Too Much Time To Think
By Keiti | July 4, 2008
Instead of joining in the 4th of July festivities today, I have the house to myself. My parents have gone up to see my brother & I’m home because I have to drive down to WPB tomorrow to get my biometrics done for my student visa. I’ve spent the day finishing up gathering information that needs to be included and I’m down to getting a passport size picture taken which I’ll probably do tomorrow.
I went tooling around this morning and stopped off at Sears Essential to pick up a few things. I saw this great t-shirt that I thought about getting that said “I always find Mr. Wrong”. I decided against getting it for two reasons: 1 - I really don’t need it and 2 - I wanted to wear it today, but realized that it would be wholly inappropriate since I was meeting my ex for lunch. Truthful or not, I’m long over harboring any spiteful feelings.
Aside from that I decided to make a list of what I wanted to accomplish over the next year while I’m in Scotland. Despite taking time out to go to school, real life must go on. So here’s my list (in no particular order):
1. Pay off one loan before I leave
2. Start working on paying on my MC - I won’t get it all paid off over the next year, but I can get a good chunk of it gone
3. Lose 40 lbs (this will be much easier in Scotland because I’ll be far more physically active sans my car)
4. Write the novel I’ve had sitting in my head gathering dust for the past 10 + years
5. Really work to bring money in via online endeavors
6. Decide where & what’s going to make me happy
7. Finish the 3 screenplays I currently have in progress
8. Tidy up Bethany and the Belfry Bat which is essentially finished, but still needs some editing
9. Learn to better control my anxiety (this should be a breeze in Scotland since I don’t have the anxiety issues in Europe like I do here…don’t ask me why)
10. Start eating better
11. Create a budget and stick to it
12. Take up some form of exercise (There are tons of places to hike in Stirling and I’m contemplating getting a bike)
13. Quit smoking
14. Pay more attention to my spiritual life
15. Watch no more than 5 hours of TV a week (Since I’m not planning on getting a TV I think this one will be easy)
We’ll see how much of the list I can accomplish. I may have to adjust it some because I’m not sure how much free time I’ll have with school - file that one under playing it by ear.
Topics: Life in General |
July 5th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Have you checked out 43 things? http://www.43things.com/ it might be a fun way to keep track of your long list of cool goals.
Kicking TV four years ago was the best thing Tim and I ever did.
July 5th, 2008 at 2:53 am
I haven’t checked out 43things.com, but I’m heading there right now…
There are a few things I’d still like to be able to watch (Pushing Daisies among them, if I can play it online in Scotland…we’ll see what happens with that) but I definitely spend far too much time in front of the boob tube.
July 5th, 2008 at 4:02 am
I’ve always heard and used the expression, but never knew where “boob tube” came from…any ideas?
July 5th, 2008 at 11:33 am
I did some searching and came up with this:
(which is kind of funny because I saw her on Bill O’Reilly the other night)
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/03/09/booby/
July 5th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
i think more kids would be english majors if their teachers looked like that…what a great video to watch early in the morning…thank you
July 5th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I thought you’d get a kick out of that.
You’re welcome.
