Bare Necessities

Em gave me a little assignment: What are the bare necessities to get through the day? TV, Video Games, Food and Sleep. The End.

It's a good question, isn't it? A lot of my days recently have been centered around me and what makes me feel good. Which, sad to say, isn't too far from the above list. I've been lacking in several areas of my life, and as a firm believer that life is full of ups and down and no plateaus, several important aspects of my life have been on the down slide.

Let's start with the obvious. 30 minutes getting ready in the morning.

I don't pray or read the scriptures nearly enough. Muslims pray 5 times a day. It's one of the Pillars of Islam (or so 30 Days tells me.) Recently, my thoughts have become more spiritual, but I haven't exactly been look to the words of the prophets for advice. I have much to learn about a great many things that are in the scriptures. And as they are written for our time, I really ought to devote some of my daily life to them. So let's say 30 minutes a day for scriptures and 10 for prayer.

8 hours sleeping at night.

Now the next obvious. Food. I love food. I'm fortunate to be married to someone who's willing to be as adventurous with food as I am. Granted much of our adventures are away from home, I believe that with the coming of the baby, we'll begin to divulge into our own culinary talents. Cooking isn't that hard, right? I managed to feed myself through the mission, so why not a bit more now? So if you have any rather good recipes, please share. Jamesbob9@hotmail.com, if you didn't know already. Even if you're a random person reading this, drop a rockin recipe on me. 3 hrs a day for food.

Pooping out the food, 1o minutes.

Excercise. I'm not terribly out of shape, but the belly is emerging. I have a bike I barely use in a neighbourhood in which it's too beautiful not to. My reluctance to do so have no logical time to anything. I do take the occasional walk. And using "occasional" may be a small overstatement.
So 30 minutes a day, walking, running, biking or anything like those things, outside.

30 minute nap.

Now that the obvious stuff is out of the way, let's indulge. We bought a dobro for me 2 years ago. I worked on it for about 6 months. Since then my beautiful resophonic guitar has been collecting dust. Well, no more! 30 minutes a day should get me rockin some licks.

Just because we're human, 4 hours, 10 minutes for errands, and chores on a good day.

That brings us to 18 hours.

That gives us some time on the computer, watch your shows, and so on.

Now, this is given that you don't have to work or go to school on the given day. In that case lets break it down to... 8-12 hrs work, 2hrs food, 40 min spiritual, 30 excersice, 3 errands, 8 sleep, 30 getting ready and that's about it. And if you have a 12 hr day, it can help open up extra days in the week.

So there ya go. It's not exactly the bare necessities, but I think it works for now. What do you think?