My wife and I are about near polar opposites when it comes to mornings. During the week, neither of us need an alarm clock - between three dogs (one being 6 mo old) and sleeping with the blinds open, we're both up and off to work on time - both need to be there by 0730.

During the weekend though - she's up at 0700 and ready to start her happy dance by 0710. I tend to roll out of bed about 0800 and ready to sit in the corner drinking my coffee and enjoying the silence of the world waking up around me.

I do not like making decisions, talking about what our plans are for the day, much a year from now. Gimme an hours, maybe 90 minutes.

After my second cup of coffee, I am almost ready to consider, from a high level, what is needed to accomplish my chores for the day (refer to the thread I started about the VA loans and fixing the doggie door from earlier this week).

At least SWMBO is up meeting her grandchild for the first time and I can contemplate what to do after patching the door - in peace.

Precisely the reason I rise between 4:30 and 5:30 every morning. I'm pretty much guaranteed 2 hours of peace, quiet and solitude. Sometimes as much as 4 hours.

It gives me a chance to wake up, check my mail, surf the usual boards and get my blood sugar back up to normal operating levels.

Requiring decisions from me before my second cup of coffee is unwise. Bitching at me before my second cup is damn near suicidal.

Well, the alarm was set this morning (Saturday) for 6:20am. However, I woke up at 5:40am. Within 30 minutes I was on my road bike for a 50 mile ride.

Tomorrow morning the alarm will be set for 5:45am. I will be on the bike by 6:15am for a 40 mile ride. Once I get home I have to shower quickly and head out the door to take the family to Universal Studios.

So, on most of my weekends, I am moving pretty fast.

Up between 7:00 and 8:00 AM on weekends w/o an alarm, unless I've got specific plans.

First cup of Coffee: SIGforum
Second cup of Coffee: New installment of Vice Grip Garage, or the Friday PM episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight (viewed on Fox Nation).

If I've got project/activity plans, both cups of coffee may be enjoyed in a time condensed manner, and accompanied by SIGforum, of course...

I want to just take it easy and relax on the weekends and work on projects around the house, my wife on the other hand feels the need to pack our schedule tight with activities and events and family things. It’s often a point of contention that we both have to work through, she’s never happy just staying home and chilling out, she feels like we always have to be “doing something”.

Sleep in until 5AM, make coffee, breakfast, surf the net and youtube. Try not to be productive.

I wake up, ready to play, every day.

Don't know how else to be.

No alarm clock required, since Uncle Sam rudely awakened me over 45 years ago...

Both my wife and I have been retired for a few years now ... myself after a four decade career and my wife from running the house (we now take turns), we wake every morning at 6a without a clock to start our day. We are busier now in retirement than before. And everyday is just a "day" without a Mon, Tues, Weds ... etc before it.

Loving it.

As much as I want to buy a house, living in an apartment has the advantage of not having anything to do around the house aside from normal cleaning and such. So when I don’t have the kids my days are pretty lazy. I wake up whenever I want, usually watch a little TV and play on the internet for a while, then find some place to go just to get out into the world.

When I have the kids I’m up early getting breakfast ready and then we typically have some plans made for the day. Mostly we are pretty laid back though and don’t have anything too major to stress about.

No alarm clock needs here too. Up a 5:30 during the week. 8 on weekends. In the last three years activity during days off have slowed dramatically.

I wake up at 6am every day, couldn’t sleep late if I wanted to. During the week, it’s all business till about 4:30. Weekends it seems like it’s all chores and what not to get ready for the next week. I’ve always got something around the house that needs doing. I think I need a vacation.

I only use the alarm clock if I have something scheduled before noon. I'm retired and most days are like all the others. When church gets back to normal I'll force myself to get up for services on Sundays. If my weekly medical treatment gets going again (lease lapsed), I'll have to do mornings there, too. And on one Thursday each month I attend a luncheon of former co-workers, so I use the alarm to insure I'm awake and ready for it.

Otherwise, I fall asleep in my lounge chair sometime between 0300 and 0500 watching TV, wake up about 0900 to use the bathroom, and typically really arise around noon. My indoor cats get their treat and food in the early afternoon and the outdoor cat gets hers in the mid afternoon. I try to schedule meetings, etc. for afternoons. (I have always been essentially worthless before 1000, and worked to put most activity after that time.)

Retirement is wonderful!

flashguy

Unless I have something scheduled I seldom even look to see what time it is when I get up and weekends are the same as weekdays for me. Sometimes when making coffee I notice the clock on the stove which is typically showing anywhere between 7 and 8:30.
Generally my breakfast consists of 1 or 2 cups of coffee, steel cut oats, and a bowl of plain yogurt with walnuts and fruit or a teaspoon of jelly while catching up on the news here on Sig Forum.

I get up on the weekends 7:30 or 8, walk the dogs w my wife, coffee, work for about an hour or so.

Sundays, esp when its coldish outside, after walking the dogs I like to sit and read for an hour while drinking coffee, then work for a couple hours

I get up at 4-4:15 every morning for work. After 4 12's I will sleep in on Sunday's or get up early and nap later. Sunday is my worthless do nothing day. Moving to 5 8's in a couple weeks, at that point I'll probably be able to sleep till 6 on the weekends if I'm lucky.