Can I write a blog post in five minutes? Probably not, but I am going to try. I have got THINGS to DO.
My 2010 New Year, New Me Resolutions
- Eat/use/give away/freeze all the produce I buy. This is because I like to buy fruits and vegetables, and like an idiot I don’t always finish them before they go bad, or I accidentally buy more apples before I’ve finished the apples I already had. And also because I know I should eat more produce. My produce-wasting got especially bad toward the end of last quarter, because I was too busy to be bothered with little things like opening refrigerator drawers and seeing what was in there. New rule: open drawers!
- Do a better job of tracking our money, probably with Mint. I used to be a better financial manager when I worked at the bank (not that the bank had anything to do with it, just the manageable work hours). It’s time to get better again.
- Every month, pitch an article idea or two to the editors I’ve worked with at the Inlander and/or the magazine I’ve written for and/or other places.
- Take advantage of the fact that I can work from home or other places, and stop going in to the office every day I work. Which means I could travel more or work from a coffee shop or my backyard or wherever. I probably won’t have such a flexible schedule forever, or else I’ll have twelve babies who cry all the time and won’t let me do stuff, so I need to take advantage now.
- Don’t use the internet within the first two hours of waking up, or until I get to work if it’s a work day. And that is because when I don’t know exactly what else I want to do first thing in the morning I often get online and fall into a vortex and my whole life slips away. It’s just a huge waste of time for me, and I’m too tired in the early morning to get a grip on myself.
Note: I have been doing this since January first, carefully avoiding the internet for two hours every morning, and it was hard at first but now it is GREAT. So great. I am using my time a million times better. Yesterday I worked on an essay from 6:30 to 7:30 and having made that rule eliminated the possibility of checking email from my mind. I’ve been reading more, cleaning more, going running earlier…it’s good. - Learn to take better photographs. Because I am a really awful photographer. I want to learn to take good pictures of food. And everything else.
So that’s everything. So far, so good. Haven’t done much with #6 yet, but the year is young. And this post only took me nine minutes! Wheee!
Unrelated note: A new season of Project Runway, much to my utter shock and delight, starts this week?! Who knew they’d even filmed another season? Who would ever happen upon a PR commercial now that it’s on Lifetime?! Will it be better than The Biggest Letdown of My Life, season 6? We’ll see. January 14, 10 pm, Lifetime. 11 minutes! I’ve got to go!
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