Economy Of Toiletry Time

Getting ready in the morning (or whatever time thereafter) is not exactly a challenge for me, but could be said to be a kind of work in progress. It's something like my grocery shopping was for a while. With that, I eventually nailed down exactly what I should buy for every meal of the day that would properly balance cost, nutrition and my willingness to eat it. The first and third of those requirements won out at the expense of the second, but I eventually came up with a grouping of foods that I could buy and eat week after week without deviation in order to stay alive. There's a kind of pleasure in the trial and error that brings incremental improvements week after week. That's where I am when it comes to the whole morning procedure.

The first thing I do after waking up depends a bit on my activities of the night prior. Often, getting up at all is touch and go for a couple of minutes. Some mornings, the first thing I do is reach for a glass of water to extinguish the raging fire consuming my throat. Most mornings, I reach for my phone to see what communications have piled up during my slumber. Important to get on top of current information. In this way, I find out whether I'm up too early or too late, and whether there are any pressing matters to address of which I was not previously aware. When that's done, I exit the bed. From there, the first objective is to get the coffee going and make sure my favorite mug is clean. With that done, I dash into the shower secure in the knowledge that the coffee will be brewed and my mug dried on the rack as soon as I am ready for it.

Cleaning my room

One of the many areas I'd like to improve on in my life is cleanliness. It seems that wherever I am living, I do just enough to not get thrown out of that particular place. I observed today that I really only clean things up when I'm looking for something. Yesterday it was my passport, so I really made an effort to tidy things up, even continuing after I had found what I was looking for.

In that pet subject of mine, entropy, it says that all systems are breaking down. That means that as soon as I finished cleaning up, things started getting messy again. I must make an effort to be more vigilant, because I know that when I do better in areas like that, I can lead a better life in all sorts of ways.