Getting on track...

So, first of all, Happy Monday to youse.

Do you ever feel like you would love to be Caught Up with all of the nonsense in life? Getting your bills all paid and FILED? Getting your car washed? Cleaning your apartment/home )including putting away all the things that were meant to go in storage, but haven't for months). Get a schedule for going to the gym? Posting updates in your grow log? ;)

Do you notice that you're unable to fully relax in your time off when you have these things hanging over your head?

I'm trying to start off this week on a good foot. I've got lotsa work I gotta get done and lotsa goals I've set that I want to work on. I'm going to try to get them done systematically. I've figured that in a couple weeks, if I'm diligent, I can get to a point where I can REALLY relax when I have time off.

Here are a list of things I want to get done:

1 - Stop smoking cigs - I know I tried this at the beginning of the year, but I've been unsucessful up until now. Once I get into the gym on a regular basis, this should be easier.

2 - Get into the gym - I've been paying for the damn membership forever, and I haven't used it in months and months. I used to be on a schedule but it's gone to shit ever since I hurt my shoulder last year and have gotten so busy with work. I hope to lose at least 15 pounds over the next month or two.

3 - Catch up on my grow thread - I've got some cool pics and another whole chapter in the JOURNAL OF A MADMAN, so I'd like to start posting that, along with several videos I have in the making.

4 - Finish the book I'm reading - That is all. It's a good book. Need to finish it.

5 - Wash my car - It's filthy. That's one thing about driving so much, and being a smoker. I just want to go trade it in and get another one. I've had it for 4 years...so time to get a new one. :) Not sure if I'll go NEW or slightly used.

6 - Catch up on bills - I recently did a good deal of work on my files and cleaned out a bunch of garbage. I've got a little left, but working on it. It's going good.

7 - Menu - I'd like to plan my meals better so I can eat cheaper & healthier. Fast food is killing me...literally.


Ok, that's about it. I feel that if I can get THAT stuff done, I will be on track to having a stress-free life and I will be able to keep up with the systems I've set up. This way, there is just a little work daily to keep everything in order, and no stress. More time to focus on family & friends. No more guilt for relaxing when the car needs to be washed and boxes need to be unpacked.


Now, mostly, this is a way that I can commit to those goals I've set. Since it's up on the web, now I have to follow through with these goals...or be forever embarrased. :p lol...

Now, I'm not sure how much any of you care, but that is why I posted it. Also, I'd like to hear what things YOU guys have to catch up with? Do you have the same feelings I do when you're behind? Are you a semi-perfectionist like myself?


Ok, this post is long enuff. Now your turn. :D


The Fog :rastasmoke:


P.S. I'm eating a Chimichanga...is that bad for my health? Maybe I should only eat half? BUT ITS SOOOO goood!

im only 17 so i dont have bills and things to pay, but i do want to get into a routine.

iv already set my alarm fir 6am so i can go out running every morning before work, i only decided this morning
start reading some more, iv got some amazing books but cnt be bothered reading them
taking care of my money, i spend it all on shite
keep my room tidy

but i dont see the last 3 happenin really
and i dont think the first one will be going for very long

i want to meet new people, i only hang out with a select group of friends ever since i finished highschool.

i want to reclean my room. i organized it and made it pimpin, but i got lazy and now there is clothes everywhere..

i want to straighten things up with this girl i met, but i need to come to my senses that i need to look at her for who she is, not what she looks like... (i hate my shallow ass)

which brings me to i dont want to be shallow anymore, i found out 2 nights ago i am so fuckin shallow =[

i want to play more paintball.. i love the sport and its what i enjoy the most, it gives me a better high then smoking weed. but i love smoking and playing at the same time hahaha

i want to find a fucking car! lol check these 3 out
92 CIVIC HATCH! NICE! O.B.O. TRADE?
95 Honda civic with Mod's!!My loss your Gain!
93 honda civic eg hatch.
just 3 more im interested in..

shit idk, i might add to it in a little bit..

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Originally Posted by Podge_Boro

im only 17 so i dont have bills and things to pay, but i do want to get into a routine.

iv already set my alarm fir 6am so i can go out running every morning before work, i only decided this morning
start reading some more, iv got some amazing books but cnt be bothered reading them
taking care of my money, i spend it all on shite
keep my room tidy

but i dont see the last 3 happenin really
and i dont think the first one will be going for very long

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Haha, Podge...well, at least you know what I'm talking about. :)

I would have a HORRIBLE time trying to get up in the AM to run or exercise. Any time I exercise, it has to be at night. But a routine would be good.

Reading...I know what you mean. I have a hard time reading for any long period of time. Try doing 15 minute intervals...?

Taking care of your money? Well, I'm not even going to start on that because I could type a 15 page post on the stuff I've learned about that...but I still end up spending some of my $$ on useless crap. Luckily, I make enough to cover most of it.

Keeping room tidy...I'd say...take one day, clean everything. Top to bottom. Find or make a place for everything. Then maintain. Don't throw your clothes on the floor (it just takes a few extra seconds to fold it or put it in the clothes basket). Put your keys and change etc in a bowl or on the same place in your room everytime so you don't have to look for them. My gf turned me onto the invention of a KEY HOOK. Shit works wonders.

And lastly, put all your weed and paraphenalia in one box/place. Not only is it cluttery to have it laying around, but much more dangerous to your livelihood.

Try it out man...keep us posted. :D


The Fog :rastasmoke:

oh ya i should add, i need to pay the rest of my phone bill and insurance.. but im training for assistant manager at dominos, so im going to be making a little more then minimum... which is 7.80 right now..

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Originally Posted by nikweiser

i want to meet new people, i only hang out with a select group of friends ever since i finished highschool.

i want to reclean my room. i organized it and made it pimpin, but i got lazy and now there is clothes everywhere..

i want to straighten things up with this girl i met, but i need to come to my senses that i need to look at her for who she is, not what she looks like... (i hate my shallow ass)

which brings me to i dont want to be shallow anymore, i found out 2 nights ago i am so fuckin shallow =[

i want to play more paintball.. i love the sport and its what i enjoy the most, it gives me a better high then smoking weed. but i love smoking and playing at the same time hahaha

i want to find a fucking car! lol check these 3 out
92 CIVIC HATCH! NICE! O.B.O. TRADE?
95 Honda civic with Mod's!!My loss your Gain!
93 honda civic eg hatch.
just 3 more im interested in..

shit idk, i might add to it in a little bit..

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I wish I had TIME to meet new people...but I thoroughly enjoy the relationships I've made on here! Just close enough so we can talk, but not so close that I can't go away for a week without clinginess. Lol.

Go clean your room, pimpin'.

Girls are tough. Shallowness is hard to deal with. I feel you on that but I can't elaborate. Not now at least. Good luck with that, dude.

Paintball rules. I'd love to get back into doing a bunch of things (sports) that I used to do, first and foremost, I'd love to go snowboarding again SOON! I hope I can find time. Adrenaline rocks! I wanna take out someone's Adrenal gland and suck on it! :p hehehe

Good luck with your ride, man. You sound like my brother.


The Fog :rastasmoke:

... are you in the other room dude?

lol jk.

lol when i read go clean your room, i looked around and saw all my shit... and im gonna clean it up right now as im typing and youre reading.. then ill take a pic of how clean my shit is!

the reading isnt really too much of a problem
once i get into a book as good as 'Monster' or 'Redemption'
i cant put it down, i just need a good hour with the book

as for the bedroom, i share it with my brother
every time i clean it i say to myself that im gonna keep it tidy
but it never happens

the running i used to do it every day for about 3 months
that was good for me, i need to loose weight too
im also gonna start doing my weights too

for my money il just make a spreadsheet on exel
count up all my money n budget things
i might turn into a weekend smoker cos thats all i can afford

thanks for the tips too mate
they should help me :thumbsup:

ive read monster.. its actually sittin on my stairs right now

my entire life has been one long leisurely scramble to take care of all the daily necessities. after living this way for so long i wouldn't know how to do it any other way. i've never understood folks who believe in that "place for everything and everything in its place" way of life, the chaos is half the fun. often i find that if i clear out one room the next become twice as much of a chore and that no, everything does not have a place and even if it did it probably wouldn't fit there. well; i'm off to work, leaving behind the jumble of my personal life and heading into me confusion of my business. wish me luck or don't, i'll continue with the fun either way.
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Originally Posted by nikweiser

... are you in the other room dude?

lol jk.

lol when i read go clean your room, i looked around and saw all my shit... and im gonna clean it up right now as im typing and youre reading.. then ill take a pic of how clean my shit is!

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Haha...*whispers* "I'm right behind you!"

SO, you've had over an hour...room clean yet? I'm a little further on one of my books. My meal was delicious, also.

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Originally Posted by Podge_Boro

the reading isnt really too much of a problem
once i get into a book as good as 'Monster' or 'Redemption'
i cant put it down, i just need a good hour with the book

as for the bedroom, i share it with my brother
every time i clean it i say to myself that im gonna keep it tidy
but it never happens

the running i used to do it every day for about 3 months
that was good for me, i need to loose weight too
im also gonna start doing my weights too

for my money il just make a spreadsheet on exel
count up all my money n budget things
i might turn into a weekend smoker cos thats all i can afford

thanks for the tips too mate
they should help me :thumbsup:

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You have a dream, at least. That excel idea is a good one. Just gotta make sure you keep up with it. Once you get a little behind...then starts the snowball. :(

Be cool, Podge. :D Oh, hey, did you personally disable your rep? And if so, why? I've been away for almost a week so I came back to all these people with disabled reps and I wonder...oh how I wonder so... :wtf:?

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Originally Posted by nikweiser

ive read monster.. its actually sittin on my stairs right now

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A BOOK is sitting on your stairs...? Go pick it up. Put it on a friggin' bookshelf! :D

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Originally Posted by delusionsofNORMALity

my entire life has been one long leisurely scramble to take care of all the daily necessities. after living this way for so long i wouldn't know how to do it any other way. i've never understood folks who believe in that "place for everything and everything in its place" way of life, the chaos is half the fun. often i find that if i clear out one room the next become twice as much of a chore and that no, everything does not have a place and even if it did it probably wouldn't fit there. well; i'm off to work, leaving behind the jumble of my personal life and heading into me confusion of my business. wish me luck or don't, i'll continue with the fun either way.
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True...it seems as if this type of chaos is just a natural part of life, but I have been chasing after a moderately perfect system my whole life. I still believe it exists. I DO believe there is a place for everything and everything in its place. If there isn't a place, you have to make one. NO JUNK DRAWERS. Also, you have to get good at throwing useless crap away.

I guess some people can live like that...and I'm jealous of your ability to be non-stressed about it, but I just can't relax when I know that I could be spending that time getting caught up. When I get there...it'll be bliss...just days of chillin', surfing the net, and rolling beautiful fat joints! :jointsmile:


The Fog :rastasmoke:

lol i forgot about my room, i was cleanin some shit downstairs.. i just need to put the rest of my clothes away, and get all this garbage off my dresser and it might be done

Glad you're back Fog. :jointsmile:

I constantly find myself making so-called 'to-do' lists. I definitely need to get on track though. Pre-season soccer is starting up, and I am anything but in shape.

Sometimes the days seem to fly by, seriously. Who honestly feels like it should be the end of February already? Shit, I'm still in NYE party mode.

Very few days do I seem to get the most out of it. That might be changing. ~

Hey, IAP. I was playing scrabble, and I had the letters:

IAPSMOKE

I thought of you :jointsmile:

One of the things on my TO DO list...is:

Go around and round up all my other various TO DO lists and combine them into one...then check all those things off!!

I need to get in shape too. (sigh)

I wanna quit smoking ciggarettes...but I feel the need to have one RIGHT now...and the worst part about it, is that I have none, so I'd have to go buy a pack to just have ONE! :mad:


The Fog :rastasmoke:

1.Do my homework, just do it and get good grades
2.clean my room-it really needs it
3.make up with parents, got in a big fight and need to make up with them
4.smoke weed only at appropriate times. but when i do it enjoy myself:stoned:

LOL, I've been smoking them on and off for a while too, and I ALSO want one now. But I simply can't be smoking them during season. That would be very counter-productive. :stoned:

The cigarette companies are smart, you want just one but you have to buy 20 so youll naturally smoke all those then want just one more again.

Get back in the gym, when you are craving go lift weights- the endorphins release you get from it puts you in a great mood and is proven to be more stress relieving than nicotene.

If you really want to get off I recommend getting sick sometime, I havn't smoked for 3 weeks since I got a cough and cold that made it miserable to smoke (withdrawl is only 3 days)

i need to exercise and work out more.. thats something im bad at. my room is clean now, i might take pics..
gotta finish some shit downstairs first

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Originally Posted by NextLineIsMine

The cigarette companies are smart, you want just one but you have to buy 20 so youll naturally smoke all those then want just one more again.

Get back in the gym, when you are craving go lift weights- the endorphins release you get from it puts you in a great mood and is proven to be more stress relieving than nicotene.

If you really want to get off I recommend getting sick sometime, I havn't smoked for 3 weeks since I got a cough and cold that made it miserable to smoke (withdrawl is only 3 days)

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DAMN BIG TOBACCO...DAMN THEM. :cursing:

If I could go to the gym everytime I had a craving, I would. Sadly, that is not an option. I do, however, plan to slowly start to get into a routine of working out several times a week, when I can schedule it. Then once I've been in the gym for a couple weeks consistently, I will not crave the evil cancer-sticks anymore. Pray for me. :(

Unfortunately, getting sick does not help me quit. When I'm sick, and start coughing, the only thing that gets me to temporarily stop coughing is...cigs. Booo.

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Originally Posted by nikweiser

i need to exercise and work out more.. thats something im bad at. my room is clean now, i might take pics..
gotta finish some shit downstairs first

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Where dem pics? :pimp:


The Fog :rastasmoke:

right here..
organized my closet, my computer shit and my shit around my tv... it was a horrible mess..

Bedroom...CHECK!


Good job, dude. Could use a bit of dusting...but, hey, I've probably dusted fewer times than I have fingers...in my life. That's womens work. :p lol...hehe. I'm lying. I dust the nightstand after I've gotten it all ashy. That's about it.

Nice room, there, Nikweiser. You should've taken a BEFORE pic!

Do you have the two monitors linked so it's one big screen? I wanna do that. I also wanna hook up a large projection screen wirelessly to my cpu...but...meh...dreams. I'm interested in your wall color. What color would you say that is?

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The Fog :rastasmoke:

ya they are like one big screen, i can drag shit over or put it between both.. its nifty and fun to play with and easier to browse shit and do work on it..

ya it looks dusty, but really its not that bad.. sometimes i dust, but on a rare occasion if it gets bad..

umm i cant remember of the exact name of the wall color, its some kinda dark blue.. but its a really comfy color thats for sure.. ill find out and let you know though

lol a before pic would have been good, i should have thought of that... but after i was done i was like ok picture time.. just picture games everywhere, along with clothes and garbage.. like the regular dirty ass room heheh

well my alarm went off 6 this morning, i woke up got my phone and turned it off
was i fuck going runnin
i cnt sdo mornins im gna do nights now
apart from if im high

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Originally Posted by TheGreenFog

Oh, hey, did you personally disable your rep? And if so, why? I've been away for almost a week so I came back to all these people with disabled reps and I wonder...oh how I wonder so... :wtf:?

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no i didnt disable it, fuck knows whats going on but it looks shit

I have a few overdue bills to pay, and I just checked my bank account online, and forgot that I got tax returns from the feds and state, so that makes me MUCH happier since I have to pay for:

Car insurance
Traffic ticket
Rent
2 overdue co-pays for doctor visits

And that's it for a while... I'm going to only use my credit card for gas now, so I can keep better track of my money.

EDIT: Wow! I earned 5 cents interest this month! Sweet!

Ugh

My to-do list for the weekend was

pay mortgage
pay utilities
get my tax shit to my accountant
do laundry
wash the dog
vacuum the car

and NONE of it got done because someone invited me to a race party... and I went... and stayed... and came home at 3am... and slept the next day...

And I don't even care about NASCAR.

I need a personal assistant.

Wait... I did SOME shit.. like scrubbed the kitchen... does that count? :D

Podge, Yea, I can't do mornings, either. Too rough. I'm having a hard time getting started on "nights," now though because I'm usually toking and tired.

If you want to "enable" your rep, go into your UserCP. It's somewhere in there.

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Originally Posted by Purple Banana

I have a few overdue bills to pay, and I just checked my bank account online, and forgot that I got tax returns from the feds and state, so that makes me MUCH happier since I have to pay for:

Car insurance
Traffic ticket
Rent
2 overdue co-pays for doctor visits

And that's it for a while... I'm going to only use my credit card for gas now, so I can keep better track of my money.

EDIT: Wow! I earned 5 cents interest this month! Sweet!

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Tax Return...bonus! Interest sucks when it's like that, eh? Well, it's 5 cents u didn't have before.

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Originally Posted by stinkyattic

Ugh
I need a personal assistant. :D

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I need a personal assistant, too. I haven't done ANYTHING on my list since I posted this thread. :( :( :( Well, I worked on getting some pictures together yesterday. Does that count? JOURNAL II is coming so soon! ;)


The Fog :rastasmoke: