There comes a time in every man’s life where he has to say that there come’s a time in every man’s life.
This is not one of those times.
I don’t know if I have ever had one of those times. I don’t know if I know humanity well enough, or that I ever will feel secure enough to represent every man (and I use the word “man” in the general mankindy, man, woman, child, hermaphrodite, eunuch type of sense) who has had a life. So I probably just won’t.
On a completely different note, last month I had the goal to meditate for 15 minutes each day. This, like pretty much everything else, I failed miserably, but when I actually did it, I felt great, and it was nice and all. I just don’t really have the self-disipline to get myself doing this. In high school, however, in my theatre class, we did some yoga, and guided imagery and such, and that was always backed up by some pretty awesome/relaxing music and such, which was a huge help in the meditation and mind-easing process. I had, of course, pretty much forgotten about that and left it in the back of my mind when I had started trying to do my meditation last month. Then in my Organizational Behaviors class we spent a couple of classes talking about stress, and my professor had us do some relaxation and guided imagery with that amazingly relaxing music again, and it was heavenly.
Then, a little bit ago, to make things just work out perfectly, I got a comment from Chris Hughes over at Meditation DNA, who set me up to try out some of their relaxation music. And it’s awesome. I think that this will definitely help me out with any meditation attempts I make in the future (which will absolutely be sooner, and more frequent, now that I’ve got this). They’ve got all kinds of different audio meditation tracks each about twenty minutes long. You can sort them by focus (which ranges from insight to sexuality to wealth), by brain wave, by vocal type, by Chakra, and by Qi element. They also have a whole bunch of information on meditation in general, ranging from stuff for beginners, to information to long-time meditators. If you’ve ever wanted to meditate, or you have meditated, or you want to get rid of some stress and annoyance from your life, this will definitely help. Just sitting here on the computer listening to it, is completely relaxing me.
I’m planning on making dinner for my family tomorrow, I’m not really sure what I’m going to make yet. But I should decide soon, so I can go buy the food and whatnot.
Where I am goalwise this month:
I turned 20. I wrote to my pen-pals last week. I did not read/write/meditate Friday-Monday. So far I did my reading/writing today. I will probably meditate today too. I hope. I have not been eating fast food, except for that first Monday of Taco Bell, which I decided to let myself have.
I just had to go back to the day on my blog where I wrote all my goals, so I could remember what they are… haha. Self-discipline = Not really my thing.
Today my HD Tivo got set up. Yeah, Tivo. Between that and my DVR computer, I now have the capability to be recording three TV shows simultaneously at all times. So I need suggestions of what to record. (Currently on my list of new shows that get recorded each week: American Idol -I don’t watch it, but I burn it on a DVD for my mom when she wants to see it, Lost, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Not the Sarah Chronicle Chronicles, as I almost just wrote. Also, still remaining awesome. Knight Rider, once it starts up, approx. 1 week ’till that I believe, and I will of course be recording 24 when it starts. Although I don’t know when that is either.) I’m not really sure why that was a parenthesis?
A thought: Are computers, in regards to themselves, creationists or evolutionists?
I want a Nintendo 64. One of the guys from work, who says that he has three of them, was going to give one to me, but then he never did. I want to play Mario Kart 64. I miss that game. Oh, nostalgia…
Do you like art? Check this Deviant out then, there’s some good stuff (and she came to my birthday party!). I think this one is my favorite. Go pandas.
By the way, any suggestions on what to make my family for dinner tomorrow?
At what point does inspiration cross over to plagiarism?
I think that “otu” should be a word. Because it’s fun. Does anyone have any definitions for it? Or is it actually word in another language? Let me know, that would be cool.
Maybe I’ll name my first pet robot ever “Otu.” I think I could do that. His middle name would be “lawlz” or “lulz.”
Check it out: (there’s some bad words in there =O so be careful if you don’t like bad words…)
I want to be him when I grow up. And his website name is Shoplift Windchimes I mean, honestly, how awesome is that?
Listen to all his poetry, it’s awesome, for serious.
I’m done for tonight. I am going to go listen to poetry and play with Legos. Or play with dominos. I wonder if I still have my dominos somewhere?
I am not a child anymore. I am not a child anymore. I am not a child anymore. I will not let my youth escape me…
I’ve decided to allow weekly Taco Bell with the guys from work.
Mainly because it was too darn tempting, but also because it’s not that big of a pull on the wallet. And it’s tasty. And my stomach doesn’t regret it until afterwards.
I did some meditation breathing exercises for fifteen minutes after I woke up.
I read for over half an hour.
I just wrote for fifteen minutes.
Freewriting was really nice, it gave me a chance to not care what I was writing or what people are going to think about it, and I just wrote, and near the middle it turned into something with a theme and some meaning to it, and I think that that is awesome. It is also showing me the need for proofreading and editing and revising and all of that incredibly important parts of writing that I always ignore. So I plan on going back on that and expanding it further into something that is actually readable by the public, and such.
It’s the end of the first month of January and I have accomplished nothing, besides not dying, so I’ve decided to officially implement monthly goals again.
Goal 2: No fast food at all this month. (This went over pretty well with me last time, and I was actually able to accomplish it. I plan on having at least one goal to do with eating habits a month.)
Goal 3: Read something on paper at least 30 minutes a day. I was originally going to have this be just read at least 30 minutes a day, but I want to take out anything on the computer from it. Because reading books and anything from paper is much more relaxing, and less straining on the eyes.
Goal 4: Write for at least 15 minutes a day. This can be writing for myself, for this blog, for school, for anything. It can be complete jibberish, or, you know, whatever.
Goal 5: Cook dinner for my family at least once this month. This is something I’ve never done before, and I want more practice and experience cooking, so I’m going to make myself do it.
Goal 6: Write at least one letter a week to the people who wanted to be pen pals with me. (So far I’ve only written one letter, and received two, so I’m a slacker. But that’s going to stop!)
Goal 7: Turn 20. This is my last and easiest goal. So take that life.
And that’s it, feel free to bother my constantly to make sure that I’m keeping up with them, because there’s nothing I’d like more than to make them work.
jonfurniss
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