Bad habits

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Well, I'm doing it again. I'm staying up quite late for no reason on a school night. BAD REDLIN

But, this is something I tend to do. Sometimes intentional but most often I just lose track of time. The result is a less healthy sleeping schedule. I really should do something about it. While I'm at it, I should stop procrastinating too.[footnote]Oh hey, Pokemon! *proceeds to stay up all night*[/footnote]

So Escapist, what bad habits do you have in your daily life you know you should remove but just keep putting it off?

 

[Queen Michael]

Spending way too much time staring at the computer screen without taking a break to rest my eyes.

 

[Zontar]

Spending way too much time staring at the computer screen without taking a break to rest my eyes.

I'd say this applies to everyone here.

For me personally, I have a spitting problem when I'm outdoors. Don't know why, but hey, someone needs to keep rural stereotypes alive right? And I'm not doing the ones involving cousins.

 

[Colour Scientist]

Smoking is probably the obvious choice for me.

I have a proper sleeping pattern.
I don't really eat junk anymore.
I get regular exercise.
I stopped biting my nails years ago.

Smoking is the main bad habit I have left.
I've cut down a bit but I've never put the effort into kicking the habit completely.

I guess I haven't felt any direct negative effects yet, apart from the dent in my bank account.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Other than biting my nails occassionally, I don't really have any.

I rarely eat junk food, I get plenty of exercise, I don't smoke, I only drink in social situations, and I get at least 6 hours of sleep a day.

[HEADING=1]my body is a temple[/HEADING]

 

[Colour Scientist]

Other than biting my nails occassionally, I don't really have any.

I rarely eat junk food, I get plenty of exercise, I don't smoke, I only drink in social situations, and I get at least 6 hours of sleep a day.

[HEADING=1]my body is a temple[/HEADING]

Did you just post in here to one-up me?

Typical Daisy.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Other than biting my nails occassionally, I don't really have any.

I rarely eat junk food, I get plenty of exercise, I don't smoke, I only drink in social situations, and I get at least 6 hours of sleep a day.

[HEADING=1]my body is a temple[/HEADING]

Did you just post in here to one-up me?

Typical Daisy.

I posted in here to one-up everybody.

You ain't special

 

[Barbas]

I post excessively and constantly peruse and scrutinize.

 

[Nokturos]

I bite other peoples' nails. I just can't help myself ;_;

 

[hickwarrior]

I tend to get distracted by the internet a lot. maybe I should-- what does this post on the escapist say?

 

[The Funslinger]

I consume far too much sugar, I can't get back into the swing of my exercise habit, I am writing a novel and want to learn to draw, and yet am procrastinating on both.

And yeah, my sleeping pattern is out of whack. Although lately, it's reached some state of fucked up manageability. Wake up between 5 and 7 am, become extremely drowsy after a few hours, take a nap in the afternoon, wake up in the evening and groan at the time wasted, and then stay up until 2am. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Still, for weeks prior to this, I was staying up until 2 to 4 am, and sleeping in until 1-3pm. So it's... improved, I guess?

 

[Barbas]

I just thought of another one: I find it easy to bear grudges against certain people, while I usually forgive others completely. Perhaps I find it easier to vent by using those who have previously wronged me as a convenient target of all future contempt. I usually find someone with a personality that annoys me, they're the best.

 

[EeveeElectro]

There's a looooong list.

Nail biting, hair pulling, eating too much sugar and sweets (mainly Skittles. Then having a sugar crash and crying. I have to have some sugar once a day), drinking too much coffee (abut 1-2 cups a day), doing things the long way round, binge drinking, losing my head when I drink, not saying goodbye or goodnight to people, getting fixated over stupid things, playing on my phone a lot, fiddling with things and chewing on them, itching my nose, sitting incorrectly, letting the cats eat off my plate, talking in my sleep and getting easily distracted.

I'm a fucking mess

 

[Colour Scientist]

drinking too much coffee (abut 1-2 cups a day)

1-2 cups is too much?

Oh dear, I must have a serious problem then.

 

[EeveeElectro]

drinking too much coffee (abut 1-2 cups a day)

1-2 cups is too much?

Oh dear, I must have a serious problem then.

Too much for me your body has probably built up a resistance. I HAVE to have one cup a day or I'm just dead. I sleep all day. Sometimes I need two to perk me back up but then I struggle to sleep at night.
My auntie has fuck knows how many cups a day. Last time I visited she had about 5 cups by 1pm o_o
I'm definitely caffeine addicted. I tried to not have any other the Christmas period and I was like a druggie coming off heroin.

My boyfriends dad was really concerned because I looked like a mess and just slept for most of the day. I felt bad for worrying him D:

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I HAVE to have one cup a day or I'm just dead. I sleep all day. Sometimes I need two to perk me back up but then I struggle to sleep at night.
My auntie has fuck knows how many cups a day. Last time I visited she had about 5 cups by 1pm o_o
I'm definitely caffeine addicted. I tried to not have any other the Christmas period and I was like a druggie coming off heroin.

I just had 3 hours of sleep and I'm still staying away from that stuff. I just hate the taste and have no desire to get dependent on something that will add to my daily expenses.

 

[Barbas]

I HAVE to have one cup a day or I'm just dead. I sleep all day. Sometimes I need two to perk me back up but then I struggle to sleep at night.
My auntie has fuck knows how many cups a day. Last time I visited she had about 5 cups by 1pm o_o
I'm definitely caffeine addicted. I tried to not have any other the Christmas period and I was like a druggie coming off heroin.

I just had 3 hours of sleep and I'm still staying away from that stuff. I just hate the taste and have no desire to get dependent on something that will add to my daily expenses.

Drinking lots and lots of coffee is necessary in this part of the world to get the taste of herring out of one's mouth.

 

[Euryalus]

hair pulling

Although I know what you mean, I like to imagine you just losing your shit and pulling people to the ground by their hair at random

OT: I procrastinate, am easily distracted, and shank people who look at me funny forget to eat when I have something on my mind.

 

[Zhukov]

Exercise.

Or rather, the lack of it.

For whatever reason I just hate doing exercise for it's own sake. Y'know, jogging, weights, push-ups, that sort of stuff.

It's weird because If I'm actually doing something I don't mind it. When I visit the family I can kick a soccer ball around with my little brothers for hours. I can (and frequently do) lift and stack shit at work for hours on end. I walk to work an hour each way. But once it comes to any sort of exercise for the sake of exercise I just lose all self discipline and can't stick with it.

As a result, I'm permanently in shitty shape. Relatively strong and healthy, but unfit as all hell and not particularly easy on the eyes.

So yeah. Fuck biology for all those evolved systems that store fat in case of famine and adapt muscle mass to physical activity.

 

[Scarim Coral]

The only one I can think of at the moment (I pretty sure I got quite a few bad habits) is I should should stop eating an ice cream right after I had lunch or dinner! Oh there also that I should bin my gum instead of finding the nearest scrap (like wrappers, tissue or scrap paper) and wrap my chewing gum in it!