Shnoozewering.

I'd like to introduce you to an idea called "Shnoozewering." It is something I used to do pretty much every morning through high school, but it was lost during college (due to the use of shared showers). I kind of forgot about it, but it recently has come back to my mind, and I just realized how clever and proficient it really is. If you are anything like me and not a morning person, then here ya go...

Shnoozewering is the idea of snoozing while you shower.  In a culture that is so fast pace, efficiency is a must. Shnoozewering is combining 2 of my favorite things into 1... killing 2 birds with 1 stone in the morning routine.  It's like sleeping under a nice, warm, water blanket, while getting clean and ready for the day. I remember I used to wake up, take my phone into the bathroom with me, and set an alarm for about 10 minutes later.

These days, I set 2 alarms each morning, and I hit snooze on both of them... often times leaving no time to shower. (I guess I have become more of a night showerer).  But a morning shower is so great because not only does it make you clean, but it awakens you for the day. To me, it also kind of makes me feel like every day is a fresh start.  But really, to snooze, then shower... what a waste of time!

There are 4 different ways to shnoozewer.

1) The Standing Shnoozewer.  This is when you are standing up, and just simply lean agains the wall while the water hits you. This is nice, but, you can't enter in to a good snooze because you're body cannot fully relax. Also, whichever side of your body is not facing the water gets cold quickly.

2) The Soap Seat Shnoozewer. This can only be done if your shower has a little seat that is meant for the place where you put all of your soaps/shampoos. (really, for me it was only soap/shampoo. But now that I am married, there are a lot more bottles of stuff there. Maybe one day I will read what they are.) This is my current Shnoozewering method. And my shower happens to have 2 of those seats.  (JACKPOT). This is much better than the Standing Shnooze... but still not as good as the next 2.

3) The Reclined Shnoozewer. I'd only suggest this if you have a bath-tub type of shower. But, really, you can shnoozewer however you wantewer... err... want.  This is a really nice method, as you can pretty much lay down in the tub while the hot water blankets you. The back of your body stays warm too as the tub heats up and there is no cool air exposed to anything but your face. Don't be surprised to fall fully back to sleep!

4) The Shath Shnoozewer.  Ok, now we get to the best method of shnoozewering. This is basically the same as the Reclined Shnoozewer, but instead of it just being a shower, its a Shath. (Shower/Bath). Get in the tub, blast the hot water, plug the drain, and enter pure bliss. You are reclined, able to relax and sleep. You have water blasting down on you from the shower head. And you have hot water filling up the tub to surround you. This method also works great because when the tub begins to get full, you can usually feel it and it'll wake you up. **

So there you have it. Mornings can be made nice again. You are welcome.  Now, if I can just figure out a way to eat breakfast while shnoozewering...

Song of the Day: "The Revelation Song" - Kari Jobe

"Aha" moment: We had a stellar youth even this weekend. We put on a "Spa Day" for the girls. Free manicures, pedicures, facials, hair-styles, massages, etc. Our girls bought into the idea that this would be a great outreach event... and we had a 1:3 ratio of our own students to there friends. Plus, the girls who were beautician(?) students happened to all be high schoolers. So we had 32 high school girls with a good chunk of them hearing a message from one of the ladies in our church. Awesome.  Oh, and this was put on be are female adult leaders only. I didn't do anything... I got them money, and helped set up the day before. and thats it. They all chipped in, but I am really proud of my wife who went to town on this thing. She really organized everything well, made it super classy, and thought of a bunch of things that no one else did.  She's awesome. I love her.

**i would not suggest the Shath Shnoozewer if you are a heavy sleeper