Routine

How come I can get into some routines and not others?  And how come I can't break the ones I want to the most?  I guess the second kind falls more into the "habit" category than the "routine" category, but really, what's the difference?

Why am I eating dinner from the same place nearly every night of the week?  Grummings would say its because one of the girls behind the counter is really cute and because I'm trying to figure out how to ask her to drinks without notifying everyone else there. That may be part of it. I mainly think its because its on my way home, cheap, tasty and a bakery. Sandwhiches, coffee and cookies...perfect for any meal.

What about in the morning with the snooze button?  Why do I snooze twice everyday?  Why not just set the alarm clock 18 minutes later?  Or, better yet, why not just get up on time?  I used to try to convince myself that each snooze woke me up a little bit more, so I would be more "awake" when I was finally awake, making me less grumpy. This is totally false. I'm grumpy no matter when I wake up (its genetic, sorry mgp) and snoozing only makes it worse. Plus, at one point, my snoozing only served to make HB very grumpy, as she didn't need to get up for another hour...forget about in another 9 minutes (or 7, I can't remember how long her snooze was).

And what about the whole email checking/page refreshing routine?  Or the checking of the same websites twice (ok, thrice) each day?  I have a theory on the biological reasons for this (which can be found in the chapter "Death of My Attention Span" in my unpublished book). I want to stop, really. But each morning, when I get to work, I check those sites and click refresh on my email.

Its not that I don't have willpower. I do. I've quit a lot of things. Its just that these things...they are so...routine.

Ugh, that was terrible. Really bad.

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