{"id":365,"date":"2014-11-01T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T01:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2014-11-01T15:34:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T01:34:01","slug":"day-one-hundred-anticlimactic-and-thats-overstating-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"DAY ONE-HUNDRED: Anticlimactic, and That&#8217;s Overstating Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been chronicling my effort to make &#8220;dramatic changes&#8221; in my life over the course of one-hundred days. What have I actually accomplished during that one-hundred days? Not very much.<!--more-->Following is an annotated list, taken from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puuikibeach.com\/chamberofchaos\/?p=158#\">Day Twenty-Six post<\/a>, of what I had hoped to accomplish over the course of 100 days. Current status has been added in italics.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get the house ready for a real-estate appraisal and possible listing for sale <em>(Of three real estate agents we asked to look at our property, one was not enthusiastic about its marketability even at a considerably lower price than we would need to make a sale worthwhile<strong>, <\/strong>one &#8220;lost our phone number,&#8221; and one <strong>totally forgot<\/strong> about the appointment he had made to come out to the house.)<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete structural and aesthetic repairs, like painting and patching <em>(Living room and kitchen essentially done. Bedrooms partly done. Exterior needs a lot of work.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Clean out the clutter! <em>(Contents of all but three cardboard boxes from The Room of Doom have been transferred to plastic storage tubs. Tubs are temporarily stored in a neighbor&#8217;s garage. I need to bring them back home and sort through them again. The contents of roughly a dozen or so cardboard boxes were donated or otherwise disposed of.)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Resume exercising\n<ul>\n<li>Lose weight \u2013 45 to 50 pounds (starting from 195) <em>(Current weight: 201.8 pounds, a <strong>gain <\/strong>of almost 7 pounds!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>increase cardio endurance (run ultra distances) <em>(No jogging, a half-dozen walks in one-hundred days.)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pay off my credit cards <em>(August balance: $22,058; October balance: $21,835; Current &#8211; November &#8211; balance: $21,864)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Find or create a new career <em>(No progress.)<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Make a living at a job I don&#8217;t hate <em>(Disliking my job more than ever, but I&#8217;ve taken no steps to change things.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Make more money than I do now <em>(Not happening&#8230; yet.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Have as much or more free time as I do now <em>(I need to make better use of my &#8220;free time&#8221; rather than treating it as &#8220;free&#8221; time.)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Write and publish eBook novels on Amazon (and other formats) <em>(No progress. Signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/participants\/davidd\" target=\"_blank\">NaNoWriMo 2014<\/a>. I&#8217;ve tried the National Novel Writing Month challenge several times since 2008, and have never yet reached even 5,000 words, or even 500, let alone 50,000.) <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been working toward for the past twenty-six days. Oh, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start a blog\n<ul>\n<li>Post daily for 100 days <em>(Did this!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure out how to make it look cool <em>(Have not yet invested the time to learn how WordPress and Genesis themes work.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Decide if blogging is worth pursuing longer-term <em>(Dunno yet. Some days it&#8217;s been a hassle to update. Obviously it&#8217;s not helping me succeed.)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, I no longer have a car; that is, I have a car to <em>use<\/em>, on loan from a relative, but I donated my PT Cruiser to charity because I couldn&#8217;t afford the repairs it needed. Plus, I&#8217;m sick again, with another cold, after being sick for about three weeks with one of the worst colds I&#8217;ve had in years. That means I&#8217;ve been under the weather for about twenty-five percent, a full quarter, of my &#8220;100 Days&#8221; timeline. Usually I am in fairly decent health. I think the combination of being exhausted both mentally and physically from working at a job I hate, carrying around extra weight that I can actually feel (and managing to <em>gain <\/em>rather than lose), and not getting adequate exercise or rest is leaving me more susceptible to illness. Or maybe it&#8217;s just one of those years. There have been a lot of sick kids and sick co-workers at school so far this school year.<\/p>\n<p>Well. This synopsis is depressingly sobering. A hundred days have passed. I have made no major changes in my life. I have made no improvements to my lifestyle, to my living situation, to my working situation, to my financial situation, or to my physical or mental well-being. And yet here I thought I was trying.<\/p>\n<p>Next steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read back through the first 100 days and see if I can learn anything.<\/li>\n<li>Make a revised list for the next 100 days.<\/li>\n<li>Do it.<\/li>\n<li>If, after 100 more days, I can document no improvement&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been chronicling my effort to make &#8220;dramatic changes&#8221; in my life over the course of one-hundred days. What have I actually accomplished during that one-hundred days? 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