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Priorities

by ZombieSkittles on August 28, 2009

doctor-who-tardis I have real trouble planning my life, and making time to do things. I seem more content sitting on the computer chatting away my time on MSN, or watching DVDS, than actually doing any of the things I want to. I have made all these goals over the past year with no motivation to actually do them.
I started learning Spanish, playing keyboard (again), guitar, making videos about nothing in particular, writing an actual purposeful blog, and I guess a big one would be exercising. These were all sometime in the past year or so, but with the fluctuations of work and such, I’ve become less and less motivated as time goes on. Working at the Casino, rosters swap from day to night shift every month or so, allowing no real regularity. I’m always tired, and because of that when I get up I have almost no desire to do anything. Instead, I’m more prone to grab a drink and stick on a DVD of Doctor Who than to bring out Spanish For Dummies and learn something that could be useful as a skill.
Right now I could be practicing Jumpstyle, effectively exercising in the process, but instead I’m writing this post, and contemplating a DVD to put on. Ok, I’ve just put Doctor Who on. This isn’t good.
I need to work out some way to get myself motivated to do these things. It shouldn’t be this hard to do these things.

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Introductionary post

by ZombieSkittles on July 11, 2009

I’ve had trouble for forever when it comes to saving money; it burns such a hole in my pocket that almost as soon as I get paid I spend it all and end up broke again. It’s stupid, and any attempts I make to save money fail. That’s where this blog comes in.
The aim of this blog is to talk about how I’m working on saving my money, the various ways I try to get some extra coinage, and so forth. I’m unaware of how often posts will be made on here, but when I have something to say on this topic, it will be published.

My goal

The main reason for saving my money is to get enough money to get my own place to live. To get a home loan, I need 10% of whatever I seek to borrow from the bank beforehand. So, I need to aim for roughly $30,000 saved. I will be moving in with a friend, but it’s much better to have more money than necessary, to cover unexpected expenses.
Turning this into a blogging game should keep me going, and hopefully get all the money saved as soon as possible.

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