One Week Checkpoint

I made through one week of BEDA without skipping a day. Hooray! I've already passed the usual three day point where I normally quit on things and I don't feel like I have already run out of things to blog about. Some of the posts have been lengthy and slightly ranty and some have been short and sweet, which helps with the actual likelihoods of the postings. Of course, this mentality can all change in the next few days, but right now, I am feeling good about BEDA, which in turn makes me feel good about myself.

I feel that I am accomplishing something, even though it is something rather small and insignificant. This sense of accomplishment has started to tumble into other things. For example, I have wanted to make a quilt out of a lot of my t-shirts ever since I say a picture of a t-shirt quilt online. I own a ridiculous amount of t-shirts and I don't want to get rid of them because many of them are from events in college and high school and even some from middle school. The past few days I have looked up ways to actually make a t-shirt quilt and today I bought some stabilizing material and I have picked out the first batch of t-shirts. I am going to start cutting today so hopefully I will have it done before it starts to get cold in October (I'm giving myself plenty of time on this little project).

I know it is silly that doing something like this makes me want to do other things that I have been putting off, but I guess it's how I work. I either can do a lot of things at one time, or do nothing productive at all. I am hoping that this stroke of productivity will somehow turn into some luck with the job hunting situation. Oh, who am I kidding? Nothing can help that. Well, I guess I could build a time machine and tell my past self to make sure to do an internship or two in anything anywhere ever. Honestly, I may just have more luck building a time machine than actually finding a job. I guess I'll start working on that.

I like how this post took a turn for the negative real quick.

Anyway, with the success thus far of BEDA and this nice feeling of accomplishment that it has, I am going to start giving myself weekly goals/challenges to keep myself feeling productive. I always try to set monthly goals for myself, but I tend to fall short of them. A week is much more mentally manageable and with things changing every week, it will (somewhat) keep me on my toes. I don't think I am going to really give myself a challenge for this upcoming week (other than properly starting on the quilt thing) because I have the GRE on Thursday (wooo I am soooooo excited about that -__-).

After that though, there will be no excuses. A new challenge every week! If anything, the challenges will be something that I can blog about once BEDA is done, whether I actually meet them or not (I'll meet them).