How do you start your morning?

Do you wake up by an alarm clock going off?

Are you a snooze button slapper, or do you jump up immediately?

Do you have a pattern or routine that you follow?

How long does it take you to get from waking up to out the door for work?

When I go into to work in the morning, I often wonder as I see people comming in, how people function.

Those people who are always there way early,waiting at the door.

Those who always seem to be late, and in a hurry!

There are those who are always meticulously dressed and adorned with polished nails and hair dos, and those who look like they just got out of the shower or rolled out of bed.

Some have everything in place, ties, name badges.

Others are running in to buy what they forgot or broke, chipped, got a run in, spilled coffee on, or just ran out of.

I personally have a very basic routine. I know not wearing makeup and a styled hair does save me a lot of time that gets used on other things that I do in the morning.

I set up my work clothes the night before, and sometimes set up the coffee pot, and make sure all my keys and purse and such are in my "grab and run" space.

I have to have my morning coffee, my half awake time(grumble time if you must) so when the alarm first goes off, I jump up and slap the snooze button.

I get the coffee going and run back to bed.

When it goes off again, I make that decision between needing 10 more minutes of sleep or 10 more of moving about to get the aches and stiffness out.

I take my lunch to work everyday, and fix a lunch for the other half. Feed and water the dog. Check the weather reports. Gather any trash and take it and the dog out and check the hot house in the winter months, or the garden in the summer months. Brush my hair, teeth and get dressed and check my email. On a regualr day, I usually have another half hour or so left to either check out the internet or do dishes or balance the check book, stuff like that. And I like quiet.

My morning can start anywhere from an hour and a half to three hours before I am standing at the time clock at work.

My other half is just the opposite in about every way. He slaps the alarm so much I am suprised it lasts as long it does.  His first  action is to turn on the TV and maybe make coffee, if I haven't. We are quite the fric and frac image on mornings when we both work on the same days. And when the boys were still at home..YIKES!

Eventually we both get out the door and to work, but it really does make me wonder what it takes others to get out the door. Especially those who seem to have it all together perfectly all the time. But I also wonder how those who are always on the fly, how do they manage to do so without a melt down?!