Q: My Morning Ritual Is?

Daily writing prompt

What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?

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This is a weird one to be honest, because I am not a ritual person. I mean, I don’t follow a strict pattern. In fact, I am very much against routines. The one thing that I hate the most, is repetitiveness. When I was going to school every day, I would try all kinds of different routes, even though there weren’t that many to explore, but I would take different turns and go into different streets every now and then because I just couldn’t bear doing the same route every day. Same goes for my daily tasks. While I have certain things that I do on a daily basis, I tend to do them spontaneously, avoiding falling into a pattern of repetitiveness.
With that said, my first hour of day usually goes like this:
The first thing I do is wash my face and teeth. Showering is usually a night thing for me, I hate getting wet in the morning. I wake up whenever it happens, usually when my body decides it’s had enough and I don’t drink coffee, nor tea, so nothing much of a ritual here. I look at my phone to check the time first, then I check the state of my investments (because their value changes every second) and if there’s any urgency, I would rush to my laptop to do some chart analysis and place some trade orders. After this is done, I would take care of errands. If I’m travelling, I would take a walk, explore my surroundings, go to a museum or other place of interest. If I’m home, I would spend some time in the garden, cleaning up some dead leaves and branches. It’s therapeutic and my favourite pastime lately.
This is the first hour. If I have to think specifically of a routine that I might have, it would be my dinner. The one thing I am super consistent about, without an exception, is having chocolate (or any type of sweet) after dinner. no matter where I am, what I had for dinner and what time of night it is, I can’t not have a sweet for desert and it’s my guilty pleasure. It’s been years of trying to change this unhealthy act of mine, but to no avail. I guess some things are too deeply programmed into our brains, that we just can’t get rid of them, despite all odds.