They say it takes twenty-eight days to make something a habit. I think that must be for normal people.
I wear sunglasses. Not cute little fashionable sunglasses, but big, cover everything, I want to preserve my eyes sunglasses. I rarely go outside without them, and I never drive without them. At home they hang safely on my closet door. On the go, they hang from my neck or sit on my head. When I get to work, I take them off, wrap the cord around them, and put them carefully in the back pocket of my purse, which holds nothing else so I don’t accidentally scratch my sunglasses.
Except sometimes, very rarely, I take them off, carefully wrap the cord, and set them on top of my computer tower instead. Pretty much every time I do that, I forget them and have to go back—sometimes unlocking the gate I just locked, unlocking the front door, turning off the alarm I just set…
Three times I’ve had over a hundred days in a row on 750words.com and then blown it. Just didn’t write anything one day. Two other times, I was over two hundred days when I blew it! Yet if I drive up a certain street in Tucson while thinking of other things, I may well drive to my old house that I haven’t lived in for two years and not notice until I’m turning into the driveway.
In short, I need to find a way to break the habits I don’t want, and foster the ones I do. I’ve been trying! I’ve tried post-its, calendars, bulletin boards, spreadsheets, friends armed with pointy sticks…
I could make a New Year’s Resolution, but I won’t. I’m no good at those things. No, I’m going to do it the way I’ve lost sixty-plus pounds since February–by getting a gadget.
My Christmas present from one of my favorite people (me!) was a Samsung Galaxy S6. I’m figuring out how to make the apps be ever in my favor.
I have Wunderlist to track my To-Dos. I have a calendar, I have a timer, I have Out of Milk to help me with my shopping needs. Fitbit and now MyFitnessPal help me track my calories and exercise and water. I’m poking at budget-making and money-tracking apps, looking for an easy one.
Now I need a gadget to make me use my gadget. For more than taking pictures of my cat, I mean.
Is there a Cattle Prod app to keep me from snoozing reminders of stuff I should really do right now?
Bonus: have a video of my cat! He’s enjoying the pet grass I got. So now pet dog, pet cat, pet grass…is that too many pets?
Ahem. Anyway. Cat, meet grass. He loves it so much, we think actually instead of a very large cat, he may be a very small cow.
May your New Year be as happy as our little cow!