Epiphany

I had one of those today, while I was in the shower and it was about the shower too so it all came together nicely.  I mentioned before how much I hate to clean the bathroom, well I hate the shower the most.  Two reasons, first reason is that it really needs to be redone.  I believe it is the original shower from 1971 and I don't care how clean of a person you are, the shower is going to get old and moldy when it's 41 years old (almost as old as me and I'm old and moldy too, JK, I'm really not) and well, the shower is.  Second reason is that it is a lot of work to scrub that POS to get it clean, I'm talking a good hour of blood, sweat and toil.  Ok, there's no blood, but there is sweat and I believe there's toil.  I feel like I toil anyway, so I'm going to leave the sweat and toil in, just take the blood part out.  But I digress, so back to my ephiphany.  One thing I love about the shower is that I love to take one.  I love to stand and let the hot water run, I could do it for hours, but feel guilty about the water waste so I try to keep it to 10 minutes, but I hear myself bargaining with myself like I do when it's time to wake up and start the day, that bargain goes something like this - "please no, not yet, it can't be morning, I haven't slept enough" but it never works, and my bargaining in the shower goes like this - "please just 5 more minutes, I know we shouldn't waste water but it feels so good, just 5 more minutes."  The first argument about getting out of bed never works because I can't bargain with mother nature, she refuses to work with me no matter what I offer to give up or how hard I beg, it's morning and it stays that way.  But the second one, well,  I'm just bargaining with myself, and that one I can win sometimes, but I'm bargaining with the responsible conservative part of me and she usually wins, (she can really pack on the guilt) but sometimes she loses and I get a 15 minute shower.  But again back to my ephiphany.  I can take something I hate and mix it with something I love and now there's a win win and it all happens in the shower.  I can clean the shower while taking a shower!  I know, brilliant.  Everyday while I'm just standing there with the water washing over me, I can clean a portion of the shower.  That way the guilt of wasting water goes away and there's no sweat and toil cause I can clean while I'm getting clean and I can just spend a few minutes everyday on it.  It is truly amazing to me sometimes how smart I can be and yet how slow I can be at the same time.  I'm now doubly excited for my shower tomorrow!