Journal Challenge Day 20: Habits You Want To Adopt.
There's more than a few habits that I want to adopt into my life, some of them would be new to me, and others would be to break the bad habits. I'm not going to share all of them because I feel like that would take forever, so I'm just going to do a few.
The first one is to put my clothes away in the correct spot after I wear them or after doing laundry. I have a bad habit of just dropping my clothes on my bedroom floor and it drives me nuts. Right now, for example, my room looks like a bomb went off. I don't even have that many clothes, but I always seem to be picking them up.
Water is another thing, I don't drink enough water. I try to, I always have my hydro flask with me, and I keep water in my car, but I rarely drink the recommended amount. I actually had to google what the recommended amount was just now because I didn't know. Google says that you should drink 8x8oz glasses of water a day, I feel like that would vary depending on your size, gender and activeness but I don't know. So that's like, 64oz a day, I try to drink one full hydro flask every day, which is 40oz, so I'm definitely not getting the right amount. I'm gonna work on that.
I'd like to start meal prepping for a few different reasons. One of them being that it's a good way to keep on track with healthy eating, you don't have to worry about what to make for lunch or dinner and then just say screw it and get take out. Another would be it's financially friendly, depending on what you're making I guess. Most of the things I eat aren't too bougie, they're pretty cheap and you can get them in bulk, like rice or potatoes. It would also eliminate a lot of food waste, I'm really bad with leftovers, most of the time I just forget something is in the fridge and then it goes bad. If I meal prep though and measure out servings and all that then I shouldn't have any leftovers and also I'll know that I have something in there that I need to eat.
I need to learn how to stop forgetting my reusable bags when I go to the store. We can't use them right now due to COVID but after all this shit ends I can get back into the routine. Also, using my own cup at coffee shops. I should probably just stop going to coffee shops because $7 for a drink is a little much, but I don't do it that often and I don't see myself stopping, so reusable cups it is. Also, most places give you discounts if you have our own cup.
I might have to wait until I get my own place with my own dining table, but I want to only have diner sitting at the table and talking about everyone's day. That sounds cheesy as hell but I miss that so much. When I had my own place it wasn't big enough for a dining room table, I had a breakfast bar but it was not comfortable to sit at. My boyfriend and I have dinner together all the time but we don't live together, so we eat in his bedroom usually and watch tv while we eat, which I don't really mind. My family does the same and sits on the couch with dinner, watching tv. We have a dining table but we only use it every so often, for more of a formal deal. I feel like dinner is really the only point in the day where we're all together and can actually have that family time. When I get my own places, I want it to be the opposite, only eating in front of the TV for those rare occasions.
When I went to Calgary to visit my friend, we stayed with her mom for a while. One thing that she did that I loved and want to steal, is going for a walk every night after dinner. It's so simple but I liked how it felt, I've never really done that before. In my family, once dinner is over, everyone kind of retires for the night. I've done it a bunch since that trip, but usually, it's just Jackson and I who end up going, and I love hanging out with my dog, he's got such a wild soul but I can't really converse with him and that's the aspect that I'm missing from those walks with my friend and her mom.
Dressing up more, I want to start doing that. Not like black tie or anything fancy (although that's nice sometimes) more so in everyday life. I feel like I've looked like a hobo for so long due to literally not being able to go anywhere, that the second this thing ends I just want to do my hair and makeup and wear nice clothes everywhere I go. Maybe even heels, who knows. We'll see what happens, I'm not sure how long that will last but I want to at least try it.
The last thing I've got on my little list here is to call or text a loved one every day. It doesn't have to be anything major every day just a "Hey, I love you" would be fine. I always forget to call my family, I shouldn't say I forget because I'm always thinking of them. It's more like I just feel I need something to talk about, like a reason to call. I'm not the kind of person to call just to call, because I feel like that's annoying and I don't want to be annoying I guess. It shouldn't matter, what are they going to do, tell me to fuck off? They do that anyway. Just call. That phone call could be exactly what they need that day, or that text might be the only reason they smile. That's more important.
Thanks for reading, I'm going to have to figure out more ways to end blogs, other than just saying that. Maybe I'll add that to my list.
-Courtney :)
The first one is to put my clothes away in the correct spot after I wear them or after doing laundry. I have a bad habit of just dropping my clothes on my bedroom floor and it drives me nuts. Right now, for example, my room looks like a bomb went off. I don't even have that many clothes, but I always seem to be picking them up.
Water is another thing, I don't drink enough water. I try to, I always have my hydro flask with me, and I keep water in my car, but I rarely drink the recommended amount. I actually had to google what the recommended amount was just now because I didn't know. Google says that you should drink 8x8oz glasses of water a day, I feel like that would vary depending on your size, gender and activeness but I don't know. So that's like, 64oz a day, I try to drink one full hydro flask every day, which is 40oz, so I'm definitely not getting the right amount. I'm gonna work on that.
I'd like to start meal prepping for a few different reasons. One of them being that it's a good way to keep on track with healthy eating, you don't have to worry about what to make for lunch or dinner and then just say screw it and get take out. Another would be it's financially friendly, depending on what you're making I guess. Most of the things I eat aren't too bougie, they're pretty cheap and you can get them in bulk, like rice or potatoes. It would also eliminate a lot of food waste, I'm really bad with leftovers, most of the time I just forget something is in the fridge and then it goes bad. If I meal prep though and measure out servings and all that then I shouldn't have any leftovers and also I'll know that I have something in there that I need to eat.
I need to learn how to stop forgetting my reusable bags when I go to the store. We can't use them right now due to COVID but after all this shit ends I can get back into the routine. Also, using my own cup at coffee shops. I should probably just stop going to coffee shops because $7 for a drink is a little much, but I don't do it that often and I don't see myself stopping, so reusable cups it is. Also, most places give you discounts if you have our own cup.
I might have to wait until I get my own place with my own dining table, but I want to only have diner sitting at the table and talking about everyone's day. That sounds cheesy as hell but I miss that so much. When I had my own place it wasn't big enough for a dining room table, I had a breakfast bar but it was not comfortable to sit at. My boyfriend and I have dinner together all the time but we don't live together, so we eat in his bedroom usually and watch tv while we eat, which I don't really mind. My family does the same and sits on the couch with dinner, watching tv. We have a dining table but we only use it every so often, for more of a formal deal. I feel like dinner is really the only point in the day where we're all together and can actually have that family time. When I get my own places, I want it to be the opposite, only eating in front of the TV for those rare occasions.
When I went to Calgary to visit my friend, we stayed with her mom for a while. One thing that she did that I loved and want to steal, is going for a walk every night after dinner. It's so simple but I liked how it felt, I've never really done that before. In my family, once dinner is over, everyone kind of retires for the night. I've done it a bunch since that trip, but usually, it's just Jackson and I who end up going, and I love hanging out with my dog, he's got such a wild soul but I can't really converse with him and that's the aspect that I'm missing from those walks with my friend and her mom.
Dressing up more, I want to start doing that. Not like black tie or anything fancy (although that's nice sometimes) more so in everyday life. I feel like I've looked like a hobo for so long due to literally not being able to go anywhere, that the second this thing ends I just want to do my hair and makeup and wear nice clothes everywhere I go. Maybe even heels, who knows. We'll see what happens, I'm not sure how long that will last but I want to at least try it.
The last thing I've got on my little list here is to call or text a loved one every day. It doesn't have to be anything major every day just a "Hey, I love you" would be fine. I always forget to call my family, I shouldn't say I forget because I'm always thinking of them. It's more like I just feel I need something to talk about, like a reason to call. I'm not the kind of person to call just to call, because I feel like that's annoying and I don't want to be annoying I guess. It shouldn't matter, what are they going to do, tell me to fuck off? They do that anyway. Just call. That phone call could be exactly what they need that day, or that text might be the only reason they smile. That's more important.
Thanks for reading, I'm going to have to figure out more ways to end blogs, other than just saying that. Maybe I'll add that to my list.
-Courtney :)
