I'm Sanni and this is a blog on my side of life. I'm totally addicted to American TV-Shows, love coffee, food and sleeping - not necessarily in this order. I started this blog to get more organized or let's say less messy. As a result of two years of faineance I came up with the idea of challenging my sister, who also wanted to be more determined in achieving her goals. This is my part of the journey.
March 13, 2011
Japan
I was at a hockey game last night. One of the players got a 2 minute penalty but didn’t accept it. So instead of leaving the ice he kept on arguing with the referee and seemed to be getting really angry so that another ref had to keep them apart. Just in case he wanted to start a fight (yes with the ref).
Why am I writing about this? Because when he was kicked off the ice for the rest of the game all I could think of was: How embarrassing!! Dude, in Japan there are things happening that truly matter, while you are being ridiculous. And I’m here watching you. Just sad!
Just wanted to let the world know that I love my friends. The past couple of months have shown me that I can trust and count on them completely. I don’t know what I would do without them. I tend to focus my attention on one or two people but this bunch of girls proves to me every day that a few days of low frequency and less talking doesn’t matter if you know the other person. Letting people in is so hard but so important.Thank you that I can be myself with you. I love you so much!
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Again! It’s been more than two months sine I posted anything. I guess I failed again. Especially with getting more organized. My room looks like π#!@. I will try to find another use for his blog; hopefully I’ll make it ;) Starting tonight …
Before I get to my daily list of chores, I have to mention that I love tumblr’s ask anything section. A couple of days ago I sent Lena a question and she answered today, which I thought was terrific. Although, I had found a way to change my design myself (at least a little bit) she gave me a new perspective that I hadn’t known about. So thanks for that. Additionally, seeing that she responded to a very random question, encourages me to maybe ask a more ‘profound’ one next time. I believe she is a great writer and presents a lot of arguments concerning feminism that I share but sometimes maybe never even thought of.
Also, just as a note on the side, I’ve been feeling like a sponge the last couple of days - no I’m not talking about my weight. My dear roommate, A., once said that I tend to absorb information like a sponge absorbs liquid. To be honest, I love this feeling and I missed it. I believe it’s a result of eagerness and I felt a little lethargic for some weeks now. I don’t want to jinx anything but I get this feeling when challenged with something new.
Yesterday, I had some difficulties getting my chores done for the first time. Not because the tasks were unbearable but because I had so many other things in my head that I always had to remind me of my little to do list. Then the little voice in my head popped up again “Do I need to do this now?” But I did it.
As I did today, except that I didn’t have any problems at all this time. I was time efficient, did some fun stuff in between, even pushed me, when I couldn’t seem to find a topic for an article. Unfortunately, my room suffered from this and the floor had to pay. So for tomorrow, I will clear the floor, will vacuum-clean the entire flat, start with my essay for next week, write an article and gather info on all of my courses (next step will be to start studying, but probably not tomorrow).
Tomorrow I will write an article, get info for an internship, write an e-mail to Till, go to school, have a meeting with my research group, hopefully have dinner with my roommates and have another try at reaching Nadine. I will get you at some point ;) And if I have time left, I will write a blog post about what happened today and tomorrow. Puhh, This is getting tough.
Last night I wasn’t up to writing after 12 am, so I thought since I was able to get everything done that I had planned for Sunday, it was fine to go to sleep and write the blog first thing in the morning. So here I am.
As I said I did everything on my list yesterday, but additionally I changed sheets, learned some more about CSS and HTML and later went out to dinner with my lovely roommate, V. Afterwards we stopped by the big yellow M to get some cute little cupcakes. They were delicious. Together with her boyfriend we watched some movies, which is why I couldn’t blog anymore.
So, now for today: We don’t have any coffee in the house, so I have to get out at some point. This is great because I have to go to school and get my graded term paper as well. What else? Go grocery shopping (e.g. coffee), do my homework (maybe at the library), call Till, go to Volleyball practice, fold clothes. I think that’s enough for monday.
My objective for today was to do my laundry (two loads), vacuum-clean my room, pay the bills for May and meet with my friends to have a cup of coffee. Here is how it worked out.
When I woke up I went through my routine of coffee, cereal and first check of e-mails, RSS feed and social networks. During breakfast I read a book about American Civilization just out of pleasure. Then I got to work, I loaded the washing machine with grey basics.
Most part of my day I worked on my blog design, which was very rewarding until I found out later that all I did was just working in Safari, not in Firefox nor IE. Great.
Anyways, to make it short I did all my chores except for the vacuum-cleaning. The cup of coffee turned out to be a night session with an episode of Germany’s Next Topmodel, but I still saw my friends. Besides these minor changes, I succeeded the first day.
So here are my aims for tomorrow: vacuum-clean my room (new rule: things you cannot get around to one day, have to be dealt with the next day!), wash some more clothes (oh yeah, I have a lot of clothes) and fold the ones from today, write an article, set up a list (I’ll explain that later) and organize my shoes.
Just to be clear before I start revising your truly great ten tips to a cleaner room, I don’t hate them! I enjoyed reading your post very much.
So let’s see. As you should already know, I’m pretty aware of these little tricks you’ve mentioned. It’s not like I don’t know where a clean room comes from. For example your second point ‘Rules’. Everything in my room has it’s own place. To name a few of these places: the floor, my bed or in the right corner of the upper drawer. Either way, I get pretty mad if someone puts something where it doesn’t belong and I’m very good in finding things (since they all have their places).
To be honest now, it’s not the lack of knowledge on how to be more organized, it’s the inner voice telling me “you can clean it up tomorrow, you certainly do not have time for that now” or “why bother?”. Well, to prognosticate myself, I truly don’t bother! So at the end the problem is not the set aim but the realization of that aim.
So I dare you to realize our set aims one day at a time. Here is how it works:
For tomorrow, Saturday May 1, 2010, I set the aim for me to do two loads of laundry, to vacuum-clean my room, to take care of my bills for May and to have a cup of coffee with my friends. See, those points aren’t complicated or too much for the start and a little treat is in that list as well. Shouldn’t be too hard. At night I will blog about what I was able to accomplish, where I had difficulties and which will be my tasks for the next day. Of course the same rules apply to you, too!
When I started this blog I promised myself to get more organized. My life seemed very structured to everyone else around me but every day when I saw the pile of clothes on the floor and papers on my desk – I couldn’t see the actual floor nor the desk – I felt disappointed in myself.
It’s been two years since this first post and nothing has changed. At all. I have phases where I try to keep up with the aims I set for the day but then after a while I just ignore the little voice in my head and go back to my old habits.
Yesterday, the feeling I get before one of those phases started creeping up my chest again. I could have predicted it, since I started reading The To-Do List by Mark Gayle a couple of weeks ago. Let’s see whether it’s going to be one of those phases or if I can change this time.
Never in my life - it’s been 22 years - have I felt so disappointed about a TV show’s season finale. Maybe disappointed is not even strong enough. I’m angry, mad, upset. I’ve been watching this show for a week and all I can think of right now is: What a waste of time.
Normally I’m pleased by suprise endings but in this case I really wanted it to be how I had planned in my mind. It’s cowardly to ruin a storyline just because a character has to be written off. And why did she have to leave the show anyway? Maybe I’m angry at her?
I’m off to waste some more time and see if season 4 might make me like The L Word again.
