Oldish Resolutions

As I said last year, I don't usually do resolutions at the New Year. But for some reason a couple of weeks ago I was filled with the need to make some changes. I resisted for a few days, but then I wondered why I should let my loathing of resolutions prevent me from making a change when I want to. And since my last resolution was to allow myself to experiment with change when I want to, I went ahead and resolved some things.

I decided that I was wasting ENTIRELY too much time monkey clicking around the internet. So I decided to limit my internet surfing. Twice a day in the morning and at night, unless I am blogging or actually chatting (not facebooking) and then I can have extra time. I should be able to check out all my websites in that amount of time. Of course everyone else thinks, duh get off the computer, but this is a nearly 15 year old habit to break. I have for years checked up on my web bulletin boards whenever I had a few minutes, long before Facebook even came into the picture. And I have made some really good friends and received some great advice and support through these channels. But the amount of time I spend clicking the refresh button waiting for a reply has been creeping up in the last few years. Cutting it out is hard. REALLY hard.

Three weeks ago I put my new plan into effect and unsurprisingly enough, not surfing the web all the time has opened up a bunch of time for me. So I have cleaned out my china hutch, reorganized my pots and pans cabinet, read more books and started to reseason my cast iron. My house is cleaner, I am happier and I am not missing much on the internet even with less time spent there.

Eventually, I am going to attempt to limit my TV, computer and iPhone game time to a total of 2-3 hours a day, just like I (try really really hard to) limit A's. But let's not jump ahead of ourselves here, with that much time on my hands I might have to resolve to exercise more. Let's just start with baby steps toward the goal.