11 things I could do without?

Prompt: 11 Things. What are 11 things your life doesn't need in 2011? How will you go about eliminating them? How will getting rid of these 11 things change your life?

So at first 11 seemed like a rather arbitrary number. Then I realized that next year is 2011, and that the date is December 11. Well played, Sam Davidson. So... 11. It's the name of Venus Williams' clothing line, 1/2 of the famous 7-11 convenience store, the 11th arrondissement in Paris. Ocean's 11 (AC's favorite movie), Eleven Madison Park Restaurant in NYC, the first number that we can't count with just our hands. Yeah, I'm procrastinating. There are probably more than 11 things my life doesn't need but the problem is that I can't stop thinking about things my life DOES need. I could just reverse them, e.g. "I need a pet, therefore I don't need to not have a pet this year" but that's cumbersome. Getting to the point... now.

1. I don't need to be unemployed anymore. Obviously. I hate being unemployed. I miss having coworkers, having a set schedule, baking for coworkers, being productive, having money that I don't feel guilty spending. The sooner I go back to work the sooner I get to go back to school, the sooner I get to start working on my career. 2010 was STRESSFUL, but now that I've spent almost 5 months (!!!) being unemployed, I can safely say I've spent 3 of them bored and unproductive. It's a terrible waste of time. But the first two months was a nice vacation.

2. I don't need junk food. Moving to New Haven was good for me because there's NOT a Chick-fil-a, which is totally my kryptonite. However, I filled that junk food void with Big Cup Reese's pb cups. Seriously, you guys, I can't go to the grocery store without getting one. They're so good, and there's TWICE as much pb in them so they're twice as good as regular. Everyone knows that's why the holiday Reese's are so popular, more peanut butter! But come the new year, no freaking more. It's really, really bad.

3. Now that the wedding is over, I've only had one dramatic situation and it's been really, really nice. So I could do without drama flaring up in 2011. Stay away! I don't like drama, whether it's with friends, work, whatever. It annoys me and it's completely unnecessary.

4. I don't need to spend more time looking at stupid stuff on the internet. Granted, I spend alot of time on there because I'm not working, but there are better ways to spend my time. I need to be more precise about spending time working on my blog, reading other blogs, and being part of a community instead of just looking at animated GIFs, which are hilarious but really? Quite pointless. I've found all the funny ones.

5. I don't need any more shoes until I get rid of the ones I don't wear! Except I do need a pair of black boots that don't make me look like a pirate hooker. But seriously, I have 5-10 pairs that I NEVER wear, and I need to either wear on a regular basis or get rid of them.

6. We don't need to buy ANY MORE ART. Seriously, we have enough little prints to make a little museum. And I don't know what to do with all of it, since 5 of the prints are a weird size that doesn't fit inside regular frames and we don't feel like getting them custom framed. I should just MAKE frames.But no more art, except for what goes between the windows. A room can only have so many little frames before it looks weird.

7. I don't need clutter. I'm really good at nesting in my sofa with magazines, random paper, whatever. It makes AC crazy and doesn't look that pretty. I need to either find a place for things or get rid of them, not just ferry them from one nest to another.

8. I don't need to be comparing my life to people I am friends with on Facebook. I have some friends on there who portray his/her life as absolutely PERFECT. And it makes me INSANE, because even though I'm sure his/her life is pretty great, no one's life is perfect. I need to stop thinking less of my (awesome) life because they're manipulating their online persona.

9. Procrastination. I'm really, really good at this! Saying "Oh, I'll do this at 2." and then 2 turns into 3, which turns into tomorrow. Which, honestly, usually turns into next week. I'm procrastinating on my to do list by writing this, actually. And one of the things is going to the bank, which closes at 3. It's almost 1. And I haven't showered. See?!

10. I don't want to put off joining a gym any longer. I've been putting off joining the Yale gym this whole semester and I really need to stop it. I feel so much better about myself when I'm exercising regularly, and Yale apparently has one of the best college gyms in the country. No real shockers there, but I have that opportunity for $109 dollars a year, which is how much 3 months at my old gym cost.

11. Last one! I don't need to stop being a supportive wife. Honestly, I feel like I've done a good job with this so far. AC is in a competitive program at Yale. It's the feeder program for the Ph.D. program and he's doing absolutely fantastic so far. He's brilliant and hard working and I make no claim to contributing to any of his success, but I think if I were being UNsupportive it would be alot harder for him. I'm so, so proud of him, for not only getting in but, quite frankly, kicking ass! One of his professors told him that one of AC's paper was one of the best he had seen in years. That's pretty awesome!