V-for-Veronica

I have developed a plan for my blog. V-for-Veronica will be updated with 2 new posts each week. The first will be something of genuine interest: guides on cooking/gardening and other experiments or crafty things. The second will contain personal experiences and thoughts worthy of mentioning from that week. In this way, I will not feel the need to rush my guides or personal entries to fit them both into one post. Furthermore, my blog will not feel cluttered or confusing. Users will be able to refer to guides without having to sift through pieces of my daily life, and stalkers will not be bothered with new ways to screw in light bulbs.

On a more personal level, my life is a mess. Organization, time management and self-discipline are traits I was not taught to develop as a child, so now, when I need them the most, I fall short. This week starts my latest and hopefully final attempt to better my life by–basically–growing up. The main areas I will be focusing on are fitness, cleanliness, and productivity.

For fitness, I will be going on daily walks: any time, any place, and at least 15 minutes. Today I worked in a 30 minute walk. Yay me! I’m well on my way to looking much better in my Threadless Tees, and doing so will develop my time management and self-discipline, not to mention the other multitude of benefits of exercise I’ll begin to experience.

When I say cleanliness, I am not meaning the basic things like showering and all that. ^_^ I’m already good with that stuff! The house, kitchen and my room, however, are a different matter. When I lived in an apartment with Sierra, we were able to keep the house clean. Living with my dad and brother is much more difficult because my brother doesn’t clean up after himself, so it makes it harder for me to do so. But that’s no excuse, and one day I’ll have kids of my own, so I need to figure out something that works for me.

Oh, productivity. Procrastination and OSS (“Ooo! Shiney!” Syndrome) are your fiercest enemies. I must stop wasting all my time and actually do something with myself that’s of worth. Art, music, blog posts, social activities, other hobbies: if I can do some of these and more every day I will be much happier with myself.