Mute, Rinse, Weather, Repeat

Hey! I've been very busy being crushed by my homework, but I still have time for the viewers of my blog. Yes, I do. Don't you dissagree with me! Why do you think I'm typing this? Gah!

Anyway, last week I talked about tweaking just one thing a week to just twisty my life up a bit. I have dubbed this The Weekly Tweak. Almost sounds like the name of a newspaper. Almost.

Weekly Tweak: Don't talk when unnecessary at school.
I felt so strange all day. I always heard someone talking about something cool, and I'd want to join in, but I didn't. I could hear conversations I don't usually hear. It's amazing what you can hear when you're not listening to yourself talk. And it gave me time to think. To think before talking, to think: "Should I really say this? Will it cause embarrassment/discomfort?" I guess that saying is true. "It takes a fine command of language to say nothing.

But I have to admit I talked a little, like when I saw a friend I really needed to tell something to or when I was called by the teacher to read page 329 of my science book. You just can't live a healthy lifestyle not talking. Some can't live without talking, like the blabbermouths at school...and you know who you are AA, AM, EW-R, NW, MC, RM, WMSAEVJSDG(C), and MM. And myself. Gotta remember that.

I haven't had much time to make anything in GIMP. It's just so crazy with "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst and the American Revolution Timeline, and making a poster with a WASL word and learning about how tides are caused on both sides of the Earth. One of my friends has challenged me to make a rose in the GIMP. Did you know the GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program? I bet you didn't...unless you have it. So I'm going to work on making a rose over the weekend, and I'll let you know how it turns out.

Oh, and if anyone out there has an idea for a weekly tweak, let me know by posting a comment. I'll have a list going soon in the sidebar. There will be tweaks I've done and tweaks to do. Like a life list, which I also did this week.

Basically, make a list of all the things you want to do. Like travel down the Amazon, get straight A's, make an igloo 6 feet tall...anything you want to do in your life. then, start reaching for those goals. Save money for the vacation you desperately want in India. Work for eight days on that igloo. And boy does it feel good to check those goals off. There's this guy called John Goddard who made his list in 1940 that was composed of 127 goals, and he still lives today and has done 109 of them. He's almost died of quicksand, drowned twice, survived plane crashes, climbed a handful of mountains, been to almost every country, and has retraced the route of Marco Polo through Asia. Here's his site. So I'm making a life list, and I have about 30 now, but I'm still building it.

See you soon.