Wow, it's been a while since I've posted in this book.

Oh well. Here we go.

BATHS!

Some hate 'em, some love 'em.

I'm one of the ones that LOVE 'EM!!!

I've loved taking baths since I was a kid. I'd always have lots of bath toys to play with, so that might've helped too. I hated getting out of the bath, though...I'd cry.

I'd always hear that most kids HATE baths with a burning passion, which confuses me.

I mean, it's basically swimming, but naked and alone and less room to move around in.

...yeah.

But what I hate are showers.

Yes, I know showers are faster and usually more efficient, but I just...don't like them. Dunno why. I just don't.

When I was little, my current workroom used to be a small bathroom with a toilet, shower, and a sink (and of course some cabinets, but...that's not important). I'd always use that shower, and usually grandma was there to help me because I was too young to do it alone.

But...we'd be having a nice shower time, then all of a sudden...

*SPLASH!*

"AHH!"

Pappap would get a paper cup, fill it with cold water, reach over the top of the shower with it (the shower door didn't reach the ceiling) and dump it on me.

Now, when I was young, I had NO IDEA where the sudden cold spell came from. It couldn't have been the shower head, because grandma was holding it, and it wasn't in the position the water came from. But when I looked up, there was nothing the water could've fell from. So, I'd call it "the ice monster."

... I honestly kinda enjoyed it. It was cold, but fun.

You know, I lost one of my front teeth in that shower.

I was just taking a shower independently (since I was old enough now...I was in... ...either third or fourth grade. I know it was one of those two because I lost the other front tooth on the playground of the school I had moved to a couple years before.), then all of a sudden I heard something hit the floor, and there was a bunch of blood mixed with the water.

I looked at the object, and it was my other tooth!

I had...no idea how it fell out, but at least it finally did!

So...yeah.

Here's another kind of bloody shower story.

This was a few years before the tooth story (I think...because grandma was there). I had just finished my shower and went to step out, but cut my ankle on the sharp bottom edge of the door.

Because I was wet and it was a fresh wound, it bled quite a bit, but it turned out to not be that big of a cut.

...it was about a half inch, maybe an inch long, I think. I'm not good at measurements.

Either way, it HURT and it BLED and I CRIED.

...because I was a KID.

With a cut ANKLE.

........YEAH.

NOT FUN.

But my grandma cleaned it off and put a bandaid on it, so it was all good.

So back to baths.

Because we got rid of my childish, old toys, I have to find more toys to play with in the tub.

It usually ends up being empty or almost empty toiletries bottles.

...and that makes my bath all soapy.

So I'll take a bottle of shampoo, or conditioner—

BUT HOLD UP I JUST REMEMBERED SOMETHING ELSE I WAS GONNA SAY.

When I was young, I was always taught to use CONDITIONER before SHAMPOO.

My stepmom taught me that,

my grandma taught me that,

even my hairdresser taught me that.

So when I read stories and heard people say that shampoo's supposed to come first, I got confused and asked my hairdresser about it.

She said that it doesn't matter the order, depending what you're focused on with your hair's health, but recommended that I keep using conditioner first.

...

It still confuses me.

But back to the original story.

I'll take an empty or close to empty shampoo, conditioner, or bodywash bottle, take off the lid, and fill it with water.

Then I'd either put the lid on or leave it how it is and just squirt the water back out like some sort of fountain or water gun.

XD I just find that fun.

I also invented a "game" one time.

I took an empty bodywash bottle filled with water and kept pouring the water into the lid, then back into the bottle, and repeat the process until the water was gone.

Y'know, to see how many times I could do it without spilling too much.

I mean...it was fun for me?

And you could...like...set up a point system for like how many rounds it takes before you run out.

The more rounds, the more points.

Idk.

But...yeah, I think that's all.

Cya