10 steps to a clean shower.

1. Gather supplies: 

• Bleach- check
• Old toothbrush- check
• Rubber gloves- lacking, but who really needs to protect their skin from harmful chemicals...that's what the toothbrush is for. 
• Grimy bathtub, yellow tile suggesting it was probably built in the 80s, amount of mold suggesting it hasn't been cleaned since - check
• Old, bleach friendly clothes-check

2. Practice morale building: remind self how much happier self will be with a clean, mold free shower. 

3. Jump in with both feet, pour liberal amounts of bleach in bowl, dip toothbrush, begin scrubbing. 

4. Realize after about a square foot of cleaned tile that this is not really that much fun, right arm is already getting sore from scrubbing and bleach fumes are beginning to cause dull headache. Resolve to take breaks after every quarter of wall cleaned.

5. REFRAME situation: Pretend you have a symbiotic relationship with a friendly giant, a giant with very poor dental hygiene, and you're helping him out, you don't want a giant friend with moldy teeth...

6. Scratch the friendly part. You have a not-so-symbiotic relationship with a giant that will eat your sad bleach covered self and use your fibula as a toothpick and your feet as bookends if you don't finish cleaning this shower... and the last thing you want at this point is to add guts or grime to your almost half clean grout. 

7. Scratch the giant concept all together, you're almost done... one more tile.... one more tile...almost done...

8. Finish scrubbing last tile, breathe deep sigh of relief, choke a little bit on inhale full of bleach fumes, step out of tub and feel very grateful that you have a white bathmat since your feet are probably bleach soaked at this point. 

9. Sit down in front of television... 5 minutes later realized the bleach is probably still soaking into your skin and now your couch. 

10. Drag yourself back up stairs into your now clean shower. Celebrate not being grossed out by shower by shaving legs and hence not being grossed out by shower OR legs and no longer being covered in bleach.