Morning:

• 5am: wake up in my gym clothes
• 5:05: drink my pre-workout and scroll for a minute
• 5:15: sit down to put shoes on. Cat gets on my lap

This is where morning turns into a choose your own adventure game!

• 5:15: sat cat on floor and go to the gym
• 5:30: weight training
• 7:00: shower
• 7:20: breakfast
• 8:00: work

OR

• 5:15: give kitty five minutes, she deserves it
• 5:30: realize I’m running late but now I’m in the middle of some stupid task on my phone
• 6:00: I’m not going to get a full workout in anyway, I’m just going to eat breakfast now and go to the gym after work
• 7:30: time to go to work! oh no I’m still in my gym clothes
• 7:40: time to go to work!
• 7:50: oh god I forgot about the school zone
• 8:05: I want to die and take everyone on this highway with me

Night

• what the fuck
• uhhhhh
• somehow falls asleep two hours later than planned in a spot other than my bed

But if you tell people “I wake up at 5am to work out”, they automatically assume you have your shit together. 😎

Morning:

Make a coffee, grab a yogurt, back to bed to eat and drink. Get up, get dressed. Turn on laptop. Lie down in bed with laptop. Coffee and a cigaret on the balcony.

Evening:

Brush my teeth. Undress. Lie down. Watch a show/movie. (Try to) sleep.

I work a weird shift, so my “morning” begins at about noon

• Alarm goes off, hit snooze a couple times
• Scroll Lemmy, news, check my messages, etc
• Shower, brush my teeth, shave my head if needed, get dressed
• Walk the dog
• Breakfast, make coffee, pack lunch, feed the dog her lunch (wife gives her breakfast at normal human wakeup times)
• If it’s a work day, I’m out the door by about 1:45, at work by about 2:15, start at 2:30

Then at the end of the day

• Leave work at 2:30, home by about 3:00AM
• Walk the dog
• Maybe eat dinner if I’m hungry
• More scrolling or some video games until about 5, sometimes as early as 4, sometimes as late as 6
• Brush teeth
• Undress
• Feel around in the dark for whatever boobytraps my wife has left in the bed for me- laptop, phone, glasses, Kindle, charging cables, etc. and put them wherever they go
• Crawl into bed, contort myself around the dog, hug the wife
• Sleep

On days I don’t work, the overall sequence of events stays mostly the same except I usually don’t usually drink coffee or pack a lunch on my days off, but the times may shift a few hours in any direction. Breakfast gets more elaborate on my days off, and I’m less likely to have a “dinner” since I probably had a big meal for lunch/my wife’s dinner instead of the usual sandwich I pack for work.

Morning:

• Snooze my alarm at least 3 times.
• Finally wake up, check for notifications and end up scrolling for 15 minutes.
• try to get out of bed but instead snuggle my dog for as long as possible or until she needs to be let outside.
• drink whatever water I have leftover on my bedside table
• get up finally, pee, brush my teeth, wash my face, put on deodorant, do my hair & get dressed
• make a coffee
• leave for work. (If I don’t work, skip steps one and two, and postpone some of step 4 for later)

Evening:

• pour a glass of water for the middle of the night when I get thirsty.
• let the dog out to pee.
• go pee, brush my teeth, wash my face, get undressed.
• grab a handful of kibbles and give my dog brushes while giving her snacks.
• put in lip balm and hand lotion.
• play all the wordle games before midnight
• scroll for a while until I decide I’m tired.
• turn off the light.
• put on an audiobook for 15 minutes and hope I’m asleep before then.

Morning: Work out, shower, coffee, protein shake, make breakfast for my wife, hop on the laptop.

Night: Cook dinner, kiss my wife when she gets home. Hit a few golf balls on the simulator. Watch an episode from an anime series if there’s something new. Maybe have a cocktail with the neighbor.

Shower, scroll for about 30 minutes, sleep.

I feel very lucky, and try not to take each day for granted.

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