Moving right along

Whew, that's done now I can post again. A note on the state of the ten things to do every day.

1. 3 a day keeps the shrink away: This is the big one and I still dropped the ball. I wrote 33 pages in the month of April. A third of my plan. When I write three a day I'm more confidant, I let things get me down less and I'm more imaginative and creative.
2. Eat less sugar: I'm eating less sugar. This isn't to say I eat no sugar. Candy is ever present at the store and Karen usually has something stashed.
3. Keep up the home front: I'm not the greatest homemaker but the house has been in pretty decent shape this last month.
4. I paid my bills until I ran out of money. Here it is I'm spending my vacation on my computer eating top ramon until I get paid on Friday. I really am a mess with money. I hear that really goes over well with the ladies.
5. Update blog monthly. Wait did I say daily. Oops.
6. Read Bible daily. Even my mother called to ask what the heck for. "Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers which are in a city." It always has something to say. And the King James really stretches the language. I wouldn't mind if I could say the same thing about my own writing.
7. Listen to 3 Lectures a day. Too much to commit to. One a day on average no problem. Two on some days but three really hasn't happened until I took these last three days off.
8. Read a book a week. I've been running a little slow. I only finished "The Day I Became an Autodidact" which is good since I started it over ten years ago. I realized I still have a crush on this girl who is now a woman that is married to a guy that writes a pretty damn cool blog himself. I got bogged down in a couple of compilations of essays, "The Oxford History of the 20th Century" and "Signposts in a Strange Land". I read every day but I took to bouncing around and rereading. I started "A Confederacy of Dunces" Sunday and that is going well. I'll put four books to bed in May.
9. Watch two new movies a week. Well, this one is, as usual, a slam dunk. I'll catch up with movie news in my next post.
10. Write 1 essay a week. Yea, ok, whatever. Not there yet. Let's see if we can muddle through three pages of stream of conscious writing a day first.