The Blog Addiction

Most people know that I read pretty many blogs every day. I spend more time on the computer than I do watching TV on the average weeknight (although often I do both, I’m fabulously coordinated like that!). On the blogroll to the right, I listed only a few of the more general blogs I read that I thought other people might be interested in…but, I really read many more (much dorkier) blogs in addition to those each day.

To keep up with all of my dorkiness, I have enlisted the help of bloglines. When I started using bloglines my enthusiasm knew no end, but now that its been a part of my life for some time now, its fallen to the “taken for granted” side of things. But that doesn’t mean the love isn’t still there! Here’s what I like about it:

• it keeps all of my blogs in one spot (no more searching through bookmarks)
• it keeps track of the new posts that I haven’t read, so I don’t spend time looking at sites that haven’t been updated
• I can share my list or keep it private (see link below)
• I can access my list anywhere, so I don’t have to be on my own computer to get a hit of cute animals, bad fashion, or life hacking tips
• I can read the info through the blog reader and avoid any advertisements (though this is sometimes a disadvantage and you have to click on the blog title to get to a video or something)

I do need to weed out some of the links to blogs that have begun to annoy me, or are just taking up space. It’s been on my to do list for some time, but is one of those things that is just not important enough to beat out other things that need to be done to actually get completed at any point. Mainly I read stuff about finances, productivity, and random writers that amuse me. So, here is my blog list, complete with some random ones I don’t really read anymore.

Risawahoo’s Bloglines

Oh, and PS…no late opening, although it did snow ALL DAY until almost dismissal time. It’s nearly impossible to keep kids working when it is snowing…although I can’t really blame them, its hard for me too.  Something about snow kicks in my “must read a book in bed with hot chocolate” instinct.

Almost there!

So I have finally come up with 100 things I want to do in the next 1001 days…I just need one more! Since it will be at the top of the list (by default of how the blogger widgets work) I feel like it should be a decent goal, and not one that is lame.

Many of my goals I tried to do for a month. I’m hoping that after a month or two of doing something it will either become a habit, or I will at least feel like I have given it a real shot of becoming a habit and for whatever reason it didn’t make the cut. Some things I know have a small chance of actually becoming a habit, but I feel that doing it for a month would still benefit my life (like doing a gratitude journal). Others I hope will stick with me (Joe’s goals, food journal, making my bed.)

Other ways I came up with my goals: I listed things I always wanted to do (obviously), thought of things I sometimes do that I’d like to do more often, things that would make my life easier or better, things I’ve should do but have been procrastinating on, and things that I’m scared to do but should.

There are a few things in there that I kind of cheated and listed even though I know I am already going to do them (sister’s bridal shower, rome) but they are still things that require effort and planning so I thought it was fair to list them as goals. In theory, I would hope that most things on the list are things I would have done anyway, and that the time period combined with my love of list making and crossing things off would give me the catalyst to get going. I’m encouraged by other websites where people have completed their list and started another one. I think that its always a good sign when people are willing to do something twice.

My challenge, as always, is going to be to stick with this. I tend to get all excited about something and then two weeks later forget about it, focus on another part of my life, or decide its not worth it. Many of my goals address things that I have done that, but I hope that committing to the list itself will be a way to stick with something for once. [Just had visions of people reading my blog three years from now and finding this to be the last post, never having been touched again once I begin...I have to admit the blog itself is a way that I am trying to keep myself accountable!]

If you are someone who finds list interesting, you might want to check out Best 101 Lists. Its not the 101/1001 lists, but other random lists of 101 things, such as organizing, blog tools, and the like.

Still thinking…

Wow, it’s a lot harder to find 101 things that I want to do than I thought it would be. I’m still working on finishing the list…but it will definitely be done by Dec. 31st!