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Weekly Change #2: cleaning and tidying up the house

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Here comes week #2 (actually, week #3, since I just repeated the first week during the second one), which I really can’t put off any longer, though I’d like to. :) The change is this: each day, make sure my home ends up noticeably better than it started. I’m thinking about focusing on one room each day.

About the “noticeably better”: it doesn’t mean that it has to end up perfect, but, on the other hand, cleaning a square centimeter of the floor doesn’t count. :)

A bit of background: I’m really disorganized, and don’t really have a problem with living “amidst chaos”, but, of course, this means that I can’t have visits at home, organize my usual Sunday lunches, and so on. On the other hand, I really have a problem with tidying up and cleaning; much like exercising, these are activities I find utterly, mind-numbingly boring, as they don’t occupy my mind at all, but still need some active attention; even really doing nothing would be better, as without such a demand for attention I could simply let my mind wander.

Still, life isn’t made of only pleasant activities, and I really must do something about my “lair”. Therefore, I came up with this plan. If I spend, say, 10-15 minutes each day improving the condition of one room, in a couple of weeks the house will be good enough to have visitors again — without the insanity, the horror :) of, say, spending an entire weekend doing nothing but this.

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Weekly Change #1: no alcohol except on social occasions

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

And no, “social occasions” don’t include going to my family’s for dinner, or having friends or family at home who are not currently drinking.

As I said last post, I’ve already started this one, last Monday. This should be mostly easy… for a while.

The problem is not that I “crave” alcohol, as an alcoholic would do; the problem is that I seem to have got it into my head, since years ago, that a great meal needs a great wine (or an average one, if a great one is not affordable), and that I need alcohol in my system to enjoy several types of situations — typically social ones.

Of course, that’s a dependency — even if not a physical one –, which makes it a very, very bad idea. I must be able to both enjoy a good meal and enjoy myself with either friends or strangers without having to drink a couple of glasses first.

Besides, without drinking I sleep much better, and feel much more awake during the day. The days even seem longer — which may actually have been one of my reasons for drinking, since I often feel like time passes too slowly, which obviously causes boredom. But making the days “become” shorter is absolutely the wrong way to solve that; if I need more things to do so that I don’t get bored, that’s what I should search for — or create.

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