Well, here’s the list of items that happened throughout this week:
- Finished the NFHS football season. I completed a varsity post-season game during my first year of officiating, which I thought is good for my career. Kind of jumped into the deep end quickly but I’m learning a lot with my Friday night crew. But I also did some tackle and flag games to round out the season. Overall, I want to make an entire separate post about my experience as a high school/younger class football official.
- With football season done, now I need to begin transitioning to wrestling. I’m working on taking the exams and reading the books now.
- Helped my wife move a chest/dresser to the second floor.
- Cleaned the car on Saturday since it was nice outside.
- Mowed the lawn on Monday (hopefully for the last time for the winter)
Some to-dos:
- Wrestling exams and reading of the books. I’ve already started this, which is good. I need to follow up with my Kansas Wrestling Officials Association (KWOA) to make sure my officiating outfit will be here on time. It seems I got one because I was one of three new officials to wrestling in the association.
- Work on my REI stuff. I need to read some more of my second book, continue to network, and practice some deals on my whiteboard.
- For my MNP (Mind, Nutrition, Physical) goals, I’ve done really good with my first step that included ONLY drinking water when I eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And most of the time, I was able to finish the bottle of water each time I ate during those instances. What I’ve now realized, is that the other major time I drink soda is while I’m playing video games. So that will be my next step, is to ONLY drink water when playing video games. Just another way to cut back on calories. Now that I’m thinking about it… maybe I should do any kind of drink OTHER THAN soda during video games in the beginning, to get the habit started where I at least don’t drink soda during my gaming sessions.
- Also for MNP, I need to start thinking about implementing the food. What little change can I make to start making progress here?
- Figure out how I want to reorient my desk area. Currently my desk area in the basement, including my desk, my main computer, gaming consoles, etc are all under a big water pipe used for the kitchen. 100% sooner or later there will be a leak, and I need to have my stuff moved before then to be sure I have no issues.
- Also need to work on my new computer build. I agree with the wife and friends that I should wait for black Friday/cyber Monday to purchase the parts. But I need to have a game plan of what I’m wanting before those deals are live.
- I still want a desk that can transition to a standup desk. Still need to research that.
I’m not ready for Christmas. I swear it literally just happened. It’s so weird how fast Christmas shows up. I wonder if because Christmas can become so vivid in your head, at least the previous year’s instance, is the reason why it seems to come fast. Christmas is always a big deal in the states (depending on religion, etc). It will be my puppy’s first Christmas, so that’ll be fun. We had snow for the first time this year last weekend and my puppy Duke seemed to enjoy the snow. I should have recorded some video of it. He ate quite a bit of snow with his brother Cole.
I’m noticing more and more how tired I am when midnight rolls around. I’m assuming it has to do with my new work hours from 7:30am – 4pm. I’ll stay up until midnight, 1am, maybe even 2am sometimes… so I’m doing that to myself. I need to work on a better habit of going to sleep. Maybe follow the ideas laid out in the Atomic Habits book where you’d almost set a timer to go to bed… and each day move that timer back by 1 or 5 mins.
Anyways, I feel this blog is just a list of items that I’ve done, need to do, and memory/ideas dump. I need to structure it more, and I will, I promise. But I’m needing to get words on paper in the get-go here and feel my way through this process. I’m excited to see where this goes.