Yes folks it's true. Your eyes are not deceiving you. Stacy Cowart is going to go an entire month without gossiping. Anyone that knows me is well aware that as much as I try to deny it, I love some good gossip. I'm going to say it's in my genes because my mom and my aunts are the queens of it. So you see, it isn't entirely my fault. I try to make an effort not to gossip, but I always get sucked in if I hear others doing it. It's hard when you're sitting in a restaurant with friends and they start a story about someone, everyone adding their two cents. You want to add yours in, you know it's wrong, but you can't help yourself. Before you know it, your two cents is five dollars. Any story that starts with "Girrrrl let me tell you....." is 99.99% of the time gossip territory. I'm guilty. I've chartered those waters many a time, and this is why I want to stop. It's not healthy. It's pointless. And let's be honest, it's just not nice. If I really want to "do better" this year I need to start out strong. Go hard or go home, right?
So you may be asking yourself what does giving up gossip entail? It's not just the words coming out of my mouth. I am not only curbing gossip from rolling off my tongue, I'm giving up gossip magazines. No more People, Life & Style, Us, etc. No more gossip blogs. I'm even going to give up The New York Daily News online because let's be honest it's 50% real news 50% gossip and I don't want to be tempted. And the one that may be the hardest yet, I'm giving up Facebook. Yes, Facebook too. I struggled with this one. The truth is, I like Facebook because it has helped me to reconnect with a lot of people. BUT (not just in caps but bold) a lot of times I'm on there trying to find out the latest scoop. For example, who's gone up/down in weight, who actually married the dork from high school, why someone's relationship status suddenly disappeared, who got a little too drunk and posted pictures, etc. When you break it down to the nuts and bolts, I'm on Facebook gossiping.
There it is. I will not gossip the entire month of January. I hope that it actually has a lasting effect. I'm not saying that I will never gossip again in my life, although that would be awesome if I could really do that. I just know gossiping is my bad habit and I'd like to curb it significantly if not all together. Cross your fingers for me and say a little prayer, this is going to be tough.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Doing better
Okay, it has been forever and a day since I've actually posted anything. The funny thing is that when i was actually blogging, I felt better. Since i haven't been writing, I've felt kind of blah.
Anywho, my New Year's resolution is going to be to "Do Better". I want to be a better Christian, daughter, sister, friend, coworker, blogger, etc. (Side note: Get with Jenny about how to add pictures to this thing) Whatever it is that I'm doing, I want to do it better in 2010 than I did in 2009. So going along with that theme, I've decided that every month in 2010, I want to give up something. I'm not looking at it as a form of punishment, but more like let's see what happens without it with the hopes of maybe not spending so much time with it in the future. That was a serious run on sentence but stay with me. For example, I watch way too much TV. I know this. I've said it over and over again, but it still doesn't curb my TV watching and having a DVR does not help... at all. So for one month I'm going to give up TV. Now it would be easy to do in January or the summer because most of my shows are on repeat at that time. But that would be cheating and it would defeat the purpose of the whole experiment. So I'm thinking February or March. Now I know that I will most likely not give up TV forever but at least not having it for a month will show me a lot of things I can do with my time besides staring mesmerized and the light in the corner. Know what I mean?
I have a couple of ideas for things to give up already but I'm going to keep it a secret until that month comes up. I figure it's a good way to keep me blogging. Although one of the things I was planning on giving up was the internet so it would be hard to do that and blog.... but we'll cross that bride when we get to it. So stay tuned.
Have a great one!
Anywho, my New Year's resolution is going to be to "Do Better". I want to be a better Christian, daughter, sister, friend, coworker, blogger, etc. (Side note: Get with Jenny about how to add pictures to this thing) Whatever it is that I'm doing, I want to do it better in 2010 than I did in 2009. So going along with that theme, I've decided that every month in 2010, I want to give up something. I'm not looking at it as a form of punishment, but more like let's see what happens without it with the hopes of maybe not spending so much time with it in the future. That was a serious run on sentence but stay with me. For example, I watch way too much TV. I know this. I've said it over and over again, but it still doesn't curb my TV watching and having a DVR does not help... at all. So for one month I'm going to give up TV. Now it would be easy to do in January or the summer because most of my shows are on repeat at that time. But that would be cheating and it would defeat the purpose of the whole experiment. So I'm thinking February or March. Now I know that I will most likely not give up TV forever but at least not having it for a month will show me a lot of things I can do with my time besides staring mesmerized and the light in the corner. Know what I mean?
I have a couple of ideas for things to give up already but I'm going to keep it a secret until that month comes up. I figure it's a good way to keep me blogging. Although one of the things I was planning on giving up was the internet so it would be hard to do that and blog.... but we'll cross that bride when we get to it. So stay tuned.
Have a great one!
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