"You're the angriest man I've ever known."
How awesome is Justified? SUPER AWESOME, that's how awesome. I'm going to enjoy this show, I can tell already. If you talked about it, I missed your post because we were late in watching the first episode and I didn't want to be spoiled, so please drop me a line and link me?
And in news that probably falls under 'ironic': posting on my blog about how I'm addicted to the Internet. But it's true, and I'm taking steps. Step 1: Admit you have a problem. Step 2: Figure out how to fix it. Step 3: ???? Step 4: Profit!
It's not a huge problem, not yet, but I can see some negative consequences looming (and some already here, like the state of my house, among other things) if I don't get my arms around it now. So step 1: I am addicted to the Internet, and it's compromising parts of my life. As much as it sucks to say it, it's really true. Responsible adulthood: OVERRATED. Hee.
What precipitated this was a discussion with AHH this weekend where I realized that I have been continuing to try to live my life like I don't have a baby. I mean, not that I don't have one at all, because he takes up all my waking moments it seems, but that the times when he's asleep or under someone else's care, I'm still acting like I don't have a baby, and I can't really afford to do that anymore. Yes, some aimless web surfing can be good for the soul, but that's pretty much what I'm doing all the time now, and that's not going to work for me anymore. I need to get my days - and my life - under a little more control, especially now that we're out of the larval stage of babyhood, so that I don't end each day feeling like I've wasted it. (There are other things at work here that I don't really want to get into in depth, about WHY I'm spending all the time web surfing and such, and those things I'm also addressing and feeling better about.)
For step 2, my path to fixing it is deceptively simple: limit online time to only three hours a day. Seems like a lot, right? That shows just how much aimless time I've been spending. (Weekends are especially bad lately.) I've got a giant timer ticking away that tracks my hours, and it's already helped focus me today.
I'm hoping that my life and general well-being will profit considerably from this. Partially it will free up some space so that I have no more excuses to not sweep on a weekly basis or put the laundry off or what-have-you. In other ways, though, it will actually give me more time to do the things I genuinely enjoy. And that's the fine line that my addictive web surfing has crossed and what it's cost me. I love the interactions I have on LJ (and DW, too, now), but much of the time I was spending was not on that or on anything that ultimately felt like it was making me happy. I just couldn't stop refreshing email for no reason or clicking randomly around friendsfriends because I needed the input. Having a focused amount of time each day will ensure that I stop reading comments on things that annoy me (WHY DO I DO THAT TO MYSELF?) and also force me to actually pay BETTER attention to the things I am doing. Plus, once I eventually get my vidding machine up and running again, I won't be eating away at my precious and beloved vidding time with useless web surfing. I'll actually use my time to VID. Too bad I couldn't have had this realization when I had a working machine, but at least I had it all. *g*
With spring and summer looming it's especially important to me to make sure I figure all this out, because there are a lot of fun things I want to be doing that I will just feel guilty about if I'm not also getting important life things done as well. And the compelling inertia of sitting in my overly-comfy computer chair and getting sucked into ontd-political (for instance!) is tough to break. But I'm going to try. And I'm going to do it. *nods firmly*
So. That's my life right now. Heh. Ultimately I don't think this will affect my posting/commenting too much, at least not any more than they've already been affected by everything in my life. I'm hoping that I'll actually become better at commenting or at least responding to comments and emails. My email is especially backed up right now. But if things change and I have to start doing friends/reading list filtering, I'll let you know.
In other life news, last night we bought a new set of sheets and a new comforter and it made me really happy. A new comforter! We've had the same one for nine years! I can't wait to put it on the bed tonight!
Sometimes it's the little things.
Lastly: happy belated birthday wishes to
kass! It sounds like you had a wonderful day, which I'm so pleased to hear! :)
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And in news that probably falls under 'ironic': posting on my blog about how I'm addicted to the Internet. But it's true, and I'm taking steps. Step 1: Admit you have a problem. Step 2: Figure out how to fix it. Step 3: ???? Step 4: Profit!
It's not a huge problem, not yet, but I can see some negative consequences looming (and some already here, like the state of my house, among other things) if I don't get my arms around it now. So step 1: I am addicted to the Internet, and it's compromising parts of my life. As much as it sucks to say it, it's really true. Responsible adulthood: OVERRATED. Hee.
What precipitated this was a discussion with AHH this weekend where I realized that I have been continuing to try to live my life like I don't have a baby. I mean, not that I don't have one at all, because he takes up all my waking moments it seems, but that the times when he's asleep or under someone else's care, I'm still acting like I don't have a baby, and I can't really afford to do that anymore. Yes, some aimless web surfing can be good for the soul, but that's pretty much what I'm doing all the time now, and that's not going to work for me anymore. I need to get my days - and my life - under a little more control, especially now that we're out of the larval stage of babyhood, so that I don't end each day feeling like I've wasted it. (There are other things at work here that I don't really want to get into in depth, about WHY I'm spending all the time web surfing and such, and those things I'm also addressing and feeling better about.)
For step 2, my path to fixing it is deceptively simple: limit online time to only three hours a day. Seems like a lot, right? That shows just how much aimless time I've been spending. (Weekends are especially bad lately.) I've got a giant timer ticking away that tracks my hours, and it's already helped focus me today.
I'm hoping that my life and general well-being will profit considerably from this. Partially it will free up some space so that I have no more excuses to not sweep on a weekly basis or put the laundry off or what-have-you. In other ways, though, it will actually give me more time to do the things I genuinely enjoy. And that's the fine line that my addictive web surfing has crossed and what it's cost me. I love the interactions I have on LJ (and DW, too, now), but much of the time I was spending was not on that or on anything that ultimately felt like it was making me happy. I just couldn't stop refreshing email for no reason or clicking randomly around friendsfriends because I needed the input. Having a focused amount of time each day will ensure that I stop reading comments on things that annoy me (WHY DO I DO THAT TO MYSELF?) and also force me to actually pay BETTER attention to the things I am doing. Plus, once I eventually get my vidding machine up and running again, I won't be eating away at my precious and beloved vidding time with useless web surfing. I'll actually use my time to VID. Too bad I couldn't have had this realization when I had a working machine, but at least I had it all. *g*
With spring and summer looming it's especially important to me to make sure I figure all this out, because there are a lot of fun things I want to be doing that I will just feel guilty about if I'm not also getting important life things done as well. And the compelling inertia of sitting in my overly-comfy computer chair and getting sucked into ontd-political (for instance!) is tough to break. But I'm going to try. And I'm going to do it. *nods firmly*
So. That's my life right now. Heh. Ultimately I don't think this will affect my posting/commenting too much, at least not any more than they've already been affected by everything in my life. I'm hoping that I'll actually become better at commenting or at least responding to comments and emails. My email is especially backed up right now. But if things change and I have to start doing friends/reading list filtering, I'll let you know.
In other life news, last night we bought a new set of sheets and a new comforter and it made me really happy. A new comforter! We've had the same one for nine years! I can't wait to put it on the bed tonight!
Sometimes it's the little things.
Lastly: happy belated birthday wishes to
kass! It sounds like you had a wonderful day, which I'm so pleased to hear! :)
This entry was cross-posted at my Dreamwidth account. Please comment here or there.