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Post by justfran on Jul 9, 2019 21:24:58 GMT
Due to mentions of it above, I wonder what the split is between brush teeth before or after breakfast. I'm an after. I’m team before - they feel like they need a clean after waking up. It’s the first thing I do before getting ready etc so it’s usually a minimum of 30 minutes before I then eat anything, plenty of time for the minty feeling to go. |
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Post by dippy on Jul 9, 2019 21:47:27 GMT
I think (probably) it's because if they are like me they have everything prepared the night before. Definitely not the case for me, I do not really sort anything out for work the night before. I get ready so quickly because I am a night owl and even though I have to get up early I am not able to go to sleep early. So it means if I want a semi reasonable amount of sleep then I need to wake up as late as I possibly can. So I have mastered the art of getting ready as quickly as possible. Luckily we get breakfast at work or I would have to get up a tiny bit earlier. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 9, 2019 22:30:10 GMT
It’s 2019 we’ve moved on! And that has to be the least credible bit of photoshop I've ever seen... Ok I photoshopped the vase and flowers in. Shoot me. 🙄 |
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 10, 2019 12:50:15 GMT
And that has to be the least credible bit of photoshop I've ever seen... Ok I photoshopped the vase and flowers in. Shoot me. 🙄 I'm overthinking this (which is deeply worrying considering the subject matter), but shouldn't you have 'shopped in a stepladder too? |
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 10, 2019 12:57:18 GMT
Do you think switching to untoasted bread might be safer? Or have you already done that in the intervening years? Probably, but instead I now have a toaster with narrower slots. That seems to work, particularly as the post never arrives before noon now anyway, going by the cards left. Unless you're extremely good at cutting very thin slices of bread, wouldn't your average letter be thinner than your average slice of bread? So I'm not sure how narrower slots would help your letters. Admittedly it would help with parcels. |
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Post by kimbahorel on Jul 10, 2019 15:50:23 GMT
My morning depends on what my shift is.
• Wake up 3.45am
• Plug phone in to charge
• Get up and put food in the oven (Usually fish fingers and either potato waffle or brown rice on the cooker top)
• Make a coffee
• Sit down and check the internet and catch up with what I missed going to bed at 8pm!
• Around 4.20 eat food
• 4.30/4.40 Have a shower wash hair
• 5ish quickly try and get my hair up in a pony tail while its still pretty wet!
• Have to be out the bathroom by 5.10 because my dad gets up and is in there 5.10 every day.
• Make more coffee for my flask
• 5.20 rush to get dressed
• 5.30 Leg it out the door for the bus at 5.35
This is only when I work early morning (which is most of the time). If I have an 8am start I get up at 5 and follow the same routine but have sn extra 15 mins). If I don't work that day or its a late its -
• Wake up and get a coffee
• Charge phone and check internet.
• Breakfast is toast some times egg and tomatoes on bread or beans on toast (if I am not going out at all) and toast with vegemite (if I am going out).
Then the rest depends on if I go out and when.
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 10, 2019 15:58:34 GMT
To me the mornings are the best time of the day. Wake up about 5;00, download the paper and a bit of social media, 20/30 minutes of exercise around 5:30, shower, breakfast, a bit of chilling either listening to /playing music or some reading, and look to leave the flat around 7:30. Never been able to rush a morning, the silence and tranquility set up the day perfectly. That's very laudable. I don't like a rushed morning either but on work days I absolutely cannot do things like reading or music that I associate with relaxed leisure time as it feels wrong! But the routine you describe is great for non-work days except the downloaded paper and the start time. And the exercise. Usually. |
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 10, 2019 16:02:57 GMT
The toasted contract was about 2 inches thick, both cats and flowers are thicker, so it seems to work. Also, e-tickets help cut down the dangers. Not incinerated anything recently, anyway. When I landed on this page, this is the post I saw first. With no context, you can imagine my bafflement. It reads like an exchange between two men in trilbys and trenchcoats in a park in a spy drama pastiche. Or a series of cryptic crossword clues. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2019 16:07:46 GMT
The toasted contract was about 2 inches thick, both cats and flowers are thicker, so it seems to work. Also, e-tickets help cut down the dangers. Not incinerated anything recently, anyway. When I landed on this page, this is the post I saw first. With no context, you can imagine my bafflement. It reads like an exchange between two men in trilbys and trenchcoats in a park in a spy drama pastiche. Or a series of cryptic crossword clues. (Looks around furtively)
"The owls in the larder utter a cry of finest yellow, for their feathers belong to no goat."
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 10, 2019 16:10:14 GMT
So far, kimbahorel, I think you win the prizes for earliest start AND most 'unusual' breakfast! |
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Post by kimbahorel on Jul 10, 2019 16:17:00 GMT
So far, kimbahorel, I think you win the prizes for earliest start and most 'unusual' breakfast! I am intolerant to so much stuff that it is literally the only thing I can eat of a morning that takes the least amount of time. I used to have just tin tomatos on toast but I was getting really hungry about two hours into my shift and started to feel faint. |
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 10, 2019 16:23:58 GMT
Around 4.20 eat food 4.30/4.40 Have a shower wash hair Gaaaaaaah! Eating then showering?! Fair enough it's part of your routine. For me it goes against the natural order of things. I suspect it might be a split similar to brush teeth before or after breakfast. (You didn't include that!) Eating in 10 minutes is a lesser, shorter 'gaah' but a gaah nonetheless. |
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Post by kimbahorel on Jul 10, 2019 17:12:04 GMT
Around 4.20 eat food 4.30/4.40 Have a shower wash hair Gaaaaaaah! Eating then showering?! Fair enough it's part of your routine. For me it goes against the natural order of things. I suspect it might be a split similar to brush teeth before or after breakfast. (You didn't include that!) Eating in 10 minutes is a lesser, shorter 'gaah' but a gaah nonetheless. teeth brushed after I get out of the shower while I have a brief time for my hair to dry a bit. But I always have a shower the lastest I can before leaving as it means I leave the cleanest I can be. If I eat after shower I have to wash my face and that again. |
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 10, 2019 17:16:29 GMT
Gaaaaaaah! Eating then showering?! Fair enough it's part of your routine. For me it goes against the natural order of things. I suspect it might be a split similar to brush teeth before or after breakfast. (You didn't include that!) Eating in 10 minutes is a lesser, shorter 'gaah' but a gaah nonetheless. teeth brushed after I get out of the shower while I have a brief time for my hair to dry a bit. But I always have a shower the lastest I can before leaving as it means I leave the cleanest I can be. If I eat after shower I have to wash my face and that again. I understand. And excellent use of "and that" by the way, a phrase I'm very fond of. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 10, 2019 17:31:14 GMT
My morning depends on what my shift is. • Wake up 3.45am • 5.30 Leg it out the door for the bus at 5.35
I think I would die if I had to do either of those times! I find getting up at 6am bad enough, being someone whose natural sleeping hours are about midnight-10am. |
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Post by kimbahorel on Jul 10, 2019 18:23:49 GMT
teeth brushed after I get out of the shower while I have a brief time for my hair to dry a bit. But I always have a shower the lastest I can before leaving as it means I leave the cleanest I can be. If I eat after shower I have to wash my face and that again. I understand. And excellent use of "and that" by the way, a phrase I'm very fond of. My grammer and writing is terrible but I have no idea why I wrote 'and that' to be honest it's my face, hands and teeth 😂😂. I write how I speak and have a tendency to add and that to things that don't need it. |
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Post by kimbahorel on Jul 10, 2019 18:25:02 GMT
My morning depends on what my shift is. • Wake up 3.45am • 5.30 Leg it out the door for the bus at 5.35
I think I would die if I had to do either of those times! I find getting up at 6am bad enough, being someone whose natural sleeping hours are about midnight-10am. Life as an unskilled person - retail! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2019 18:29:37 GMT
I think I would die if I had to do either of those times! I find getting up at 6am bad enough, being someone whose natural sleeping hours are about midnight-10am. Life as an unskilled person - retail! Retail workers aren't unskilled. Having to deal with the general public on a daily basis with their demands and ludicrous entitlement. Thats a skill in its own right! |
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Post by lynette on Jul 10, 2019 18:54:46 GMT
Don’t be modest about retail. For some reason it isn’t rated here in U.K. but in other countries it is. In Japan it is an art.
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 10, 2019 19:20:24 GMT
Life as an unskilled person - retail! Retail workers aren't unskilled. Having to deal with the general public on a daily basis with their demands and ludicrous entitlement. Thats a skill in its own right! This, tenfold. kimbahorel,don't you dare describe your work as unskilled! I did it a couple of times, many years ago and couldn't hack it - because I didn't have those skills. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 10, 2019 19:46:31 GMT
Life as an unskilled person - retail! Retail workers aren't unskilled. Having to deal with the general public on a daily basis with their demands and ludicrous entitlement. Thats a skill in its own right!
I tried working in John Lewis in my gap year & quickly realised that I certainly do not have the skills to deal with the general public on a face to face basis. I now do jobs where I only have to deal with them by email, which is much easier. And you don't have to work late on Christmas Eve then come in early on Boxing Day for the sales.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2019 19:52:03 GMT
Having to deal with the general public on a daily basis with their demands and ludicrous entitlement. I couldn't do it. Injustice freaks me out something chronic and the first time someone tried to pull an obvious scam I'd explode. I don't know how retail workers can just smile politely and let it go. (One of my favourite websites is Not Always Right, but when reading it I often have to take a break for quarter of an hour or so to calm down because I get so distressed at some of the stories. Managers who take the customers' side over their employees are a particular trigger.) |
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 10, 2019 23:11:06 GMT
I worked a xmas period at Volume One books in Kingston. As per Marty Di Bergi, don't bother looking for it, it's not there anymore (the shop, that is - Kingston is still there).
I didn't experience anything too bad, I just didn't much like it. But one thing, quite minor and not especially upsetting, has stuck in my mind for some reason. A woman asked me if we stocked birthday cards. I explained that no, it was just xmas cards. She gave me a really sour look and said very reproachfully "people do have birthdays, you know" and walked off. If anything it amused me that anyone would choose to make such a simple exchange so negative for no reason.
Better at least than my colleague whose momentary look of baffled incomprehension was mistaken for stupidity by the person who'd just asked him for ping-pong balls and proceeded to enunciate "you know, small white plastic things you play table tennis with!" (To remind you, this was a book shop).
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 10, 2019 23:17:11 GMT
Anyway time for me to prepare for my morning routine as I have a flight and all must run smoothly.
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Post by shady23 on Jul 11, 2019 7:00:56 GMT
My routine is snooze alarm several times.
Snooze a few times more.
Check social media.
Snooze again.
Realise I'm late.
Loo, shower. Think about breakfast. Realise I haven't time for breakfast (how I envy those of you who have time for a relaxing cuppa before you leave).
Realise I need to leave NOW to get the train.
Check oven hobs aren't on (I have to do this religiously even if I know I've not used them. Just in case they have turned themselves on 🙈)
Check bathroom sink taps aren't on (I'm not bothered about checking any other taps and have never left them on and there's never been a flood so not sure what that's about).
Generally check the cooker again.
Check the taps again...
This can go on for about a minute most days 🙈
Then half run half walk to station.
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