spend less time online

It’s time to realise that I like spending time online. And it’s hardly a shooting offence. So I’m giving up on this goal.

Whoa…this is much harder than I thought it was going to be. I find that in my unemployed life on summer break from school, I spend a whole lot of time online doing absolutely nothing. I have 45 minutes left of my two hours a day goal, so I thought I’d post a little entry about day one. Luckily, I was volunteering for AIDS Walk SF for the first few hours of the day to kill some time. I got to count envelopes, make labels, and stamp cards for about three hours, but I did get a free lunch out of it. I’ll actually be going back tomorrow, as it helps me get out of the house and do something productive with my time.

After I returned home, I decided to finish up laundry, watch movies, and read a book. I was worried that I might have to extend that two hour limit I set for myself, but I think I can keep trying this out to see how it works. Granted, I’m sure there will be days that I fall off the wagon.

This is the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning. I have 1,000 other things I could be doing during the day. Not just cleaning and chores, but things I enjoy like crafts and experimental cooking; yet, I still find myself wasting away hours on the internet. It’s not like I’m actually reading anything interesting, or doing research on how to make anything. I’m just checking my e-mail, social networking sites, scrabble, and hitting refresh most of the time. I need to pry myself away from this and get my life back. I’m going to start with baby steps and limit myself to a total of two hours a day and see if that works. Today is day one. I have been on for about 20 minutes already, doing exactly the above.

Goodbye refresh! Hello world!

Doing absolutely nothing useful. Mostly going through my emails and watching stupid stuff on YouTube or Facebook.

FAIL

Seriously, this has been the most difficult of goals. I really wasn’t expecting that. And now, with my back injury, I can literally spend HOURS doing nothing of substance online and have gotten in the habit of doing so.

This week, I’m seriously going to put a cap on general dicking around. Maybe give myself certain time-slots where I’m allowed to do those sorts of things? Geez, I dunno. I wont bore you with the details of that, should I decide to try it.

internet is very important u know :D

too much of a gd thing. going to start from tmr- ration my comp usage!!

I spent between 3-4 hrs online doing nothing work-related and I have a paper due tomorrow. I really need to work on this one. Why is is that even when I have an list of alternative things to do (like walking outside), I don’t do them? Why do I think I will get offline in a few minutes, and then don’t? Why am I not properly weighing the pain of being up and writing against wasting time online?

I KNOW what to do in order to spend less time online (I’ve even made a list of things to do), but I can’t seem to do it. Spending time online must seem easier or less time-consuming than it really is. What a shame. There is a lot I would like to get done, including school work!

so then i have time for other things