Morning routines.

[Underwater Ophelia]

I think morning routines can be revealing, and I'm bored, so let's discuss.
This'll be for a day when I don't have work, so it's more interesting.

At 8:30 I take my birth control pill. I may or may not actually get out of bed.
Wake up sometime later.
Think about dreams I had.
Roll around and cuddle my puppy, if I'm at home.

Get out of bed naked, and go downstairs.
Eat.
Decide to shower.
The first thing I always wash is my armpits, then I shave them.
Stick cheap conditioner in my hair, and leave it in while I shave my legs.
Shave legs with cheap razor and bar soap.
Wash naughty bits with body wash, then shave (unless I've recently waxed, obviously).
Rinse conditioner out of hair and use dandruff shampoo and rake my nails over my scalp to make sure I am flake free.
Wash face with facial scrub.
Brush teeth in the shower.
Final rinse, leave shower.

Put hair up in a towel and put on underpants and pants/skirt/shorts.
Put on bra.
Take hair out of towel and put it up in a hair tie or whatever.
Do makeup.
Finish dressing.

[Geoluhread]

Sounds like a nice topic..

I have to wake up exactly one hour before i go out -to uni-
I turn on the straightener, wash my hair, then dress
straighten my hair -or just dry it if i`m not in the mood-
prepare my back pack
go out.

Not much detailed like Ophelia :P

[jack_the_knife]

Wake up at 7:00 AM. Get out of bed and go to the toilet and empty my bladder.
Put on some music to wake up properly.
Have shower.
Get dressed in stuff that's clean and looks alright.
Go downstairs, cook myself some breakfast. Full English.
Clean teeth. Get stuff ready for whatever lessons I have.
Find cigarettes, phone, wallet, car keys, house keys, knife and sunglasses.
Go outside. Get in car. Go to school.

[gothicusmaximus]

I just get out of bed and put on whatever clothes are closest to me.

[Apathy's_Child]

Wake up.
Poke Kambili in the back with my morning wood.
Contemplate fucking. Realize I'm too hungover. Ask Kambili to get on top.
Eat. I'm a huge morning eater and am good for nothing until I've consumed at least 400 calories.
Shower while singing loudly. Use the wall-pounding of my disgruntled neighbor to keep the beat.
Clean teeth.
Wet my hands and try to make my hair lie down.
Grace the world with my presence. Regret doing so 30 seconds after stepping out of the door and start couting the seconds until it's bed-time again.

Things I do regularly but not every single morning: shave, vomit, actually HAVE sex, take a dump while reading comics.

[Underwater Ophelia]

Yeah, I left out peeing.
I do that after taking the birth control.

[Solumina]

I roll out of bed about 30 min before I have to leave for classes.

Go to the kitchen, turn on the hot water kettle, and pop some bread into the toaster. While those are going I wash my face, moisturize, and pee, by the time I'm done with that my toast is done and the water is hot. I pour a mug and plop in a tea bag, while that is steeping I put a bit of peanut butter on my toast and then bring my plate and mug over to the coffee table then turn BBC America and watch the news, which I watch while I have my breakfast.

After I'm done eating I brush my teeth and then put on whatever clothing I happen to pull from the drawer, all the while still listening to the news. If I still have time I may put on a bit of makeup, if not then I just pop my head out of the balcony door to see how cold it is and decide if I need a coat/jacket/whatever, then I grab my purse and books before heading out the door.

[dabbadmc]

Awake to sound of alarm.
Ignore alarm and sleep in.
Drag my lazy ass out of bed and go downstairs.
Get dressed.
Eat breakfast, usually being some form of cereal or toast.
Straighten my fringe and fix my hair.
If I have enough time, maybe put on a little makeup.
Stand around in a daze for a little bit.
Brush my teeth, check my bag and put on my blazer.
Get bus.

[Pineapple_Juice]

Pineapple Juice begins her day like so:
-Wake up
-Hit the snooze and go back to sleep
-Wake up again
-Check phone for texts
-Go pee, examine my face in the mirror
-Make faces at myself in the mirror
-Get in the shower. First wash face, then shave, then wash and shampoo hair.
-Get out, turn on blowdryer and straightener or curler
-Blowdry hair, and then brush teeth
-Get dressed
-Apply moisturizer, finish hair, attack with hairspray
-Make more funny faces in the mirror
-Apply liberal amounts of makeup
-Grab things and go.

[Duane]

Get up at 11:30.
Put on pants from floor and best looking band shirt.
Bathroom times.
Weigh myself.

That's about it

[honeythorn]

Alarm goes off at 5:30, hit snooze for 10 mins
Get up and pee
Brush teeth
Have a quick shower ( wash everything except my hair as I only do that every 2 days to stop it getting too dry from overwashing )
Put on makeup
Try to make my fringe look normal and pile hair in a clip

Now it is usually around 6:30

Get dressed in whatever ( I work in a warehouse with 3 men , fashion is not nessecary)
Have breakfast
Feed the rabbit, birds and fish
Pack my food for the day in my workbag


Leave for work at 7:20

[Delkaetre]

Alarm at 7.30. Optional ignore and doze till 8.20 if I showered the night before so I wouldn't have to first thing in the morning. Otherwise, head for bathroom.
Stand outside bathroom, swearing quietly because I had an AGREEMENT with the housemates that as the only one in the house with a JOB I got priority of the shower on Mon/Wed/Fri mornings, since none of their lectures start till 10 or 11am.
Get use of bathroom. Use toilet, have shower. Soak hair, lather in whatever shampoo's been on special offer recently. Rinse. Locate soap, lather rest of self. Shave where necessary. Rinse. Out of shower, brush teeth. If time allows, pluck eyebrows. Locate clean undergarments, unrumpled shirt, reasonably unrumpled trousers. Apply roll-on deo, get dressed. Take pill.
Make sandwiches and discover that housemates had takeout the night before. Try not to touch kitchen surfaces.
8.40, out of the door and off to work, computer booting while I make the tea around 9am.

This does not apply on weekends, bank holidays, or any kind of time off. Those times I just kinda sleep as long as I need or want to. No makeup or moisturiser is involved at any point in my morning routine.

[a morbid curiosity]

Alarm goes off at 6.15.
I ignore it and fall asleep.
I wake again at around 7.55, realise that I'm late and leap out of bed, rushing around getting clothes, making toast, attempting to get relatively clean, brushing my teeth and fixing my hair... in whichever order seems most convenient at the time.
Leave the house at 8.30 and am always late.

[Unimatrix 00]

I wake up at 6:00 and stretch for 10 minutes.
Then I have a shower.
At about 6:15 I have my breakfast.
Then after that I sit down to put on my beautiful makeup for the day.
By 6:45 I have to leave! Its time to go to school!

And thats me.

[Alarica]

Get woken by kids at 6am and curse myself for not putting blackout blinds AND curtains up.
Drag ass downstairs followed by hungry small people and 3 hungry cats.
Let the dogs out, feed the cats, put the kettle on while I take my tablets and the kids decide what they are having for breakfast.
Feed kids.
Make coffee - huge cup of and strong.
Put some crap on tv like mickey mouse clubhouse.
Turn on laptop and check emails and facebook messages.
Finish coffee and head for the bathroom. I have a bath in the evening when it's quiet so I have a wash, clean my teeth and go to the loo.
Find something to wear, and then listen to 5 minutes of 'you always wear black mummy' while I try to do my makeup.
Do my hair.
Get the kids washed and teeth cleaned.
Find clothes for my youngest and help him dress, while my girls dress themselves and eldest is leaving for school by then, usually 7:45am.
Brush the girls hair and tie it back.
Clear breakfast things, sort the dishwasher and washing.
Put mobile on silent after someone has tried ringing me 4 times and got no answer.
9am we sit down to start school work. The rest of the morning is lessons, coffee for me and doing odd bits if I can fit them in around teaching the girls.

[Lolly PopMuzik]

Hmm...

How it goes:
Get up after hitting the snooze button for my phone's alarm clock once or twice.

Pee and turn on the curling iron even if I wrapped my hair the night before.

Hop in the shower if I haven't done so before bed last night, and include brushing my teeth and washing my face in the same step (sometimes shaving if I've been awake long enough and if not, I shave later that night)

Get out and dry off without freezing

Lotion up every inch of skin I see (we black folks tend to get ashy as shit if we stick around in hot water and also includes sunscreen with my lotion)

Get dressed in the cleanest clothes possible, then realize I need to buy more shirts.

Curl my hair and sometimes spend 5 minutes just so it looks nice and even.

Put on my makeup if I feel like it.

Put on my shoes (usually work appropriate if I'm called in and have to be there right after school)

Make sure to grab my backpack and lunchbox purse.

Make sure that I've got what I need (work nametag, keys, wallet, phone, blotting papers for my face, notebooks, sufficient amount of cash money for me to dine on).

*Catch the public bus to school. (which is sometimes early and sometimes redonkulously late, and I sometimes miss it due to my need to fix my body clock)

*Grab something to eat or drink at the cafeteria or bookstore (I often grab a string cheese, freeze-dried apple chips, yogurt, a mocha or just a couple of fresh shrimp spring rolls) before heading to class for the day.

Of course, the routines with an asterisk are left out if I have an opening or a mid-day shift at work and don't have school.

(I realize the utter vanity of this post yet somehow it doesn't bother me in the least)

[Becca_Lugosi]

If I'm not going to class/work my routine goes something like...

*Apply lip gloss. Check cell phone for any missed calls/texts.
*Roll around and snuggle with my stuffed toy, Simba.
*Groan and down 2 bowls of cereal, usually LOL at Ellen DeGeneres.
*Brush teeth, wash face, if I need a shower...
[[drench. scrub. shave. hair. oogle myself because I have a mirror in my shower.]]
*Hop online and check e-mail, MySpace, etc.
*Stretch, drink some tea, take all my legal drugs.
*Take some illegal ones, and on with the day.



~B.L.

[gothicusmaximus]

Originally Posted by Becca_Lugosi

*Take some illegal ones, and on with the day.

So, are we talking wake 'n' bake here, or doing lines off Simba's chest?

[Pineapple_Juice]

How can you oggle yourself in a fogged up mirror?

[Becca_Lugosi]

I wipe it off.


And definitely a wake n' bake...



~B.L.

[iroti]

My phone alarm goes off, and I get my nakie arse up. Throw on some clothes, brush my teeth and hair. Check the internet. Then, I slop on some mascara, heat up oatmeal, eat it and drive to school.

[Mystery]

wake up to my mother pounding on my door screaming at me to get my ass out of bed
look at my cell for time/texts/missed calls
look in the mirror comb my curls with my fingers
get dressed
bang on the door for my brother to get out of the shower
answer my cell when my boyfriend calls
unsteam the bathroom
put on fair foundation/ white face powder
then draw the design i want around my eyes with eyeliner/put on eye shadow/mascara (while talking to my boyfriend)
apply a heavy coat of bright red lip gloss
yell at my mother to tell her im coming to get breakfast
go eat cereal bars
go back to the bathroom to reapply lip gloss
and run out the door to the car
get off the fonr with my boyfriend

[Pyre]

Some of you have really serious morning routines. Damn.

On MWF I wake to a clock alarm (phone alarm stopped working) at 9:30a, and on TR I wake at 7:20a (a 10:10 class and an 8a class respectively).
Get up, turned off my loud-as-hell air conditioner, walk to computer and check for e-mails. Check Gnet and Facebook briefly (or I intend to do so briefly, but it consumes about 10 minutes).
On MWF I drink a Slim Fast as a quick breakfast (on TR I get breakfast at work after my 8am class).
Realize I spent too much time on the computer already, throw on a robe, walk to the bathroom and pee, return to dress myself in whatever doesn't smell bad (often dressy clothes on MF and always work clothes on TR--W is whatever I find first).
Brush my hair. If I slept on it wet, I'll pull it up and straighten my bangs. Otherwise, I just go with it. If I don't even have time for straightening, then I'll put a hat on.
Put on minimal eyeliner.
Grab necessities and leave 6 or 7 minutes before class (it's fortunately in close walking distance).
Leave.

[Pyre]

Oh, and I brush my teeth before leaving.

[Corpsey]

Wake up on a monday-tuesday at around 8 and just lie in bed for a while and contemplate the day.

Get up, shit, shower, eat and clean my teeth.

Throw dirty clothes in the wash and grab whatever I left on the line the previous night and throw them on. Choose which of my 3 sets of clothing I wish to wear (On a tuesday I choose my running outfit for going to the gym).

Then sit down to look at whatever German/Comparative politics has left for me to do.

Contemplate skipping Comparative Politics for German.

Go and make a coffee. About this time my other flatmate gets up and we'll complain together about whatever the fuck we heard in the night.

Drink coffee outside.

Chuck on one of the two pairs of shoes I own.

Brace myself for an hour long walk or catch a bus depending on weather.

Every other weekday just involves waking up earlier and skipping from putting on clean clothes to preparing and having a coffee outside.