Well, seeing as this coming Friday, March 20th is the glorious First Day of Spring, it seems fitting that we stick with "tradition" and try to declutter and reorganize our lives for the start of the new season. I've been feeling mysteriously motivated lately -- perhaps because this is the one week all semester where I don't actually have pressing deadlines -- and decided some of the motivation could be put to good use in the form of a blog posting. Besides, Ryan keeps giving me crap for slacking while he's making all sorts of new posts on his blog and on our blog... and I don't want him to be justified in his crap-giving anymore :)
First things first: I love cleaning. It's true that I rarely ever clean, and when I do, I usually end up distracted and will give up before I really have the chance to get started. But sometimes I just get into it and don't want to stop! This weekend, thanks in large part to my crazy-ambitious workaholic father, was one of those times. Saturday morning we decided it would be an awesome idea to clean the carpets... Like rent-a-Rug-Doctor-and-really-really-clean-the-carpets cleaning. It was insane and, to be truthful, I hated it at the time, mostly because my dad always has to go all-out and we ended up moving all of our furniture out of our rooms so we could "adequately" clean. (Seriously, my parents' mattress was on our back porch all of Saturday while the carpet was drying!) We worked until midnight and then on Sunday, we reversed it all and moved all of our kitchen furniture so we could mop the tile floors. Extravagant. Spring cleaning to an extreme. But, looking back on it, I'm really glad we did it. Everything just feels better and I'm way more motivated to clean everything else because of it. In fact, I'm hoping Ryan and I can get his vacuum fixed so we can extreme-clean his place too! Well... if he lets me!
I guess, though, it doesn't just stop there. Yes, I want to clean the rest of my room -- I want to make my desk the OCD-organized place it normally is and I want to find a way to organize my mini-Bath & Body Works collection so I actually can see my countertops in my bathroom. But I want to do more than that. I want to do some "spring cleaning" on myself! Like... I would love to feel completely caught up in school for once. (Don't judge -- I do understand that writing this blog is a major hindrance to my being caught up and a major contradiction to everything I'm saying.) And I would love to feel like I'm making progress towards things that aren't school related. So, I guess I really just want to rediscover my motivation for life... and I'm dying to find a way to make it last, for once. Maybe this "spring cleaning," plus a little bit of Ryan's help, will finally get me there.
So here's my to-do list... with a timeframe from now until the beginning of the summer. I guess it's not even so much of a to-do list, but rather just goals or desires that I'm holding for myself. My hope is that, if I write all of this out, I will feel more inclined and motivated to stick to it... or, if nothing else, I will have a special someone reminding me of what I said ;)
I want to play Wii Fit and/or DDR at least three times per week. And maybe I'll actually lose a couple pounds to go along with that :)
I want to do 100 crunches per night. Every night.
I want to watch one movie every week. It's almost as if I strive to make my life as high-stress as possible... and I think taking the time to watch a movie every week (off our list!) will help combat that.
I want to read my honors books every week from now until the end of the semester. No more half-assed almost finishing the books... I want to f-i-n-i-s-h them.
I want to be in bed by midnight every school night. Earlier, if possible, but no later than midnight. My poor body has had enough of a struggle as it is... I should at least let it sleep!
I want to finish my chem lab homework stuff on the weekends, so I have my Monday nights to watch Dancing With the Stars with my mommy :)
I could probably keep going, but I think this is enough for now. Besides, it's about time I do some homework (or at least some reading!) so I can actually feel like I'm making progress. Plus, Ryan gets off work in t-minus 3 minutes, and I want to be able to talk to him... well, after he rides his bike ALL the way from Borders back to his house!
Ta ta for now.
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Haha whoa Kimberley posted! I never thought I'd see the day :) jk jk <3 by the way you need to comment my travel one and passion one :P
ReplyDeletePretty soon this blog will have more posts than my blog :( How sad is that! So pretty sure I've never really understood why you like cleaning so much. Pretty much it's so hard and takes up so much time and oi vay! It's a really great feeling when you get done though, so I kinda get it.. sorta haha. Although, cleaning a house like mine is so freaking awful, just cause I'm a pig! That rug cleaning and vacuuming and moving stuff around was awful! And you forgot us doing all the dishes too, you were damn productive thats for sure. The best part of all of it was laying on your couch :)
"100 crunches. Every night" Oh my lord.. talk about freaking painful! You don't even know what you're saying.. it's gonna be painful! I'm also so down with going to bed before midnight every night--lawl I'm writing this at 12:12 right now so much for starting haha--and I really hope that the movie watching is with me. Who knows, you could wanna watch with other people :( *///*
But I must say, I really like the idea behind this post, I wanna post one about getting in shape so I can actually do stuff.. too bad I'm so lazy and fat! Maybe I'll get around to it, we'll see. I still have a couple to write for my blog :p <3