It’s a bad scene.
Alarm bells buzz when the clock clicks six and I become a barely blinking lump of groggy stretching noises that sound like Chewbacca after he’s been shot. Honestly, it’s a pathetic scene — me lying there with drool stains on my cheeks, deathbags under my eyes, and some bent and jagged bedhead.
Eventually I stumble into the shower and feel my eyes burning and begging to return to the cool and shady Cave of Closure. But I soldier on, shower on, soap on, and slowly let that hot steam wake me up.
Sometimes I just can’t let go.
No, sometimes I enter a little steam dream in the shower and end up slowing down and thinking to myself: This is good.
This is really good.
This should not stop.
Yes, in this magic mist of steamy smiles my brain quickly flips into Nothing Else Matters Mode, where all other thoughts just wash away in favor of showering a little longer and living for the day.
Hitting that moment in the shower where you decide to make it a really long shower is a great feeling. As the hot water beats down into your swirly, steamy headtrip, you get to relax and enjoy a few extra minutes of
AWESOME!
Photos from: here, here, and here
49 Comments
March 16, 2010 at 12:10 am
When some idiot of a roommate flushes the toilet during your shower so it becomes ice cold… not awesome.
When the hot water finally comes back on and makes you appreciate it that much more… awesome!
March 16, 2010 at 9:52 pm
agreed! You appreciate it all the more! :)
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March 19, 2010 at 12:01 pm
My brothers use to do that to me all the time, they thought it was funny.
March 16, 2010 at 12:27 am
This is my fiance in a nutshell!
March 16, 2010 at 1:18 am
Deciding to take a hot bath. Even better.
March 16, 2010 at 9:48 am
you forgot the bubble mixture!
March 16, 2010 at 1:18 am
Sadly I live in a dry area with restrictions on water usage, so in all conscience we can’t have long showers. However this could be amended to : When you go on holidays, you are standing in the shower and realise you are somewhere with no water restrictions. Ordinary rules don’t apply and you have freedom to bask in the watery indulgence. Awesome!
March 16, 2010 at 8:00 am
We have our own well, so there are no water restrictions. We also just installed an on-demand water heater, so we never run out of hot water. There have been times when it’s been a really loooooooooonnnnnnnnngggg shower. Truly awesome!
March 19, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Never run out of hot water?! I don’t think I would ever get out of the shower!
March 16, 2010 at 1:24 am
That’s exactly how I feel every morning. It’s just so hard to step out of that little bit of heaven.
Another bath-related awesome thing that I tend to indulge in is multitasking while taking a bath. The more common ones are reading and listening to music but I like to go the extra block and eat my meal while soaking :D
March 16, 2010 at 1:32 pm
To combine “Multitasking while brushing your teeth” with this one makes an awesome situation: brushing your teeth in the shower. Makes you feel so accomplished ;D
March 17, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Hm…I’ve never tried that, but I always use mouthwash right before stepping in the shower. The best part is when it’s time to spit, because you can just let it roll out of your mouth and drip down, and it doesn’t matter. :)
March 16, 2010 at 2:16 am
Loved this post, truly awesome! :)
March 16, 2010 at 2:18 am
I love doing this! Except, I live in the tropics, so it’s a long, cold shower to cool off. Absolutely awesome!
March 16, 2010 at 5:39 am
That happens to me more than often. Great post!
March 16, 2010 at 6:07 am
Entertaining post…….I enjoyed it a lot. :)
March 16, 2010 at 6:47 am
The best! You know it’s gunna be a good morning when you can see the steam floating around the bathroom ceiling.
March 16, 2010 at 7:48 am
I had a Long-ish shower this morning and was 15 minutes late for work and nobody noticed – Awesome
March 16, 2010 at 8:44 am
I can’t imagine being my younger self that only took baths. What a fool I once was.
What a genius I am now.
AWESOME!
March 16, 2010 at 9:41 am
Oh, that precious shower time. Awesome.
March 16, 2010 at 10:54 am
Warm showers are one of my favorite little joys in life.
March 16, 2010 at 1:24 pm
This post resulted in the unfortunate image of Chewbaca taking a shower.. can you imagine what that drain would look like when he was done?
Ewwwww…
However, assuming you are human, and not wookie? This is definitely awesome!
March 16, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Deciding to take an Extra long shower is indeed AWESOME. I like the ones where you refuse to open your eyes – refusing to admit that it is time to get up…. Only peek through the tiny slits to find your way there, and then enjoy the steamy hot shower and pretend that you are still in bed! hhaha…AWESOME!!
March 16, 2010 at 2:15 pm
It’s funny; I was doing this in the shower this morning, and I thought to myself..”Has this been on 1000AwesomeThings? If not, it should..”
And bam. Here it is.
March 16, 2010 at 2:35 pm
This happened to me just the other day, and yes, it was truly awesome. I try so hard to be water and time conscious in the mornings, but sometimes, you’ve just gotta let it go. I like to think I brought enough refreshed happiness to the world following the shower that it made up for it!
March 16, 2010 at 10:21 pm
That’s why I shower at night – all the time ya want ;).
March 16, 2010 at 6:04 pm
getting out of the shower and wrapping yourself in a big, fluffy towel still warm from the dryer.
March 16, 2010 at 8:30 pm
I experience this awesomeness every morning. Great post.
March 16, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Some suggestions for the previous post:
Easy and on-the-go food such as a pop tart or a nutri-grain bar, awesome! No cooking involved, just unwrap and enjoy the fruity goodness.
Kissing in the rain, something about both of you being soaked and cold after running through the rain or jumping through puddles together that makes the kiss just that much more AWESOME!
March 16, 2010 at 10:19 pm
As awesome as that is, I recently took a very quick shower tonight, and beating my own shower time record in time to watch the beginning of my T.V. show was also awesome.
March 16, 2010 at 10:58 pm
I do this everyday
March 17, 2010 at 7:42 am
I have always been a shower person! Then one day I decided to turn on the shower AND put the stopper in the bathtub. Showerbath= instant awesome! I mean you have to fill the tub anyway, right?
March 19, 2010 at 12:06 pm
I do this! Not that often, though. Shower and when your done…its a nice soak in the tub without using extra water
March 19, 2010 at 3:39 pm
In Japan the shower is outside the tub, then they soak in hot water to relax. They don’t want to soak in dirty water!
March 17, 2010 at 11:58 am
I knew there was someone else out there who felt the same about the shower decision-point. Love it!
March 18, 2010 at 8:18 am
gentlemen where do those magnificent showers take place? in the BATHROOM! tick
March 22, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Thanks, winegirl! I was on vacation last week and am just catching up now.
March 19, 2010 at 2:03 am
I don’t like to come out in the cold winter months.
March 19, 2010 at 7:42 am
Did this last night. Was going to hop in for a quick shower, but as soon as the hot water hit me….. I decided I would stay until all the hot water is gone.
March 21, 2010 at 3:27 pm
I find that I think a lot when I am taking a shower. My imagination goes wild and I end up being in the shower longer than I planned to. Sometimes I am in the shower for a hour as my mind is thinking of war scenarios, and other endevers. Sometimes I get really good design ideas and I run with them. All-in-all I must say having a nice warm shower can be such a pain when you have someplace to go but it just so amazing that it makes you just want to make it hotter as your muscles are relaxing.
March 28, 2010 at 3:29 am
U know sometimes when I just want to relax/think I take a hot shower and I can think freely and I feel amazing!
March 28, 2010 at 3:31 am
Woops I ment to say “I know not U know looks like I need to go take a shower so I can start thinkin lol
March 29, 2010 at 7:05 am
Finding mistakes in movies. His hair is messed up, now its not…oh, wait yeah it is.
Where did that vase come from? Oh, wait its gone again.
What did they just say? Did he just call him by his real name and not his character name?
Hmmmmm……..
March 29, 2010 at 7:06 am
LOL…put this on in the wrong comments……
copy and paste.
March 29, 2010 at 9:35 am
Watching a story unfold, day by day, over the course of a year. Especially comics like Homestuck or Irregular Webcomic
March 29, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Awesome Thing?
When you open a book to the exact page you were looking for.
So when I went to Catholic Elementary school, once a week we would have song practice so that when we had mass later in the week we would be know the music. My friend and I always had competitions where we would pick a random number song in the songbook and see who could open the book closest to the number we picked. It helped pass the slow song practice, and it was always super exciting when one of us hit our number dead on.
But think about it. What are the chances of opening a book to the exact page that you were looking for? If you have a ton of reading to do, and open your textbook to the exact place where you have to start, doesn’t it feel like the assignment just got a little bit easier? It sure does.
This one gets bonus points if the book is longer. The ultimate “opening a book to the exact page you were looking for” occurs with one of those thousand page dictionaries…the kind that doesn’t have the helpful alphabet tabs on the side.
So next time you open a book to the exact page you were looking for, take a moment to bask in the glory of an everyday victory that doesn’t happen everyday. Take a moment to congratulate yourself for one of those little things that is just
AWESOME!!
April 18, 2010 at 11:20 am
Brilliant…
April 22, 2010 at 7:38 am
Not only taking a long shower, but peeing in the shower completes the experience
April 23, 2010 at 3:57 am
you need buttons where we can add this to facebook or stumbleapon. This was Soooo cute!