Day 5: November 9th, 2014

Day five was the best one I have had so far, for the routine I set up for myself. I went for a walk not too long after I woke up. I did get on my phone for a little too long before I got up, but I didn't go back to sleep, which is progress. I walked to Dunkin Donuts and had a very unhealthy breakfast. Even though I got up at 10:30 I didn't make it there until after noon, but I got quite a bit done. I wrote the blog entry for the day before, and I wrote out a schedule for the next week. I also read for probably fourty five minutes. It was very enjoyable. I was proud of myself. I didn't do very much else on the list of routine things though. I did finally clean my house, or half of it before it was time to take a shower and go to a friends house for dinner, or that was the plan I thought. There was no dinner, apparently we were late, and I wasn't aware we were supposed to be there at a specific time. I half watched an episode of The Walking Dead almost two seasons past what I have seen, and learned things about characters that I don't even know yet. Damn. Anyways, it was a good day.
The best thing about day five was that I started sketching again. I have had this vision in my head that I wanted to paint for a long time so, yesterday I sort of mapped it out. I have to confess, I am not a very good artist, so this painting will take me a very long time. I have to learn how to draw every element of it before I can get started, and once it is done, it will be fucking weird and no one will like it. Well, I will like it, but trust me it's weird.
The only thing I have written since I started this project is this blog. That is what I am going to try and change. The important part is that I am getting up and doing things that I want to do and living a little more than I was before and it is making all the difference. I am starting to think that I will have to redo this twenty-one days to actually get in the habit of the routine, and at first I thought, well, maybe I should just start over. But, my failing at this is making it, little by little, a bit easier to get up and do some things. So, if I can start to get the hang of the routine by the end of the twenty-one days, I think it will at least be a half success. It maybe that I have to redo this particular challenge over again for it to stick, but, just attempting to make it work is helping me so much, I can't be too upset about it.