Phone Notifications

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So, I’ve turned off nearly all the notifications on my phone except like phone calls and my bill reminders. I figure that way at least my phone isn’t constantly telling me every single thing all the time that comes through. I hate seeing the little red badges and similar, so I have to check the app to make it go away, and then I get sucked in. I’m hoping turning off the notifications will help me check my phone with intention rather than out of compulsion. If I can check my phone with purpose, maybe I won’t end up having quite so much of my time eaten by the rabbit hole of messages, etc. I guess we’ll see how this goes.

I’m glad I left my phone at work the other day. I think it’s really helping me reevaluate how to handle my phone time. I was going to say screen time, but I usually write by typing so that wouldn’t really be accurate.

I don’t want to end up missing important things, but I spending two hours texting and messaging people in the evenings and getting almost nothing else done is just not making me happy. I love my friends, I really do, but I need a break from socializing after spending my whole work day socializing. Especially since my mom doesn’t really get to socialize at all during the day making me nearly her only outlet. That means I’m trying to support her entire desire to be sociable and interact with people and when I tell you that’s too much, I mean IT IS TOO DAMNED MUCH FOR ONE PERSON. As much as Dad can be frustrating, it will be nice to have him around more to take on some of that burden--at least I hope he will.

I should really consider moving out.

Oh, and that book I didn’t think I get approved for that I requested from NetGalley for shits and giggles because I couldn’t help myself? Yeah, I got approved. I keep looking over it to see if maybe it was just a first chapter or something like that, but it seems like I got access to the whole book. The entire book! That doesn’t even come out until sometime in like JUNE or something.

I have so many, many things to read and do. One of my other goals is to do a pull-up or chin-up without assistance. I have literally never, not once in my entire life, not even in school been able to do a pull-up or chin up. I’d really like to get to the point where I can do a couple. I’ve been using the assisted dip thing to do practice ones at the gym. Right now, I’m offsetting my weight with … weights. The thing says 220 pounds, but from what I was reading that means that you’re actually offsetting about half of that in your actual weight. So 220 pounds means counteracting 110 pounds. I had zero upper body strength when I started this endeavor. I could barely do 4 like that when I started a few weeks ago. I can almost do two solid sets of five (it’s like five and then four and a half right now), but considering it’s only been about four weeks, I’m taking that as a win. Next week, I’m going to take the offset weight down to 200 and try to do five. Then build up to 10 of those. So that in a couple more weeks I can take another set of weights off, etcetera etcetera etcetera. I imagine it’s going to take me about a year to get there, but that’s my goal. In a year, I want to be able to do a pull-up or a chin up. I’m not 100% what I would need to do differently for each one, but if I can pull my body weight up with nothing but the strength of my arms, I really don’t care what the angle is. I figure once I get to the point I can do one of them, I can make the next goal the ability to do the other if getting me one doesn’t get me to the other.

Oh well, more later. I need to get ready for tomorrow.