Habits

Click hHabits.  It seems some are good and some are bad.  My bad habits are….you thought I was gonna tell you hey.  Well I’m not. Spend enough time with me and all will be revealed.
I have mentioned before how I keep a “to do” book.  Actually, I have mentioned a lot before.  I guess it is because I do not have an original thought every day.  Well it is original to me because on a time line I am thinking it for the first time, but it may not be the first time it has been thought of.  It actually probably isn’t.  I am trying not to hurt myself here.
In my book I do not record things I habitually do.  Things that, all being well, happen everyday, rain hail or shine.  “Awake” would not be in the book because all being well that happens each morning, and sometimes in the afternoon.  There will come a day when that does not happen, but I don’t know when that will be so I plan to “awake.”  I would put something like “Climb Mt Everest” in the book and cross it off when done.  That is the sort of thing that does not happen every day.  In fact, it has never happened or is ever likely to.
I habitually make Merril a coffee when she gets up.  It is just what I do, and what I have always done.  I think the habit came to me because my dad used to do it for me.  Now that I am retired, I think I know what he did.  He got up, made me a coffee, we talked, I went to work, and he went back to bed with the paper.
I avoided saying I make Merril a coffee before she goes to work.  I do, but this is the last week of that.  She retires Thursday.  Whether it be a work day, or a day off, I listen for movement and get a coffee.  Merril is a night person and I am a morning person.  More than once I have trundled off to bed and been awakened thinking the night is over and it is time for me to get up.  Only by looking at a clock do I discover it is like 11.30pm and there are still hours before I get up.
A habit I have that is not hard and fast, but happens regularly, is that I have a sleep in the afternoon.  Now that I am retired, I can do that.  The rest of you need to keep working.  How else can I be kept in the manner to which I have become accustomed?  I said that recently and was told I talk a lot of rubbish sometimes.  I think that is a habit I won’t break.
I think the coffee and the sleep thing are reasonable habits.  As I say I do have bad ones, but I don’t want to talk about it.  Of course, if enough money changed hands, I may be persuaded to change my mind.ere to edit.