Morning Rituals/Victuals!
Apr 16th 2008
Karen HawkinsMy Life As A Plebe
I read an article recently that said your morning ritual says more about you than any other thing you do. That’s a wee bit far fetched, but the article got me to thinking . . . I mean, the way you start your day is bound to indicate a little about your personality.
A little.
For fun, I thought we’d see if this interesting theory works for our group here.
According to the article, if you shower, dress, and primp BEFORE you eat, then you’re an A — which is the kinda gal who finds order peaceful and enjoys time just with herself and her special peeps first thing in the morning.
Sort of an Oatmeal Traditionalist, if you will, all about comfort and snuggly mornings.
On the other hand, if you eat FIRST, dressed in your robe or jammies or what not, AND THEN prepare for work, then you’re a B — which is the kinda gal who is social and more group oriented.
We’ll call you the Eggs Over Easy because you’re willing to come to the table sans make-up and even shaving just to join the group and share your sparkling personality.
If you mix it up and SOMETIMES DO ONE OR THE OTHER, then you’re a C — which is the kind gal who likes to go with the flow and is comfortable in either a group or with just you and your special peeps.
We’ll call you all the Granola Greats because you’re spontaneous and willing to try different things.
I find that I’m an Eggs Over Easy gal. I get up, toss on my robe, and fix breakfast for whoever is staying in my house. I’m no Betty Crocker, but I love having the morning meal with my family, watching the morning news together and chatting about our coming day. It’s the highlight of my entire day. Personality wise, I guess that does sorta sums me up — I’m group oriented.
So, what was your morning ritual this morning? Is it the norm? Are you an Oatmeal Traditionalist? An Eggs Over Easy gal? Or a Granola Great sorta free spirit?
72 Comments »
SheridanLA on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:18 am #
I am a granola greats. There is no real ritual I have in the morning, I don’t seem to follow the same pattern. The only thing I do as soon as I wake up is turn on the computer (near my bed) so I can load the itunes and turn on some music. Other then that, it is fair game.
and I am thinking the description for that is pretty dead on… I am spontaneous, up for different things, comfy with all sorts of situations and people.
I’m interested to hear if this is true for others as well.
Yaya (Yasmin) on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:56 am #
I am a eggs over easy kinda of person. I get my face and teeth washed and then have coffee. Most of the time I am by myself so there is no problem. I dont have breakfast most mornings but i do have lunch. Then i clean the house ( everyday!!) and start cooking for dinner so that it is ready by the time I leave for work at 3pm. I usually have lunch,take shower, go to the store to buy meat, ( fresh from the meatmonger) then cook. i am a creature of habit and I still hurry out the door mosts day.
evlqn on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:57 am #
We generally skip breakfast as such, so what does that make us? The only ritual we have is, the first one awake lets cats in or out depending on thier sleeping arrangements. And then goes on to make the coffee.
We try to be awake about an hour before time for the kids toget ready for school so we can sit and have a couple of cups of caffiene before the chaos errupts.
Then my sister usually makes waffles for the boys while they get dressed and off to the bus. After that we have more coffee and five seed cinnamon toast.
Sometimes we shower and dress first, sometimes we find we have chatted away a couple of hours still in our gumps.
We save our big breakfasts for times we are having people over, because we can rarely face food first thing in the morning.
Judy on 17 Apr 2008 at 3:33 am #
Um…I have a problem…I don’t eat in the morning, unless it’s the weekend, I get up, get ready and it’s off to school.
But I guess for the sake of argument…I do it both ways, so that makes me a Granola Greats. If it’s a lazy day and I’ve got nothing to do, I eat in my jammies, if I have something to do and I’m in a hurry (since I like to get in as much sleep as I can so this most of time) I get ready and if I have time to spare I eat.
Karen Hawkins on 17 Apr 2008 at 5:35 am #
Sheridan, granola great DOES seem to fit you! I like that you do the itunes first thing in the morning. I’m having connection troubles right now and haven’t been able to load new music for a month. VERY annoying.
Yaya, you clean your house EVERY day? If you ever want a roommate, lemme know! We’re both Eggs Over Easy gals, so we’d have a relaxing b-fast, too!
Eviqn, it sounds to me like you DO have breakfast, but there’s a lot going on between waking and eating. Which personality trait matches yours most closely? It seems almost like you’re an Oatmeal Traditionalist in personality because there’s a LOT of family activity there, but with a different schedule. What do you think?
Judy, we need another category for those who don’t eat b-fast or who grab it as they go. How about Bun on the Run? Heh! I like that one!
Margaret on 17 Apr 2008 at 7:00 am #
I guess I’m a Granola Great even tho I despise granola.
I don’t even eat breakfast till around 10am or so when my tum wakes up and demands food. ala “Feed me, Seymour”. Love that movie. The only time I eat with others is on summer vacation with my extended family. Then, I go in my jammies/robe. I do have a routine of sort.
1. I wake at 6-7am. Try not to but do anyway. Plus Bella, the dog, want to go NOW.
2. Get dressed because I live in a mobile home community & would be uncomfortable going out in sleep wear.
3. Turn the coffeemaker on as I pass thru the kitchen.
4. Ditto for the computer as I pass thru the living roon.
5. Take dog out and survey the world while she finds the perfect spot. It takes longer some days than others. Perfect spots are hard to find.
6. Get coffee, read email, blogs and play Boxerjam Puzzles.
7. Then I can face what the day brings.
Kathy on 17 Apr 2008 at 7:06 am #
Good morning…..
I get up and drink coffee and check my email and this blog :). After an hour I get my daughter up for school. I get up at 4:00 am. What time do you all get up? I want to sleep in vicariously. I don’t eat at home, so I must be a Bun on the Run.
PJ on 17 Apr 2008 at 7:12 am #
I’m “Eggs over Easy”. I’m awakened between 6:00 and 6:30, either by the alarm on the dresser or the furry one in my bed. I visit the bathroom (a must!) then take the dogs out. Next, I fill their food bowls and fix my breakfast, usually a bowl of Kashi cereal with sliced banana and blueberries. Then I take my cereal to the computer room and check in at email and all my favorite sites. When I finish that, the dogs and I take our morning walk. If its a nice morning, and I have time, I may take a cup of coffee to the back deck or the front porch for a little “commune with nature” time. Then I shower and dress.
SuzyQ on 17 Apr 2008 at 7:23 am #
I guess I fall into the Granola Greats category. During the week, I’m too busy getting the kids ready and out the door to think about eating breakfast. So I usually grab a muffin or bagel at work and eat at my desk (while reading this blog). On the weekends I’m definately and Eggs Over Easy girl. When I get up I like to stay in my pj’s until after I clean up the breakfast dishes.
As for personality wise, I guess I do fit with the granola type. I am very easy going and enjoy myself in either large crowds or small groups. I try to make the best of any situation.
freshechelle on 17 Apr 2008 at 7:28 am #
Guess I’m a modified Oatmeal traditionalist since I buy breakfast at a stop on the commute where I switch from bus to cab. I eat it at my desk after I prepare my glass of milk ON ICE - a must. Ah, a buttered roll makes a great breakfast if you don’t count carbs. I don’t get why this is a regional breakfast choice.
Susan M on 17 Apr 2008 at 7:32 am #
I’m an Oatmeal kinda gal. I get up, shower, dress, and out the door I go. My husband (it’s still a little strange to say that) leaves for work right around the time I’m getting up so it’s only me there. And I hardly ever eat in the morning. If I do I eat at work.
Susan M on 17 Apr 2008 at 7:34 am #
Oh and I get up anywhere between 6 & 6:30. I am not a morning person so people should just stay away until about 11.
Kate on 17 Apr 2008 at 7:40 am #
When I was in college with three kids, I got up took a shower and then woke everyone and we ate. Now I get up, drink a few cups of coffee and then wake everyone up. So, I would say that I am A. I like that alone time before they all rise and the craziness starts.
Michelle B. on 17 Apr 2008 at 7:40 am #
I’m a Granola Great because my day starts out for everyone else, pretty much the same, but when I get breakfast depends on my schedule which is always different. I wake kids for school, let the dog out, get them breakfast, make lunches for them and DH to take out the door. Most days involve driving someone to their destination so I am dressed. After all are gone and if I have no where to be, then I eat breakfast in front of the computer in a quiet house. It’s all about to change as I start a new job tomorrow with a flexible schedule. So I’m pretty sure I”ll still be a Granola Great.
amy1242 on 17 Apr 2008 at 7:53 am #
I guess I’m a granola great. After getting the kids up, fed and on the bus for school, I check my emails and this blog, dress and head out to do barn chores. After chores I come in and shower and if I’m working that day, head straight to work and don’t eat until lunch. If I’m off work I shower, eat something and start my work here (it never ends). But on the weekends my dh does barn chores so I can stay in my jammies and make a big breakfast for all of us. I think this theory has it’s faults though. When I was in the business world my routine was very different. I changed morning routines as my life dictated. Does that make me a chameleon? Maybe the question should be, What do I PREFER to do? I like to wake early, get my “stuff” done and eat later. I love lounging in my pj’s, but I love being busy also. Not a big primper, almost never wear a dress.
elsiehogarth on 17 Apr 2008 at 8:13 am #
I’m an “Eggs Over Easy” kind of person. Brush my teeth and wash my face without looking in the mirror. Like my favorite Count I avoid mirrors at all costs. Then I have breakfast. I don’t care what it is cereal, toast etc. but I go into my Regency Mode and I must have hot chocolate every morning. I don’t drink coffee but this is my caffeine. If I don’t drink my hot chocolate my whole day is out of sync.
Karen Hawkins on 17 Apr 2008 at 8:22 am #
Margaret, ah yet, the morning pet ritual. I forgot to include that in my morning routine. It’s in there, though. They need a LOT in the morning — let out, let in, food, water, morning pats. It’s a job all in itself!
Kathy, you get up at (gasp!) FOUR A.M.? That’s crazy talk! I get up at six to get everyone out the door and I think that’s an unholy hour of the morning. But 4? Wowza! I am humbled!
Ah PJ, the morning on the porch sounds lovely. I should do that more often. There’s something wonderful about sipping your coffee while the sun rises and the morning air is always so fresh.
SuzyQ, I used to eat muffins at my desk when I worked at a college. Once, my “A” key quit working and the computer tech tromped in, popped the key off my board and found a big muffin crumb lodged under it. He frowned and said, “You don’t EAT here, do you?” I, of course, emphatically denied eating at my keyboard while my secretary stood behind him and laughed her head off.
Paula on 17 Apr 2008 at 8:27 am #
I get up showered dressed and then have breakfast, weekdays it’s with the boys and weekends it’s as a family so not sure what that makes me!!
Karen Hawkins on 17 Apr 2008 at 8:31 am #
Fresh, a buttered roll is a regional thing? For what region? I think any bread choice is a wonderful breakfast. But then, I’m probably a genuine carb addict. I just loooove bread and if you can warm it up and dollop butter on it, so much the better!
SusanM, oh I can relate. I can be a bit surly before my morning coffee, too. My guy once made the mistake of trying to ‘be cheerful’ in order to alleviate my grounchy pre-coffee tendencies. In my opinion, there is NOTHING more irritating than a chirpy-hey-laugh-at-my-jokes person before I’ve had my coffee. Now, he knows to give me some space and, after ten minutes, I’m just fine and he can make all of the jokes he wants and I’ll laugh at them all.
Kate, my dad is the same way! He gets up, makes coffee and sits and reads the paper before anyone else is up. He is retired and he STILL does this, only he does it an hour later than he used to. He says he can ’set the day’ with his own quiet time. That’s a great way to make the day your own.
doglady on 17 Apr 2008 at 8:39 am #
Margaret, your day sounds like it starts like mine.
1. Wake up whatever time Frodo and Adelaide stand on my chest and demand to go out.
2. Throw on robe. I live in the middle of 5 acres so I can go out in my pjs. Frodo and Addy find the spot quickly. If they could pee out the window they would never leave the house.
3. Fix breakfast for Addy, Frodo and the three cats. Then go back outside and feed the 11 outside rescue dogs. Scoop their dog runs. Fill water buckets, etc.
4. Shower, dry and braid my hair. Get dressed.
5. hop online. check e-mail, check in with the Goddesses.
6. Leave for work.
Karen Hawkins on 17 Apr 2008 at 8:41 am #
Michelle, congrats on the new flexible job! You sound like your mornings are plenty busy — but it’s great that you take time for yourself, too.
Amy, I’d say you’re definitely a Granola Great. You can do breakfast any way and you souns as if you enjoy it, too. You seem spontaneous enough to be a GG!
Elsie, mmmmmmmm, hot chocolate! I love the stuff. I’ll tell you a secret - by the time I put creamer and sweetener in my coffee, it tastes just like hot chocolate. Btw, I got a package from you — THANK YOU! I am sending you an email later this morning.
Paula, you sounds like an OT with both the boys AND the fam! Some mornings at my house, it’s just me, the two dogs, and the cat, but I follow the same routine, so I feel pretty secure saying I’m EOE.
When I was a kid, I hated mornings. Now, I love them. It’s so great to see the day start and watch the morning sunlight. It’s gorgeous!
Margaret on 17 Apr 2008 at 8:41 am #
ROTFL!!! Karen. My late DH was one of those chirpy, disgustingly cheerful people before he had his stroke. He learned early in the marriage that I am not one of those people. About Day 2, I’d say. After his stroke, he was quite content to go with the flow. He had a carafe of coffee and Lender’s Cinnamon-Raisin bagels every morning.
Hello. My name is Margaret and I’m a carb addict. Nothing in the world like fresh baked bread smeared with real butter. Don’t give me thatnamby-pamby, yucky fake white bread. I love the 12 grains, whole wheat, ryes, sour dough, etc. Hearty breads.
I sure understand your dad’s setting his day with quiet time. Ilike that expression. I may steal it.
Darn, I think my tum just woke up!
Karen Hawkins on 17 Apr 2008 at 8:43 am #
Doglady, it sounds like you’re an EOE though you didn’t say when YOU ate breakfast? Though since you’re headed for a bakery, I suppose that’s a silly question, isn’t it?
Margaret on 17 Apr 2008 at 8:45 am #
doglady, your day may start like mine but you lost me after #2. I am way jealous of your 5 acres. Would that I could have something like that. TG my little cul-de-sac is all adults and they are quiet.
How great of you to do rescue dogs. What kinds. I saw a car the other day with a sign saying they rescued some sort of small dog that I wouldn’t have thought needed a rescue organization.
Thanks for the laugh on the visual of the dogs peeing out the window.
Karen Hawkins on 17 Apr 2008 at 8:47 am #
Margaret, feel free to steal that expression. It’s not mine anyway! Heh!
And oh yes, I’m with you on the carbs. I loooove the heavy, whole wheat breads and the coarser, the better. Mmmmmm! I’m really working on my weight watchers diet (Julia has inspired me!) but sheesh, it’s TOUGH to say no to a whole wheat apple muffin topped with oatmeal and brown sugar crumbles. I can turn my back on candy, sugar, icing, etc, but bread? GIMME!!!
Sigh. I am doomed to plumpdom.
SuzyQ on 17 Apr 2008 at 8:52 am #
LOL Karen! Since I work in the computer room, technically we are not supposed to have food in here, but we all sneak it in anyway. And about the keyboards, we had a guy who worked in the building that had any everything bagel every morning. We knew this because when we got his keyboard returned for not working it was filled with poppy seeds, sesame seeds, garlic and onion bits and not to mention little pieces of bread.
doglady - LOL on #2!!!
Margaret on 17 Apr 2008 at 8:53 am #
Since the subject is breakfast, this isn’t too far off topic. I know I’m _cough_ a year or two older than the rest of you. But does anyone remember when women were supposed to get up long before anyone else, gussy themselves up with makeup, fix their hair, put on a clean dress (yes. Dress) and make a big breakfast for the rest of the family? Then wake them with all that nauseating cheerfulness. So, they get their day off to a good start. Never mind hers!
I’m here to testify that 50’s housewives didn’t all do it that way. I don’t think I knew any who did. I think it was an ideal promoted by those stupid women’s mags. JMNSHO,please.
Gannon on 17 Apr 2008 at 9:03 am #
I’d have to say I’m an Eggs Over Easy girl. I get up, let the dogs out, make coffee, get the kids up, feed the dogs and make lunches for school. I usually have my first cup of coffee before the kids leave, and then have another while I’m eating breakfast…when the house is quiet. Afterward, I’ll hop on the computer for a bit, then shower and get dressed.
Occasionally, if I have an early appointment, I have to be a Granola Great, but I prefer to be Eggs Over Easy.
Right now, I’m still in my PJ’s.
Kim on 17 Apr 2008 at 9:05 am #
Oh boy. What are you if you take a quick potty visit and then work for an hour or two. Then grab a shower and lunch. oog. And sometimes that hour turns into 5 or 6??
K-Hawk–I’m right there with you on the carbs. I love nothing more than a good bagel smeared with half a tub of cream cheese BUT its SOOOOO bad for you. *sniff, sniff*
Claudia Dain on 17 Apr 2008 at 9:26 am #
Margaret, my mother did it that way, sans the dress. She wore cute slacks. *G* The big breakfast was toast and “egg nog”–a concoction of my mother’s to try and put some weight on me (those were the days).
Having grown up with an Oatmeal for a mom (and a dad), I’m a firm Oatmeal. When I leave the bedroom area of the house, I’m ready for the day and don’t return to the bedroom zone until it’s time for bed.
I love being an Oatmeal, especially since I wake up when my body clock goes off (around 8:30) and so feel rested and non-rushed the rest of the day. The dog going out? He has to wait until I’m up and dressed…and he knows it. He doesn’t even whine about it. He must have a bladder the size of Alaska. Wish I could say that.
Sandy "Snik" White on 17 Apr 2008 at 9:26 am #
I am a Granola Great. During the week I lean more towards your oatmeal traditionalist, getting ready before I make breakfast to best economize my time, but on the weekend, good luck getting me out of my jammies before noon.
Freedom Writer on 17 Apr 2008 at 9:45 am #
I’m not sure where I fit in. I get up, get dressed, get coffee and write a journal entry every morning. I then get breakfast. As I eat I look at email and TGB, but I am trying to change that last part around so that I eat and then write before getting on the internet. It worked well this morning. I wrote 6 pages so far this morning.
DH usually takes care of the dogs. He rises at 4 am due to a severe back injury from years past that does not allow him to stay in bed any later without painful consequence. I get up at 5:30 unless my granddaughter gets up early, which she did this morning.
Julia London on 17 Apr 2008 at 10:03 am #
I am definitely eggs over easy, but I am not a morning person. It takes me an hour or so to slide into hte day, and before that, I don’t like husbands wanting conversation or people looking at me, or dogs wanting to be fed, or babies wanting juice, or much of anything, really.
But then I pop out of it and am pretty cheerful on up to midnight. So eggs over hard I guess
Kasey on 17 Apr 2008 at 10:03 am #
I’m a gronola great. I thin it all depends on what I have planned for the day. If I have to be somewhere I will get ready first and then eat if I have time. If I don’t have to be anywhere that day, I tend to sit in my pjs for awhile, eat breakfast, maybe watch some tv or read before I shower and get ready. I don’t really have a set routine that I have to follow every day.
Karen Hawkins on 17 Apr 2008 at 10:19 am #
SuzyQ, doglady’s very visual in her dog descriptions, isn’t she?
And yes, an everything bagel would pretty much clog up the pores of any keyboard but oh, how yummy they are!
Margaret, I’ve seen Leave It To Beaver and I know that evil image was promulgated by the elitist Hollywood sector of society. I could NOT do that. EVER! Btw, did you see the woman who played the mom in LTB in her role in Airplane? She is so FUNNY!
Gannon, I’m just getting out of the shower, so I hear ya! My day is starting late today because after breakfast, I went back to bed. Headache, ya know. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
Kim, that usually means you WORK AT HOME. I recognize the symptoms. Heh! As for the carbs, oh my downfall! I just loooove bread. All kinds, warm and cold, toasted or not, round or square . . . yummmmmmmy in my tummmmmmmy! And if you smear it with a goody topping like cream cheese, so much the better!
Lorena on 17 Apr 2008 at 10:21 am #
I function at my best when I can walk out the door, smoothie in hand: yogurt, rice milk, frozen fruit, lecithin–yumm, and the best energy drink in the world. If I ate this healthy all the time “plumpdom” would not be a problem for me (however, having seen the goddess KarenH in person, I think she’s exaggerating HER “problem” just a bit).
I hate oatmeal. But I’m probably type A — I’d just as soon NOT face a group of people to start my day, thank you. And I do everything before fixing breakfast (if I’m playing smoothie-goddess, I just eat–or drink–in the car).
Of course, anyone who’s seen me (or heard me) wisecracking at CFRW meetings would never believe I’m the shy, quiet type, so maybe I’m really a type C — just need an hour or two to get going LOL. Besides, I’ve been accused of being a tree-hugger more than once, so granola’s probably a good description of me!
It’s either that or MPD. Just type me “C” for confused ….
Sabrina Jeffries on 17 Apr 2008 at 10:27 am #
I’m an Eggs Over Easy person, for the most part. If I do it the other way, it’s out of necessity (meeting someone for breakfast, will have to grab breakfast on the run, etc.). I like to take my time in the morning. I’m not a morning person AT ALL. If something forces me up and out in the morning, I always enjoy it, and I always think, “I should do this every day.” But then I’d have to give up my quiet time at night after everyone has gone to bed, and I wouldn’t want that. *G*
Karen Hawkins on 17 Apr 2008 at 10:33 am #
Claudia, lol about your dog! I have one who would sleep until four if we’d let him and another who has to go out NOW and comes to the bed and breathes in my face until I let him out. Ugh!
Sandy, that’s what weekends are for — jammies ’til noon. Ahhhh!
Freedom, you wrote 6 pages BEFORE noon? Excellent! Sounds to me like you’re a GG and have to be flexible according to the peeps in the house.
Julia, you deserve your own category. Go ahead and make one! I’m with you — I probably have a foot in that category, too. I just HATE people talking to me until ‘m ready. Then I’m cheerful as can be. But those first thirty minutes are NOT pretty.
Kasey, I’m thinking the GGs have it so far. Lots of spontaneous, free thinking people out there who just do what works best. GGs probably have low blood pressure, too.
Karen Hawkins on 17 Apr 2008 at 10:37 am #
Lorena, oh I’m plump. And getting plumper. Well, I would be if not for weight watchers. Can’t let Julia show up at Nationals looking all glam without trying to AT LEAST be the weight I was last summer. I’ve been such a bad girl this year! I think we need to add Julia’s category — Eggs Over Hard for those who take a while to warm up, but once there, they’re ready for the day!
Sabrina, my daughter’s like that, too. She loooves the night time. Says she gets more done between midnight and four than any other time. Me, I’d be DEAD the next day, but then she’s still in her late teens (20 is stil a teen, right?) so she has wayyy more energy than me.
Margaret on 17 Apr 2008 at 10:46 am #
Karen, the actress who played June Cleaver is Barbara Billingsly. I loved her in Airplane. If you’ve never watched kiddie shows, she was also the voice of Nanny in “Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies”. Her voice is instantly recognizable to me. I think she’s still alive and is about 92 or so.
Before her, there was the neat as a pin, never a messy house Harriet Nelson. Wife of Ozzie. Mother of Ricky & David. She never got flustered. Her kids didn’t sass her nor did they wear yesterday’s underwear. Creases in their pants and shirt sleeves. And she put up with goofy Ozzie. I’ll bet she laid out a fantastic breakfast. And she didn’t even have a microwave!
Karen Rose on 17 Apr 2008 at 11:06 am #
By the time I remember to eat breakfast, it’s lunchtime
Does this make me Scrambled Eggs?
Julia London on 17 Apr 2008 at 11:14 am #
KaHa, we can be hard boiled eggs.
And I am not going to show up looking glam. But I’m not going to be a basketball, either, LOL
Meg on 17 Apr 2008 at 11:24 am #
I guess I would be a Granola Great. I can do it either way. I wake up whenever my body says to — usually between 8 and 930 am (the latter if I am up late), let the dogs out, take care of myself, let the dogs in and settle at the computer with my morning drink of choice. If I get up early enough I’ll have my fave radio show on the the background. But…
Now that it is warming up (here in SC) my routine has changed a little. I have started on what I call my “Sun Sessions.” After I let the dogs out I throw on a tank-top and shorts, grab whatever book I am reading and work on my tan on the back porch! It’s going great! After that I do the computer and house stuff, get my time in on the tredmill, shower and I’m ready for whatever else comes along.
Meg on 17 Apr 2008 at 11:26 am #
And I know this is way off-topic, but I just wanted to tell anyone who may be coming to Myrtle Beach for a weekend or some kind of vacation… Hard Rock Park is a MUST!!!
Karen Hawkins on 17 Apr 2008 at 11:35 am #
Margaret, I never had the chance to see the Nelsons, though I have seen clips on documentary shows. Barbara Billingsworth is hysterical. I had no idea she was a voice on the Muppet Show, which in my opinion, is one of the funniest variety shows ever.
Karen Rose, you’re in another time zone, so we’ll excuse your lapse of breakfast. Or do you do that on regular days?
Julia, you looked glam before. I know you’ll look svelte AND glam now. And I love the thought of being a hard boiled egg with you! It’s sadly true — I have no good nature until I’ve had my morning caffeine. The truth is sometimes ugly.
Meg, I want your life, you GG, you! Especially the tan! You sound like a woman with her priorities straight. I like that. Btw, I’ll pass your info on to my daughter. She’s on her way to Myrtle Beach after this semester is over.
Yaya (Yasmin) on 17 Apr 2008 at 11:37 am #
Karen- Yes my house gets cleaned everyday. Mom is a clean freak and i inherited from her ( not to her extent) but at least once a month I go beserk and disinfect everything that can be. Unlike me my sis is a pack rat. She keeps everything even receipts from years ago. She is organized but she still keeps it.
I am big on carb too. I go grocery shopping around the time I know the loaves of bread are coming out of the oven. We always have honey whipped butter in fridge and cream cheese. i love the sour dough rounds. There is this bakery in Clovis that make fresh bread everyday. They make french bread that had spices and cinnamon swirl into it.
RachelG on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:02 pm #
I don’t eat breakfast. I drink a lot of coffee while I work in my pjs until around noon. Then I take a shower and eat lunch. So maybe I’m an A, only later. Really though, I’m too lazy to be an A.
rachelg
Margaret on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:18 pm #
Gosh, Rachel! It must be ESP. I was just folding clothes a bit ago and realized I hadn’t seen you post in awhile. I figure you must be working against a deadline or something. Personally, I’m getting all excited about the May book.
Good to know you’re still around. Even if you are full of coffee. :0
Margaret on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:24 pm #
Karen, Barbara & Harriet did several things together where they sort of made fun of their too put together selves. I remember one show where they played b**** but with that same syrupy persona. They were a hoot. I wish I could remember the show. Some series.
Barbara wasn’t on the original, wonderful Muppet Show. The Muppet Babies was one of those Nickleodian shows made strictly for the toddler crowd. I used to watch it with various grandkids when I had them. My last series was Dora the Explorer. I don’t sit anymore. So, I’ve lost touch with what’s cool in the younger set.
It’s after 1pm EDT and I just had breakfast about 11am. For lunch, I treated myself to a bowl of Edy’s vanilla ice cream with fresh sliced strawberries on it. Yummy, yummy. I think I’d rather have had vanilla frozen yogurt, tho.
Lisa H on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:25 pm #
Hi Girls! I have been so busy, I haven’t had a chance to come around, but I’m glad to be here now. Anywho…I’m a bagel and Coke in the morning girl. I can’t believe how many of you don’t eat breakfast…I would keel over from what ever that disease is that is opposite diabetes?! I need some kind of bread in my belly very soon after awakening and I really need the Coke so I can mentally be there for the family.
I am a Granola Great, although even if I am going out for breakfast, I have to munch on a few crackers before I leave the house. I get up around 6:30 and could never wait until 9:00 or later to eat.
anneriailin on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:30 pm #
On weekedays I’m an A. I get up get ready, literally run out of the house to get to the bus stop on time and eat breakfast at my desk at work. On weekends, it’s the opposite. I get up and fix breakfast in my pj’s (depending on what time I have to be at work for the 2nd job that is!) Sunday is my day off and I do breakfast in my pj’s. What does that make me??
–dorothy
Lisa H on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:35 pm #
Dorothy - I think that makes you one busy woman!
cail on 17 Apr 2008 at 2:33 pm #
hm. it varies… i’d say i’m granola. i tend to check my email before i eat or shower, but recently i’ve been eating before doing any primping as i’m not in my usual rush to get to work. when i was working i would eat once i got to the office.
Karen Hawkins on 17 Apr 2008 at 2:36 pm #
Yaya, you made my mouth water! The French bread with spices and cinnamon swirled into it sounds DIVINE. I love honey butter, too. My mother used to make that on Sundays, the only day she ever made breakfast. She’d always make a huge pan of fluffy biscuits with honey butter and we’d all swarm the kitchen for them.
I’m proud of you for being so clean. I try to be . . . but I’m not quite where I need to be yet. I really, REALLY need to wash my windows. That’s my next project.
RachelG, maybe instead of an Oatmeal Tradtionalist, you’re an Oatmeal Cookie — you get dressed, ready face the day, and then snack later on.
I used to skip breakfast but then I noticed I always ate something Very Bad about two hours later — like an entire cake or something. So now I eat breakfast. Not a lot and I’m not crazy about hot stuff, though I’ll eat oatmeal once in a while. I’m happy with some fruit or yogurt or a nice bowl of Special K with berries.
Karen Hawkins on 17 Apr 2008 at 2:49 pm #
Margaret, I would PAY to see B**** show! How FUNNY! I didn’t realize there was a Muppet Babies show. I’m wayyyy out of touch with that. I only learned about Dora the Explorer through an encounter with a rack of items at Target.
LisaH, good to hear from you! I can go without breakfast for a while. So long as I have some coffee or tea. It used to be Diet Coke, but then I’ve cut back on them so it’s c or t or nada. I thin the caffeine deadens the appetite. Or so I hope!
Dorothy, I second what Lisa H said, you’re a busy, busy woman! I think you’re a bit of a Granola Great, though, and change with the circumstances. Some people can’t/won’t.
Cail, you sound like a GG! It’s nice you could eat at work. If I ever run my own office, I’m bringing breakfast EVERY morning. It’s a great time for people to get together and keeps them from being so rushed.
RachelG on 17 Apr 2008 at 2:53 pm #
Karen,
I love oatmeal cookies!!!!
Margaret.
I am under deadline. Mostly though, I’m trying to build a house. Well, having a house built and it takes up so much friggin’ time. Yesterday morning I spent 2 hours walking through the house with the electrician going over where to put light switches. Then I met with the audio/video guy and then the wall vac system dude. Before I know it, the day is gone and I still have to write a book.
rachel
Jane on 17 Apr 2008 at 3:52 pm #
My usual is ham and eggs on toast with tea or coffee. I’ve also eaten left over pizza for breakfast.
Judy F on 17 Apr 2008 at 4:06 pm #
I don’t know what I am.LOl
During the week my alarm goes off at 5:10 I hit the snooze pretty much till 5:30 then I am on the computer till about 6. Sometimes I eat during that time sometimes I wait till on the way to work, or till I get to work. It all depends on how I am doing on time.
On the weekends. I wake up whenever (though lately with my parents issues that is gone) I eat in my pj’s then sometime start my day.
Judy F on 17 Apr 2008 at 4:08 pm #
Oops I forgot after computer time during the week. I shower after 6 am then dress etc and hopefully on the road to work by 6:30 am. Have to be to work by 7 am
Margaret on 17 Apr 2008 at 4:32 pm #
My sympathies on the house building, Rachel. Not that you won’t have a lovely new home. My step-daughter and her family just moved back East from the Seattle area and just broke ground on a new house in Delawre. This will be their 4th house they’ve done. They ought to have it down to a fine science by now.
I remember the one they built near me. They would go every evening to inspect things. And, nearly every evening, they would find more than one thing done wrong and needing to be set right before the builders could progress. They had barely moved in when they discovered the doggie door had been installed backward. Sheesh! Can these guys not read instructions?
So, inspect with open eyes and notepad/cell phone in hand. You have to live with their mistakes. They don’t. Meanwhile, keep up the good writing! LOL
TinaLouiseF on 17 Apr 2008 at 6:13 pm #
I try not to eat breakfast before work. If I eat first thing in the morning, I eat all day long. My former job at the County had a mobile lunch wagon that stopped by at 10:00 am. That seems to be a better time for me to eat.
evlqn on 17 Apr 2008 at 6:20 pm #
Karen, I think I might be a cross between Oatmeal Traditionalist and a Granola Great. One of our favorite snacks is Nature Valley Oats & Honey or Cinnamon cereal with strawberry or vanilla yogurt. I don’t really care for cereal and milk but put yogurt in it and I”m there.
Today we had to be out and about before we had toast so we did run through MickeyD’s for sausage McMuffins.
Claudia Dain on 17 Apr 2008 at 6:29 pm #
Breakfast used to be the one meal I could easily skip, and often did, then I read that when they want Sumo wrestlers to gain weight, they make them skip breakfast.
Now I eat breakfast every day, no matter what!
Karen Hawkins on 17 Apr 2008 at 7:01 pm #
Jane, left over pizza . . . cold? I used to LOVE that when I was in college. Now, there’s never any pizza left! Hmmm . . . that could be why I’m a little heavier than before.
Tina, I think everyone has a schedule. I can’t eat first thing, either. I HAVE to wait about an hour after I get up and then I eat. It’s funny how we all get our own little method of doing things, isn’t it?
eviqn, there’s a coffee place near here that serves yogurt with granola for breakfast and it’s awesome. But, if you’re talking shamefully fast food breakfasts, I’m a sucker for Burger King French Toast Stix or those little honey coated chicken biscuits at Chic-fil-a. I could eat those all day and never feel guilty. Ok, ok, I’d feel guilty, but not enough not to eat them again!
Claudia, you did NOT read that! Wow. Guess I’ll be doubly sure I eat b-fast from now on!
ladydawgfan on 17 Apr 2008 at 9:21 pm #
Wow! After reading all of the posts, I’m not exactly sure where I fit! I think I’m a GG, but, hmmm. . .
I wake at 5am, hit the snooze until 5:30, get up to feed the cats, shower, make my lunch, eat breakfast, and then dress and head out the door before 7am to catch the bus to work. However, on weekends, everyone in the house knows better than to wake me. I tend to throw whatever is handiest at the person playing “alarm clock,” including the cats!! I am NOT a morning person, and my weekend sleep time is Sacred to me!!!
BTW, I’m surprised at how many skip breakfast. I’m insulin resistant, so doing so would have me on the floor in short order, but I found out from my nutritionist that regardless of medical problems, breakfast is the one meal that really gets your metabolism kick started, and if you are looking to lose weight, it is the one meal you definitely SHOULDN’T skip.
Kate on 17 Apr 2008 at 9:22 pm #
Margaret,
My mom was always up before us. She wasn’t in a dress…but I have pictures of her at home with the kids in a dress…she was a real looker. She was usually in a robe and would flash the stair hallway light…say “Rise and Shine everyone!” in a very cheerful voice every morning. She packed our lunches…all ten of them and had them out on the counter for us to pick up after we got dressed, ate breakfast and brushed our teeth. I am amazed that we all managed to make it out of the house in the 45 minutes she gave us to get up and get ready. There were ten of us and one bathroom! I can just barely manage to get mine all fed and dressed and out of the house in about an hour and a half! I keep working on cutting that time down but it usually involves me running around yelling at them to hurry up and practically pushing them out the door.
Thanks for reminding me of her.
Karen Hawkins on 17 Apr 2008 at 10:20 pm #
ladydawg, my metabolism doesn’t wake up until ten or later, so I sympathize with people who don’t feel hungry. But I know the value of eating breakfast (esp now that Claudia told me about Sumos!), so I eat even though I don’t feel hungry. My stomach just isn’t AWAKE yet!
Margaret, wow. Your mother must have been phenomenal. And TEN of you? With ONE bathroom? Heck, when I was growing up, there were eight to twelve of us with two and a half bathrooms and we thought were we SORELY abused. I remember the yelling to get the kids ready days. Whew! Made my days tension-filled!
PJane1031 on 17 Apr 2008 at 11:55 pm #
I’m still trying to figure this one out for myself. . . . but I would say that I’m probably a Granola Great. When I worked in the mornings, I’d usually get dressed and then come downstairs and have breakfast on my way out the door, but if it was my day off, I’d stay in my PJ’s for breakfast. Now that I’m working in the evenings/overnights, and am going to sleep around the time some of you [Kathy] are getting up, I feel a little weird eating ‘breakfast’ at Noon when I usually get up, though I do try to make an effort to eat something.
Margaret on 18 Apr 2008 at 6:40 am #
LOL, Karen. That was Kate who came from a family of 10 kids. Me? I am one of those pitiful onlys.
8 to 12, Karen? Would you ’splain that please?
Kate, I wonder if your mom collapsed for awhile when she got you all out the door? LOL I do know she had to be mega-organzied. Nowadays, she’d probably be CEO of some blue chip company.
I wanted a large family and managed to produce 2. My 2nd marriage was to a man with 5. My mother used to say I had to marry my large family but I almost got the 8 I once dreamed of. Now, I have not only those 7, but 13 grandchildren and 2 great-grands. Love my large family and grateful I don’t have to pack lunches and shoo them all out the door. LOL
Buffie on 18 Apr 2008 at 7:19 am #
Great blog Karen! I wish I had seen it yesterday.
Me, I’m a shower before anything else person. I usually don’t eat until I’ve been up and out for about an hour. My routine begins at 5:30 a.m. (when the clock goes off), shower, makeup, hair, get dressed, out to work. I’m at work by 7 a.m. and then I eat my breakfast.
Karen Hawkins on 18 Apr 2008 at 7:22 am #
,OOOPS! Sorry Kate! Sorry, Margaret!
And Margaret, there are no ‘pitiful onlys.’ Those of us who had to fuss at our next oldest sister when she gained weight because the hand-me-downs wouldn’t fit, have always admired you from afar.
Actually, we had it very good. I have one natural brother and sister, but my parents took tons of foster kids and numerous exchange students and, as my mother doesn’t have an ‘off’ button, there were a lot of us. At one time, there were 15 people living in our house, though usually it was between the 8 to 12 mark. Kids came, some stayed for years and years and one we eventually adopted, while others left within days. It was a glorious, messy, noisy way to grow up and I am one of the few people I know who moved into a college dorm for ’some peace and quiet.’ It was HEAVENLY when I finally got out on my own! NO KIDS!
Karen Hawkins on 18 Apr 2008 at 7:28 am #
Margaret, it’s so cool that you have so many grandkids! My mother says being a grandmother is the best of all because you get to play with them and then send them home. Gotta love that!
PJane, it’s tough to settle into a schedule when you work unusual hours. I’m glad you’re trying though — according to Claudia, if you don’t eat breakfast, you could become a sumo wrestler!!!! ACK!
Buffie, I miss the days when I used to eat breakfast at work. It made it more mine and very special. I’m with you, too — gotta be up awhile before I gnosh. You sound very organized in your morning habits, btw! Congrats! I bet your desk is neat, too. I’m jealous!