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This blog is gonna be mostly about getting my shit together and following through on life.

I recently wrote about my desire to love life fully and thoroughly. I know that the only way I can pull this off is to break some bad habits, and the only way to break bad habits is to start with a plan.

So there are three daily facets of my life that absorb the majority of my attention:

a) JJ
b) Frisbee
c) Work

My initial goal is to find a way to be passionate and intense about the way I go about handling these three facets.

Re: JJ -- I love JJ. He's my soul mate and he gets me. I'm pretty sure I'm already approaching our relationship with passion and intensity....there's a level of security and confidence with each other that we have reached that surpasses any other relationship I have been a part of or even witnessed. I'd say that, with JJ, I'm in it to win it.

Re: Frisbee -- What I love the most about frisbee is the community surrounding it, but it's tough to get any respect when I'm not truly passionate about the sport. I absolutely love playing, but I've been a total halfass about training for the last 3 years. As a result, I come off as a lazy, crappy teammate, and that sucks. Also, I'm really, really tired of being the fat chick. It's not my style, it's not how I grew up, it makes me feel even more socially awkward than I already am, it slows me down, and it's just plain not healthy. I've got a tight body, but it's hiding under a keg. Bullshit. So, next step, weight loss and building some base endurance.

Re: Work -- There are a billion things that distract me on a daily basis, and somewhere between Walnut Creek and Chicago, I let those distractions get the best of me. I was pretty efficient with my time when I worked in California, but since I've moved, I've been really struggling to get shit done. I'm pretty sure it's starting to piss a lot of people off, and that's not helping anything. I do like my company, and I used to like my job. I'm just trying to find a way to be good at it again. I've been having a tough time finding my place in my new office; I'd really like to find a way to enjoy my day to day work again.


So, those are the facts. Here are my action items:

1) Write out a daily schedule, down to the hour, that includes time for workouts.
2) Pack my lunches so I can monitor my workday caloric intake.
3) Stop using my work computer for anything personal. I was doing this before, but then my home laptop monitor failed, so I haven't been using that machine for a while. All I need to do is find a monitor cable and I can make this happen.
4) Eliminate boring, non-interactive computer addictions. Specifically, no more online puzzles and limited time spent on Facebook. These are both serious time drains and are making me waste my life.
5) Time spent watching TV will also be ab-workout time. Easy enough.

I think these changes will give me more time to do what I say I'm going to do (specifically regarding workouts and work). They should also help my focus my attention so I'm less flaky. And hopefully they will help me drop back down to a functional weight (my goal is 140, I'm at 155 right now).


Let's see how this rolls.