This morning I slept in later than I have in years. I partially attribute it to sleep deprivation due to my new-found addiction to learning about Steemit/STEEM and other cryptocurrencies, but I guess insomnia is also a good scapegoat. The truth is I really have no idea how I managed to sleep in, which is normally a daunting task for me.
My morning began with scrambling to hide the mess I had created last night. I made a curry dish last night, and used up every dish in our kitchen in the process. I thought I really fucked it up, but apparently my girlfriend thought it was delicious.
After I "cleaned" (hid) my slop, my girlfriend and I set out to "get coffee", yet the trip ended up consuming 6 hours of our time, including a trip to the big bad DMV.
At some point we decided we were going to make sushi for dinner; neither of us have ever given it a really solid attempt before. It will probably be a disaster, if anyone wants to see it I will send them a picture later. Anyways, there is a limited number of places around here to get nori and over necessary sushi supplies. We ended up at a Thai store, and while I was scanning the aisles I impulse-bought a Thai energy drink called "Panther". My review - it was okay, kinda just tasted like flat Red Bull(it is not carbonated). Probably better than I'm giving it credit for, but I just liked the can.
After all our errands were said and done we returned home and put away some food. Afterwards, I went to our bedroom and changed into some athletic clothes, and told my girlfriend "I'm going for a run." Her response was more or less what I had expected; she looked at me with one raised eyebrow, kinda smile-chuckled her "okay" and looked back at what she was doing. When she heard the door open she said "where are you going, actually?"
To explain, I don't go on runs. I am fairly active, and certainly not out-of-shape, but I don't go out of my way solely for exercise. It just so happens a lot of things I like to do involve physical activity. So her confusion was just. But here's why, and it's partially inspired by the Steemit community.
I first joined Steemit right after New Years. At the time, obviously, there were a lot of posts about resolutions and all that jazz. After I read quite a few posts, I came to realize that I was just bored. Bored with my daily routine, I suppose. I get bored quite a bit really, and always find some weird way to satisfy it. I confuse a lot of people.
So I decided, strictly adhering to the "why not" philosophy, that I was going to train for and run a marathon. Like I said before, I don't run, so it's going to be quite the commitment. I've told myself I'd do things like this before, and usually got bored with them, these solutions to boredom.
But not this time! I decided I was going to give myself some real incentive and log my training progress on here after making a post saying that, if I don't run a marathon by the end of the year, I will give away 100% of the STEEM I have accrued by that point. I have gained a lot of faith in STEEM over the past few weeks here and am in for the long-term, so it is a HUGE incentive for me to actually fulfill my goal.
But I'll make that post another time. Right now I have to go tend to cleaning up our Christmas tree, which I burned last night after my curry disaster. Hope you all are having a wonderful day!
