I could spend hours reading blogs. Seriously, I could while away whole days just reading, clicking and being fascinated by all the stuff people put online.
Billions of photos are uploaded every day, thousands of blog posts are published every minute and it would take hundreds of years to read all the blogs on the internet.
I love finding interesting things on blogs. I just read a gorgeous article on negative space art and here is my favourite example.
I really need to concentrate but the rest of that blog looks so interesting! Perhaps just one more page...
Showing posts with label time wasters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time wasters. Show all posts
Monday, 24 October 2011
I really need to make more of an effort
I am struck today with an inherent realisation that I have been a pretty lazy cow of late...
I haven't been blogging, I haven't been keeping in touch with my mates as much as I should, I haven't been concentrating properly.
I put this down to 2 things:
1 - I have a baby and a husband. This leaves pretty much bog all time or money to do anything else. By the time I have got home from work, put the baby to bed, cleaned up all the toys, made dinner and put on some laundry, I have pretty much lost the will to live and want to go to bed.
2 - I read too much. When I am not flapping around the house like an anally retentive idiot, I sit and read. A lot. I read very very quickly and get massively sucked into books. I therefore tend to stop paying attention to what is going on around me.
Recently this has been the fault of a series of books recommended to me by my mother by Diana Gabaldon. So far there are 7 books, I am on number 5. They are not that big, maybe 600 pages each but as I only read after I have done everything else, I am getting frustrated that it has taken me over 3 weeks to read the first 4 books. Before my son was born, I would happily spend hours on a Saturday just sat on the sofa, drinking tea and reading my latest book. However, playing with him and taking him for walks is a lot more fun, but I do miss my reading time!
A further reason I get bugger all done is that I spend far too much time on the internet. As this post would show, rather than having the realisation that I have been a lazy cow about certain things lately, having a word with myself and cracking on with things, I chose to blog about it.
Yep - of all the things I SHOULD be doing, I decided the most pressing thing to do was to reinstate my blog. I have a poor sense of priorities sometimes. But writing about doing nothing is preferable to actually having to do things...
I haven't been blogging, I haven't been keeping in touch with my mates as much as I should, I haven't been concentrating properly.
I put this down to 2 things:
1 - I have a baby and a husband. This leaves pretty much bog all time or money to do anything else. By the time I have got home from work, put the baby to bed, cleaned up all the toys, made dinner and put on some laundry, I have pretty much lost the will to live and want to go to bed.
2 - I read too much. When I am not flapping around the house like an anally retentive idiot, I sit and read. A lot. I read very very quickly and get massively sucked into books. I therefore tend to stop paying attention to what is going on around me.
Recently this has been the fault of a series of books recommended to me by my mother by Diana Gabaldon. So far there are 7 books, I am on number 5. They are not that big, maybe 600 pages each but as I only read after I have done everything else, I am getting frustrated that it has taken me over 3 weeks to read the first 4 books. Before my son was born, I would happily spend hours on a Saturday just sat on the sofa, drinking tea and reading my latest book. However, playing with him and taking him for walks is a lot more fun, but I do miss my reading time!
A further reason I get bugger all done is that I spend far too much time on the internet. As this post would show, rather than having the realisation that I have been a lazy cow about certain things lately, having a word with myself and cracking on with things, I chose to blog about it.
Yep - of all the things I SHOULD be doing, I decided the most pressing thing to do was to reinstate my blog. I have a poor sense of priorities sometimes. But writing about doing nothing is preferable to actually having to do things...
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Finding it hard to concentrate... the web is the perfect answer...
I have spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out how to connect my google feed reader to web clips in my google desktop sidebar without having to enter them manually - I am not having any luck. It is very annoying to have to do this manually... I hope they create a way to do this soon... But it was a fun way to lose some time!
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