Trying To Get My Groove Back

It's been tough.  I have not had the desire to write.  Then when I do have inspiration, I'm at work with no time to stop and jot down my thoughts.  I haven't been reading much either.  I have six books I have yet to finish.  I'm not exercising, cleaning, organizing, and I have reminders on my phone to make sure I do these darn things.   I need to get it together.

This time last year I was trying the Ruth Soukup challenges from her books.  I failed miserably.  One day is not enough time for my clutter.  I did however donate ten boxes to Salvation Army in July and will be donating another six this week.  My plan is to donate one more time by the end of the year.

I've made an End of the Year Plan... Yay! Okay, not really.  If I would have done what I said I was going to last year, I would be buying a house and 100% organized right now.   So this is me declaring my life a mess and it needs cleaning up... again.  My dream/Goal is to become a minimalist.  I have been watching videos on Youtube.  Now, I don't want to get rid of everything I have.  I want to reduce what I have to the important things and stop buying crap I don't need.  I will never give up on my books, NEVER.  So don't dare ask me to do that.  I also need to get my health in order.  I have gained a lot of weight recently and all my pants are pretty snug.  I also look gross when I'm sitting.  While I was thinking about ways to improve my life, I realized I spend most of my off time eating and playing Facebook games. YES, I said it, I play Facebook games.  I started to make a list of things I want to work on.  So this is where I'll start, then reevaluate in 30 days.

1. Make a Budget
2. Organize home and digital files
3. Donate to Salvation Army 
4. Reduce Social media & games
5. Read more (15 books by January 1)
6. Exercise (start at 3x a week)
7. Bring lunch to work. 

Reading Up A Storm.

I have been reading like crazy lately.  As you know by now I am an avid reader in almost all genres.  Horror, Thriller, and Mystery being my favorites.  I recently read Floating Dragon and am working on my review of the book.  I think I will start doing book reviews.  What is the point of reading a lot of books if I don't share them with you?

I have a decent book collection and it could be so much better.  I did donate many sci-fi books a few months ago because I knew I couldn't read them all and someone else would appreciate them more than I.  It was awful giving them up, but I knew it was the right decision.  Today I "purchased" aproxametly 30 Kindle ebooks on Amazon.  I also started working on an ebook wishlist.  I do not own an ereader and would love to.  I think Kindle would be the best option, though once upon a time I really wanted a Nook.  Now that I have a Kindle app for my phone, I think I should figure out which Kindle would be best for me.  Reading books on my phone is kinda crappy. The picture below doesn't even show all my "purchases"...  I went crazy on Amazon and even shared most of them on Facebook.  I think I may have gotten a little carried away.

P.S. Happy Lovers Day! 

I have also been reading a lot of online articles.  Taking notes and thinking deeply about how I feel while reading these tough topics.  Relationships, bullying, parenting, and suicide to name a few.  I have been slowing working on what i thought was going to be a single post about relationships.  It has been frustrating and I keep deleting and editing.  It just wasn't coming out right.  As I read the articles I realized i was doing it all wrong.  I was trying to shove all my emotions, opinions, and babble into one entry.  I think it would be so much better and far less stressful if I break it up.  So lets see how I do with that.  I have read a few articles recently that have made me think about personal things I rarely talk about publicly now. There was a time many many years ago when I blogged about my suffering and struggles.  Maybe it's time to start talking about these issues and personal struggle openly again.  That old blog has been removed for a long time and sometimes I miss the name of that blog.  It described me so well back then.  Idiotic Randomness was the name and I loved that blog.  Why I deleted it is a mystery to me now.  I just can't remember why I felt that was the best idea. 

I have a few Picture entries coming up.  I am still working on some of the photos.  I took well over 300 pictures for 3 different adventures.  I'll mostly likely put my 10 favorites and then put a link to the rest to my G+ photos.  No the photos are not there yet. I will upload them tomorrow before I post the entries on Friday.  I am still working on about 100 photos, so you'll have to be patient and wait for the blog entry.  I know some of you follow me on G+.... 

NO PEEKING!!