Showing posts with label David Mitchell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Mitchell. Show all posts

Monday, 22 February 2010

Creatures of habit

This evening it is swimming night for me. I go every week, at the same time on the same day and have done for over a year. When I get there, I will park in the same spot, or thereabouts and I will use locker number 31 as I always do and I will be quite distressed if the key is missing.
At work, I park in the same spot, I will tell visitors that nobody is precious about their tea mug and then I will find my mug, which I had specially made and nobody else is allowed to drink from.
I will begin tomorrow with a chocolate milkshake as I have done day in, day out for well over a decade.

Clearly a lot of the above borders on OCD and I have more than a light touch of that too. I will not tell you about my one time cheese price problem, or my need for cotton buds wherever I am.
I am not yet David Mitchell-esque with his alarm clock routine, but I'm getting there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9vhfvthI2k&feature=related (the clip is about 2 minutes in)

I crave excitiement and adventure. I have written myself a list of 101 goals and have said many times in the last few months that I am bored with a lot of my life, yet I am horridly stuck in this habitual routine.
On the plus side I have ticked off 11 of these goals.............only 90 to go - (and a lottery win to make a lot of the rest happen).
Maybe I just need to shake it up a bit. Someone suggested something to me today which normally I would run a mile from...maybe I should give it a go?
Or perhaps when I go swimming next I will go for a totally different number, or try strawberry milkshake instead. - But I probably won't.