Day I

This week I’m going to save myself and change my life. Sure, I’ve said this before. I remember for my 18th birthday I was going to change my life. My mom gave me twenty five dollars. I took that money to Wal-Mart. I bought Slim-Fast and low fat foods. I was going to lose weight after being chubby. I did take the slim-fast but then on Sunday my mom made porkchops, cole slaw, and cobbler. I flunked that weeks life change and many more after that.

I have had many journals, blogs, vlogs, podcasts to chronicle my life but this is…different.  This is a journal that I won’t publicize to anyone I know.  It exists entirely to be a place to update in the hopes of changing ones life.

So a few rules

1. no names, no specifics
2. no revelation of who I am in any possible way
3. Consistent updates are required
4. Brutal Honesty

Sounds fun eh? Well this is truly a journal for me. I suppose I should’ve started a “friends only” journal on LiveJournal but I abhor LJ most of the time. I could’ve started a blogspot but let’s be honest blogspot has a horrible interface and so that leaves me with a wordpress. One among many.

So the facts

1) My name is…well I shall go by “Semaine” which sounds all cool and exotic but it just translates to week.

2) I want to change a few things such as

• my weight. I’ve been chubby since as far back as age 11
• my job. I hate it.
• my career. I want to spend some time with more film students and hopefully learn more about the editing craft.
• my habits. I think this can be best explained by stating that I have a king size bed but all the crap in it makes it more like a twin.
• my nature. I want to be all super nice and giving. One of those people who would give another man their coat if they needed it or at least one that would heavily consider it.

And so we begin. Tomorrow starts in about 40 more minutes here in this timezone. Tomorrow I am going to work to change my life by using the exercise I bought a year ago. I want to lose 2 pounds over the next 7 days. That doesn’t seem like much in a post Biggest Loser world but it can be annoyingly hard when you’re a late twenties chick who still likes to go out, have a drink, and eat without remorse.

I am also going to clean out my closet of doom.  Anything I don’t use weekly needs to be boxed up and thrown away or better yet given to the Goodwill/Salvation Army.

So yeah this week I am going to change my life. Right?

I looked for an image for this blog. I wanted something that would mean something every time I looked at it. While viewing a random image in a photobucket I saw this and feel it sums it up better than the image I initially had in mind.