The more important stuff I have to do, the more meaningless shit I find to do instead of that important stuff.
I had five important tasks to undertake this weekend:
1) Study for a big test I’m taking next month.
2) Respond to all your awesome comments.
3) Do some serious revising of my book to make sure I stay on top of swapping deadlines with Nic, my BFF (blog friend forever?)/critique partner.
4) Finish sending out Christmas cards and presents. I know, I know…
5) Finish drawing the (possibly racist?) cartoon logo my dad contracted me to design for his new conservative club. (“Conservatism is the black liberation movement,” says he, according to my sister’s Twitter account: ShitMyGOPdadSays).
BUT SUDDENLY THERE WERE ALL THESE BETTER THINGS TO DO INSTEAD. Like:
1) Watch every music video that has ever featured Pitbull, ever.
2) Conduct extensive online research to identify and purchase the highest quality window-attachable cat bed.
3) Go out to a bar with Doug and keep insisting we stay out later and later because it feels like we’re in college again! and I just saw a girl over at the bar who looks just like that one girl in that extended group of friends we used to go out with and its making me so nostalgic for everything even though I never even really liked that girl, the bar scene, or college that much in the first place.
4) Bake pink Valentine’s cookies.
5) See how well I can imitate the cats scratching at the door while Doug is in the bathroom. (It’s so great when he opens the door looking down, expecting to see the cats!)
6) Facebook-Message old high school friends who I haven’t spoken to since May of 2005. There’s no time like the present, right?
7) Decide that I must, here and now, begin an annual tradition of watching the Grammy’s, even though I’m not positive until I turn it on whether it’s the awards show for movies or music or T.V. shows.
8) Finally clean out the bowl of pasta that has been molding in the refrigerator for months.*
*Actually I did not do this. It’s still in there along with the molding Christmas cheesecake brownies. **
**Actually, I did just get rid of the molding Christmas cheesecake brownies. But only because I needed a pan for the pink Valentine’s cookies.
SSL (silent shake-laughing) at #5 … just the laugh I needed to start a Tuesday 🙂 And loving the Pitbull one, too!
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So glad I could make you shake!
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Oh God, I can SO relate to this post. My husband says the ONLY time I clean is when I have very important obligations I’m avoiding. And of course, that’s also when I find new shows to watch entire seasons of that suddenly I can’t live without.
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Amazing how much there suddenly is to do!!
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The ability to think like that shows you’re an expert
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Geez, that’s unbelievable. Kudos and such.
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All good use of your time, don’t kid yourself.
By the way, college gets better and better looking the further you get away from it. Also applies to people you see in bars.
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Very true!
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To think, I was confused a minute ago.
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this blog was quite funny, simply because i do the same thing
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Glad you can relate!
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Whew! I can relate.
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🙂
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window-attachable cat bed sounds like something I need desperately1
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You do! BUt be careful to attach it well. Ours fell off while our cat was napping in it…
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Yep, the Grammy’s got me too. Actually streamed them in the middle of the night (time zones, huh) while skyping with the (ex?)boyfriend in Canada! I kept muting them because I couldn’t understand what he was saying, but at no point did it occur to me that finishing the conversation and sleeping might be the better option, given that I had early classes the next day. Long live procrastination.
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Understandable. They come but once a year!
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Isn’t it pretty early to be sending out Christmas cards and presents right now?
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I guess that’s a better way of looking at it than really late 🙂
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Yeah lol. Today would be 10 months and 5 days early.
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Pitbull is a treasure. A TREASURE. And I also didn’t get around to sending my Xmas cards, so I was like “‘ll send New Years Cards,” which turned into Valentines which now I guess are going to be…St. Patrick’s Day cards? So basically I think you’re doing everything just right!
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Thanks for the validation! And treasure is the perfect word.
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I have had this experience this monnirg. The team is a group of seniors engineers. We started the first session today. After 15 minutes of discussion, they defined the problem, which was almost the same for everyone, but not exactly with the same meaning. I did my question on scale 0-10 and they agreed there was a consense. So I went on forward. At the end of the session, they realized the questions had been too much superficial and that the deepness of the problem had not been touched. If I had intervened trying to define the problem, I would have too much resistance and they came about with the lack of clarity about the problem they were discussing by themselves. It was great to have got that result because I myself didn’t know how to deal with the situation when I was in. Cleo
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I can’t believe I’ve been going for years without knowing that.
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I love reading your writing, it always brightens my day, truly so relatable!
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Glad to hear it- thanks!
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I love you. You are like, me if I was awesome and hilarious. 😀
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Aww,but you are!
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love! (I still have to send out my cards as well)
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You don’t know my LIFE!
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