stop wasting time

I woke up early yesterday to help children design their newspaper and crawled back into bed…then I talked to a friend/guy crush on the phone and then, seeking the company of men, I logged onto gay.com and the justguys.net Webcam chatrooms _

After getting myself to the gym and knocking some sense into myself, I did do some productive things. I cleaned out my closet (no pun intended). I watched my Blockbuster DVDs. I also finished my friends’ holiday cards and started out with newspaper recruiters and went to sleep early. In other words, I knocked out some things on my to-do list. But that hasn’t included buying groceries yet, which I’ll probably do during my work break tonight.

I still am facing some challenges, but I’m getting better at this.

I used one of my reporter notebooks and made it into a “things to do” list. It’s got some abstract goals (get over my ex-boyfriend, for example) but also some straight-forward bills that I need to pay and the dates that they are due by so that I don’t get penalized. That way, when I do feel slightly lazy and want to procrastinate, I can turn to the lists and I remember what I wanted to do.

I also feels good to cross items off when I do accomplish my goals, except that “get over ex-boyfriend and renewed long-distance crush” is still there.