No-Socials November

So last night while I should've been sleeping, I crafted the idea of No-socials November.  In my head this also includes YouTube, unless I'm using it solely to figure out how to do something, and background noise TV - by which I mean when I walk into a room and the TV is on (which it always is cause I married an extrovert) to not give up what I was doing to watch whatever is on.

This may be a particularly hard challenge cause I'm in the office a lot this month, which means a significant amount of train time, which is often absorbed with socials.   It also has become my go-to for when I'm too tired for whatever I'd actually *like* to be doing.   I'm loading my kindle in hopes that reading fills that void the way it used to.   I also realized that I hadn't seen a single post about Nanowrimo from anybody yet this year.  That could be in part due to the changes in the org, but also probably the algorithm has decided I'm not interested.  And while it's right that I'm not super passionate about *participating*, I still like to hear about others' adventures. 

Also, I woke up this am thinking "meh, it's not a hard challenge why bother" and then physically fighting the urge to sign in which to me meant yup, probably should do it ;).  So.  My rules of engagement:

- no apps on the phone (I left my phone charging in our bedrooom where Chris is still sleeping so it's safe from me now lol, but to be deleted as soon as he's up).
- the only "sign-in" allowed is webbased and only to follow a link to view something someone IM's me something; some of my friendships are mostly meme based and I'm not interested in disconnecting from them.
- messenger is legal; I use it the same way I do texting and as per above, it's my only means of communication with certain people who I enjoy communicating with ;)

My hope?  Partially I get over the twitchy feeling of *needing* to check any time I'm bored and also that I break the habit of checking any time I'm bored.  But also that the more creative aspects of my life - writing / drawing / stabbing, or even the learning aspects - piano / spanish, start to make a more regular occurrence.   We shall see.

My concern?  That it's going to be harder than I'm comfortable with.

And, obviously I can't post this link on socials so highly unlikely this will be seen before said challenge is over.  Blog posts and photos will be the two things I want to share that I can't.  That's disappointing.  But I know from experience that I'll sign in "just to post" and then fall down a rabbit hole so...  

Let the games begin ;)