Things I need to change:1. Go to bed at a decent hour! - my best writing ideas might well happen at night, but it's leaving me tired and washed out the next day. My health is more important than my creativity, and it's not fair on B. if I'm grumpy/tired/irrational/ill as a result of all my late nights!
2. Eat more healthily - I sometimes kid myself that I have a healthy diet because I'm vegetarian (well, a fish-eating one anyway). But ready-meals aren't really the healthiest thing, and often I'm so busy preparing B.'s (considerably healthier) meals and trying to get on with the day that I forget to eat something myself.
3. Drink less tea! - oh my goodness this'll be hard! Tea is a big vice of mine. It's my only vice really (oh, except for chocolate..), and I've noticed recently that I've gone from drinking one cup per day to nearly all of my liquids being tea. I know that the anti-oxidants in tea are supposed to be very good for you and prevent all sorts of nasty diseases, but I'm sure that you're not supposed to drink it in these quantities.
4. Spend less time online - writing is a great hobby of mine. However pretentious it might sound (sorry!), it's something I love for its own sake, something that is mine alone. It's therapeutic to get things out of my brain and onto the page, and is something that I've always done and needed to do. So this is an online activity that I wouldn't want to give up. But I could do with spending less time on Facebook..
5. Meditate more - sounds a bit hippy I know, but my mind is never calm, and I think everyone would benefit, including myself, if my brain was calmer. And less crowded. (Incidentally "crowded" is my daughter's favourite word at the moment, so it's rubbing off on me. Yesterday when I asked her how my hair looked she told me it was looking a bit crowded).
6. Do some housework - ha ha, yes, not my forte! I do washing, sweep the carpets and clean surfaces, I dust occasionally and tidy up when someone's coming round, but there is definitely room for improvement!
7. Watch less television - I do like TV, it has to be said. My favourite programmes at the moment are Medium, America's Next Top Model (I know. I feel like I shouldn't like this programme, I just find it funny..), Neighbours, and Jonathan Creek (love it!)
8. Fill my time better - as B.'s just started big nursery I have two and a half hours to myself every weekday. This sounds like a lot maybe, but it goes soooo fast. Now, I do try to tidy up a bit and make the place liveable once again while she's not there to mess it up.
But other times I tend to make myself a cup of tea (see point 3) with the intention of just watching a little bit of telly (see point 7) while I'm drinking it. But then I crash out because I'm tired from my late night of writing/Facebook-ing/watching TV (see points 1, 4 and 7), which were more-than-likely perpetuated by the immense amount of caffeine that's flowing around my malnourished body and crowded brain. (See points 2, 3 and 5!).
