Just joined the “7 Day Blog Challenge” from Live your Legend.  The point is to spend 10-20 minutes everyday writing about something that is important to me.

Today I am thinking about how to make our service center in Carlsbad, NM more efficient, along with staying on top of all my various work projects.  I am also deciding if I should figure out a way to go to the lecture at UCSB tonight by Mark Shapiro, entitled “CARBON SHOCK: Seeking Equilibrium in the Climate-Distrupted Economy” or if I should just go home and do laundry.  Rick has the car today, so my transportation modes are limited to foot, bus, borrowing a car, or finding a friend to come with me to the talk.  Jury is out for the moment, but honestly doing this blog might be the deciding factor to getting there.  It would be a much better story tomorrow if I wrote about “Carbon Shock” than if I wrote about doing laundry and watching old episodes of Grey’s Anatomy or Supernatural on Netflix.

Ciao for now.

I read an article the other day that made the observation that while most people think they are above average, in reality, most of us live our lives being mediocre at best. Despite all the accolades I’ve imagined earning in my life, I have to face the truth that I am just an Average American Jane. And though I’ve been lucky enough to have many exceptional life experiences, these were more about my being in the midst of exceptional people than any special abilities, talents or innate genius on my part. But in this era of selfies, twitter and Facebook, and countless small lives being made public, I decided I may as well throw my voice into mix and write a blog about my own smallish life – whether I’m having exceptional experiences or mundane ones.

On today’s agenda:

• Hapkido Class (working on my next belt promotion, and I feel far from ready though it’s only three weeks away – and I have to have passed all my skill bars by the end of the second week!)
• Starting on-line traffic school (to clear a ticket earned driving in LA)
• Starting a personal blog (this was a spontaneous addition to my Saturday To Do list, and is most likely a major diversionary tactic to avoid item#2 and #4 on this list)
• Reviewing my work list from the past two weeks to make sure it looks like I’ve actually been productive at my job this past period, so that when my boss gets back from his vacation on Monday I look like I’ve been a great employee in his absence (Though I have an awful feeling I forgot something major that he’s going to ask about first thing on Monday).
• Getting home in time to veg out in front of the TV with my boy-friend/husband (My live in lover & best friend? My quasi-fiancé? My life-partner?)

My last item brings up an “Hmm?” moment for me: Have you ever noticed that on the shows we watch on TV or even Movies, the characters are rarely spending their nights just sitting watching TV, while it seems that a majority of us are addicted to watching TV as a primary behavior? I know it would be boring to sit and watch someone watching TV, but this is just another way that TV is not reflective of real life. I personally have a love/hate relationship to my TV – the watching of which has been a borderline addiction for my since my Sesame Street/ Super Friends days as a kid in the 70’s.