BEDA #21 - Daily Internet Routine

Hey guys.

9 more days left. Don't know why I keep doing a countdown of the end of BEDA.

I want to talk about my daily internet routine. What I mean by this is what I do everytime I click on the "on" button of my MacBook.

Safari opens up and Apple.com pops up as my homepage. After that? It's tab after tab after tab. For example:

1. I login to Skype;

2. I substitute Apple.com by Hotmail.com;

3. I click "new tab" and open Gmail.com;

4. I click "new tab" and open Dailybooth.com;

5. I click "new tab" and open Twitter.com;

6. I click "new tab" and open Youtube.com;

7. I finally click "new tab" and type in maureenjohnson.ning.com (this is a new one since this month, obviously).

(I don't go to MSN as much as I used to in about a year, which is a big step for me, haha)

Now . . . I've noticed that this is a CONSTANT routine. Actually, not constant. It's a DAILY routine. I do this . . . every. single. day. Oh, and on Tuesdays I see Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and The Hills, on Thursdays I see LOST and on Fridays I see Supernatural, but this varies because the all-new episodes sometimes are delayed for one or two weeks. And then I see Desperate Housewives, Dr. Who and Skins (which I'm watching from the beginning).

But . . . every day it's the same.

I wonder if maybe I should do what Alex Day did. Well, not as radically as he did. He deleted Dailybooth, Twitter and Facebook. I don't have a problem with Facebook-ish websites - not anymore - but I do with the other two. I always make sure I put up a new Dailybooth picture every day, because I commited to taking one photo every single day this year, but I'm running out of ideas so it's pretty much starting to bore and annoy me.

I login to Twitter and read every tweet I didn't read while I was sleeping and sometimes I get fed up because I have so much to read. I could just ignore it, but maybe there's something important like a Nerdfighter announcement or any other important thing.

One website I will not give up is YouTube, no way. That's to special and important. Or watching the tv series. And of course, I commited on posting a blog every day this month, so can't cut there either.

I just think it's because of this that I procrastinate a lot. At every moment there's a new tweet, a new video, a new episode, a new picture, a new friend to talk to on Skype while you do everything that you're already doing, etc. It does take a lot of time out of your days. I wanted to read one to five chapters of Looking for Alaska every day, and I'm still on page 34 and I pretty much started two days ago - that SUCKS. I wanted to make five to ten pages of my Scrapbook every day, and since I set this challenge to myself I've only done three pages. I wanted to edit five to ten minutes of Paris footage every day, and since I set the before stated challenge I haven't edited anything.

EPIC. FAIL.

What am I gonna do with myself?

What's your daily internet routine? Do you have problems with it because you don't end up doing what you actually have to do? Let me know!

See you tomorrow, bloggers xx

- Lo