Of all the changes Holly wants to implement in my life, the one that gets the most attention is my lack of healthy eating habits. She thinks pancakes should be topped with fruit; I think syrup and chocolate and whipped cream and powdered sugar should be heaped on each individual pancake instead of the plate as a whole. She thinks oatmeal should be natural; I think it should be "natural". She thinks I should eat enough; I think I should eat too much.
So, in the interest of appeasing her, I have started a new project. I have decided to call it "An Apple a Day". I have in my possession the following apples: Braeburn, Fuji, Jonagold, Kiku, and Mcintosh. I'm going to eat one a day, and figure out which apples I like.
Then Holly can choose another fault to change.
I'm thinking my hair.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
So this is the New Year. I maybe feel a little different.
2009 "Live a less digital life."
After I graduated college, I was pretty much just sitting around my house, drinking alone, and playing Flash games on the internet until 3 in the morning. I then moved to Philadelphia and spent the summer watching "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" on Hulu instead of looking for a job. When the savings ran out, I got a job at a law firm and then spent every night playing Kingdon of Loathing (an internet RPG), watching Battlestar Galactica on Netflix, or reading boingboing.
Realizing how much time I spent online started to bug me. So I vowed to spend 2009 in the real world and not chained to a monitor. I broke up with my girlfriend that May and spent 5 months playing Kingdom of Loathing, watching terrible horror movies on Netflix, and playing Resident Evil 4.
2010 "Learn how to turn money into more money."
With a move back to Utah and a NEW girlfriend, I needed to stop this cycle of getting money, wondering where it all went, and waiting until the next Friday to get more money. Thus I planned to become a rich person. They don't work for their money, they make their money work for them. How do they do this? Investments. I bought boardgames, an Xbox 360, and a washer and dryer instead of stocks. I did put money into my savings account and ended up with 4 cents of interest.
2011 "Give up a single thing every month."
This year I'm trying something different. I've crafted a much better resolution than in years past. By not specifying what I'm giving up, I can just change it on a whim. Let's say I'm halfway through January when a soda sounds good. As long as I haven't smoked that month, I can give up cigarettes instead. Plus, the day the month is done, I can go right back to giving in to any base appetite I desire. I think this might rival my favorite resolution of my life, which was in 2005: "Commit the Seven Deadly Sins."
After I graduated college, I was pretty much just sitting around my house, drinking alone, and playing Flash games on the internet until 3 in the morning. I then moved to Philadelphia and spent the summer watching "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" on Hulu instead of looking for a job. When the savings ran out, I got a job at a law firm and then spent every night playing Kingdon of Loathing (an internet RPG), watching Battlestar Galactica on Netflix, or reading boingboing.
Realizing how much time I spent online started to bug me. So I vowed to spend 2009 in the real world and not chained to a monitor. I broke up with my girlfriend that May and spent 5 months playing Kingdom of Loathing, watching terrible horror movies on Netflix, and playing Resident Evil 4.
2010 "Learn how to turn money into more money."
With a move back to Utah and a NEW girlfriend, I needed to stop this cycle of getting money, wondering where it all went, and waiting until the next Friday to get more money. Thus I planned to become a rich person. They don't work for their money, they make their money work for them. How do they do this? Investments. I bought boardgames, an Xbox 360, and a washer and dryer instead of stocks. I did put money into my savings account and ended up with 4 cents of interest.
2011 "Give up a single thing every month."
This year I'm trying something different. I've crafted a much better resolution than in years past. By not specifying what I'm giving up, I can just change it on a whim. Let's say I'm halfway through January when a soda sounds good. As long as I haven't smoked that month, I can give up cigarettes instead. Plus, the day the month is done, I can go right back to giving in to any base appetite I desire. I think this might rival my favorite resolution of my life, which was in 2005: "Commit the Seven Deadly Sins."
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