I am, for sure, a creature of habit. To a rather ridiculous degree, actually. I remember in college talking with a friend about how I always dried myself off after a shower in the same order--face first, then on down, ending with my feet before I stepped out of the shower--and she totally did not get this. Which left me feeling all confused. Like, do people NOT do this? Do people just dry themselves off all willy nilly?
Does not compute.
Another example of this is breakfast. I eat the same thing every morning: two fried eggs with salsa. On days I run, I add a piece of toast with butter.
One of the running days, obviously.
I suppose this is the food equivalent of a capsule wardrobe. It removes one more decision that I do not want to have to make on already-busy mornings. Plus, I like it. Why wouldn't I want to eat what I like every morning?
Do you do this? Or are you like my college friend, all wild and free and eating something different every morning?
Interesting that, no matter how old, there’s still something you can read that you never knew about your child that can’t be explained by upbringing. Cool.
ReplyDeleteWhat, you mean eating the same thing? Or general habituality?
DeleteOh, interesting. I have an order for showering and for drying off, for sure, and actually the whole routine from exiting bed to sitting down to food and coffee is the one and only routine I have. For years and years I ate the same basic breakfast (but I do not cook at the pre-crack of dawn, so think cereal and milk, and later cereal and yogurt). But more recently I've gotten into eating whatever small leftover is in the fridge, supplemented with cottage cheese. (I have liked cottage cheese since infancy, I guess, so the helpfulness of the fad of this moment is the constant coupon in my grocery store app.)
ReplyDeleteHabits save me time and give me an easy routine in the mornings. My breakfast is sausage and toast, while making toast, eggs, etc for the hordes. ( My husband is on muesli kick right now.) I need to keep habits so I don't forget anything important.
ReplyDeletePeanut butter toast, an apple, and cafe au lait. At least , 90% of mornings.
ReplyDeleteAlmost without exception, I eat 2 eggs and one piece of toast for breakfast. However, I vary how I cook the eggs. Usually fried, but often 4 min boiled. Less often scrambled. MIL
ReplyDeleteFruit, yogurt, and toast, 99 times out of a hundred. And coffee!!
ReplyDeleteOatmeal with walnuts and fruit usually four or five days a week; eggs, hash browns toast, one or two days a week; and pancakes or French toast with bacon on one of the weekend days. I not only dry off in a particular order, but I wash myself in a set order too. If i am wearing makeup i apply it in the same order always. We all like to think we are spontaneous, but in reality we are all creatures of habit.
ReplyDeleteI can't even conceive of showering or drying off differently every time. Unless I sprouted an extra arm overnight, don't I still have all the same parts?
ReplyDeleteFor breakfast (and lunch and dinner) when I'm out of town for work it's very repetitive. Breakfast will always be the same, lunch is a small handful of nuts or fruit, and dinner is a protein and a side. I rarely have leftovers, and if I do, I eat them within 2 or 3 days.
When I'm home there are always lots of choices, including usually several kinds of leftovers. Since I'm the only one who regularly eat leftovers, that's what I have for breakfast.
Cooking for myself, I put very little thought into it. For my family I try to make it interesting.
Living life on the edge over here! I might buy yogurt and eat that for a few days, they move on to cheese toast or eggs. You just never know!
ReplyDeleteI will eat the same breakfast for several months or years in a row and then abruptly change to something entirely different. I am the serial monogamist of breakfast. It makes my husband crazy.
ReplyDeleteDrying off order depends on whether or not I washed my hair- this is usually only once a week.
I wish I was more of a creature of habit, I think it would make life easier.