More Causes

UCCE, Save the Children, Tzu-Chi, Musicians that I Know (MP, CL, MT, WH so far... feel free to add to the list!), Community Art/Theater/Music

new: gumball capital, illini 4000, barestage

So many things to support! Gotta start keeping track of what I'm spending money on so I can start supporting. :)

Spending --> Donating

This is an idea that I have worked on for a while, but never fully fleshed out. I was either too scared, too busy, or too poor.

I'm not sure that any of that has changed, really, but I'm noticing that I tend to justify whatever it is that I spend money on. That, and there are a couple of causes that I would really like to support, but don't ever get around to doing.

The basic gist is that for every dollar I spend on unnecessary items, I will donate a portion to a good cause.

I am using slightly lax parameters for "unnecessary" and "cause" to support the people and programs I think deserve it and to help rid of bad habits.

Here is a preliminary list of items in each:

Unnecessary/Leisure: Soda, Candy, Video Games, Movies
Causes: UCCE, Save the Children, Tzu-Chi, Musicians that I Know (MP, CL, MT so far... feel free to add to the list!), Community Art/Theater/Music

I'm clearly not going to cut all the leisure activities out of my life, but I can more evenly distribute my money towards the better causes if I have to spend more than the sticker price on the leisure activity.

Friday is a new month, hopefully, I'll have some sort of system worked out by then!

last few days of rest

The last couple of days has been full of sleep, phone, sleep.... interspersed with some cleaning, cooking, and movie watching. There's just one more day until work starts again! I am actually sort of excited to get back into the groove of being busy. Today passed sooooo slowly! Cleaning took much less time than I thought it would, and I kept looking at the clock and thinking, "It's only 5pm? When can I go to sleep?"

It's good to know that I can stay up until 11:30pm without having taken a nap. Now I just have to wake up at a normal time tomorrow, stay up to about this time tomorrow, and wake up early on Monday for work.

I have one more essay to write (for now) and hope to complete that tomorrow, in addition to going to a cycling (spinning) class, and maybe stopping by the library for a magazine sale.

I can't tell if I have too much to do (and therefore don't want to do any of it) or too little to do. It certainly does feel busy to a point, even though I think time passes so slowly.

Maybe I'll just go to sleep and make more sense tomorrow.