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Ninjas make great pets

07:50 / 05.05.04

Its funny how the first thing you come across in the morning can seriously affect your mood for the day.. be it a pop song on the radio or freshly toasted bread with just the right amount of melted butter.. or a website..

cirquedusoleil
jojo

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Grey Area

08:26 / 05.05.04

Danny Kaye singing I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts has been getting me out of bed with a smile this past couple of weeks. There's nothing quite like waking up to a home-made wake-up mix cd, simply because you put stuff on there that you know will make you smile and put a bounce in your step.

lonely as a cloud...

08:46 / 05.05.04

I find it quite odd that I am actually a morning person. Most mornings, I can go from comatose to 100% alert in under a minute. A coffee and not-too-cold-ness helps.

uncle retrospective

09:11 / 05.05.04

I have to get up at 5 in the morning to make sure one of the most awful tv show of all time, (Ireland AM for our irish 'lithers) goes to air. Only the lack of guns stops me from going postal.
That and the fact I'm going to see Libach tonight.

lonely as a cloud...

09:12 / 05.05.04

For you, uncle. To help cheer up your morning.
Cute kittens! (requires flash)

Ninjas make great pets

09:27 / 05.05.04

hummm.. just local(ish) kids responding...

don't uk 'lithers do mornings? nah.. they're more of the dark unmentionables of night types i reckon

Don't give him anything cloud! that uncle boy has a lot to answer for.. uggg. irish morning TV

Axolotl

09:43 / 05.05.04

I do mornings, but strangely I've never found them too much of a drag, I put that down to the time I spent in the hotel industry which forced me into early rising.
Generally I find a nice double espresso, coupled with a hearty breakfast normally prevents me from being too grumpy. Without breakfast though I am liable to tear your head off as soon as look at you. Bacon rolls always help.

lonely as a cloud...

09:48 / 05.05.04

Breakfast v. good, especially when it involves bacon. And television first thing...not good. Unless the teletubbies is on and you're getting up around midday.

Axolotl

10:11 / 05.05.04

Possibly the only perk of being on the morning shift at the hotel I worked was a free cooked breakfast. I miss my cooked breakfasts, though no doubt giving them up has done wonders for my health. The ideal has got to be sausage, possibly lorne sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs and toast, or fried slice if you're feeling lardy.

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

10:13 / 05.05.04

Caffeine. Not specifically pretty, but then neither am I until I've had some.

Jub

10:33 / 05.05.04

With you on the whole caffeine thing. If only I the gumption to make a proper filter cup, rather than relying on it's poor freeze dried cousin.

Also - and this might not be what you meant thumbninja, but it's true, when I wake up next to my girlfriend, it makes me feel good. Really good.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:41 / 05.05.04

Well, 'tis usually of an evening with me, but waking up to find my dog (yawn, Stoatie's dog YET AGAIN) asleep across my ankles, or having stolen the pillow, is just the sweetest thing you could ever have to wake up to, and you know the dog's never gonna give you shit about how drunk you were before you went to bed or anything... it's just the whole "WHOAH! Stoatie's awake! Fucking wicked!!!" thing that will get you out of ANY hangover or anything. At least for a while.
By which time you have enough time to actually deal with life.
Seriously.
I recommend getting a cool dog for anyone who has problems finding good things in their day.

lonely as a cloud...

11:36 / 05.05.04

Dunno 'bout you, ninja, but *I* certainly wouldn't enjoy seeing the cirque de soleil site first thing in the morning...that clown on the front page is totally freaking me out, man...

Squirmelia

11:59 / 05.05.04

Hot baths are my favourite starting of the day thing. Mmm.

lonely as a cloud...

12:03 / 05.05.04

Sounds pleasant, but how do you make sure there is adequate hot water for said bath before you get up?
Logistics are important...

uncle retrospective

12:14 / 05.05.04

cloudstrife you just made my day. Thanks.

And I'm sorry TNinja but Ireland deserves Ireland AM. Ireland's been a bad, bad country.

Squirmelia

12:16 / 05.05.04

cloudstrife> Weekdays, I get up at the same time every day and so have the heating set on a timer so that it makes the water very hot.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:24 / 05.05.04

To prove my point, I was about to go to bed feeling really fucking miserable (reduced meds blah blah fishcakes) and I sat down to type this, and my dog came and sat looking up at me, all worried, like...
I'm off to bed now. As soon as I figure out that image-hosting thing my poor little camera-shy dog will be able to be seen by you Barbelites and you'll revel in her cuteness.

lonely as a cloud...

12:28 / 05.05.04

uncle: you're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it

. And we deserve everything TV3 throws at us.
Squirmelia: timed heating. Of course. Lucky you!

Grey Area

12:31 / 05.05.04

I seem to the only person in the North who can't get any of the Irish channels. Not that I have a television I could watch them on, but back when I did have one I couldn't receive RTE...

Timed heating and hot water are indeed the salvation of many of my mornings...now if only I could figure out a way to heat my place to the same extent as I seem to be able to heat the water.

lonely as a cloud...

12:58 / 05.05.04

GA: when I lived in a rather drafty little flat, I had one of those plug-in timers hooked up to a portable radiator in my room. Worked wonders for my punctuality.

_Boboss

13:19 / 05.05.04

give the girl a kiss, get the cat coiling between the ankles, that first and best cup of tea, several slices of buttery toast with thick lashings of coarse-cut marmalade, bit o telly (moira stewart - the news ain't real til i've heard it from her), happy enough for the rest of the day.

Baz Auckland

14:01 / 05.05.04

I really try to be a morning person, but these last few years I haven't been able to make it. To have a good day, lots of coffee and a good hour in front of the computer helps a lot.

Ninjas make great pets

14:17 / 05.05.04

Im not a morning person..

oh wait. no. actually I love mornings, fresh light, bright skies (and Jub your so right.. Yep yep yep).. its just the whole getting up thing.. My bed (and not my bed

are just such cosy warm places in the morning..ahhh)

just realising Im not a 4pm person either.. I wana go Home!

marwood

15:04 / 05.05.04

Caffiene. Thats the sweet sweet stuff that'll atleast get me out of my pit, anything more, like coherancy or ability to interact with others is a different story would probably require drugs or blood sacrifices.

salix lucida

18:19 / 05.05.04

caffeine. lots of it. and music so perky I'm ashamed to admit I listen to it once I've woken up.

Helmschmied

20:23 / 05.05.04

You know Stoatie....I've actually got video footage of "Biskies" running around the cemetary.

I quite agree though. No matter how fucked up and grumpy I am, my dog is ALWAYS thrilled to see me.

Linus Dunce

21:22 / 05.05.04

Riding in a Routemaster!

Char Aina

21:32 / 05.05.04

nothing wakes me up like the misfits.
before, during and after the shower.

if they could invent a coffeezmaid that played their hits and threw me an IV drip of caffiene ten minutes before 'angel fuck' kicked in, i would be so much more productive in those three hours i usually write off.

oh, and if i took too long about mah twalet, the bathroom should be flooded with the lighthouse family(steadily increasing in both volume and size of orchestral accompaniement) to hurry me on.

man, it is the house of the future.

this system will only be advantageous if no one else is allowed one, so no, i cant forsee a market for it.

astrojax69

22:04 / 05.05.04

hey toksik,

can't see a market for peace and solitude in a perfect environment? i rekkun you're on to something there....

actually, i always dig mornings, the thrill of dawn and the quiet of no-one else bothering are fabulous accompaniments to thought. and if no-one else is around, to some chilled grooves loud!

don't do afternoons or early evenings - always resent the english not the spanish colonised australia: love those siestas! - but then late late evening, with chilled grooves loud and people bothering, or silence and thought again... hmmmm

Captain Zoom

15:04 / 08.05.04

When I leave for work of a morning (about ten to seven), I turn and look up at my bedroom window and Tara and Sage are there waving to me and blowing me kisses EVERY MORNING. Without fail. I cannot go postal when I've had that in the morning.

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