- Drink more water- You'd think this is a fairly easy thing to do, but when your instinct is to always reach for a nice cup of tea, remembering to drink water takes an exorbitant amount of conscious effort.
- Walk the dogs- It's not like I don't, I just would like to walk them more. I'm lucky I have a yard that the dogs have access to all day. My dogs being terriers, their output of energy is always high. Not to mention, I probably need the exercise more than they do.
- Eat less carbs- I have an unhealthy, incredibly indulgent relationship with all things carbohydrates. I have yet to come across a form of carbohydrate I don't like. When it comes to eating carbs, it's all or (next to) nothing for me. I do go on a "slow/low" carb diet everyone now and then to kind of detoxify. It's incredibly effective for me due to the fact that I consume an alarming amount of carbohydrates on an hourly basis. That said, it's either I avoid it or stuff my face with it. I need to find a happy medium.
- Read! Read! Read!- There was a time when I would devote loads of time for this... but that has been replaced by devoting time to reading tweets on twitter. See the problem here? Hence my next resolution...
- Spend less time on Twitter- This should be self explanatory, but I'd like to stress that I really spend way too much time twittering about. It's the first thing I check when I wake up & the last before I go to bed. Incredibly sad, sad fact.
- Spend less time on YouTube- This is what keeps me up at night. I decide to watch one thing and the next thing you know three hours have passed, it's 4am, I've liked 27 videos and I've favorited (is that an actual word?) another 14. Another night spent as an insomniac.
- Sleep more- Based on my resolution number 5& 6, it should be pretty clear (or maybe not, which is why I've posted number 7) that I spend my evenings zoned out in front of the soft glow of either my computer's or my iphone's screens... or worse, both simultaneously. Time ceases to makes sense at this time and with a blink of an eye I go from midnight to sunrise without even thinking about needing sleep. My puffy eyes are proof of this. I average 3-4 hrs of sleep a night, sometimes less, rarely more.
- Put dogs on a schedule- My dogs are spoiled, badly behaved and unpredictable. I try my best to discipline them, but the moment I'm out the door, everyone else at home lets them do whatever they want. Wait... maybe it's everyone else I should put on a schedule?
- Keep focused- Pinterest? Blogger? Instagram? Van Gogh? Catpaint app? Learning more Stephen Sondheim songs on the piano? OKAY. GO!! .... I tend to get caught up in everything that interests me. I'll put everything else off in order to indulge my indulgences. Not good when you're a full time student that ought to devote all their time to being a student.
- Keep garden alive- Seems simple enough right? Water, prune, occasionally fertilize. That's it. Well.... when you're nursing a Twitter addiction, a bad YouTube habit and multitude of other distractions, it's quite easy to forget about the plants. It's there, I can do it tomorrow and bam (!!) the plants are dying. Fresh herbs no more. Sadly, I can go from being a plant nurturer to a plant murderer in less time than it takes to enter the passcode for my iphone.
- Don't procrastinate- Seriously folks. This is the BANE OF MY F*CKING EXISTENCE. All my bad habits are rooted in this. All my unsuccessful attempts at life have been rooted in this. This needs to go away. This needs to be dealt with and remedied. But I keep f*cking putting it off.
So there you have it. A condensed list of things I'd like to work on. Obviously it's not everything, because there is so much more. But I'd like to begin working on resolution number 10 and that requires I end this here. Of course not without first sharing my new found obsession with my Catpaint App for editing pictures. Definitely the best one dollar I've ever spent.
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