morning!!…if i don’t take a shower in the morning i feel gross all day…

Okay you made me laugh with your title.  I don’t care what the rest of the post says, the title is enough on its own.  Even my husband laughed when I read it to him.

ok, so you’ve seen my hair…it can get kind of….fro-ish if i’m not careful with it. since i’m back in the o.r., i get to wear a surgical cap all day, so i get to shower at night (it makes for a quicker get away in the morning). when i have to look presentable for patients, i don’t have any choice but to shower in the morning, so i can put gel in it to keep from looking like a q-tip.

oh, and i love me some hot showers…i like to just stand there and not think about anything while it melts my back muscles…ahh….

Letter from Benjamin Franklin to To Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg

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London, July 28, 1768.

I greatly approve the epithet, which you give in your letter of the 8th of June, to the new method of treating the small-pox, which you call the tonic or bracing method. I will take occasion from it, to mention a practice to which I have accustomed myself. You know the cold bath has long been in vogue here as a tonic; but the shock of the cold water has always appeared to me, generally speaking, as too violent: and I have found it much more agreeable to my constitution, to bathe in another element, I mean, cold air. With this view I rise early almost every morning, and sit in my chamber, without any clothes whatever, half an hour or an hour, according to the season, either reading or writing. This practice is not in the least painful, but on the contrary, agreeable; and if I return to bed afterwards, before I dress myself, as sometimes happens, I make a supplement to my night’s rest, of one or two hours of the most pleasing sleep that can be imagined. I find no ill consequences whatever resulting from it, and that at least it does not injure my health, if it does not in fact contribute much to its preservation. I shall therefore call it for the future a bracing or tonic bath.

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So, there you have an historical answer.

Kat,

My husband is also flame retardant.  I can identify with your melted toenails.  However, in his defense, the condition may be perpetuated by my usually cold feet.  Perhaps the water is not as hot at it seems.  Then again, our soap does tend to go a lot faster since winter has come!

Were it true that I am flame retardant, I would not readily admit it.  Surely the medical and military community would want to dissect me at the soonest possible moment to try and determine what is causing the phenomenon, and to see if they can replicate it.  Further, they might not scruple about waiting until I actually expire, national security being in the balance.

I’m with you Jimmy.  I do the temp. turner-upper-thing at the end.

My husband likes his showers much hotter than mine too!  The only time I took a shower that hot was when I was in labor…it did feel pretty good to the old back (of course, so did the needle for the epidural at that point!).

Turned up the temp this morning in the shower and thought of you guys. That was DEFINITELY a first.

Rick,

Just wait until I write my post about his tooth brushing routine. (jk) Apparently, my husband’s hygiene habits are a hot topic.

Andrea,

Thanks for stopping by and commenting. I do know several people who shower twice a day…interesting. I’m afraid our shower would melt. It seems to need 24 hours to recover from the temperature of my husband’s searing showers.

David,

No, apparently it’s quite normal. You’ll have to print this post out and show your wife if she gives you a hard time again.

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment!

morning….but since i work graveyards now…when ever i’m not too tired to stand up. i couldn’t agree more with the flame retardant hubby…mine is too!!!

Even though this is a few years from the original post I just needed to post that in my marriage, it is I, the wife that takes the hot showers. My husband can’t stand popping in to the bathroom for something when I’m taking a shower. And yes, I often do the slow temperature rising adjustments at the end of the shower to finish it off.

(And I prefer to shower in the morning. Can’t stand sleeping in wet hair or even taking the time to dry it before going to bed.)