Spring Cleaning

I am devoting Lent to eating raw & living foods, and streamlining my life.

That means more household carnage. Things must go. It means looking at my computer time a new way. It means an electronic sundown. [Insert movie track sounds of impending doom].

I know I approach things too radically. I know, I know. Impatient and prone to extremes, that's me. Nothing can ever just be my regular thing. There always has to be a new twist. I'm addicted to steep learning curves and skipping straight to the advanced manual.

Here's my list.

1. Buy reasonable amounts of raw food basics in bulk, so little $4 bags of almonds don't become a habit.

2. Begin at the beginning. Keep reading the books, schedule a trip to Food & Thought, plan some foods the kids and Tim can eat (raw & cooked). Put ceviche on the menu.

3. Get my eyes checked. That's not really related, except it's about taking care of myself, and I'm thinking I need a new Rx for reading.

4. Implement Operation Electronic Sundown. This can only be good. I have visions of yoga, tea and actually picking up my guitar. Plus a good night's sleep for real!

5. Twitter now simultaneously updates Facebook. Blog posts automatically post as notes there as well. And that's great. But how do I make the instant gratification of tweets and updates, and instant sharing happen for the blog? How do I make it so easy here?

6. Contemplate subscribing to Jott, moving to Wordpress, changing advertising, spin off, identity, imagery, purpose...

7. Create a schedule that includes all desired and necessary activities, even if each one only gets a few minutes. Live the life, in order to live the life.

8. Clean the house, organize the bedroom closet, reclaim my desk. Give the kitchen another spin.

9. Think video thoughts. Learn basic editing. Make friends with YouTube.

I'm stopping at nine because it's an auspicious number. And nine things seem reasonable. Especially given the household, homeschool and toddler overlays. Nine big things. A Lenten purge and rebirth.

I'm on a mission. The groundwork gets laid today. It's exciting!