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Not really a question, but I didn't know where else to put it.
Inspired by this post: http://earlyretirementextreme.com/a-typ ... -2008.html
What's everyone's average daily routine?
Mine's not much for reading. I started writing it as specific times, but I realised that doesn't suit very well because there is a lot of variation so I've just went with Monday. On other days the times I come home, and the times I'm at school vary.
01:00 - Alarm goes off, wake up, turn it off quickly. Go on laptop or fail and fall back asleep for ~an hour. Eat food (I have a food diary it varies a lot) between now and 08:40.

08:40 - Go for a shower, and get dressed.

09:30 - Walk to school.

09:45 - Start school.

12:30 - Leave school and come home, go on laptop, have lunch at some point.

14:00 - Start back at school.

14:50 - Go home.

15:05 - Get home. Go on laptop.

17:30 - Have dinner (normally).

18:00 - Go to sleep.
Best routine ever. So what about everyone else?

Why are you up at night?
Mine is something like:
7.40 wake up

8.30 go to work

17.40 back from work, cook

18.00 eat

18.30 relax (surf internet, watch tv, chat with BF)

23.00 go to bed

@RMcD94
You go to sleep at 6pm and wake up at 1am, and then spend 1am - 8:40am on your laptop?
Am I reading that wrong?
My schedule is almost exactly the same as DutchGirl, except I sleep in an extra 35 minutes, and then go to work 15 minutes after I wake up.

Mine's nothing to write home about.
5:20 - First alarm

5:30 - Second, no kidding alarm

5:55 - Leave the house

6:02 - Catch the bus to work

7:00 - Start work

4:35 - Catch the bus home from work

~5:40 - Arrive home

5:45-9:15 - Eat dinner, clean up the house, watch Netflix, relax, spend time with BF

9:30 - bed time

Mine sucks.
6:20 - Alarm goes off. It's early morning. I hate myself.
6:55 - Leave my apartment and catch the bus. Hopefully I can catch a nap on the bus.
7:25 - Arrive to work. My job sucks. It's going to be a long day.
12:00-1:00 - Eat lunch. Ramen noodle bonanza. I gag it down.
6:00 - Clock out. Sweet release. Catch the bus 5 minutes later.
6:30 - Arrive home. Back in the castle. I'm happy.
7:00 - Go to gym in apartment complex (free).
7:45 - Come back home. Eat dinner (PB&J sandwiches, usually).
9:45 - Take a warm shower after spending a couple hours online blogging and spending time here.
10:30 - Sleep. I dream of ERE.

I feel mine is good for a working stiff

6:00 alarm goes off

6:15 head to gym or mountain for a run

7:15 have a shower, big breki, read a page or two and off to work

8:30 emails,

9:30 big project of the day

12:00 lunch or boxercise with work mates

1:00 more emails

1:30 2nd big project or meetings

5:30 head down to the beach/gym/mountain for after work exercise

7:00 make tasty dinner

8:30 Finnish cleaning up, read, hang with the DW

10 - 11 pass out

Typical Work Day

7:40 Arise from sleep

7:45 Shower & Shave

8:15 Dress/Breakfast(3 eggs)/Pack lunch

8:40 Depart for work

9:00 Arrive at work

13:00 Eat lunch at desk

18:15 Depart for home/Shop at market 2x per week

18:45 Arrive at home/Prepare dinner

19:30 to 23:30 Read/Journal/Do chores

23:30 Meditation/Daily reflection

24:00 Retire to sleep
Weekends are similar, but I sleep later and socialize instead of work. Mass on Sunday evening at 17:00.

11:00am - Wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy

11:05am - Grab my glasses

11:06am - Before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack

11:10am - I'm out the door, I'm gonna hit this city

1:00pm - I'm talking pedicure on our toes, toes

2:00pm - Trying on all our clothes, clothes

4:00pm - Boys blowing up our phones, phones

5:00pm - Drop-topping, playing our favorite CDs

9:00pm - Pulling up to the parties

10:00pm - Trying to get a little bit tipsy

12:00am - Now, now, we go until they kick us out, out

1:00am - Police shut us down, down
Or something to that effect.

On weekdays:
07:00 | Wake up, shower, shave, prepare food for work

07:40 | Head into work

08:20 | Arrive at work

11:30 | Lunch at desk

19:20 | Leave work

20:00 | Arrive home; dinner; movies/TV

22:00 | Reading

23:30 | Sleep
Not too exciting. Sometimes I leave work a little earlier, other times I leave later (between 18:30-20:30).
Wednesday/Thursday/Friday nights I usually stay up later since the weekend is in sight.

Why are you up at night?

I wake up early so I can talk to people (mainly USAmericans), who otherwise I'd have less time to talk to.

You go to sleep at 6pm and wake up at 1am, and then spend 1am - 8:40am on your laptop?
At the weekend or a non-school day, I wake up and go my laptop then sleep.

This was today, the time I go to school varies every day, but it's a very typical Thursday.
06:00 - Wake up - nurse baby, then change baby

06:15 - brush teeth, refill humidifier

06:20 - Cook fried eggs and toast for baby and I

06:30 - water garden, mow lawn, edge lawn

07:30 - clean up after breakfast, clean kitchen

08:00 - take shower, get dressed, change baby

08:30 - check ebay, craigslist, etsy, amazon, to see if I have any orders that need to be filled and get them ready

09:00 - I leave for school and put packages in mailbox

11:00 - Arrive home from school, nurse baby

11:15 - Cook lunch, chat with Hubbie, eat and clean up

12:00 - start on physics and math studies.

13:00 - get a headache and decide to take a break.

13:15 - play with baby, make a snack for baby

14:00 - put baby down for nap

14:30 - weave some chain mail

15:30 - baby wakes up - feed him, change him, play for a bit

16:00 - play outside

16:30 - decide it's too hot and come back in, start on schoolwork again

17:30 - baby asks for extra nursing and falls asleep again.

17:45 - I waste time reading and posting on blog forum

18:30 - baby wakes up and I continue alternating time with baby, schoolwork, cleaning, weaving chain mail, and maybe posting some more things for sale if I get ambitious.

22:00 - baby finally falls asleep and I collapse.

Mine varies. My "normal working day" routine:

08:00 - wake up (often closer to 8:20 after snooze button abuse).

09:00 - start work

17:30 - finish work

18:00 - gym on gym days, get home on other days, then shower and 10-15 minutes power-nap / meditation / lying down doing nothing in an attempt to relax a bit.

19:00 - dinner

Rest of the evening: doing something social and/or working on hobbies (guitar, language learning) and/or reading and/or miscellaneous things that need done. I think of this as my "productivity time"

23:00/00:00: bed.
Normal weekend day: wake up between 10:00 and 13:00, do "productivity time" stuff during the day, plenty cooking and eating, have a nap at some point, then go out in town at night unless I'm too tired, which unfortunately happens a lot since I don't always sleep well during the week...

During the week

4:30 wake

5:45 at work

2:00 leave work

2:30 gym (not ERE but I like the energy at a gym)

4:00 dinner and whatever I DVR'd

5:00 write for an hour or so

7:00/7:30 read for an hour

8:00/8:30 bed
On the weekend it changes all the time depending on what I'm doing

During the week

5:00 wake

5:30 email, computer, pay bills, track spending

6:45 at work

4:30 leave work

5:30 dinner and whatever I DVR'd

6:00 play with kids

8:00 TV (antenna, not cable) or read

9:30/10:00 Bed

i am terrible at keeping to a regular schedule because i work for myself; typically,
6:30am wake, coffee

7am (barefoot) run/swim/natural movement

7:25am shower, breakfast

8am play piano

9:15am work (at home/on campus/at park/at café--seated)

2:30pm lunch

3pm work

4:45pm play drums

6:45pm make and eat dinner

8pm read, chat, chill, watch a movie

10pm sleep
trying to transition to
5:40am wake, barefoot run to zen center

6am meditate

7am barefoot run to music studio

7:30am play piano

9am barefoot run home

9:20am shower and breakfast

10am work (standing)

4pm lunch

4:40pm barefoot run to music studio

5pm play drums

6:30pm barefoot run home

6:45pm prepare and eat dinner

8pm read, relax, visit

8:45pm sleep
good luck to me with that! it would mean 9.5 miles of barefoot running every weekday, which i'd replace with swimming on the weekend and supplement with bodyweight exercises during breaks in the workday (squats, jumping, mounting horizontal branches, army crawl, &c.).

I don't have much of a routine. We're camping out at some hippy hot springs in California right now, so this was yesterday's approximate schedule.
6:30 Wake up freezing cold, get dressed, walk to area with wifi

7:00 Start work

9:00 DH is up and brings me some breakfast, afterward he sets up his laptop next to me and we chat occasionally

1:00 Lunch with friends and some other folks outside

1:30 Back to work

3:00 Done with work. Walk to the hot springs, float around, lay in the sun

5:00 Nap and cow watching with DH

7:00 Cook and eat dinner

8:30 Walking around the campground, some chatting with people

11ish Crawl into the back of the truck and go to sleep
Next week I have a business trip then the week after that I'll be living on a farm, so it varies a lot.

@Zev

There is no question I need to add more physical exercise to my routine, but man -- just reading your aspriational daily routine makes me tired.
How are you able to transition between so many activities? I find that when I don't complete a project, I inevitably carry thoughts about it into my next activity unless I make a conscious effort not to do so. At least for me, multi-tasking is an impossibility. I tend to sequester a big chunk in the late morning for one thing and another in the later afternoon for a second. Anything less than critically urgent gets pushed to the next day to be triaged anew.

@Maus: LOL, I know what you mean... Look at all those things, makes me tired as well. I'm happy with breaking the day into 3 chunks/tasks.
I hate setting time aside for exercise as well. Something that works great is mandatory trigger points... IE: you do this, you cross this, then do this exercise.
Whenever I hit a certain alley in town, I sprint 100m. Whenever, I go into bedroom I do some pullups (not past evening)... I don't do those things too often, but I also don't actively think about, or dread them.

@Maus I'll let you know if/how I'm able to make these transitions successfully. My hope is that the bookending my day with music will make my work life more bearable...
check this guy's barefoot running log!

With some variation on the weekends. Most weekday 'routine' looks like this:
- 6:30 a.m. Wake up, make ginger tea, read morning newspaper, yahoo finance, some financial blogs, play with cat, make & eat breakfast (3 eggs + broccoli/peppers/mushrooms/spinach etc), pack lunch for work
- 8:30/9:00 : Leave for work

- 12/12:30 : lunch at desk while working

- 6 p.m. : reach home, ginger tea, tennis with friend and then some weights/cardio/ evening walk (alternate days)

- 8:30 p.m. : Light Dinner, glass of wine, dessert, conversation

- 9:30 - 12 : Reading/Investment Planning/Conversation/Vacation Planning/Netflix movie etc.