Week 2: Man Cannot Live By Pizza Alone
Sep 20
John Riepenhoff‘s Recursive Pizza Is Recursive. (via Serious Eats)
(Full disclosure: I had pizza just last night for dinner. And for breakfast this morning. leSigh.)
I was going to start this post with the line “Food is my enemy…”, but I just can’t do it. I love food, I just don’t have a healthy relationship with it. It’s like that guy my mom told me to stay away from. She didn’t mean all guys, just that guy. I have a hard time making the better choice because yum, that’s why!
Face Your Limitations
Sep 20Once you face and understand your limitations, you can work with them, instead of having them work against you and get in your way... you will find that, in many cases, your limitations can be your strengths.”
- Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
Addicted to the Boob Tube: Followup
Sep 20My major goal last week was to cut down on my TV habit. So much of my time has been spent watching TV instead of doing things that might benefit me or my family. I could have been reading a book, playing more with the kids, maybe even venture outside every once in a while (The sun! It burnssss!). I needed to make a change, so I set my goal and promised to follow through for one week.
Piece of cake, right? Until I find out how much of my life has been structured around television. I really had to think about what else to do. So my kids and I did origami projects together, I worked on keeping my kitchen clean (always hard for me), and I read more. All good things! Of course I watched some TV, but I squirreled away my time ration so I could use it for quiet snuggles with the kids (just about the only time they’ll really snuggle with me still), some TED Talks and some insomnia, and for Dr. Who. Obviously.
By the end of the week I could see that my impulse to go sit and watch TV hadn’t really lessened, but what had changed was the fact that I stopped to think “What else can I be doing with my time?”
Changing Habits + Goal 1: Addicted to the Boob Tube
Sep 11
I don’t really believe in the power of blogging as an accountability tool (who’s there to be accountable to when you have no readership?), but I do need to find a way to vent my frustrations and work out my goals for fixing the things that I’m frustrated about.
Basically, I can’t afford a therapist so Mostly Mundane will have to pinch hit.
My plan is to take one problem area per week and boot camp it. Change the habit so that it no longer has a grip. Kinda like when you are really into show on TV but then you miss a few episodes, you begin to lose interest. Which brings me to my first goal:
