
sleep (badly)

I get around 4-5 hours sleep a night, if I'm lucky, the old bag next door will slam the doors when she gets in at 2am, then the youngest brat (25, yes, he is still living with his mummy) slams the doors at 5-7am when he leaves, and sometimes decides to play his music really loud.

I can't wait for uni just to get away from the neighbours, how bads that...
 
okay, this is what i do everyday until Dec. 28, which is when my internship ends:

get up at 5:33 am. get dressed, drink some sweet tea, brush teeth, sometimes fix my hair if it's really bad, and out the door by 5:50 am.

get to work around 6:30-6:45, depending on traffic and which work location i'm going to.

leave work anywhere from 3:05-3:45, and so get home anywhere from 4:00 - 4:45 pm, and sometimes later on fridays.

get on the computer for just a bit, then go run. anywhere from 30 minutes to over an hour. track workouts on tuesdays (i'm on the track team in college, but have to train on my own right now, until after we start spring semester)

get back from running, get on the computer again. then make myself lift weights (isn't much - pull-ups, dips, some bench press, sometimes push-ups, etc)

then on the computer a little again, then eat supper.

then sit around some more. then shower.

then on the computer some more, then brush teeth

and finally in the bed anywhere from 9:00-11:00 pm, and if it's after 10:00, i'm dog tired the next day
 
Having worked many varied schedules to include intensive NVG operations, I, along with most of my fellow pilots, found the following to be very useful:

- Always perform the same pre-sleep steps such as taking a shower, brushing your teeth, drinking something, etc. Everyone is different. The key is to do the same steps to prep yourself for sleep.

- Get the same number of hours of sleep each night. Some folks can make due with 4.5 hours. Others need much more. For fitness, you need 4 hours of REM sleep. Some folks get there quickly. Others take more time. Determine what works for you -- then follow it regardless of when you go to sleep. The exception is below.

- Go to bed and get up at the same time. So say you need 7.5 hours of sleep. You normally go to bed at 2300 and get up 0630. You do this everyday. If by chance, you stay up late until say 0100 working on a project or whatever, then you still get up at 0630 -- and don't take a nap. Your body will bounce back much quicker this way.

- If you must take a nap, never take naps where you are more than napping. For most folks this is less than 30 minutes. If longer, you start going into a deeper sleep which leaves you tired and tends to mess up your normal sleep schedule.

- Eat a well balanced diet and limit your caffeine intake.

To the OP, suggest you try the following:
- Do not take an evening nap.
- Turn off the computer.
- Go to bed earlier.
 
JudgeDanny said:
ideally... it's....

- wake up at 8
- leave the house for work at 8:30
- 2 hr commute to work... (get there between 10-10:30)
- work til about 6:30-7:30 pm
- 2 hr commute home
- gym if i can (not now since i'm getting ready to move)
- sleep at around 11:30....

speaking of sleep ;)
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2 hour commute to work :eek: That must be exhausting! Why so far?
 
Everyone has such crazy schedules. I try to aim for below, but I usually run a little late in the morning.

6am - Get up, do my hair, brush my teeth, have some breakfast etc.
7.30am - Leave my flat
8.15am - Arrive at work
12noon - Lunch
1.30pm - Gym
2.30pm - Back to work
5.30pm - Leave work
6.15pm - Arrive back at my flat
8.00pm - Pub / Restaurant / Bowling / TV / XBox etc.
11.00pm - Bed

I sleep very well and I never really feel tired. At the weekends I usually don't follow a schedule. I just play it by ear.
 
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