Freedom isn't easy.

Today is Wednesday, and I apologise for my late blog entries. I'll summarise the past few interesting days of my 'freedom' project.

Monday was incredibly hard. I kind of wasn't expecting to reduce my large usage of everyday 'things'. It was more an attempt to actually take notice of what I do use during the day. Here's a list of all the things I vaguely remember 'using' on Monday (and every day, for that matter):
- phone, ipod, toothbrush, knives, forks, spoons, cups, saucers, body wash, shampoo, conditioner, face wash, comb, bobby pins, hair tie, money, wallet, go card, photocopier, printer, stapler, stapler remover, hole punch, scanner, computer, computer mouse, band-aids, hand soap, hand towels, toaster, television, and the list goes on and on and on.
I practically made no attempt whatsoever to stop using any of these things on Monday. In fact I pretty much forgot about the whole 'freedom' concept until I got home from work. Besides, work made it incredibly difficult to put this task into action. Result: fail.

Tuesday was a little better. A lot better. Actually, during the day I was asked to perform a task for work which completely stressed me out. This kind of went against my whole 'do only what I want for the day' task. Again, difficult to act upon when I have to do things for other people at work. I didn't even get to take my whole 45 minutes off for lunch, because I had to finish the job I had started.
But there were a few things I did just for me.
I ate a whole big two-pack of mars bars on the train by myself, and crunched the wrapper doing so in the supposed 'quiet carriage'. And then I saw someone I knew, and pretended I hadn't. Wasn't exactly in the mood for small talk that afternoon.
Overall I'd say I earned a D+ for that one. Maybe a C-.
No, definitely a D+.

Then today was better again. I think I only stayed in one place for more than half an hour about 4 times. Twice on the train journeys, once while I was doing that job from yesterday (still), and right now, because I've kind of given up. I reckon I've been sitting in this very spot on the couch for about an hour. But that's not so bad, right? I've definitely passed today's task, maybe with a B.

Now I'm looking forward to tomorrow. Doing something outrageous? Oh dear lord. This could be a whole lot of fun!