01-23

01-23 11:00am

Have I mentioned I’m excited about getting a new room?
It’s very windy today, I woke up this morning to what I thought must have been an earthquake. The sheet intensity of the wind made it feel in my waking sleep like the room was shaking. It doesn’t help that someone put an umbrella on the grating outside my window, and it’s just bouncing up and down making noise right next to my head.
I’ve also started to reinstate my pushup regimen, on account of my metabolism starting to slow down again after getting used to my diet here. I really could have powered into it by doing them from the start, but, alas I was lazy, am lazy, but I’m working to change that. In all honesty, I don’t know how I started doing them last time I was here, but every day for two months I did. And man it made me so happy, because after a few weeks the results were really tangible. But it took a few weeks, and that’s what gets me.
I’m not one of the kids that took the one marshmallow over two delayed, but two weeks is a lot different than ten minutes, especially when there’s daily physical exertion involved.
Actually, what I really liked about it best was that I proved to myself that I could force myself to do something and stick with it. Being able to ignore the presence of choice to do or not to do something is difficult for one who prides his self on constant situational awareness.
So today I will lounge around and be under budget. I’m gonna listen to music, and play video games, and think about stuff and blah blah blah, that sorta thing. Why? Because it’s free. Free has a certain appeal to me right now. My budget is the other thing I have little choice about sticking to. So I figure, every night when I enter my financial information in the log, I will do my pushups directly after. That way I’ll have a little routine, and they’ll re-enforce one another. And I set a recurring alarm.

11:59pm

Well, today was spent entirely as I had expected. Lounged around, played video games, watched TV, that sort of thing. And, much to my satisfaction, spent no money, logged my non-expense, and promptly did my daily pushups. Tomorrow I think I will have to venture out and check my account status online. I am cutting it close this month at best, and I think I should ask my parents to drop $50 in my account just to make sure I don’t accidentally overdraft. Thankfully in a month or so I will be in a position to deliberately send more than necessary home. I think once I get things all settled after moving I am going to send home whatever excess I have come payday back along with my monthly expenses. That way I will have money I can’t touch out here. Forced savings. Additionally, I am going to start sending checks instead of wire transfers to save some yen here and there. Blah blah blah, bedtime. Sorry I don’t have anything more exciting to report.