We all have lousy habits and vices. Some are easier to give up than others. I was a smoker for over 20 years. I switched to vaping and am now do none of it. Some people think it’s all nicotine, but for me, it was… Well, I’m fidgety as fuck. I had no problem giving up nicotine. But I always needed something to do with my hands.

Before you tell me to take up knitting or some other crafty craft, I knit, crochet, spin, and do other crafty things and have for years. But I digress because my fidgetiness is not the focus of this post. I need to get back into gear.

As mentioned in the previous post, I’ve had a repetitive stress injury from writing. This is the second time it’s happened. First on the left side and now on the right. To be straightforward about how I did this not once but twice, I’ll have to explain.

There are times when I become so focused on what it is I am doing that my husband has to make sure I’m adequately fed. The first time I was in online school and finishing up the last semesters of my software engineering degree. There was lots of code, lots of paper writing. I was so zeroed on getting the stuff done with time to spare that I didn’t move from my desk unless nature called.

Something similar happens every once in a while when I’m writing. I’m super inspired. I know right where I want the story to go and how to get there, and I just go, go, go. Sitting behind a desk for 10-12 or sometimes even 15 hours is just asking for injury. So now I’m trying to set alarms and use my fit bit to remind me to stop, get up, and stretch whether I am in the zone or not.

That is the one bad habit I’m going to work on this year. What bad habits are you trying to change this year? Let me know in the comments below.