Day 17 - Productivity Level: Caffeine Addict

My life these days consists of several different roles. For fun and to pass time until my boyfriend gets home from work, I enjoy a variety of only slightly productive pleasures.

1. Angry Birds Star Wars edition: I've just finished beating the Tatooine level and have moved on to take down the Death Star. I still have Hoth, Path of the Jedi and the Bonus levels. I am proud to say that I've actually beaten my mans high score on several occasions this very night. Productivity level: Professional booster of my own self esteem and confidence; Today I'm taking out high scores, tomorrow the world.
2. Facebook: This is how I usually keep up with my peeps whether I'm home or not. Keeping up with friends and family back home is something I enjoy about twice a day. My favorite is to post pictures of my trip and wait for the flood of jealous comments. This is my favorite place to brag about the time off I'm getting and the snowboarding fun, while in a couple of months I'll be using it to complain about the work load in nursing school. Such is life. Productivity level:  Connoisseur of gossip and social awareness.
3. Pinterest: Ahhh, nothing calms and motivates me like a virtual pin board. Enjoying the fitness focused hard bodies and gym humor at the same time I'm fantasizing about the kitchen and stocking up on my collection of food porn. All the tasty recipes get my juices flowing and I can't help myself, I start baking, cooking, trying those recipes. Or it all just makes me wanna work out and stuff my face at the same time. I can say I have actually tried some of the workouts I've seen and only like one. Tried a lot of the recipes too, LOVE THEM ALL! Productivity level: An authority in working out and eating like garbage= maintenance (but only for the moment, the bad diet IS catching up with me).
4. Scrapbooking: Yes, as a photographer who is not currently displaying art work in any way, other than this blog (if you can call this art work...I wouldn't) I am neck deep in photographs, scrapbooks and craft store supplies. I love cataloging my life via the printed picture and colorful paper. I love the stickers and the glitter and the titles and the ribbon. The smell of the card stock aisle in the craft store is almost too much for me to bear. I usually don't even bring in my wallet, when I do and my nostrils fill with the aroma of paper and glue, money just jumps straight out of my wallet. Unstoppable. Productivity level: Historian and stress relief enthusiast.
5. XFINITY TV: Comcast has a wonderful set up and if you've paid for the service you can get cable, OnDemand and premium channels (like HBO, Showtime, Starz) all via the interwebs. So any TV series or movie on regular TV or a premium channel is at my fingertips. In December, I caught up on all the seasons of Dexter (love it!) and this week we finished up the first and second seasons of Shameless. Because I don't like to subject my sweetie to the girly movies that I enjoy so much, I watch those by myself. Thanks to my brother for his payment of this service and the use of his user name and password. Productivity level: Certified mooch and Expert celebrity analyst.
6. RedBox: There is nothing in the world like cheap thrills and this wonderful addition to the movie watchers arsenal, saves the day and often, the night. For just over a dollar you can catch a flick, that may not be worth the $4 rental fee, or the $20 DVD purchase. It's like test driving movies to decide if it's worth purchasing. It's just too bad we can't watch it on RedBox before we pay $10-15 in the theaters. Also the option to perform an online search through the variety of boxes in your area and reserve the movie you'd like to watch while still at your home is pretty amazing. Productivity level: Researching the drama of life like a boss.
7. Sudoku: Above all these, this is the one. I'm addicted. I can't go a day without playing this game or finishing a puzzle. Not true. If I'm snowboarding or with my man, I don't usually play. But if I have 10 minutes to waste or need to pass the time, I pull out the iPad and get on it. I've beaten my own high score a multitude of times and progressed to the "expert" level long ago.  I have recently resorted to only considering myself successful if I have a perfect game, with no mistakes AND come within 5,000 points of my highest score. It's difficult, but I'm willing to rise to the challenge, against all odds and persevere through many failures, in a race against the clock to...yeah, well enough of that. Productivity level: logic-based, combinatorial number puzzle MASTER!