When I wake up -- and during the day, and before I go to sleep -- I need Morning Coffee.  Morning Coffee is a Firefox extension that creates a coffee-up icon in the navigation toolbar.  I can put any URLs I want into this extension.  When I click the coffee cup, the URLs load in other tabs of the browser.  It's useful for checking Bloglines, the news, or any page that might have an update.

You can get Morning Coffee here.