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I think I made my schedule a little too easy and simplistic in the original post. Just like coming up with a budget for my finances (which was easy), a time budget is much harder. I have come up with a new schedule, but there isn't very much extra time to meet new friends and do nothing. And it would be great if I could find people that enjoyed exercising at the same time I do and had similar interests to share my time with between things I do currently and spending time with other people.
New schedule:
56 hours (sleep, this changes a lot)
50 hours (work)
14 hours (eating, ~2 hours a day + shopping)
11 hours (Internet, I bought a kitchen timer to limit my 'fun' Internet use to 90 minutes a day, it will not be easy)
9 hours (Exercise, I need to exercise some more. 1 hour weekdays, 2 hours weekend days)
7 hours (TV, I TiVo everything (1 hour news weekdays, Simpsons, PBS show on Monday & Tues, & Family Guy, and don't watch anything on Fri & Sat)
5 hours (Money management/bills/stock market)
5 hours (Masturbation/Porn, only on TFP would I list this, but I guess in a relationship I would use the same amount of time for sex)
3 hours (Various things, checking mail, driving, laundry,...)
2 hours (Cleaning, my place needs it)
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+6 hours left
6 hours is better than nothing I guess, but if you throw in sun tanning, reading books, having fun (what's that?), going to nightclubs, doing hobbies besides exercising and sports, napping, and whatever else, I think I am trying to do too much sometimes.
I am event thinking about taking a college class (fun one) in the fall if my work schedule allows it and I'm in town. While I might meet a few new people from that, it would require 5 or 6 hours a week.
I do need to reduce the amount of time I am on-line. 11 hours is a good goal to start, and it is the message boards that have been my problem in the past 3 years. I want to check them everyday a few times a day it seems like. Maybe I could set up a few bookmark folders labeled Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,... and I could only go to those sites in the folder on the correct day.
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