Going verses Want to.

Over the summer I watched no television, movies and DVDs yes, but no television.  Now that I am in transition between my old life and my new one, I have been vegging out like mad.  Castle, Grey's, Community, 30 Rock, Entourage (on Demand), and more have been consuming my post work time.  It's mostly because I am SOOO TIRED when I get home from work.  I am not settled into this routine yet.  I can't go to bed at 8pm even though I have an alarm on my phone that tells me to each night.  I do go to bed at 10 or so, but getting up at 2:20am to be at work by 3am stinks!!  I was late everyday this week, but I stilled pulled in some OT by taking short lunches.

Saturday afternoon football.

I watched some tv this afternoon, but opted to erase the vast majority of my preplanned future recordings, and I am not going to get into any new shows.  Lone Star looked interesting but was cancelled after two episodes.  The Event looks pretty conspiracy like , but I missed two already and my life i just fine.  No new television for me.

What I do have is some books that I want to read.  My journal that needs to be written in and some programs that I want to learn to use more.  I've installed Rosetta Stone - Italian on my computer as well as a photo program called Pixelmator.  If I can get Photoshop that would be really cool, but I am not spending $500 on software. Rosetta Stone was a gift.

The main point of this to get busy living and make sure you are going to to what you say you are going to to.  

I stopped saying, "I'm going to..." do something unless a plan is in process.  I used to say I'm going to travel the world teaching English.  I'm going to open a chicken wings franchise.  I'm going to move to Colorado.  Only one of those is happening.  The others are things that I would like to do.  I would like to travel the world.  I would like to open a chicken wing franchise, but I am not going to use the verb going until I do it.

Dad and me at Vail in March

I am going to play football tomorrow.  I am going to do the Improv Everywhere MP3 experiment tomorrow evening.  I'm going to learn a little Italian.  I am going to start experimenting with the photo software. (Update: See below.) These are going to happen.

What's something you would like to do?  What's something you are going to do?

MP3 Experiment: http://www.improveverywhere.com

Football: http://www.meetup.com/flagfootball-84/

Possible chicken wing franchise: www.wingsover.com

Check it out, my first attempt at the photo editing software.  I removed the background!