Gypsy Horses!

I read my last post. Wow. Boring. So, I'm writing a new one so you don't have to go read the previous post. Unless you really, really, really want to. But if you do, you'll probably end up thinking that I'm a boring person.

Well, I guess that video of Avery wasn't boring.

So this is a real post that explains what I do now with my days, sick and in bed.

1. Blogs. I check my blog list every twenty minutes to see if any of my friends have posted a new blog post. Ya'll don't post nearly enough. I enjoy at least four posts per week, people! Jeesh.

2. FB stalking. I stalk people I don't really even care that much about on Facebook through status updates, notes, posts, pictures. It usually starts out with a benign thought like, "Hmmm...I haven't seen this person in a decade. I wonder what they're doing..." Then I waste unprecedented amounts of time finding out. If there's not enough info on their profile page to tell where they are and what they're doing with their life now, I read past comments on their wall and check out their pics to help me piece together whatever info I can.

3. KSL. I check KSL.com's "Free" section in the classifieds every hour.

4. ESPN.com. I check out ESPN's site to see who won NFL and MLB games. Why? I don't know. I don't really care that much. For some reason, I all of the sudden have a substantial amount of pride for my Minnesota teams.

5. Email. I check ALL my email accounts at least ten times per day. I've never gotten so excited over a massive group chain email before. And what's worse, I actually read it. (Luckily I haven't gotten to the point where I actually pass it on...yet) :/

6. Food. I eat a lot. Today I've eaten raisin bran, a bagel, an orange, prunes, pineapple, pizza, OJ, milk, ice water (it HAS to be ice water, otherwise it makes me want to throw up), a Cafe Rio burrito, cheerios, a yogurt, vanilla wafers, lemon drops, and ginger snaps. And, I can't eat the same thing twice...so I spend 90% of my day thinking about what I could possibly eat next (the other 10% is spent Facebook- and blog- stalking people).

7. Pointless news articles. I read lots of useless news articles. This usually leads me to some long internet search strand where I go from site to site trying to find out more of that certain topic I read about. This normally isn't a bad thing, but considering how much time I spend doing it, it is for me. For example, I read a news article about gypsies this morning. Then I had to look up pictures of gypsies on Google Images because I wanted to see what real gypsies look like nowadays. This is what I found:


And this one, too. What is this? A gypsy horse??


And of course:


Hmmm...I don't think I learned anything about gypsies today.

Anyway, that's how I spend my days. I'm sure there's more to add to this list, but it weirds me out just reading it. I'm now one of those strange adults who spends most of their day on the internet doing nothing.

So, I've decided I'm going to stop being addicted. I don't know if I can just only get on once a day, but I'll be on less. This is a nice way of letting lots of random people know so I have some sort of accountability.

What will I do instead? I'm going to read more books (I've only read two since I've been sick). I'm going to study for my social work clinical licensure exam that all my classmates from grad school have already taken and passed.

Oh, and I designed my friend's business card who is starting a floral design business in Logan. She picked the image, and I used my very limited knowledge of Adobe Illustrator to put the card together. I had fun doing that. Here's how it turned out:


Anyway, I'm going to do productive things now. Maybe I'll even write a report on gypsies.