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To make time I quit a lot of important things in my life. But it’s not just quitting; I’m making room for the things I really enjoy doing.  Well, here are those things that I’m making room for:

* Cooking – I quit Nutrisystem because I noticed it was making me food-lazy. I was never like that before; Hubby and I always enjoyed preparing meals together. Especially living in Dundas, I’m so close to so many good shops that sell local, good quality items. One of our fave things to do is to hit up all the shops while taking Spanky 2.0 for a walk early Saturday morning.  Visiting the cheese shop, Mickey McGuire’s, is the best because they give free samples of everything they suggest you buy.

* Running – Remember I said I was quitting the gym but not quitting working out? It’s summer time so I am going to take advantage of the great weather. I have a plan to get into running, thanks to Zen Habits, and I will blog about it to…it’ll just be more motivation to keep it going.

* Staying at home – This ties into a lot of the things I want to do. Less going out means saying ‘no’ to social functions (see last item on my quitting list), it means less dinners out and more cooking (see first item on this list) and it means more time to read (see below). Oh, and I bet I’ll save a pile of money too.

* Reading books – REAL books. No more work related, social media crap (okay…it’s not crap, I’m just sick of it. I mean, The Long Tail is an amazing concept…but it should have been confined to a blog.) I’m interested in reading as an outlet again. Somewhere during university my love of reading got tainted. Perhaps it was being forced to pay for information from overpriced tree-scraps that we can now find easily with Google. I’m thinking of starting with the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I’ve read the Hobbit but never the trilogy. I’m told its a bit of a difficult read but I’m up for the challenge.

So there, now I don’t feel bad for letting people down and quitting stuff I like to do. I did have a plan…was there ever any doubt?