58 Minutes
Every day, I spend 9 minutes brushing my teeth; that’s twice times 4.5 minutes – long enough to keep me feeling guilt-free about eating more chocolate than it takes to make me do a silly dance on the street, but not too time-consuming as to make me obsessive.It takes me a total of about 6 minutes to put lotion on my face – sun-protecting in the morning to make up for the part of my skin that is not-all-the-way Mediterranean, and anti-wrinkle at night because every girl knows that she might end up middle-aged and single and have to pick up a 25-year-old French lover.
In that order, 8 minutes to put on makeup, 3 to take it off. You have to respect the cycle.
On a good day, 13 minutes for a shower because every day deserves to be started clean; 4 more to do my hair – for no particular reason.
Check email, of course: I’ll give that 15 minutes, though you can do the math for yourself.
So far, I have spent 58 minutes and have not gotten any further than where I was yesterday. This comes up to almost 7 hours every week, or 2 weeks, 17 hours and 48 minutes per leap year. I am not sure what the moral is: maybe that if I was a cave woman, I would have 2 extra weeks every year, to kill myself a mammoth and make a woolly doormat for my sweetheart.
posted by Dora @ 5:42 PM
4 Comments:
did it really take you 9 minutes to brush your teeth?
Was I taught all wrong? Do we only brush teeth once a day now?
a certain bangladeshi man takes 58 minutes just to shower, so you're way ahead of him.
also, i have always been impressed with your dental hygiene (meaning you always seem to brush your teeth the longest)
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Once, while in a state well-known to a certain Turkish man, brushing my teeth turned out to be a much more pleasurable activity than I expected, as my gums had miraculously turned into an "erogenous zone". Hasn't happened since, but it doesn't hurt to try, does it?
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