Limit my time on the internet

on a few websites i was spending too much time checking. (If I simply make the resolution of not posting again I know I won’t keep it, I had to be drastic). I also quitted Travian and Pet Society and other games on Facebook.

I’m keeping:
43things
goodreads
bookmooch
filmaffinity
livejournal
twitter
listography
delicious
my blog

and I feel I’m forgetting something. Oh, Google reader.
It’s too much time anyway but it’s a start.

...so by not using the internet during working hours (9 to 5) and less in the mornings these last two days, I am really cutting down my internet usage. I’m usually more or less constantly on it during work, because I have a really dull computer job.

I think the internet makes me hyper, because I notice my mind has slowed down a lot since I started this. I’m also getting a lot more Japanese language study done, hehe ^^;;

Three days without internet!, and without wanting it (well, just a little).

but at least I participate instead of being a lurker like before.

As does this writing. Either way, now that I’m officially banned from house hunting for a month, this goal will probably be in the bag.

Now just to stay away from dress shopping and pants hunting and Ebay. Never mind Perez. Those are the real goals, right?

I need to find something else to do with my time. I think I’m bored at home when I get home from work, and the Internet is the perfect mindless activity. I’d rather be reading or watching TV, because most of what I do on here is hunt for houses that I can’t afford. Great logic.

I’ll start with 2 hours a day on the weekends, and 1 hour a day during the week. We’ll see how it goes.

with three hours a day. Next week less!

EDIT: Did well for the first two days, on weekend I wasn’t even near a computer because I was busy on saturday and ill on sunday, yesterday it might have been 4 hours, today I don’t really know (all morning) but I’m watching online movies so it maybe could count as TV-time :P (no)

Putting this into my conscious thought has really made a difference. I feel great about this week and will consider this goal complete. It was a short intervention of sorts. It’s always there to reintroduce if the need be.

in not hangin out at 43T for hours yesterday. In fact, I didn’t log in after yesterday morning. I did check my email LOTS of times, though, so I was only half-heartedly successful. This is going to be my one visit to 43T today and I’ve already checked my email this morning. I will check my email once more tonight and THAT’S IT! Ultimately I am going to have to change this goal to UNPLUG FOR A DAY or WEEK or LONGER. I am letting the internet control me way too much!

Hmm… I love how once you write something down, you can reread it and see how pathetic you sound. I am totally trying to justify why I cannot go without checking email at home (which always leads to tons of surfing). Now that I think about it, I really only need to check my work email daily. My personal email isn’t so important that I need to check it daily. If in fact I did this, then I could restrain from being on-line at home for an immeasurable amount of time. Yikes!

Okay, so for today I am going to let this be my ONE visit to the internet. gulp

BYE BYE

I am only going to visit 43T twice today. Last night I logged in several times and I realized that enough is enough. I have to find a better use of my time (like working on my goals). Ha!

Here is my morning log in.