Tag: habits

Posted in 2026, life

Cable Cutting Update

Posted on by nancyb422

Last Friday, I wrote about how I cancelled our cable service and my husband was pretty concerned.

Last Saturday, we signed up for a free one week trial of FUBO so he could watch the NFL football games on Saturday and Sunday. That was good.

Although we have a Vizio smart tv and it has our live local news, he couldn’t watch CBS Sunday Morning live. He would be able to watch it at 11am or live from his IPad at cbsnews.com but that was not the same. He was a little sulky about it. But the live football revived him.

Here we are, another weekend, another round of football. What to do what to do. We reviewed the information I took out of my Cutting the Cord class at the library and we decided rather than trying to do a patchwork of streaming channels, we’d just go with Hulu Live TV because they do carry all the major networks.

I’m grateful that it’s so easy to sign up. If I had to talk to people to set it up, we’d be installing an antenna on our roof.

Our UConn men’s basketball game is on the tv now and all’s right with the world!

Posted in 2025, Healthy Living, life

Beginning is easy, Continuing is Hard

Posted on by nancyb422

That is a Japanese Proverb and it is oh, so true. For me, at times, even the Beginning is hard.

I told my husband this morning that this week will be a week of working on new habits and re-starting habits that fell by the wayside over the year. I’ll determine what works, what I like, and what I don’t and carry that in to the new year.

Some of those habits include:

  • Reading my daily bible plan entry in the Bible app
  • Writing a morning journal entry from the Ordinary and Happy website
  • Morning time management. I don’t have to get to the office at 9am, but I like to because then I can focus on organizational tasks instead of routine tasks
  • Schedule at least one day off each week
  • When we get a text for a bike ride – do it! Even if it’s a Monday (payroll can be done up until 8pm EST)
  • Plan breakfast, lunch, and my workout the night before
  • Wind down for the night after dinner so when the 9pm alarm goes off to take my magnesium pill, I’m ready to head upstairs. I love time to read in bed!

Is that too much? There at times, especially at night when I’m watching a show, I’m like an obstinate child. the alarm goes off, I turn it off, continue watching, and forget to take my pill altogether!

Wish my luck and we’ll see what sticks!