How I Spend My Days Now

TylerCruz.com inspired me to write this post. He is challenging himself to do a 40-hour work week - where he actually works for 40 hours in a week’s time. I know from experience how difficult this can be when you are working for yourself at home.

Now, I’m not going to do the same, because I would fail. Badly. For the first time in 10 years, I am enjoying my life not having to work in a stuffy, miserable office, and damn it, I want to continue it. But with all this freedom comes massive laziness. Yes, it’s true.

I’ve gotten a lot better with my work ethics over the past several weeks. But before then, let me tell you how I would spend a typical day:

10am - Roll out of bed
10am-12:30pm - Work on site stuff, which consists of: approving user comments, deleting spam, answering emails, doing new posts, checking stats, etc.
1pm-12am or so - hang out with boyfriend, friends, drink a LOT of alcohol, laze around playing games on the computer, etc. I lived in a building full of people who literally partied 24/7. I have since moved, which has helped my schedule enormously.
1am- Shower, than go to bed.

Unfortunately I did a bit too much drinking and wasting of time. Thankfully it didn’t affect my website much. BUT. The past few weeks, I have gotten a little better. Now, my schedule is:

2pm: Get up, coffee, breakfast (I have a terrible day-sleeping pattern I am trying, with no avail, to break. I cannot fall asleep until the sun is coming up.)
2pm-6pm: Work on site stuff
6pm-10pm: Either go out with friends for dinner, etc, or go to an AA meeting, or stay home and do more work.
10pm-4am: Waste time on the computer playing games, or reading a book.
4-5am: Work on website (do the first part of the next day’s posts)
5or6am - 2pm: Sleep

I really, really need to fix my sleeping schedule - it really screws everything up. But I cannot fall asleep before dawn these days, especially now that I rarely drink alcohol anymore.

But I do get a lot more work done nowadays, it seems. However, I still have days where I literally don’t go near the computer. The past week was kind of like that.