The Amanda Challenge and SWPL
This past week I've been beyond sick with an upper respiratory infection (thank you, second grade classroom) and totally unmotivated. And not the type of unmotivated where I don't want to go grocery shopping or clean the house--we're talking the kind of unmotivated where I don't want to put dishes more than a foot from my bed, or comb my hair or read a book for more than 10 minutes. For the past few days I've been even too lazy to get out of bed and play WoW. That is extreme laziness. Last night I got a burst of energy brought on by being able to breathe out of my nose for the first time in a week and decided to bake cookies until 2am and watch 80's movies on cable. Some thing's wrong here, people. My life needs structure.
Which brings me to the meaning behind this post. For the past few months (year?) Amanda (
sycotic22) has been taking steps to improve her life, and I've been both astonished and jealous. She's lost a ton of weight, is managing her debt and winning (!!), continuing to do her art and being positive in difficult situations. I started thinking that maybe I haven't been unmotivated because I'm sick, maybe I've just put myself in a rut. So to get out of that rut I'm going to start doing the Amanda Method and see how it goes. I'm going to eat better, go to the gym, write in lj, read books to improve my teaching, maybe even take a writing class online.
Last, but not least, the most hysterically true list ever compiled: Stuff White People Like
Which brings me to the meaning behind this post. For the past few months (year?) Amanda (
sycotic22) has been taking steps to improve her life, and I've been both astonished and jealous. She's lost a ton of weight, is managing her debt and winning (!!), continuing to do her art and being positive in difficult situations. I started thinking that maybe I haven't been unmotivated because I'm sick, maybe I've just put myself in a rut. So to get out of that rut I'm going to start doing the Amanda Method and see how it goes. I'm going to eat better, go to the gym, write in lj, read books to improve my teaching, maybe even take a writing class online.
Last, but not least, the most hysterically true list ever compiled: Stuff White People Like