1. Have you decided which way you'll vote next weekend?2. What do you see yourself doing when you retire?
3. Your top 3 genres of music
4. If you had to decide between doing a bungee jump, or eating five cockroaches, what'd you choose? And you can't say 'neither'.
5. Describe your morning routine, from waking, to being 'ready'.
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1. Have you decided which way you'll vote next weekend?
2. What do you see yourself doing when you retire?
3. Your top 3 genres of music
4. If you had to decide between doing a bungee jump, or eating five cockroaches, what'd you choose? And you can't say 'neither'.
5. Describe your morning routine, from waking, to being 'ready'.
1 - Yes, by numbering all the boxes, starting with the Greens, and working my way up to the least worst candidate.
2 - Retiring, what now?
3 - Loud, Fast, Happy.
4 - Bungee. Duh!
5 - Get up, put on trakky daks, ugg-boots and dressing gown. Try to leave bedroom without banging into anything and waking the rest of the family up. Walk quietly to kitchen, try and get weet-bix and bowl without banging into anything and waking the rest of the family up. Walk quietly into office, switching on heater with clothes laid over it on the way, pull office door to, turn on first light I've seen all morning, turn on computer, put weet-bix in bowl (4). Read a blog entry or two. Remember that I need to eat breakfast before I leave. Sneak back out to kitchen, leave weet-bix on bench for kitchen, put bowl down reeeaaaally quietly trying not to wake rest of family up. Get spoon out of drawer and honey from cupboard. Open honey quietly and in the dark, put honey on weet-bix, get milk out of fridge, leaving door open so I have some light while pouring it. Replace milk, take weet-bix back to office and eat there, while reading emails and the rest of the internet. Hear small child open bedroom door and come running down hallway to office. Give her a cuddle. Hear boys get up and 'quietly' thunder through house to living room. Get up and go to living room to get dressed while boys read 'quietly'. Remove shirt and dressing gown. Remember I need deodorant. Go back into office and apply deodorant. Return to living room and put on t-shirt and jumper. Remove pajama pants and put on undies, jeans and socks. Kids say "good-bye". I say "I'm not going yet". Go to bedroom, put pajamas on pillow, ugg-boots next to bed, dressing gown on sleeping wife, who asks if kids are up yet. Yes. Go to en suite, relieve self, wash hands, "brush" hair with still wet hands, clean teeth. Kiss wife goodbye, leave room while pulling door mostly shut. Return to living room, get shoes, go to office. Read more blogs while putting shoes on - left shoe pulls straight on, right shoe needs shoelace untied, shoe pulled on and shoelace retied. Unplug headphones, USB hub, power cord and network cable from laptop. Press power button to put it in sleep mode. Put it in backpack. Grab phone and wallet - phone in right fornt pocket, wallet in left (unless wearing jeans with ripped pocket, in which case wallet goes in left-rear pocket). Turn off lights, leave office, kiss kids - tweak all noses. Leave.
(Those final steps are followed pretty much exactly every single day).
Wow....
That was epic. In a Classic Russian Novelist kind of way. Many things there I identify with, especially trying to do stuff in the dark without waking everyone up. I like this bit, it made me laugh-
Kids say "good-bye". I say "I'm not going yet".
1. Yes. ALP. But I don't particularly want to.
2. ? Probably much the same as I do now, without the school stuff.
3. Kids choirs (only good ones), musicals, 80s-90s slight alt pop
4. bungee jump
5. Up, bathroom, get dressed into gym clothes, go to gym, come home, yell at kids, feed kids, make lunches, yell at kids, tidy kitchen, yell at kids, have a long shower, get dressed etc, yell at kids, take kids to school. That was this morning anyway.
Ben - it happens every morning...
1. Yes
2. Painting, gardening, drawing a comic strip
3. 80's metal,60's rock,80's/90's indie
4. Hook me up with a knife and fork please
5. Get up at 5am when the alarm goes off (often sleep in accidentally though). Try to avoid creaking floorboards. Shower (and shave in the shower every third day). Go to kitchen, where all my clothes are laid out on the table. I HATE choosing my clothes, even more so in the dark, so I do it last thing the night before. Put the kettle on, and dress while I wait for it to boil. Have a plunger coffee and a piece of toast while I read some Bible. I read it out loud, super-slowly, incorporating my morning smooth speech practice. Go and clean my teeth, and kiss a semi-awake E goodbye. The kids are usually still both asleep. Leave about 6:15.
1. Not voting. Long story, but we ended up registering as out-of-the-country and don't need to.
2. Living in Australia, hopefully not in a capital city. But other than that have no idea what God might have in stall for us.
3. Um. Not that I don't like music, but I don't think in Genre.
4. Bungee
5. We're in the middle of a change, but this is an approximate:
Read Bible and pray with husband in bed, get up when called for breakfast (life is good!), spray hair with water on the way to breakfast, eat with the family, clear the table, then make sure kids are getting their jobs done (teeth, bags, washing up etc.), attend to the washing if necessary, check email, blogs, update Facebook status, get dressed, clean my own teeth and do hair, walk with the kids to school and then I'm 'ready' to start my part of the day.
Whoops. I meant "In store" not "in stall".
1. No. Maybe. I don't know.
2. I'm not the retiring type.
3. Indie (happy), Alternative (melancholy), brit-pop.
4. Stuff this. I would bungee jump while eating five cockroaches.
5. Hit snooze eight times. Shower if I smell. Get dressed. Make coffee. Drink coffee. Leave house.
1. No...because there is nothing to vote for.
2. Shaping boards and surfing with my kids.
3. Funk(motown), hip hop, soul...I guess..
4. Bungee. Anyday. Its not that bad, belive me.
5. Wake up, check out window, grab track pants, have a glass of water, piece of fruit and wettie, towel and out the door. Ready.
1. Yep. The debate is who I want to put last the most.
2. Sorry? Retire? Don't think my generation will be able to.
3. Indie / Alternative / classical
4. Nope. Can't do it. I'm not allowed to torture myself with these nasty conundrums any more. So there!
5. Hear alarm in sleep but don't realise, let husband hit snooze for 1 hour, realise we're late, get grumpy at husband for hitting snooze, tip the clothes basket out on the bed to find something clean to wear, brush hair, eat breakfast if time, clean teeth, remind husband that is a basic human right for other people that he cleans his teeth, feed dogs, evict them from their hidey holes inside to the cold outside, grab my tea and go to work. I don't like mornings.
1. yes - research done, all things considered. Good to have it sorted.
2. spending more time with Andrew, going for long walks by the seaside - I love a good beach stroll.
3. I don't know.
4. bungee jump - but I would totally hate it
5. On a good morning, I wake at about 5 or half past. I quickly put on a load of washing, make breakfast for everyone, get out meat to defrost to cook for dinner, fold and put away washing, pack school bags, read flashcards with 'D', clean the kitchen, make sure house is tidy, hang out the washing, look after 'E' - change nappy, feed etc, walk the kids to the bus stop, go for a long walk pushing 'E' in her stroller, come home, read my Bible and pray, then have a shower, get dressed - and I'm ready - and it would be about 9am.
On a not so good morning - wake a little later, put on a load of washing, fold washing but don't put it away, kids get their own brekky, help kids pack bags, change 'E' but don't give her brekky, run with kids to the bus stop, race home to get everything done that I missed out doing beforehand, read my Bible and pray, then have a shower, and then hang out the washing - and it's about 9:30.
1. no
2. somehow surfing doesn't seem as cool when I'm 70 ... but I'd like to think I could still do that
3. soft rock, a bit of classical, ummm...
4. bungee
5. wake up, turn on radio, listen to 6:30 ABC news, wait for alarm to go off, hit snooze, wait for alarm to go off, repeat, get up, ablutions, shave, shower, find shirt that doesn't need ironing ... or iron shirt, dress, make sandwiches (maybe), get toast or vita brits (sometimes both), read bible (on a 'good' day) while eating breakfast, brush teeth, out the door, drive to work...
1. Yes.
2. As little as possible
3. Folk/Jazz/Ska
4. Bungee
5. Wake/Shower/Put away washing up/Eat breakfast/Read Bible(ideally)/Clean Teeth/Check calendar/Study until time to go.
1. Not yet. I'm torn. Very despondent about the prospect of voting.
2. painting, writing, enjoying grandchildren, enjoying husband, enjoying God.
3. pop, rock, folk (i.e. chicks with guitars). I'm unashamedly mainstream and commercial in my taste!
4. Bungee jump
5. My answer to this was so long I put it on my blog (and yes, this is a naughty plug for the fact I'm blogging again!)www.thefountainside.com
1. Doesn't apply to me....
2. Honestly don't know...i would hope some traveling, lots of reading, time with my significant other.
3. Country, 80's rock, opera
4. Ohhhhh.....i guess i would choose bungee...the latter is making me nauseous thinking about it.
5. Since i'm not working and basically attend school online, being ready just means being awake. Wake up, freshen up, turn on the computer, make breakfast, start my day on the computer...all in the comfort of my jammies.
1. Well, I really haven't got a vote in this country, but I know which way I'd vote if I did.
2. Retire?! What's that!? So distant I'm not sure I've actually ever thought about it -- take it as it comes when it comes, I think!
3. Rock 'n roll, musicals, pop
4. Bunjee jump until seconds before jumping, at which point, cockroaches.
5. Hit snooze, hit snooze, hit snooze, hit snooze. Bathroom, then cereal and tea over emails and facebook. Bathroom, make-up, clothes, final email check, out the door.
1. Yep. Not much of a choice really, is it?
2. Volunteer work, plus all the hobbies I enjoy now - singing, piano, cross-stitch, SCUBA, snorkelling, swimming etc.
3. Musicals, musicals and musicals
4. Hmmm, I did a sort of bungee jump (it's called swing: http://www.canyonswing.co.nz/) but I'm too big to bungee. So the cockroaches - can I have them cooked?
(Ferrets love cockroaches, incidentally. And snails)
5. Hmm, get jumped on by Rusty. She scratches me to try and get me to get up. Eventually I yield. If I'm lucky, it's after my alarm. This morning it was half an hour before.
Get up. Go to the loo. Then come back to my room. Grab two very excited ferrets, and release them onto the kitchen floor. Chase them around the kitchen a bit, then get my cereal (currently Sultana Bran) with a drop of milk. Take cereal to table or to room. Turn on computer and catch up on latest on Twitter and Facebook and Gmail.
Finish breakfast. Have a shower and wash my hair. Wrapped in a towel I collect the ferrets from the kitchen. We all go back to my room, where I get dressed, put jewellery on, and pick up my bag and leave house.
1. Have you decided which way you'll vote next weekend? - Erm, trying to decide which of Labor & LNP to put last out of 4 in House of Rep's. No idea about Senate.
2. What do you see yourself doing when you retire? - Retire? I don't think I'll be able to afford that - I'll be paying off heart operations if not a house until I die I think. Besides, I have no idea where I'll be in 2 years time, let alone when I'm 80.
3. Your top 3 genres of music - In no particular order, big band, R&R (particularly if it has sax in it) and almost anything pre-1920.
4. If you had to decide between doing a bungee jump, or eating five cockroaches, what'd you choose? And you can't say 'neither'. - If they're cooked, I might try the cockroach option.
5. Describe your morning routine, from waking, to being 'ready'. - Good day (i.e. not when I am still recovering from a cold) is: get woken up by the truck driver down the road at about 5:20am; turn over trying to get a few minutes more of sleep; get up at 5:30am; get dressed into gym clothes; start daily sudoku while eating breakfast; remember the time and go brush teeth; leave house soon after 6am to go to gym; stop at PO box on way to gym if Ian hasn't checked for mail the night before; workout at gym; panic about the time; have shower and dress in work clothes at gym; aim to return home by 7:10am; throw gym clothes & towel in house; pack lunch (it's stuff from the freezer & fridge generally which is why it gets left until last); grab anything else I've forgotten before getting back in car. The variant of this is when Ian doesn't have to go to work (he's a teacher), in which case, I pack lunch before going to the gym and go straight from the gym to work. I hate mornings and only torture myself this way because it's the only way to get to the gym and do sax practise in the same day.
On a bad day I don't go to the gym so the day looks like: Be woken by the truck driver down the road at 5:20am, clock radio turning on at 5:45am, Ian getting up and having a shower (anywhere between 5:40am and 5:55am) Ian returning from shower, the news at 6am, my alarm on my phone...give up and get up at 6:20am; have shower and get dressed in work clothes; start daily sudoku while eating breakfast; remember the time and go brush teeth; pack lunch.
1. Yep, I voted today. Am working on Saturday.
2. Relying on my vast minions of nieces and nephews to support my lifestyle
3. anything live, jazz, pop
4. bungee
5. wake, pray for a bit, turn off alarm (usually still set for half an hours time), breakfast, talk to husband, remember not to talk to husband, read bible or blogs, shower and dress,talk to husband, remember not to talk to husband, make lunch and remembering keys head out.
Except on Mondays where blogs are used for much procrastination.
NB do talk to husband - he just doesn't do mornings
Sorry I'm late.
1. Yes.
2. I have no idea.
3. Oz Pub Rock of the 80'2 and 90's, Jazz, Britpop
4. cockroaches. I'm terrified of heights.
5. wake up at any time between 5 and 6:30 depending on 3 year old. head into kitchen and put on the porridge. Make Rachel a cup of earl grey. With rachel, coax kids into getting dressed. Feed children the porridge, eat some if any left. Make myself a coffee. With rachel, supervise 2 older children in their piano practice. Make sandwiches for school lunches and fill their drink bottles. Have a shower. Get dressed. Makes sure that the school lunch boxes are ready to go (rachel puts in biscuits, cheese, fruit etc. all the good stuff). Check that the kids have their library bags/ballet bag ready. Check to see if the car is iced over. If it is, fill a jug with warm water and pour over the car windows. Round up the kids. Head out the door All done by about 8:20.
Simone- I like a kids choir too. I like stuff like the Kings choral stuff, but also stuff that sounds a bit rough and ready, like the Langley School Music Project.
Wendy-Maybe 'stall' was a subconscious fruedian slip. Pehaps you'll be doing market stalls in the sticks..
Nathan- You are so Xtreme it hurts.
Pedro- Fingers crossed your kids are into surfing..
Amy-Aww, nasty conundrums are what it's all about!
Ruth- Good on you for doing the research. I should put a bit more time into that I think.
Maso-Vita Brits over Weet Bix? come now. I actually think old surfers are cooler than young ones..
ps Ruth- I can't believe your morning routine, it sounds MASSIVE! Respect!
Izaac- It's funny, I look forward to retiremnet as the time when I can do all the cool stuff I can't squeeze in now. Maybe I'm kidding myself.
Soph- good to have you back blogging!!
Beth-Sweet. I'd love to work in my pj's..
Kim- Your number 4 sounds exactly like what I'd do too.
Georgina- I reckon it's good to get the hobbies pegged while we are young, so we aren't at a loose end in retirement. the more the better!
Laetitia- You paint a scary future! ps- what's R&R?
Milika-I have the same thing with my wife at night. I want to sleep, she wants to chat.
Al-i like that one day is considered late. I'm terrified of heights as well. I can't think of much worse than jumping off something tall.
Rock & Roll!
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