Kyle Thomas

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My morning routine this week

'Early morning run' photo (c) 2010, Robert Scoble - license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

I have always been one to like routines. I like my mornings to be planned and uninterrupted – not to say I’d freak out of it changed. I just like to have a plan, so I know when I’ll be ready for the day.

It did not occur to me how meticulous I was being until talking about it at my office. I was referred to as Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory. I have never even made the connection until then, but now I can see it.

So here has been my morning routine this week.

  • 5:45am – 5:50am – Awake up/Get up
  • 5:50am – 6:25am – Run on treadmill
  • 6:25am – 6:30am – Cool down period
  • 6:30am – 6:35am – Shower
  • 6:35am – 6:45am – Get out of shower/Get dressed
  • 6:45am – 7:00am – Make and eat breakfast
  • 7:00am – 7:30am – Check news, blogs, social media
  • 7:30am – 7:40am – Start Jeep and gather lunch
  • 7:40am – 7:50am – Drive downtown to work
  • 7:50am – 7:55am – Walk from Jeep to office
  • 7:55am – At office

It seems a little said that it is that planned out and I am so not kidding. While this is happening I’m always checking the clock as if I’m going to miss something or be late somewhere. To make that even worse sounding, I go into work 35 minutes before I actually need to.

Next Weekend

I keep sending article to Instapaper with the intentions of reading them later. That is after all the idea of the website. I keep thinking, well next weekend I will sit down and read them.

I send a lot of blog post ideas there, so I can come back to them. I have this idea that I will be in the mind from when I am done what ever it is I am doing. You know, next weekend when I don’t have this to deal with.

Well that so called weekend never seems to come. I suppose this may be a good thing, I’m always busy and never bored, but a lot of these things I am putting aside are ideas that I really want to explore and see them go further.

I guess one mans brain can only go so far before it hits it capacity.

I’m hoping while I’m back up in Yellowknife for a couple weeks before Christmas I will be able to get some of these ideas laid out. Until then I will continue to store them in my virtual memory. 😉

Scheduled Life

I’m a routinist, yes I just made up a word. A routinist is someone who always follows a schedule or routine.

Everyday I get up at the same time, have a shower, get dressed and then pop two pieces of bread in the toaster. After standing in the kitchen aimlessly for 2 minutes the toaster pops and I smother the toast with peanut butter and raspberry jam.

I then go off to work and show up at the same time everyday, which is about an hour before I really have too. I eat lunch at the same time everyday. Then of course I come how cook a meal and plop myself in front of the TV for the evening entertainment. Finally at about 9:30pm I head off to bed where I’ll read for about an hour.

Done. That is my routine. No it doesn’t sound all that different from most people, but at the age of 20, I have a routine of an old man, or something.
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Sure everyone once and a while I’ll go crazy with the routine. I’ll change from toast to yogurt, or eat out instead of in, but I quickly go back to my, safe, routine.

The reason I bring this up is because I have never really known anything else. I have always gone to sleep relatively early and then gotten up and gone to work earlier than most. You can say that attitude is in my blood or I just acquired it throughout highschool. So what is so weird is seeing others routines. Both my roommate and boss have bizarre routine, if any. My roommate, who is the boss mans younger brother, and I all work at the same place, we do different things, and we have different schedules. Like last night for example. All three of us were at the office at about the same time all day yesterday, and at 5pm we all left and when home. I came home and cooked supper and what not, but roommate and boss went home and slept for a couple hours, I can’t do this, then just as I’m about to go to sleep, roommate gets up and goes back into work.

I understand that we all work differently, and this post is merely an observation. What I find interesting is, that according to Facebook and emails, they would have left the office again at around 4am. Which makes it only an hour before I got up, I don’t here anything while sleeping so I can’t be certain.

I wonder when I will see either of them today? Noon? The funny thing is I feel like the dull one, by doing the same thing every single day.

Am I?