Bet you thought I was done with this blog, didn't you?
Bet you thought, "Well, she gave it a good shot, but once she started skipping days, the writing was on the wall."
Not exactly. Close, but not exactly. I myself contemplated that this might be the case; that this, like many New Year's Resolutions, just sort of petered out after about 6 weeks.
Bet you thought, "Well, she gave it a good shot, but once she started skipping days, the writing was on the wall."
Not exactly. Close, but not exactly. I myself contemplated that this might be the case; that this, like many New Year's Resolutions, just sort of petered out after about 6 weeks.
I have recently discovered that perhaps I have bitten off a bit more than I could chew. Turns out, Grad School + Wedding Planning + Work+ Trying to Pursue a Normal Adult Life +Blogging About All of It, is an equation that I have yet to master.
Three things happened here:
#1: At first I didn't worry about doing posts on the days I had class, but I still kept up with the daily to-do list.
#2: Then I had a couple trips to New York to see the fiance, so nothing got done over those weekends. Funny story: I surprised Nick for his birthday by telling him that I had a paper due that Monday and I was in the library all day when I was really driving up to see him. He totally bought it and was super surprised. Punchline:I was so convincing because I did indeed have a paper due that Monday. I just resigned myself to the fact that I'd write a whole 8 page research paper on Sunday night after a 5 hour drive. Which leads to,
#3: Even though I was making a point to do some homework everyday, it wasn't quite enough. Basically I was doing about 30 minutes of reading every morning. It was better than nothing, but in the same way that doing 6 minutes of a Shake Weight exercise is better than nothing, yet falls WAY short of a well rounded cardio/ muscle building workout. I was hitting the same wall with my wedding planning. One or two emails a day was not really getting anything accomplished.
With the feeling that everything was due at once, I let the blog go. Then the room (as seen by the general disarray pictured above), then other parts of the list. I stopped reading for fun. My make-up bag remained closed. My Shake Weight started collecting dust. I gave up on even the idea of culturally enriching trips to the city. The bed did not get made.
I could call it quits. I could decide that the fact that I failed to stick to a regiment negates the whole point of this project and means the whole enterprise was a flop. If I do, the picture above is what my room will look like all the time. I will gingerly step over laundry and haphazardly push everything to the side of the table to make room for whatever chaotic "I need to get this done NOW" task has me on red alert. Or, I could accept that fact that this project is all about building better habits, and maybe that includes not simply throwing my hands up and saying "welp, I'm done" after a few minor set backs. This blog may not follow its intended format of daily updates, but like six minute workouts, some progress is better than none.
Today's accomplishments:
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