New Year, Numi

This is the Numi. It is the world's most sophisticated and advanced toilet. Complete with heated seats and a customizable bidet, the Numi is revolutionizing the toilet game as we know it.

The only reason I'm posting it here is for the wordplay. New me/Numi (get it? hahahai'msofunnynoi'mnotsorrynotsorry).

I appreciate everyone's desire to change when the new year rolls around. We all want to be better and, while there's nothing significant about that arbitrary date we choose to change, it's a convenient excuse to make goals and plans for the future.

I have the usual resolutions. Lose weight. Volunteer more. Quit smoking. 

But I'm also going to try something different, at least temporarily. A social experiment, if you will.

I've put my social media presence on hiatus. Deactivated facebook, made Twitter private, changed my LinkedIn password. You know. Tried to curb the usual culprits of procrastination and time wasting. Though I still have a Myspace account so I can change the song on my profile to reflect my mood (today it's Radiohead's "Creep," you guys!). 

I was becoming obsessive and compulsively going to Facebook and Instagram and Twitter, stuck in this closed-circuit loop of refreshing and reloading, checking for notifications or mentions or likes. Every little beep or boop or +1 activated the pleasure centers in my brain, releasing endorphins into my bloodstream.

It's a drug. An addiction. And I have an obsessive personality. Which is why I never started smoking.

So I'm trying to curb that (along with the smoking), partly to cut down on the time wasting, but also partly to see how it affects me in other ways. 

Will I be able to focus more? Will it change my writing? Will I still make stupid Photoshopped pictures?

We'll see.

If a bear blogs in the woods, does anyone still 'like' it?