Ready! Set! Go!... go!... go?

I take a while to get ready in the morning.  I'm always trying to streamline my life to make it more efficient.  I'm glad, or I'd probably take 6 hours to get ready.   Today, it was only 2.

6 years ago, this is what getting ready meant:

• alarm awakens me
• put on pants
• grab notebook and pen
• put on quick shoes (loafers, no laces) and grab a jacket
• run to bus stop

That took about 5 minutes.  I set my alarm accordingly.

Today, this is what getting ready means:

• hear alarm, snooze
• hear alarm again, turn it off
• lay in bed and think about stuff, reflect, dwell
• realise its an hour or so later (maybe I nodded off again) and rise
• check e-mail, notices on phone (5 minutes)
• get out of bed
• exercise (if I failed to the night before, 5 minutes)
• use washroom (sometimes showering, brushing teeth, trimming beard, etc; up to 30 minutes)
• eat breakfast (if cereal, 5 minutes; if other, 20 minutes)
• do dishes (if just cereal, 5 minutes; if previous day's, 20 minutes)
• practise arts (varies, sometimes piano (10 min), jodo (15 min), iaido (15 min))
• get ready
• dress
• prepare tea flask (5 minutes, do other things simultaneously)
• pack bag (papers, laptop, charger (can't forget charger))
• pick coat (involves checking weather)
• find headphones, Zelda gloves, phone, wallet, keys
• put on shoes (Converse, so at least 5 minutes)
• exit
• make sure electricals are off
• lock door
• run through traffic to just make the bus

So that's about a 2h25m morning. Beat that, ladies!