When do you get up?

accim · **October 29, 2011, 11:20:07**

Don't know if we've had any topics like this.. Hope not. Okay, so simple.. What time do you usually get up in the morning? I'll start first

Monday-Friday: 6:20 am
Saturday: 7:00 am
Sunday: 8:00 am

You can also add info - when do you usually go to bed (not necessarily go to sleep, just to bed

):

Monday-Thursday: 23h (11 pm)
Friday-Saturday: 23-01h (11 pm - 01 am)
Sunday: 23h (11 pm)

Dazzler · **Reply #1: October 29, 2011, 11:24:29**

It varies... I probably average 6.30am most days but as some will have noticed can be as early as 5am or very occassionally, maybe one or twice a month 7am or 7.30am.. I call that a sleep in

I don't start work until 1pm (so I don't have to get up early)

accim · **Reply #2: October 29, 2011, 11:39:32**

Quote from: Dazzler on October 29, 2011, 11:24:29

It varies... I probably average 6.30am most days but as some will have noticed can be as early as 5am or very occassionally, maybe one or twice a month 7am or 7.30am.. I call that a sleep in

I don't start work until 1pm (so I don't have to get up early)

That is why I started this topic

I start my work at 7 or 8 am. Depends.

meehalych · **Reply #3: October 29, 2011, 11:46:04**

Well for the last 6 months I'm used to waking up at 12 o'clock in the afternoon most of time with some rare exceptions

and I'm used to going to bed by 3 o'clock at night.

rustynutz · **Reply #4: October 29, 2011, 12:37:40**

Bedtime is usually around 2, maybe 3am.....I crawl out of bed around 9-10am.

accim · **Reply #5: October 29, 2011, 12:41:09**

Quote from: meehalych on October 29, 2011, 11:46:04

Well for the last 6 months I'm used to waking up at 12 o'clock in the afternoon most of time with some rare exceptions and I'm used to going to bed by 3 o'clock at night.

Shambles · **Reply #6: October 29, 2011, 13:07:23**

A nearby railway bridge is being removed/replaced so I moved my wakey wakey time forwards from 05:30 to 05:20 on workdays, to avoid the bottlenecks that occur around 06:30 (I miss the traffic by about 10 mins) otherwise it would add around an hour to my daily journey to work.

Weekends I get up when I wake up. Today that was 11:15

meehalych · **Reply #7: October 29, 2011, 13:11:58**

Quote from: accim on October 29, 2011, 12:41:09

Quote from: meehalych on October 29, 2011, 11:46:04
Well for the last 6 months I'm used to waking up at 12 o'clock in the afternoon most of time with some rare exceptions and I'm used to going to bed by 3 o'clock at night.

Rephrasing the Hyundai slogan:
"New work, new opportunities"

asathorny · **Reply #8: October 29, 2011, 13:51:42**

If I am working in London I have to be on that seven o'clock train, non stop (well only one stop) and be walking across the platform in London Euston for just after nine. So on those days I have to be up at 6...

When I am working in Heswall (near Liverpool for the noon UK guys) or North Yorkshire I usually don't have to be there till around 9 or 10 so 7:30 is good enough.

All of the above only amounts to three or four days four or five if I am lucky, in an entire month.

So..... on all the other morning I wake up whenever I wake, peek out, have a bit of a scratch, stroke the dog and tell him to hang on a bit longer then roll over and have another half hour, till whatever blooming time I want... More than fifty years of being run by the clock, well, nowadays I do NOT wear a watch unless it's a work day Yay

2i30s · **Reply #9: October 30, 2011, 02:49:52**

monday-saturday I'm up at 3.30am and start work at 4.00am.

sunday is a sleep in day,usually till around 7.00-7.30am if I'm lucky.

Surferdude · **Reply #10: October 30, 2011, 07:07:53**

^^^
You mustn't have far to go to work, Steve.

Now then, when do I get up.
Whenever I damn well please.

If I'm going surfing I get up about 30 -45 minutes before first light. In mid summer. I'm in the water at first light - around 4am. In midwinter that would be 6am
So around 3.30 in summer and 5.30 in winter.

If I'm working in Brisbane I get up around 5.15 am and leave home about 5.45am. Depending on which store I'm going to.

If I'm not working and there's no surf I'll normally get up about 6am, have a cuppa (tea - none of those tea bag crap either).

Then, if I've been surfing or am not working I'll get up again about 3 pm (after my afternoon nap).

Dazzler · **Reply #11: October 30, 2011, 10:59:03**

Gee.. This has turned out to be a fairly interesting thread

Doggie 1 · **Reply #12: October 30, 2011, 12:00:40**

Depends.
If I go to bed at say 10.00 pm, I'd usually get up at 1.00 am, then 3.30 am & probably also 5.42 am.
I think it's caused by getting older.
Then I usually listen to the 7.00 am news on the radio & get up after that at about 7.05.
Unless it's a weekend, in which case I sleep in til about 8 or thereabouts

Dazzler · **Reply #13: October 30, 2011, 12:03:36**

Quote from: db08 on October 30, 2011, 12:00:40

Depends.
If I go to bed at say 10.00 pm, I'd usually get up at 1.00 am, then 3.30 am & probably also 5.42 am.
I think it's caused by getting older.

Good point.. I forgot about the other times I get up (can be anything between once and 6 or 7 times

)

Doggie 1 · **Reply #14: October 30, 2011, 12:04:41**

I would expect that when I get to 55

FatBoy · **Reply #15: October 30, 2011, 12:07:09**

On work days I usually set the alarm for 6am, but the "snooze" button can get a decent workout.

On weekends I get to sleep in, and get up when the kids get up, usually around 6:15am!!

FatBoy

Surferdude · **Reply #16: October 30, 2011, 12:13:00**

It just occured to me this thread topic might mean something else entirely.

Well, TBH it occured to me when I first saw it, only to be a bit disappointed when I read the first couple of posts.

accim · **Reply #17: October 30, 2011, 13:07:14**

Quote from: surferdude on October 30, 2011, 12:13:00

It just occured to me this thread topic might mean something else entirely.

Well, TBH it occured to me when I first saw it, only to be a bit disappointed when I read the first couple of posts.

BTW: I thought I was early, but seeing couple of you, waking up at 3am and hours like that..

eye30 · **Reply #18: October 30, 2011, 16:38:45**

Just while you are thinking about what time you get up, keep this question in your mind:

What is the first thing you do when you wake up?

meehalych · **Reply #19: October 30, 2011, 16:41:58**

Quote from: eye30 on October 30, 2011, 16:38:45

Just while you are thinking about what time you get up, keep this question in your mind:

What is the first thing you do when you wake up?

I open my eyes. Can anyone does another thing?

accim · **Reply #20: October 30, 2011, 18:08:25**

After opening my eyes and after snoozing my clock for 5-10 times (I set the clock at 6:00 if I have to wake up at 6:20 for example), I go to bathroom definitely, do the stuff there and then go drink or make the coffee. Can't do anything before drinking the coffee.

meehalych · **Reply #21: October 30, 2011, 18:14:28**

Quote from: accim on October 30, 2011, 18:08:25

After opening my eyes and after snoozing my clock for 5-10 times (I set the clock at 6:00 if I have to wake up at 6:20 for example), I go to bathroom definitely, do the stuff there and then go drink or make the coffee. Can't do anything before drinking the coffee.

I ceased to drink coffee in the mornings long time ago and switched to tea, think of it.
I may conclude I need about one hour before I'm ready to set off anywhere: having waken up, I have a breakfast, then I lie in the bed, watching TV, then bathroom.

diablo · **Reply #22: October 30, 2011, 19:28:06**

When I was working I usually used to get up at 8:30 and get there by 9:30. Most of the time was having a bath and a cup of tea.

Though 6 years ago I retired at the grand old age of 54 and since then I mainly sleep very late - lunchtime usually. Not that I need many hours of sleep just have had bad insomnia for 15 years. When I was working I'd sometimes only have had two hours kip.

In the morning it is shower, shave, sh*t, shampoo. How come every bathroom activity starts with 'sh' ?

Then a coffee or two.

TrishCW · **Reply #23: October 30, 2011, 19:43:12**

I mostly rise at 6.oo am, first stop is the bathroom, then coffee, nothing gets done in our house till i've had my first coffee.

It's good being retired so that I can sleep in, I used to get up at 5.00 when I was working.

2i30s · **Reply #24: October 30, 2011, 21:51:22**

Quote from: surferdude on October 30, 2011, 07:07:53

^^^
You mustn't have far to go to work, Steve.

it only takes me and my son 8-10 minutes to get to work.

but it takes almost an hour to get home at night.

my 19yo son is an apprentice welder/fabricator/fitter at my work

bumpkin · **Reply #25: October 30, 2011, 22:04:19**

Up around 7am, bedtime is usually between 10 and 10.30pm, sleep time is not usually much before midnight though

asathorny · **Reply #26: October 30, 2011, 22:32:16**

Quote from: bumpkin on October 30, 2011, 22:04:19

Up around 7am, bedtime is usually between 10 and 10.30pm, sleep time is not usually much before midnight though

Blighmy Brian, takes you a long time to drink your Horlicks doesn't......

Surferdude · **Reply #27: October 31, 2011, 07:47:47**

Quote from: diablo on October 30, 2011, 19:28:06

In the morning it is shower, shave, sh*t, shampoo.

I'm not sure I like the order in which you do those things.....

Quote from: 2i30s on October 30, 2011, 21:51:22

Quote from: surferdude on October 30, 2011, 07:07:53
^^^
You mustn't have far to go to work, Steve.

it only takes me and my son 8-10 minutes to get to work. but it takes almost an hour to get home at night. my 19yo son is an apprentice welder/fabricator/fitter at my work

Stop off at the Pub???

Quote from: meehalych on October 30, 2011, 18:14:28

Quote from: accim on October 30, 2011, 18:08:25
After opening my eyes and after snoozing my clock for 5-10 times (I set the clock at 6:00 if I have to wake up at 6:20 for example), I go to bathroom definitely, do the stuff there and then go drink or make the coffee. Can't do anything before drinking the coffee.
I ceased to drink coffee in the mornings long time ago and switched to tea, think of it.
I may conclude I need about one hour before I'm ready to set off anywhere: having waken up, I have a breakfast, then I lie in the bed, watching TV, then bathroom.

I have tea if I'm not going anywhere. Coffee if I'm going surfing or driving to Brisbane to work.

meehalych · **Reply #28: October 31, 2011, 08:26:37**

Quote from: surferdude on October 31, 2011, 07:47:47

I have tea if I'm not going anywhere. Coffee if I'm going surfing or driving to Brisbane to work.

Green tea is known to contain more caffeine, than coffee itself, by the way.

I used to drink coffee too much before, I used to have a cup of this beverage even before going to bed and one day I realized I had had enough of it, so I chose a tea. Nowadays I'm used to drinking coffee in the afternoon only, the rest is dedicated to tea: either Rooibos, Pu-Er or Oolong; some sorts of Pu-Er tea are considered to be much more stronger than coffee, by the way.

Surferdude · **Reply #29: October 31, 2011, 08:37:35**

Just plain black breakfast tea for me.
I'm a man of simple tastes.