So I haven’t posted a blog for quite some time. I also haven’t gone walking in over a week (it was supposed to be an every second day routine that I WOULD STICK TO THIS TIME) and I just returned my ‘how to learn Italian in 10 minutes a day’ c.d. set back to the library, after only getting half way through disc one. There are six discs. All this free time I was supposed to have to be writing, getting fit and learning, has somehow disappeared. I’d say I have some fairly legit reasons for falling behind in all my little holiday activities.
Firstly, it was my birthday last week, so I figure the things that go along with that take up a bit of time and of course my birthday is a day free from anything but relaxing.
Secondly, I started this blog just after splitting from my boyfriend, on the assumption that not spending time with him would mean I had a lot more time to spend on me. However, after a month of missing each other we decided we are much happier when we’re together, and so now we are again. And naturally things have gone back to me wanting to spend a lot of my time with him. Of course, there’s a lot more I could say on the whole thing, but I’ve gone through it so many times in my own head that I no longer feel the need to vent. So that’s all the information you’ll get on my love life (for now).
And thirdly, my photographer best friend has managed to get me involved with an up and coming photography publication, called Greta Photo Book. It’s quite cool actually – run under the ‘Colosoul’ group which has published one or two magazines and it’s all done by 17 – 25 year olds (aside from the CEO who helps us out of course). So, we’ve been driving to south perth once a week to get the Book up and running. Not only do I get to interview the photographers and have my words published, but I’m also helping with the PR side of things, getting advertisers and promoting the Book. I’m doing both parts of my degree at once! And sure, it’s not for profit so obviously we’re not getting paid, but every time I think about the experience I’m getting, I can’t believe it. Alex (my little photographer friend) and I always used to say we should start our own magazine. She could take the photos. I’ll write and promote. It was always ‘the thing’ and now, somehow, we’ve managed to fall into basically running this whole Greta Photo Book thing. Pretty awesome.
So anyway, all of the above, combined with extra work shifts due to it being Christmas and me working in retail, means there goes a lot of my ‘spare’ time. And I realised that because I don’t have a set time to go walking, it’s not like it’s a gym class or anything, I figure it doesn’t matter when I do it. And because I don’t have a set time to learn Italian, and there’s no one to mark me wrong or tell me off if I don’t do it, it slips down my ‘to do’ list. I’ve realised that even though I complain about being bored on days when I don’t have anything planned, and even though I want to get fit and learn and write, it’s not very often that I’ll feel motivated to do these things. The Italian especially. I think I’m the type of person who needs a set time or deadline for things, otherwise I’ll just put them off. So, maybe I should go off, get out my dairy, and allocate time slots to do these things I keep meaning to do. And then maybe, just maybe, I’ll actually get them done!
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