So I have
decided I tend to spend way, way too much time on the computer during the day.
I go from Facebook to YouTube to blogs to MSN and back again. I can sit for
hours if you let me and next minute its lunch time and I have done nothing with
my morning, so this Thursday I and going to have a net and TV free day…I don’t really
watch a lot of TV in the daytime anyway, but it’s always on just there and sometimes
something will catch my eye, normally as I turn my chair away from the computer
getting ready to get up and do something.
What do I hope
to achieve with this??…Honestly I’m not sure, I expect my house will be clean
and tidy no doubt, I may even get some crafting done , but I think more than
anything I want to make myself more aware of how much time I sit on my bum and
do almost nothing. Might I add that said bum is getting bigger and bigger!
I am obviously
aware of it otherwise I wouldn’t be doing the net free thing, but I think I am
tricking myself at the same time. I am saying naughty things to myself trying
to make excesses to make myself feel better…Oh come on its not that much, you
still get most of the house work in (of course only what really has to be done)
the washing is still done at the end of the day (not folded thou), what does it
matter if I spend a little time online???
It matters because
at the end of the day when my kids get home from school I am still just wanting
to sit in front of the pc. I get grumpy when heaven forbid one of the kids
wants me to make them a sandwich or something. It’s selfish and I never wanted
to be that person. I don’t want to fight
with my almost 13yr son about computer time and get angry cos he won’t hurry up
and get off it when I tell him too, just so I can see if anything new has happened
on FB. I don’t want to get angry when I walk into the room and see my husband
is reading the news and think “man he has stolen my lappy again”. Please no
judging!!
The internet is a privilege not a right!!!
So this Thursday
I am net free from first thing in the morning till 7 pm I would do it Wednesday but I’m out most of
that day anyway and I think that is kinda cheating when I’m not going to be
home to really take stock of things. For this to work it has to be a day when I’m
home!!
But if
anything happens around the world, like big important stuff someone please text
me…LOL
Oh and I do have a update for my spring cleaning but that will have to wait a couple more days, never know i may have more to show after my no net day!
I hear you...I have often thought this myself. What is the point of spending hours on the computer to get crafty ideas if I could have been using those hours to create those crafty ideas. Good wishes to you and your will power. It might just motivate me too. Although, I went back to work 4 days a week this school year and I'm freaking out about my computer/crafty time lost and become kind of obsessed about it when I get home. Here's to hoping that we can both me motivated to get off our "bums".
ReplyDeleteyou just described me, maybe I need to do this too!!! actually I should really try to make it a weekly thing. I could make a start on my spring cleaning lists
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