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Schedules and Routines
On an ideal day, what would you get done? Include self-care activities (like hygiene and eating) and self-support activities (like working if applicable). Try to be realistic about what can actually happen in the course of a day. What would you need to do each day to never get behind in chores, to feel fulfilled and happy, and to maintain your relationships to your satisfaction?
On an average day, what do you get done? Include self-care and life-support activities as above.
On an emergency, oh-shit-everything-has-gone-wrong day, what are the essential things that you make sure you do? What is your bare-bones routine that you go out of your way to protect? What things from your above routines are "skippable" and for how long? Do you adapt by eating ready meals or by going in late to work? Do you skimp on sleep or shuffle chores to another day?
Details, details, details, please, if you will.
On an average day, what do you get done? Include self-care and life-support activities as above.
On an emergency, oh-shit-everything-has-gone-wrong day, what are the essential things that you make sure you do? What is your bare-bones routine that you go out of your way to protect? What things from your above routines are "skippable" and for how long? Do you adapt by eating ready meals or by going in late to work? Do you skimp on sleep or shuffle chores to another day?
Details, details, details, please, if you will.
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On a more normal normal-day I'd get up, go to work where I am a only moderately productive employee and a lazy spod, eat some lunch, go home, play puzzle pirates, eat dinner, watch TV and knit, socialise *or* shower (alternate days), bed (unlikely to get any reading in).
On a bad-day it depends; I might drag myself to work and get normal lunch drag myself home, make sure ewx cooked dinner and go to bed. Or I might skip work (calling in sick) and sleep 'till lunch time before mucking around on the computer, reading a bit, maybe remember to shower, make ewx cook dinner, go back to bed.
Things like "tidy house" aren't really something I aim to do every day; I aim to do them at weekends - and on a good weekend the house will become tidy and my OU assignments will get done. On a bad weekend I'll just sleep.
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Ideal day: shower, breakfast with the daylight lamp, dry hair, get dressed, go to work, read, do some form exercise (anywhere between 2 and 5 times a week), have some sort of social interaction with friends/family (usually phone Paul, phone parents, use email and LJ to keep in touch with other friends), eat a proper lunch and dinner, make some minor effort to keep house tidy (because if I don't, I have to make a major effort at a later date), snuggle with cat, do some knitting, brush teeth and wash face before bed, feed cat if he needs feeding, get between 5 and 10 portions of fruit & veg, drink at least 2 liters of non-caffeinated liquid, get at least 6 but ideally 7.5 hours of sleep, do some Japanese.
Average day: I'm actually pretty good at most of these things at the moment. Minor household chores like washing up are the ones that I do occasionally let accumulate for a couple of days. The cat probably doesn't always get enough attention because when he wants attention I'm busy and when I'm not busy he's out. ;-) I have a cold at the moment, so exersice is out for probably most of this week, which is actually really annoying. Certain breaks in my routine, such as travelling, tend to lead to me switching to ready or semi-ready meals for a week, but they still tend to be of the healthy variety. I'm probably closer to the 6 hours of sleep than the 7.5 most nights. Phoning Paul can take more or less time, depending on how I'm feeling. I am not doing as much Japanese at the moment as the course theoretically expects of me, but neither am I falling behind, because in some ways the course is probably too slow for me. (In other ways, it's actually nice to have that buffer and to know that the world won't end if I don't do my vocab tonight.)
Shit day: It depends a lot on why the day is shit. If I'm just tired from work, the thing that is most tempting to throw out is exercise. I'm getting a lot better at not doing this because it's actually the one thing that does make me feel better. If it's a "everything has gone to pot at work and I've had to work 15 hours" sort of day, then anything that's not work or basic self-care tends to go out of the window. Worth noting is that I haven't had one of those in a little while, and that basic self-care includes showers, decent meals, brushing teeth, feeding the cat. See above as to what travel does to my routine. Probably the worst is that I end up eating crap a lot when I'm travelling (and by crap I sometimes mean eating out at posh restaurants, but it's not necessarily healthy food). I will still eat a proper breakfast when I'm travelling, even if it involves getting up at 4 in the morning, though I tend to have my shower the night before in such cases.
I used to have a list of activities which contributed to my well-being, and I used to track it on the daily basis. I haven't doen this in a while, partly because I've become quite good at doing a lot of these things without the tracking. I kind of still keep the list at the back of my mind because I know that one day the time may come when I'm not coping quite as well and I'll need to pull it out again. From vague memory, this was what was on the list:
Brush teeth, get 5 portions of fruit & veg, drink 2 liters of water, spend some quiet time reading, get the right amount of sleep (which included not having long naps in the middle of the day), make it out of the house for at least 30 minutes, get the right amount of food, do not spend the entire day/evening watching telly, I think exercise might have been on it but I'm not sure. (I never managed to even put on the list, let alone enforce, "Don't spend my life on the Internet" at the time, but I'm actually getting a lot better at it since I've had my PC in the medroom because I now turn it off at night and don't turn it on until I need it again the next evening).
In addition to that there are things I just to automatically, mostly having a shower and having breakfast - I've never had to track them.
I find routine really really useful when it comes to self-care. I also find that travel breaks my routine horribly and it takes effort to get back into it.
Not sure if that helps. Hope it does.
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Bath, brekkie, feed cats, washing up, work, coffee, work, lunch, study, washing up, work, feed cats, knitting, cook dinner, eat dinner while watching tv, study, spod/online, wash up, bed.
Ideal weekendday:
Bath, brekkie, feed cats, washing up, coffee while spod/online, get washing on, tidy/hoover, study, lunch, study, spod/online or bit of gardening, light fire, make dinner, eat dinner while watching telly, study/knit, wash up, bed.
Average weekday:
Bath, brekkie, feed cats, work, coffee, work, lunch, work, feed cats, wash up, cook dinner, eat dinner while watching telly, study, spod, bed.
Average weekend:
Bath, brekkie, feed cats, coffee, put washing on/tidy/hoover, study, spod, lunch, study/work, knit, feed cats, wash up, cook dinner, eat dinner in front of telly, study or knit/spod, bed.
Emergency day:
Bath, poss brekkie, feed cats, coffee. Work or study (both weekday or weekends), lunch if can, more work/study, feed cats, wash up, cook dinner or order takeaway, collapse in bed at some point.
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You may notice I don't go out to socialise with people. Can't afford the time, so I do it online. Plus I'm a hermit by nature. On an emergency day, I a) feed the cats, feed myself as best I can, and work unless I'm so ill I can't. Everything else can be shunted aside till another time. If I have got in very late from work and worked for 12 hours or something daft or driven hundreds of miles and just don't have it in me to cook, then it is either something I've done and then frozen (chilli or spag bol or something) or takeaway. Can't really just turn up late to work unless it's because of work that I've been out till 3am or something.
Chores are generally left till the weekend except washing up - that gets done at least once a day unless I've had a particularly bad emergency day.
Feeding the cats and myself and bathing is the top priority. Then comes work. Then comes the rest of it. Work pays the bills and keeps the roof over my head, I can't afford to be out of a job, so I have to structure life around that - and this is particularly restrictive because of hte sort of job I do (I'm a network engineer) as I'm always subject to being back late unexpectedly, working weekends, working evenings, and being on call.
PS. By bath I mean bath, brush teeth, sling mousse and blowdry hair, slap on a bit of moisturiser, then get dressed ;)
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And yes, almost everyone I know works in IT. And knitting is just super-cool and everyone should be doing it ;) If everyone in the world was a knitter, there'd be less angst and friction. Apart from those days where you go stab people repeatedly with your pointysticks because they annoyed you... ;)
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LOL! Well, I'd say knitting is awesome and everyone should do it anyway, but be warned, it eats your life! ;-)
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Get up, eat breakfast, listen to Radio 4/read email/LiveJournal, get dressed, go to work, do work, eat lunch (on good days I'll have brought lunch with me, on less good days I go out to buy lunch) [try to avoid it getting later than 3pm before doing this], do more work, come home, eat dinner [variable amounts of cooking depending on tiredness], read email/LJ/watch telly/listen to Radio 4, go to bed by midnight or so, sleep.
On organised days I do things like setting the washing machine on a timer to do washing ready for me to empty when I get home, empty the bins as I leave to go to work, have lists of jobs to be done at lunch time that involve leaving the building [some days I don't get to leave the building 'cos I'm too busy]
On everything's-a-mess-days (normally caused 'cos I've not got enough sleep, 'cos I couldn't get to sleep or 'cos I'm feeling coldified but not ill enough to take a day off work or 'cos there's just too much work to be done at work) I make sure I get enough food [sometimes there isn't good breakfast food at home and I nibble during the morning at work], leave work early [this means 5-5.30pm], eat comfort food, watch comfort telly/DVDs, go to bed early, take appropriate medication if feeling ill.
I currently have a huge pile of dishes it'll take me 20mins or so to do when I actually decide to do them. If I had other people in the house I wouldn't allow myself to accumulate that size a pile of dishes. I have boxes I need to throw out, some other bits and pieces that need sorting. I really must do some vacuuming and some sorting out of my underwear drawers and some dusting (which I hate). The bathroom needs cleaning too. Oh and now I've got my new shelving in place I could do with sorting out my books and spreading them across the shelves. I keep thinking about an inventory system for books [I remember contemplating designing one when I was 9 or so, but didn't get very far] All of this stuff can wait till the weekend, and this is my usual strategy with non-urgent stuff when I'm overwhelmed with things I have to do - it can wait till the weekend, when I'll have enough time to catch up on missed sleep and do the various things that need to be done.
Time for *reading* email/LJ/other bits of the internet is really important. Time for replying to other people and getting some social contact by doing so is important, but less important in the short term than reading time. In the longer term, lack of time/ability to interact with people leaves me feeling lonely.
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I work from home and juggle being a student homoeopath with being a single parent, farm-help for Mum and sewing for a living so average days are a bit thin on the ground!
Things that get done every day are:
Sorting out the horses morning and afternoon and any jobs Mum needs help with.
Getting kids and myself up, fed and out of the door at the right times, with the right stuff!
Preparing meals (I very rarely use TV dinners or similar, one of the many benefits of being at home during the day).
Basic housework (making beds, washing up, washing clothes, tidying things away etc.).
Spend time with the kids, which often gets done around other things.
Talk to my fiance on the phone (he's living about 200 miles away at the moment).
Shower/bath, brush hair and teeth, all the obvious self-care stuff.
Usually taking one or other of us out in the evening - between Small's dancing lessons, Tall being a Young Leader, morris practice and aikido we're out somewhere most days.
The kids have jobs too, like feeding the dog and laying the table which are done every day.
In addition to this each day contains homoeopathy stuff (including treating patients, assignments and the like), sewing/knitting for orders and two markets and more serious housework, in varying proportions. I'm good at getting what needs doing, done so the lack of detailed routine bothers me not at all. Gardening tends to get done at weekends.
If anything has to be let slide, it's things like the hoovering and dusting or gardening. Not for more than a week though :-)
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wake before dawn. studio time for a couple of hours.
The bed is made by 9am.
Darshan....sesame oil self massage total body.
Yoga, meditation, visualization.(takes about 10-15 min)
Sun for 20-40 if possible (full body unhindered).
PT walking, the constitutional.
More studio, focus on learning new things.
Dishes, make food, wash up,compost
sweep, fire box check for ashes haul out,
Burn creosote out of the chimney,
Check on plants in the greenhouse, attend.
Garden cycle needs.More of this if more sun.
More studio time, practicing known skills
Sort clothes, do laundry, re-pack suitcases.
Begin food prep and tidy loose ends.
At this afternoon juncture it is a good point to do something out of the usual. Go to town, work in the yard, take a nap, essentially work that is not at the monitor. Sometimes if I am in a deep learning phase on a steep curve I use up lots of this time on the rig and I have to remember once I have achieved this goal to return to my correct schedule.
Evening I review notes, sometimes more studio work, social networking pick-up and then setting renders or scrubs into motion. Anything that is nearly automatic.
Ideally by this time the house is freshened up and lovely to just chill in, there is a bit of good food (these days its an amazing Kale salad often). WE often look at process and movies around this hour and depending on how long the days are I often go to sleep if there is no company.
During a deep session of acquiring a new conceptual realm I get very focused for about five days usually. This I tolerate, and yet manage by returning to my practice. On the road I live out of the same suitcases as at home, my studio is online now, and it is really possible for me to often stick with the basic practice since I stay with pals I can always sweep and wash up. The five day window also makes it so that when I visit friends here on tour or home for a few i can disrupt my usual schedule to do the vulcan mind meld for a bit. There is an ability for the body to handle these bursts of disruption if the core landscape is this very regular practice which provides a buffer and a foundation.
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Get up with baby, change her nappy, get dressed, come downstairs.
Feed baby her breakfast, change nappy again, wash baby and dress her.
Wash and dress myself, have my own breakfast whilst the baby plays.
Put baby in kitchen in her bouncing cradle so she can watch me working.
Unload the dishwasher, repack it, wash up everything else by hand, wipe down all the work surfaces, sweep floor.
Make coffee for myself and
Make lunch for us, breastfeed baby who will often go to sleep about now.
Catch up on email.
The afternoon will usually be for baking or going out shopping. I'll plan out what to do for dinner that evening; if something needs defrosting for dinner, I'll get it out of the freezer before going out shopping.
4pm is the baby's teatime; feeding and changing her will take about an hour, and then she has another breastfeed and nap.
Feed the cats their evening biscuits around 5pm.
More catching up on email and LJ until about 7pm, when I'll start dinner preparations.
David will usually be home around 7:30pm; he'll play with the baby and take over baby-wrangling duties (including nappies) whilst I cook dinner, which will usually be served sometime between 8 and 8:30pm, depending on what it is.
Grown-up chat and catch-up on the day whilst we spod on our respective computers, the baby spending time with each of us in turn. If it's a baby bath day, this happens after dinner and David will join in to help, or else wrangle her whilst I get time to myself for a bath, or to sew/knit/paint/other craft stuff.
I do a general tidy-round of the living room before bed, including sweeping the floor with dustpan and brush.
Bedtime for me tends to be governed by when the baby shows signs of really wanting to go upstairs - usually around 10pm at the moment. She and I go up to my room and I bring her Vtech lullaby lamb toy; she'll have a last breastfeed then fall asleep to the music. I then slip downstairs for a wash, brush teeth and hair, make myself a hot milky drink and then slip back into bed next to her and take my meds. I'll spod online on my laptop for another hour or so or read a book, then play a few hands of Solitaire on my PDA before lights out and sleep.
David usually takes on the vacuuming and laundry duties, takes out the recycling, and feeds the cats in the morning. At the weekend he'll help with stacking the dishwasher and wrangling the baby so I can have a bit of a break to do creative stuff. On Wednesdays I'll make something in advance for dinner that just has to be heated up whilst I'm out at my weekly Bible studies group with the baby, and on Sunday she and I go to church in the morning.
On an ideal day, I'll have done the washing up and tidied the kitchen the night before, so I only have to tidy up the breakfast stuff. I'll then go shopping in the morning, and get back in time for lunch, doing baking in the early afternoon before having the rest of the afternoon to work on creative stuff or clothing repairs. I will also get out for a nice long walk with the baby.
On an emergency, oh-shit-everything-has-gone-wrong day, I make sure the baby gets fed and her nappies changed, and the dishwasher at least gets stacked so we have clean plates and cups. If I'm too exhausted or ill, or the baby is in one of her "only Mummy will do" moods, David will cook, or we'll have leftovers (I generally cook enough for at least one or two extra serves which can be frozen or stored in a tub in the fridge and zapped at some later date in the week), or we will have takeaway. When doing the big food shop online, we'll generally order a few ready meals to be kept in the freezer in case of emergency.
Keeping the kitchen clean and tidy is important to me, and is only "skippable" for at most 2-3 days before I have to do something about it, regardless of how ill I'm feeling. Vacuuming can be put off as long as it does get done at least once a week; ditto washing the kitchen floor.
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On an ideal day, I'll do all that plus bathe, get out of the house to shop and/or socialise, and do some housework like pack the dishwasher, put on a load of clothes and/or fold some clean clothes and take them up to the bedrooms. I will brush my teeth not only at bedtime but after breakfast, and sometimes lunch as well.
On an oh-shit day, I tend to stay in my night clothes, have breakfast and lunch made for me, surf the 'net and not move from the sofa unless I need the toilet. I don't use the phone. I may have to be reminded to take my meds, and have them taken out for me if my hands are bad. I may also spend part of all of the day in bed and not be up to going downstairs to brush my teeth.
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Typical start at home and end at home day and not broken day:Get up, snack, email/lj, breakfast, meds, bathroom selfcare, dress, day stuff, food, evening stuff, email/lj, food, hide a bit and/or random web stuff/reading/whatever, meds, sleep. Only will probably include various procrastination and rushing around.
If I'm not at home, meds and suitable food times come under essentials, but just about everything else may change. Email and the filtered-down LJ mobile view will probably be checked at some point.
I don't really have an ideal day, other then one that's been productive, not broken and not too draining.
Crap day: Hide most of the day, don't bother dressing, possibly go for a walk, not eat until I absolutely know I have to, spend far too much time on the interwebs.
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Dinner time in the late afternoon/early evening, and when those dishes were loaded in the dishwasher, I'd add the soap and run the machine.
Bedtime routine with the kids of vitamins, pj's, toothbrushing, story time. And then some mindless tv watching or movie watching with my husband, while surfing the web or doing various hobbies. Tooth brushing, vitamins and pj's, and into bed at a reasonable hour 9 or 10pm.
My 'free' chunks of the morning and afternoon would include playing with kids also, and in spring/summer/fall would include yardwork and gardening and going to the park.
Grocery store excursions happen once or twice a week, in the evenings usually when my husband is home so I don't have to wrangle children while I shop.
Of course, I didn't put in specific trips to the bathroom. I think most people don't urinate and crap themselves, and go as needed to the facility.
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On a typical day, I get all of that done, except my mornings and afternoons I spend more time frittered on the internet than actual research or writing. I manage to spend several days per week, however, working on non-computer-related projects.
I tend to skip a daily shower in the winter because I get dry itchy skin and have to use lotion and I don't much like lotion. So the shower ends up being every other day.
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When life goes to hell, I let the housework slide- the vacuuming, dusting, mopping, sweeping (I might let that slide a couple weeks). I'll let laundry pile up for a few days. I'll leave the dishes on the counter for a day or two. The kids toys will not get put away at night so I wake up to clutter. If I am -ill- I'll skip a shower until I'm feeling up to getting in it. Otherwise, I get clean regularly.
I can't stand filth and chaos more than a week or two, though, before I snap and everything gets cleaned. Every time the clutter happens, and the cleaning happens, more non-essentials get thrown away. I quit bothering with trying to recycle or donate to charity, because then the piles of stuff would sit there forever.
I decided my sanity and mental health were more important than angsting over throwing something away.
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We have 3 of us who have meetings (Boy Scouts, fraternal orders, music) and so depending on the week we might have 2-5 evenings where at least one person has a meeting, and dinner comes earlier so everyone can eat. On evenings that I have a meeting, sometimes I fix a meal and leave in the oven (if my meeting includes dinner) or we eat early. I also forgot to include the weekly bath for the two little ones (they get nasty eczema if they bathe too frequently). None of that stuff is skippable, and I don't skip it, unless there is an actual illness (high fever, strep throat, puking).
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Normal day: As Ideal day, but only one of A and B get done, sex may not happen, and husband cooks lunch and dinner (and sometimes hangs laundry).
Bad day: Feed baby, change baby, change baby, feed baby. Dress. Lunch (leftovers or bread and cheese), while holding baby. Feed baby, feed baby, change baby. Nap. Feed baby. Change baby. Dinner (leftovers, or raid freezer for pizza or pasta parcels), while feeding baby. Change baby. Bed. Feed baby.
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Average: get up, get distracted by books and faff, brush teeth, shower, get dressed, brush hair, rush shacharit and stuff my tefillin back in their bag. Grab a pastry or some toast for breakfast, get completely distracted by shiny internets while drinking tea, dash out to work already late. Do useful experiments for some of the day, but spend the waiting times playing on the internet. Take a long lunchbreak to buy food from a cafeteria and hang out chatting with colleagues for a while. Realize I need to put off some of the experiments until tomorrow, since I have to leave work early even though I got in late. Go to some committee meeting, have a nice time with friends on the committee and achieve some productive business even if inefficiently. Get home late, fail to find motivation to make supper and instead get distracted by shiny internet. Sit drinking tea, initially reading LJ but then getting sucked into Facebook, blogs and so on. Realize that it's late and I'm starving, so finally drag myself to make supper. While supper is cooking, make the bed and make some kind of attempt at answering LJ comments or mails. Eat supper while continuing to spod. When it's hours after my bedtime, clear away the supper things, change into PJs and fall into bed.
Bad day: get up, just check email quickly to see if a message has arrived that I'm waiting for, get hopelessly distracted by shiny internet, realize that a big chunk of the morning has gone and I'm not even dressed. Throw some vaguely clean clothes on, make myself a pot of tea because I'll die if I don't get that, and get further distracted while drinking it. Rush out of the house way too late and having forgotten vital things. Get to work and realize I don't have time to do the most vital experiments. Rearrange things so that I can do the experiments at another point in the week. Spend the whole day playing on the internet, having coffee breaks and making abortive attempts to start paragraphs. Get to the end of the day and feel guilty I haven't done anything, stupidly try to start catching up, end up spending more hours getting almost nothing done and making myself increasingly tired and hungry. Get home, stuff my face with crackers until I feel like I have some blood sugar, collapse in front of the computer even though I've already read everything interesting on the whole internet while procrastinating earlier in the day. Finally convince myself I actually need supper, so make something simple like pasta or porridge. Leave the remains of supper lying around my desk, fall into bed and roughly arrange the covers over myself but be unable to get to sleep from feeling guilty about what a shitty day I've had.
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A more usual day includes most of those things except the writing time and the possibility of really good healthy dinner/lunch. Usually my lunches are mostly good but can suffer from the 'I'm out of fresh stuff so tinned apple sauce and chocolate pudding are a last resort for sides to my sandwich', and dinners can suffer from the 'I'm too tired to really make anything so it's mac and cheese again'.
A cruddy day would include not bringing my own lunch to work, and/or missing my regular bus due to tummy issues (sometimes happens first thing in the morning) or calling in sick due to excessive tummy issues.
Every day, cruddy or nice includes feeding and snuggling cats though. And showering. I can't function without a morning shower.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the likelyhood of at least an hour or two each evening spent online and/or talking on the phone. :)
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1. Eat healthy
2. Exercise
3. Hygiene (shower, brush teeth, clean clothes, etc.)
4. Meditate and write down dreams
5. Make lunch
6. Go to work
7. Sometime while I'm at work, I'll check email, scan LJ and my feeds, and go for a walk.
8. Come home
9. Straighten the house
10. Cook dinner
11. Clean up from dinner
12. Do a few chores (laundry, sweep the floors, prepare food)
13. Work on a project or relax and read.
14. Sleep
Emergency day:
1. Eat (try not to eat crap, either)
2. Get a little downtime to relax (read a bit, write, etc.)
3. Basic hygiene (brush teeth, wash face, put on clean clothes)
4. Go to sleep, and probably get extra sleep (I need it when stressed)
Everything else can wait.
What would you need to do each day to never get behind in chores, to feel fulfilled and happy, and to maintain your relationships to your satisfaction?
Good question - I'll think about that.
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* Up at 7am. Shower. Negotiable if something dramatic has happened, but not very much so.
* Cook breakfast & midmorning snack (veggies), stick that & everything else (laptop, lunch, clothes, wallet, phone, bike locks) in bag. Essential.
* Listen to learning-Chinese podcast while cooking breakfast. Optional.
* 15 min writing. Optional but it does make me feel better.
* Clean teeth, get dressed. Essential!
* Cycle to work. Not optional unless there is a very very good reason (physical or practical) for not cycling.
* Work! Sadly not optional unless ill :-)
* Cycle home around 5. (I try to avoid staying late.)
* Knit in front of the Simpsons; have snack if hungry. I try to protect this, or some other sitting-down time when I get in, but it's negotiable depending on what's going on.
* In ideal world: do one of weekly chores. This happens very rarely...
* Evening stuff varies (see later).
* Make sandwiches, prep breakfast & mid-morning snack (chop veggies ready to steam/flash-fry in morning), sort out clothes for next day. I try very very very hard to protect this as it makes mornings so much better.
* Clean teeth, face. Essential (otherwise ewww skanky teeth).
* Endeavour to be in bed between 11pm & midnight. Mostly successful these days.
Weekends are similar but I'm more likely to not bother showering at the weekends (esp if e.g. going down the allotment later on - I'll shower later).
Evening stuff: in an ideal world, 1 x study evening, 1 x date with each of boyfriends, 1 x QNI, 1 x sociable evening & then there's only weekends left. QNI tends to get turned into another sociable evening sometimes, but that's not necessarily a good thing. All of the above are movable if things are going wrong (dates probably least so, but study is pretty important as well - depends on when in the semester it is).
I do chores at the weekend, mostly, unless I've been all organised & got them done in the week. It's about an hr a week, if that, so not that onerous.
I try quite hard to be up at 7am on weekdays & in work by 9am. If I've had a v bad night that might not happen - I don't sleep badly very often so I don't mind occasionally being late to work in that event. Similarly I think that sick leave / working from home are *there* for days when one can't cope very well.
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On a better day: Aikido stretches. Coffee before leaving the house, polish shoes. Get out for lunch, get stuff done in the lunch hour.
On a day that's working superbly: breakfast before setting out. Usually crumpets, muffins od hot chocolate. Sit down for a proper meal at midday (this used to be an essential!) .