After eating, I am happy to reuse my plate, knife and chopsticks – A few crumbs from eating bread looks much the same, whether the plate was fresh from the cupboard at breakfast time or not!
My temptation for recycling the plate I use is balanced by wanting to avoid conflict and appease the people around me who would prefer everything to be washed after each meal. My compromise is that I tend to caché up my dishes and wash them once per day.
Because of this, the dish-washing is often the last thing I end up doing before bedtime; bedtime is signalled by completion of the washing-up and so frequently delayed by its non-completion… Owing to eczema on my right-hand, the washing up tends to leave my skin feeling dry and often sore (using Ecover helps a little bit in this regard), thus I procrastinate to avoid it, even if I enjoy washing-up per se.
Ideally I would like procrastinating not to be the case. I would prefer to round-off my day, spending the last hour without too much mental stimulation, to slow-down, settle and ready my mind for sleep.
For four months of my life, I went to bed everynight between before 19:00, waking up again at 04:00. Those were some of the most productive weeks I’ve ever spent (no getting distacted by crap television!). In the early morning I could listen to the birds, hear the absence of traffic noise and enjoy the silence. With 3 hours before anyone else woke up in the house I get a solid block of work completed, with my brain feeling fresh and my body full of energy.
Unfortunately, I’m a person who has a habit of getting engrossed in interesting projects late at night and in the intervening years the getting up early part became harder – a bout of illness in 2001 has left me needing around 10hours of sleep since.
Incidently, by writing this now, I’ve failed to go to bed by midnight, oops… :)
_The photo above isn’t me, but one I took in 2003 _
