Morning Shower or Night Shower?

 Do you need to shower every day? Do you shower in the morning or at night? I don't want to start a whole thing like I kind of did with the top-sheet-or-not thing, but I find it interesting.

When I was old enough to shower independently, I always needed to shower in the morning. I would shower even if I was just going out to suntan with a friend and my dad would say that's super dumb, you're showering off the skin barrier that might prevent a sunburn, and he was right but dude, we were oiling up with basically barbecue sauce at that time, so I was undeterred.

I can't remember when I started needing to shower at night (AS WELL AS in the morning, not instead of). I think my heat regulation problems started in my early twenties, so maybe then? The night time shower was quick, basically a rinse off, but I couldn't get into bed without it. 

With my sleep issues, getting up early was even more painful when I had to shower and wash my hair. My hair was oily, though, so skipping it wasn't really great for not feeling gross during the day. My mom went through an annoying stage when I was in high school where she read that if you stopped washing your hair so much it would stop producing oil, and started badgering me to only wash it ever second day. My sister claims that this kind of thing only works with different hair from ours anyway, but I was not interested in testing the theory either way. I fought her until she gave up. 

As I've aged and my hair has gotten slightly less oily, and I've discovered dry shampoo, I've become pretty comfortable with getting up in the morning and just washing my face, since I've showered just before bed. I can go to work, run errands, work out (yes, I did used to shower before going to work out - so dumb), and then shower when I get home (okay, I will still have to shower right before bed, so this isn't a HUGE improvement, but still).

Eve has evolved naturally into showering after dinner, which she's done since she started showering on her own. She's never showered in the morning and has no issues with this. Angus usually showers in the morning unless he's off early, and then he needs to shower after the inevitable workout. For this reason, sharing a bathroom was never an issue for them like it sometimes was for me and my sister.

On the subject of washing stuff, I recently noticed in pictures that one of my eyelids looked slightly swollen. When I thought about it, I realized I don't really 'wash' my eyes. Is that weird? If I'm wearing mascara (not often) I used makeup removed, then kind of rinse off the makeup remover. If I'm not, I think I just kind of bypass my eyes. My eyes are sensitive, and I have to use eyedrops to be able to wear contacts at this point, and I don't like the idea of soap getting in them, but suddenly thinking about how I've been neglecting them in my otherwise quite compulsive - one might say obsessive - cleanliness routine (showering once a day AT LEAST: washing my hands if one even brushes against a garbage can or toilet seat lid: using soap on my cooch, pH balance be damned) kind of icked me out. I got some tea tree eye cleansing towelettes and started using them every second day or so, and running the facecloth I use every night gently over my eyes when I didn't use them. The swelling seems to have gone down, if not the crows feet. 

OH, and while we're at it, facecloth for face or just hands? I used to be only hands, but when my acne was fairly bad I wondered if the slight exfoliating motion of a facecloth might help, and it seemed to. But (see: obsessive) I have to use a clean facecloth every night, so I go through facecloths at a tremendous rate. 

I was getting nervous at not posting in a long time and not feeling up to loading a bunch of pictures, so I thought I would do a 'weird things I think about sometimes' post. I am feeling now like I might have chosen poorly, yet alas, here we are.