Life of a Popcorn Pirate

Hygenist appointment this morning. Waiting outside their doors for 10 mins whilst they considered opening only to be told the hygenist is stuck in traffic and wont be able to make my 08:30am appointment!

Oh well, maybe I should change my motto to Take control but allow for other people ;-)

New appointment at 12noon... High Noon in the High Street! Cue western music, tooth pics to the ready!

There are many many MANY tips online about organising your life. Most with some rather natty buzz words - I'm still amused by the theory of "Swallow the Flog" - basically, do the worst thing first to get it out of the way and to make the rest of the day just that little bit easyer. The theory goes, that once you've swallowed a frog nothing else will phase you!

There are about 1.8 million results for 'Swallow the flog' on google, e.g. Matt Huntter, or this one etc.

One of the ohter tips I've picked up is this

• Re-organise, declutter and generally tidy up the physical "stuff" of my life
• Reduce my BMI to 'normal'
• Start saving
• Reduce my spending
• Start learning again
  
• Work out what I want to do with my lif
• Come up with a way of running my life that will prevent me getting back into a mess again

Doesn't look too hard does it?

Right, the time has come, I have got to sort out my life...

I better give a bit of background, I'm 26 and a half, I have a job I enjoy but doesn't pay a huge amount, I'm still living at home trying to save up for my own home but not having any luck - partly because I'm based in one of the most expensive areas of the country and the morgage I could get doesn't come close to the cost of a flat here. I've reached that stage in my life where "all" my friends are setteling down, getting married and setting up their lives.

I have accumilated clutter in my life that is depressing me - this at least I can fix with some effort.

Hmm, I sound like a proper loser don't I? I'm not really... honistly ;-)

So, what's on the positive side?

I have the most wonderful boyfriend who loves me - how can anything be better than that? But even this has problems, not with him and me, but other factors - more on this later.

I have great freinds - when I see them, yes, they are either wrapped up in getting married, just married or working hard - this stage of our lives will pass in a few years but in the meantime we're all in contact via email only and meet up when we can. We're also all spread over the country / world.

I'm not ugly ;-)

I'm good at what I do

 

So why do I need to sort out my life? I'm unhappy - oh I have fun, I go out, do intersting thigns at the weekends etc. it's just I can see how much better things could be and some times that feeling of being left behing, just floating though life catches up with me >shrug<

Hence this blog and new resolution - I am going to take hold of my life and fix it. I want to be content :-)

Wish me luck!