So much time, so much spent doing crap.
I don't mean that in a 'woe-is-me' way - for once!! LOL
I realized yesterday after reading an article online from ADDitude magazine that I DO have time to write and other things I supposedly want to be doing.
I'm just simply not doing them. I'm spending time online playing Age of Empires when I get free time. Or spending my weekends immersed in decluttering and organizing my house. Granted that one is important to me - but nothing should be done at the complete exclusion of everything else, imo.
When I have times of 'but things used to be different' and I look back on the days I would spend hours reading fanfic, perusing the kink meme for inspiration, writing, etc. I realized something - that was pretty much my hobby.
Now, I have my sci-fi club peeps. I have a social life more often, instead of Scott having Howard over or something while I hide in the office and read pr0n. :-) That doesn't mean I can't fit in the other things. But it does mean when I surf the web and go online to forums they should be forums like the one I signed-up on and can't even remember what it's called! But it's for authors and wanna-be authors of gay stories/porn.
So, this month I'll keep grinding away at my current 3 habits I'm working on. They aren't that hard or things I'm not doing *at all* so it's been easy to combine them.
1) Keep dishes up and sink at least 3/4 clear before bed (soaking pans, etc. are forgivable!)
2) Keep up with laundry and putting away laundry (my biggest problem)
3) It sounds gross, but brushing my teeth at least 2x a day. This was a habit I NEVER got used to when growing up and now I find I have to teach Ana!!! Hard when you aren't consistent.
I'll keep playing my game for the moment, but once I feel confident the rug isn't going to get pulled, I will definitely make "being a writer and doing things to that end" my habit for March!
I realized yesterday after reading an article online from ADDitude magazine that I DO have time to write and other things I supposedly want to be doing.
I'm just simply not doing them. I'm spending time online playing Age of Empires when I get free time. Or spending my weekends immersed in decluttering and organizing my house. Granted that one is important to me - but nothing should be done at the complete exclusion of everything else, imo.
When I have times of 'but things used to be different' and I look back on the days I would spend hours reading fanfic, perusing the kink meme for inspiration, writing, etc. I realized something - that was pretty much my hobby.
Now, I have my sci-fi club peeps. I have a social life more often, instead of Scott having Howard over or something while I hide in the office and read pr0n. :-) That doesn't mean I can't fit in the other things. But it does mean when I surf the web and go online to forums they should be forums like the one I signed-up on and can't even remember what it's called! But it's for authors and wanna-be authors of gay stories/porn.
So, this month I'll keep grinding away at my current 3 habits I'm working on. They aren't that hard or things I'm not doing *at all* so it's been easy to combine them.
1) Keep dishes up and sink at least 3/4 clear before bed (soaking pans, etc. are forgivable!)
2) Keep up with laundry and putting away laundry (my biggest problem)
3) It sounds gross, but brushing my teeth at least 2x a day. This was a habit I NEVER got used to when growing up and now I find I have to teach Ana!!! Hard when you aren't consistent.
I'll keep playing my game for the moment, but once I feel confident the rug isn't going to get pulled, I will definitely make "being a writer and doing things to that end" my habit for March!