Well, as you can tell my plan to write 5 posts a week in August was basically a miserable failure. I wrote 5 posts the first week, but after that I think my grand total was about 9, with a few more sitting in the draft stage. Oh well, nothing I can do about it now, look for a few more to come out next month as I finished up those drafts.
For August, I am working on getting back into blogging on a regular basis. I enjoy it, it helps me polish my writing, and it is the one new year’s resolution that I really haven’t been making any progress on. So this month, I will be writing five posts a week, either here or at teageek.org (my tea blog that has been seriously neglected as of late) It’s been a while since I have really written anything, and five posts is a lot of content to come up with in a week, but it should be fun, stay tuned!
I’m finally writing a follow up to last months challenge, not TV for a month. It was an interesting challenge because it was both a lot easier and a lot harder than I thought it would be. it was a lot easier than I thought to not watch TV when I was by myself. Reading a book, going for a run, or working on a website were all there to fill the gap, and it really wasn’t that hard. What was a little difficult, which I didn’t expect, was how much I watch TV with other people. My girlfriend and I watch TV together almost every night, and the few times (twice) that I “slipper up” was with other people. All in all, it was an interesting challenge I would recommend, you get a lot more free time, and it’s nice to switch things up, especially if its a beautiful Michigan summer!
I also am taking July off from challenges, everybody needs a summer break of some kind right? Look for a new post in August!
Well its been a while since I’ve posted here, life has been a little crazy lately. I’ve just started a new job, and I’m three days out from my very first triathlon. With all of this exciting/stressful stuff going on however, my whole “personal challenge” a month idea has kind of gone down the drain. Now that things are getting back on track, I’m starting up again with one that I have wanted to do since I started: no TV for a month. Pretty simple, no TV, Netflix, movies, video games, etc. for a month. Since I am trying to get caught up with life I thought this might help me, TV is definitely my biggest distraction from getting things done around my apartment.
April is a really busy month for me, so I decided to take it a little bit easier on myself with the challenge. This month I want to completely go through and clean/organize everything in my apartment – every drawer, closet, and pile of crap sitting on the floor. I have a friend moving, and that reminded me of just how much crap can accumulate in an apartment when you live there for a while. Since there is a good chance I won’t be in this apartment for too much longer, I decided its better to just do it now. While some of you may assume this to be nearly impossible, the truth is that I have been working on getting rid of stuff and generally reorganizing myself for a while, and this will just be a final push to finish everything. It certainly will take some time, but since I have a whole month to do it it shouldn’t be too bad.