As it is, I frequently feel overwhelmed and grant myself breaks. I think that I am fortunate enough to be able to do more in a day than I used to and that that overwhelmed feeling is out of proportion to what’s actually going on in my life.
I moved in with my girlfriend six months ago. Now the cat is back to a normal weight (she had been dangerously thin) and is bossing us both around :)
For me, the value added by kissing in the rain is negligible compared to that of finding someone to kiss. I am extremely fortunate to have done both.
I made a point of kissing my significant other in the rain a while back, having mentioned that it’s a popular goal on 43things.com.
I got her one of those boxes with holes in it, where you can put a ball or other small toy inside and the cat has to reach in and grab it. She seems to like it. I am pleased.
It was working for a while but I’ve been seeking distraction more and more again, recently.
I moved apartments at end of February. Went without exercise for two months, late Feb thru late Apr. Am now back into the habit, exercising about 2x/week.
Have been going to gym in new apartment complex. Elliptic exercise machine and some resistance machine work. The big thing is that I’m going.
This is my last day of home cable internet. Comcast jacking up the prices was my trigger for pulling the plug on the whole thing. When I move, I won’t be getting any type of cable or internet connection at all. It will be an adjustment – but it’s an experiment well worth doing.
dialup would make home internet use intolerably slow … and that’s a good thing, in many ways. on the other hand, it would be virtually unusable, and i’m not sure i want to go that far.
i’m not sure i want to get rid of my personal internet account altogether … that would tie me too closely to my job, i think. but, hm. it’s an idea.
is DSL cheaper/slower than cable modem? i currently have cable modem and they’re raising the rates. that’s another reason for my considering this measure.
Was generally depressed and dragged out this weekend. Did some websurfing binges. I’m not giving up on managing it though.
a friend suggested this, and it’s a great idea. break up my reading of blogs into groups: one group of blogs on monday, one on tuesday, etc. It lessens the temptation to hit Refresh several times a day, since it makes it far less likely that the current weekday’s blogs will have been updated.
would like to get it up to three times a week, but twice is good.
It’s such a production to go there sometimes.
I upgraded to a costlier membership that includes access to a facility that’s nearer to where I live. It’s not always easy to get there though.
This is something of an embarrassing confession.
When I’m home, I often get into this trap before I even realize it. I check a whole bunch of websites, typically some combination of: work email, personal email, Livejournal, Bloglines, Yahoo sports, online Personals ads, my friends’ chat room; I follow interesting links that come up during any of those checks; perhaps I post an LJ entry or comment, usually editing my words obsessively as I do. Then, when I’m done with all that … I start a new round of website-checking!
I do notice myself doing this, but while it’s happening it feels very unnatural and wrong to pull myself away – particularly when the thing I really “should” be doing is on the computer itself. It’s a bit like having just one more potato chip or scoop of ice cream. Or one more drink, I guess.
Net-surfing is, of course, a not uncommon phenomenon. I’ve been doing it obsessively or addictively, though, for longer than I care to admit; it’s one of the things that has kept me from doing more with my life. So this post is sort of a support group style declaration that I Have A Problem.
The tricky part, perhaps, will be fixing it without giving up the good aspects of these sites. Perhaps that’s not possible; perhaps if I really want to change I must do things like shut down my LJ. I gather that recovering alcoholics get better results from a policy of zero alcohol than from moderation. Hopefully I can find a happy medium with this sort of thing though.
