Things I should do

I'm used to people telling me what to do. My whole life my mom/dad or my sister or my nana or my brother have been telling me what to do. 'Becky you should clean your room', or 'Becky you should do my laundry for me' (my sister once paid me $15 in nickels to do all her laundry for her. Some might have called this child abuse, but I was happy. $15?! That's a lot of money!). And in school, I had teachers handing out research paper assignments and telling me and my classmates that we 'should start researching right away! you need 3 or 4 professional sources!'. Now I work and I have people telling me things that I 'should do'-call that person back, follow up on such and such request with an e-mail.

So people are always telling me things I should be doing.

But that doesn't mean I listen. And now that I'm living away from home for the first time (college doesn't really count as 'living on your own' I'm told. Even though I had my OWN apartment and stuff...pshhh whatevs.) I've been slacking on my responsibility a little bit. I do things on my own time. Which, is much more relaxing. But also means that I don't get a lot of things done that I should. *Please note that this isn't really a NEW problem, that I normally say 'I should [insert thing here]' and don't do it, but I'm losing focus*

I think I'll write about those things that I'm not getting done but should be doing...

1) My laundry. So, this isn't really my fault. Actually, it's "not anyone's fault". But, I was away last weekend/busy, and the weekend before I was at home in CT/my clothes weren't dirty yet. So, I should do laundry because pretty soon I'm going to run out of pants. I might be able to go out and have fun without pants, but I def. can't go to work without pants. If I can't go to work, then I'll get fired, and then I really won't be able to do laundry because I won't have any quarters. That would all be horrible. So I should do laundry now to prevent all that crap from happening in the future.

2) Buy a case for my IPOD. Everyone remembers, or at least they SHOULD, how I wrote about naming my IPOD baby and how I wanted to buy a case for it. But I haven't yet. And I don't think any new scratches have appeared on the back, but there could be some. And any second now I'm sure I'll drop baby on the ground and dent it. So I should really just go to amazon.com, like many people have told me to do, or go to bestbuy, which is right by my house, and get a case. I mean, it's really not that hard. Or expensive. I just have no one forcing me to do it...so...

3) Stop drinkg regular soda. It tastes really good, but is really bad for you. After I have it my teeth hurt and honestly the caffeine rush isn't THAT great. And yet...whenever there's free COKE at work I take a can and save it in the fridge for a rainy/cloudy/ day day. (Yes I meant to write 'day' twice so shush).

4) Think about certain, fun things before I go to sleep. So 'they' say that you're more likely to dream about things that you think about a lot during the day OR things that you think about right before you go to sleep. I usually think about my day right before I go to sleep so when I dream, which is usually a few times a week, I dream about the day I've just had. That's really stupid. As if my days aren't whack enough (OK, not all of my days are lame...just some of them are) the first time around then I have to relive them, with a twist, in my dreams. So, I go to work and then at night dream about going to work except in my dreams I'm wearing a different outfit or I have a different lunchtime conversation. It's really stupid and I'd kind of like it to stop. I want to dream about FLYING or being HARRY POTTER or BEING RICH or something. So, I should start to think about things I want to happen before I go to bed so then they'll happen in my sleep :D

5) Finish Season 1 of 'Weeds'. I've been watching 'Weeds' for a month now. There are only 10ish (can't remember if it's 10, 11 or 12) episodes in the season and each of them is 30 minutes. Why is it taking me so long to watch it? It's not like I don't like it. I do like it! So I should just finish watching Season 1, or something.

6) Do my taxes. Or in reality have my mom do them. So, she told me we would 'work on them together' but then she was the one holding the pen and actually doing all the work. I just sat there looking pretty.

7) Pay my credit card bill. Though, I think I actually AM going to do that today and not just sit here and feel sorry for myself and blog about it. If anyone's interested in coming meet in 'the lobby' at 'lunch time'. If you don't know what that means then you can't come, sorry. This is Darwinian Bank Walk '08.

8) Read a book. So, I actually am reading a few books. I've been "reading" Barack Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' for a few months, and then in between I read "Eat, Pray, Love" and started reading "Franny and Zooey". And I also read online stories at nytimes.com every day, and the blog 'Stuff White People Like'. But I should probably FINISH reading books in one sitting (not 'one sitting 'in the traditional sense of sitting down and finishing something before getting up. 'one sitting' like reading a book, finishing it, and then starting another book.) and really absorb them. I'm losing my academic edge. All I talk about are clothes, or annoying things from work, or TV shows I'm watching. Maybe, if I a read a book from start to finish and really paid attention to it, maybe even took notes!, I could have more to talk about. This would make people who have to talk to me much happier :)

9) Work. Yeah now that I'm here I probably shouldn't be writing this anymore.

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