March's Pin A Day Challenge

Since we are still deep in the throws of Winter here in West Virginia I've decided to embrace the fact that I'll be snowed in fairly often and have decided to challenge myself to tackle one pin per day from my boards on Pinterest.  Since I'm also wanting to get back in the routine of posting on this blog more often, it seemed like a great challenge to share.  

There is a link on the right, in my bio, to my Pinterest page, but here is the link to the actual board I made just for this challenge.  https://www.pinterest.com/maxwellmama/february-pin-a-day-challenge/

I started out by looking on my calendar to see which days I'd have more time to work on projects than others.  On days I'm going to be short on time, I selected easier pins, and the days I'll have more time, I chose the more labor intensive ones.  I also selected pins from the boards I already have and just repinned them to a new board and added the date I plan to tackle it on each description.

Please comment below if you might try to work on some of your pins in March.  

I'm hoping to have many Pinterest wins but I'll post even if it's a fail.

Breaking the Facebook addiction

I've finally had to admit to myself that I have an addiction to Facebook.  I noticed that I was spending countless hours everyday on there and getting nothing meaningful done.  Anything that could be procrastinated, was.  Everything from laundry, dishes, hygiene, and so much more.  And not only that, but I was getting myself too worked up and engrossed in drama on there that didn't involve me.  

I finally overstepped common courtesy and posted an offensive meme on a post that had nothing to do with me and caused a lot of hurt feelings that I don't know if I can ever fully repair.

I removed the Facebook app on all my handheld devices and am only letting myself sign onto it from the desktop or laptop, both of which I don't really care to use.  I considered deactivating my account altogether, and I still might in the future, but I do use Facebook messenger as a main source of contact with several people, so I wanted to maintain access to it.  

It's been just 24 hours since I removed it from this iPad and it's amazing how often I was inclined to tap the icon to open it.  I almost gave myself permission to bring it up in the web browser, but I held out and didn't do it.  I kept myself busy working on neglected projects so that helped.  

I'm not kidding when I say I feel this is a real addiction and a real problem for me.  I'm going to make myself a list of some of the projects I want to work on so that I'll have something to occupy my time whenever boredom strikes and I find myself wanting to log on.  I do have this blog set up with a Facebook page, so I plan to let myself sign onto Facebook once a week to see if anyone has tagged me in anything, and I'll do the blog posts on its page at that time.

There is nothing wrong with Facebook and other forms of social media, but it works best when used in moderation.  Please leave a comment with your experience with using social media.  Are you able to self moderate or do you find you have to force a time out from it?  I'd love to hear how others deal with this.