A while ago on some post where I wrote about something exciting, someone left me a funny comment. Since I can’t remember what post I can’t find the comment but it was something about how my life was never boring. I found it funny because my life is usually quite boring.
Sure, when I do something I do it big. I’m moving across the world in a few months. I’m trying to lose 100 pounds. I’m trying to change my life in big ways. I have been changing my life in big ways. But for the most part the day to day stuff is incredibly boring.
Take today for instance. I woke up and ate a yummy breakfast thanks to my mom cooking me a pancake. Shower, get ready, all to work at home. I spent an hour fighting with the terrible internet and ended up not being able to fix it. I spent a couple hours writing and editing (I’m trying to be a real writer who gets paid and everything! Hire me!). Then I spent some time cleaning and organizing since I couldn’t get online. Really, really exciting, right?
Now I’m about to make lunch and then head to the public library so I can post about how boring my life is. Go ahead and laugh now, because it’s funny. It really is.
Most days are like this. I either work from my house or from the library. Sometimes I will take a walk at the park or take my scooter for a spin. I cook dinner for my mom and myself. I exercise at night, because that’s my favorite time to do it. For the most part I just work every day on making my goals become reality. I don’t do anything super exciting. Considering how boring I am I wonder why anyone reads my blog. You must all just be waiting around for something big to happen. ;)
The thing is, the day to day stuff is almost boring when you are working toward something big. There is a lot of boring, repetitive work that seems to get you nowhere but is just what you have to do to build a foundation and inch yourself closer to your goals.
When you are working toward losing weight you will have to do the eat right/exercise stuff every day. Sometimes it gets boring. It gets tedious. It gets hard to see the big picture when you have a big goal but only lose a little per week. It can be frustrating and it can make you want to quit if you don’t like when things get “boring.” I’m not a huge fan of it but I’ve accepted that sometimes my days and actions will feel boring. I try my best to make things exciting by cooking new foods and trying new workouts. I might not be able to do something hugely exciting every day but I can do something new each day.
I know that the boring day and actions are helping me get where I want to be. I know that sometimes you have to sacrifice the instant satisfaction for something better in the end.
What about you? Are you boring like me?
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Um…most of my excitement nowadays come from a cat. So yeah, I’m pretty boring.
But I have a routine, and I like it, and I get really anxious when its thrown off for whatever reason, so I’ll take boring. :)
Mine too!! You say Jerry on the video! He is like the most exciting part of my day. :)
Ha ha!!! My weekly excitement revolves around my obsession with reality tv… Particularly, Survivor. I don’t have a lot of excitement in my life, but I’m happy so it works. LOL
.-= Anonymous Fat Girl´s last blog ..Five (almost) short months & changing your life =-.
Happy is good. :)
I love reality tv. I love BAD reality tv. Like I watch stuff that is so embarassing I can’t even bring myself to tell you about it. Haha.
I’m boring but in different ways. I catch crap from my friends for making boring/plain food choices. They don’t understand how I can stand to eat a plain salad that isn’t drowning in dressing, or how I hate putting ketchup or mayo on things. I’m naturally quite a homebody so my life is almost never exciting. It amazes me that I ever come up with interesting topics to blog about.
.-= Lauren´s last blog ..Beginner’s!!! Strength Training =-.
I’m with ya on the salad without dressing but you lost me on ketchup. I love ketchup. I’ll drown my food in ketchup or hot sauce or both if I let myself. Mmmm.
I’m pretty boring, too. I sit at a desk forty hours a week. I workout directly after work. I take the train home. And I work some more. Or on the rare occasion, watch a show or two. The weekends are a little more forgiving, but normally just Friday evening and Saturday. Sundays are pretty much a routine, too. Damn ,you Mary! I didn’t realize how boring my life was until now! ;)
.-= Rachel´s last blog ..Playlist Gem =-.
Haha. I’ve probably made everyone think about how boring they are, which could be good or bad. ;) But we are young and work is important now and it’s okay to do that. I think. :)
That’s exactly the reason I post so much nonsense; if I wrote about what I ate each day, what specific exercises I do each day, each good decision I make during the course of a day, it would make for some pretty…. actually, it would be pretty damned exciting! You’ve given me an idea for a whole new blog!
.-= Jack Sh*t´s last blog ..I’m Full =-.
Haha. Please don’t create that blog! Seriously, I think that’s why everyone loves you and your blog so much. It’s not the tedious step by step account of this journey we are all on. It’s nice to take out a few minutes and read something funny instead.
When it comes down to it, we’re all pretty boring. Weekdays it’s work, eat, exercise, pay attention to my doggies, computer/TV then do it all again. When I get to do something like going to Bingo (okay, I’m not a Granny but I love Bingo) with a friend or some function, it feels like I’m all that! What a life! LOL
I think you are right. What’s that saying… humans are creatures of habit? We find the things we like and then we do them over and over again unless they are hurting us and we decide to change. We all get a little comfortable in what we do and what we are comfortable doing.
Oh, I like Bingo! I went for the first time while I was in Vermont. I’m definitely no granny but I think it’s fun!
you have no idea how boring I am! “old lady” is normally the adjective I use to describe myself to new people. pretty sad, but I love my quiet routine.
.-= amanda´s last blog ..A whiny post. =-.
There is nothing wrong with a quiet routine if you love it. :)
I completely agree with you. I am very boring. People always think I have so much going on because of the big things such as going back to school, training for a marathon, or going on trips but the truth is that my everyday life is boring. I wake up, go to work from 7-5 and then come home to workout and do school work. I don’t do anything extremely exciting but sometimes it is the boring everyday things that help us get to the big exciting things.
I couldn’t do the marathon if I didn’t do my daily workouts and I couldn’t go on these trips if I didn’t work everyday in order to save money. The boring definitely builds up to the exciting!
That’s totally it – the boring things help us get to the exciting things. :) And then when we do that everyone thinks we are exciting! It’s funny! :)
Yeah, people ask how I travel so much. It’s because I work all the time and don’t spend a lot of money. That adds up to travel and awesomeness eventually!
I’m totally boring. Life consists of work, gym, time with kiddo. Rinse, lather and repeat. Once in awhile, I get out for a night on the town, or a mini-vacation, but I usually do not deviate from the norm. Ahh…life!
.-= Erin´s last blog ..Back in Business =-.
I think that’s most of us. :) At least you do good things like spend time with your little one!
No wonder we get along so well–I’m boring, too! :) I like routine and I like futzing around with the routine every now and then just so I can remember how wonderful the routine really is.
.-= Cammy@TippyToeDiet´s last blog ..Exericse: It Doesn’t Have to Hurt! =-.
Hehe. Can we be boring together soon?!? It’s been FOREVER since I’ve seen you!!
Hey, you’re right! But maybe the boring times make the special, exiciting times extra good! Mixing up your routine by trying new foods or a new type of exercise is a great way to stay empowered. Keep up the good work!
I sound so much more exciting on paper than I am in real life. I think we get so used tot he day to day stuff we forget how exciting we might sound to someone far away
.-= Lanine Bradley´s last blog ..Monday Musings =-.
Good point. Generally I only blog about the exciting/fun stuff, so I can see how that would make people think that. Also, I think it’s the same as how the place we live isn’t that exciting to us but to tourists its AMAZING and exciting. Just because it’s DIFFERENT. I think with blogs, the ability to look into the life of someone different makes it exciting.
Hmmm. I still think you’re interesting. You can’t convince me otherwise. :D The whole moving across the world thing: pretty crazy and fun. OOhhh!!! If I do my PhD there, I’m totally going to be your real life blogger friend! Ha!
.-= Tatulah´s last blog ..feelin’ sassy &thinking of clothes =-.
Haha! Secretly I’m kind of glad you are unconvinced.
I hope you do! I’d love to have another friend there! I’m kind of worried I’ll move there and have no friends at all besides Kepa. Please come be my friend? LOL
Hmm well no matter what you say, I don’t find your life boring. If it was really that boring would everyone be reading your blog? On the other hand, I find MY life boring and people a lot of times say my life isnt boring and theirs is. (I still think theyre wrong). Sometimes I feel like I’m dying of boredom, but it’s sort of silly, because I do fun things most days, so its just if I miss a day or two of doing anything fun, I feel like I live the most boring existance on earth and I’m gonna die of boredom lol. I definitely need to work on that. Still, the fact remains that you just went to a conference, had kidney stones, got stranded in an airport, and are saving up to move to another country to be with your boyfriend, who you met through blogging. Lol c’mon, you cant make this stuff up! Today I can say though that maybe I should have been a little MORE boring last nite, cuz im dead today lol.
.-= merri´s last blog ..Five Star Restaurant: Goat Hill Pizza =-.
Aw, thanks. I don’t know… maybe people read my blog because … I don’t know!! Hehe. I think you are pretty exciting from what I read on twitter and your blog. You do fun stuff!
And yeah, you really can’t make up my story. It’s so crazy and not at all anything I expected planned for. I’m as much on the ride as all of you who read it.
Heck, I love boring a lot of the time! When I used to work 60++++ hours a week & still had to do everything else, boring was wanted big time. Now I relish it! :-)
I am with you on this!
.-= Jody – Fit at 52´s last blog ..Is Tomorrow Too Late? =-.
Oh, when you work that much every week you definitely learn to appreciate quiet/boring. At least most people do.
I tend to think of it as an exciting boring. Because although the day to day is boring, the hypothetical end result is exciting. And, I’ve been setting little goals so when I meet them, it’s also exciting. I throw in the cooking to make things more entertaining, and it has been, and reading these motivational blogs helps me look at weight loss and life in a different light. So maybe it might be boring to other people, but it sure as hell is pretty interesting to me.
And, your life is pretty damn interesting. You got kidney stones after you ran a mile at Fitbloggin’. I mean, that’s pretty crazy. And you’re writing your huge e-book, planning to move to NZ, and you’ve got a road trip across the USA in a few months. Boring?! Not in the least!
.-= Jess´s last blog ..Weigh-in #8 =-.
Hahah. That’s the best explanation ever: exciting boring. I love how you set the mini goals and celebrate them. I set the goals but need to do better about the rewards/celebrating.
Ah, yes, when you put all of those things together in one paragraph life does seem pretty exciting! :)
I’d rather be boring and consistent than all over the place. If you’re tired of being boring, go for an adventure and get out of your rut, but don’t give up on your goals.
.-= Amy : Fast Food Obesity´s last blog ..How To Build Teen Contracts =-.
I’m boring too! I wake up, go to work, come home, exercise, cook, then throw a toy approximately 5,481 times for Sookie. And think about doing some writing on my stories I’m working on, but usually watch something on TV since my DVR is always full b/c all I do in my spare time is read and watch TV and play online.
Yeah, youv’e seen my twitter right? *I’M* boring!! :)
.-= Craig´s last blog ..Giving up (the final weigh in)–Week 29 =-.
Haha. I love that your dog (I assume it’s a dog) is named Sookie. That’s cute.
I have seen your twitter. WRESTLEMANIA!!!! HAhaha.
I’m really boring, but boring can be a good thing. With weight loss, boring can be great thing. When your actions becomes boring and methodical, they become habits. The best way to lose weight is eliminating old bad habits and forming new good habits. So aim for boring!
.-= Dr. Kal´s last blog ..Childhood Obesity Articles =-.
Boring and weight loss belong together. … Even a doctor says so!
I’m “boring” like you and am happy to have found another evening exerciser. I don’t know about you but I feel like I’m walking through sludge if I try to exercise in the morning. Plus it drains away all the stresses of the day!
When I exercise in the morning I tend to overeat ALL day. If I do it at night I get rid of my stresses from the day and then only have one meal and snack (or not if I do it after). So it’s good for me to do at night for several reasons. Plus the gym is never crowded!
I am totally boring :) In fact sometimes it’s hard to come up with something to blog about! You on the other are anything but boring
.-= suzanne´s last blog ..Another day another walk :) =-.
Haha, you are nice. Perhaps too nice! But thank you. :)
Sometimes I feel like when life gets boring I subcounsciously throw a wrench in my weight loss- as if things not being a huge dramatic thing is bad!? Oh geez. I really liked this post actually- not boring at all :)
I think in the grand scheme of things I do that. Like last year when I got bored of my first big girl job I just quit to travel for a month with no idea what would come after that. Any time I feel like my life is getting boring I do something BIG. But for the weight loss stuff I LOVE boring. I shake it up a little bit to keep from getting too bored, but I still stick with the basics. :)
Boring gets results!
.-= AndrewENZ´s last blog ..Weigh-in #13 2010: Almost there =-.
True that my friend!
I’d like to think of myself as habitual, not boring. But yeah, I’m probably boring. But it is effective!
.-= beej´s last blog ..week 51 =-.
That’s probably the correct term for what I’m talking about. It sounds nicer and it’s accurate!
Is this boring or what? My laugh and the most excitement I’ve had in about a month came today from the water heater repairman saying the only way to see the pilot light on my water heater is tilting your head just so and sticking out your tongue this way. I said, “So that’s why I couldn’t see the pilot light when I was trying to relight it, I never stuck out my tongue.”
Actually it was $185 to fix the things that were wrong with it, but now we have hot water.
Haha, at least repairman was funny! That sucks that it cost ya. But yay hot water!
I consider myself a connoisseur of simplicity not boring. ;-)
.-= Jenn´s last blog ..“They” say what? =-.
That’s a cool way to think of it. I guess I’m boring because I didn’t think of all these alternative ideas to boring!
you know it.
and Im married to a boring man and raising a thoroughly boring child.
Hehe. And no one would ever look at you and think boring.
Some things I caught in the comments…
Bad reality t.v.? Jersey Shore! I know this! ;P
Ketchup? Your bottle of ketchup is still untouched, waiting for when you come back :)
And boring? You’re anything but boring! You may do things you consider boring, but you, the person? Not boring in the slightest. You can entertain me for hours :)
Hahah! Yeah. I like bad reality tv. Yesterday I watched a show called Jerseylicious. Seriously. I think I killed lots of brain cells. And I’m addicted to all things New Jersey.
Hurray ketchup! I love it!
Thanks. :) I’m the silly boring where you can laugh at me for long periods of time. :) It’s awesome.
Meh.. Boring, nah. I wouldn’t be here if you were boring. You make me laugh. You make me feel.
Cheers,
Missa
LosingEthel
.-= Missa´s last blog ..The Fat-Rat 12 Week Challenge =-.
Aw, thanks Missa!! I try. :)
I liked what Jenn said, “connoisseur of simplicity”. I find myself changing to different levels throughout the year. During the winter – I am sooo bored. If I am bored the other seasons — it’s usually because I’ve chosen to do nothing.
.-= Seth@1010in2010´s last blog ..200 MILE GIVEAWAY!! =-.
I liked that too. I get the season thing. I’m the most bored during winter, which is why I’m so glad it’s over now!!
Sooooooooooo boring and soooooooo happy with that! We go out with some older gals I work with (like old enough to be our mothers) and we’re always the first couple to leave. I like my sleep and I like a routine! I’m not able to sleep in til noon to make up for lost evening hours. And I like to cook at home and snuggle on the couch with tea and good reads. Call me crazy!
.-= Nicole, RD´s last blog ..Challenge: DO what you DON’T =-.
A good reminder. If I’m bored, I’m on the right track. Thanks Merry.
More so. I wake up, I cuddle a puppy/kitten/husband (sometimes a combination), I get up, I take my puppy out, I ride the subway, I work in a library (not actually, which would be interesting, just a really quiet, really serious, really conservative office), I ride the subway, I take my puppy out, I sit on the couch with my husband I go to bed. Lately, I haven’t been exercising at all. My big excitment is going to the movies. I’m 25 and my life has pretty much reached it’s peak. It’s not just boring, it’s downright depressing.
I can’t even eloquently blog about my boring day….lol.
I think we’re all boring. If other people had to walk a day in our lives they’d be quickly bored. But to us its not boring.
I bet if we’d even had to spend time with most of the big celebrities we’d bored to tears with their routines.
When it comes to getting to our goals the more we stick to a routine even a boring one the closer we get to our result.
.-= barry´s last blog ..Free Desktop Wallpaper =-.
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