Feeling Some Motivation

Lately I've been feeling a desire to do more than just sit around on my days off and after work. Haha. I feel like I'm wasting my life away just doing nothing all the time. I mean, seriously, I complain that my Japanese hasn't improved in a while, but, you know what? It's my own damn fault. I'm not even trying to learn new vocabulary or grammar points. And, goodness knows, my main problem when speaking Japanese is not knowing words. I mean, I can hold a conversation quite well, but the moment someone says a word I've never heard before, I am clueless as all else. This isn't a problem with friends, but if I'm trying to speak to speak on the phone or talk to someone in a more formal setting...well...let's just say I tend to avoid those situations all together.

So now I have to figure out the best way to continue learning. I'm not in school anymore, so I don't have my teachers trying to force me to learn new vocab and such. Not only that, but I feel like I need a better way of learning. Something that will motivate me a bit more than just "do this or you'll get a bad grade". Meh...I wish I had brought all my Japanese textbooks and the like with me to Japan... Until I can get to them in August, I'm going to have to rely on the internet for learning.