I'm procrastinating.
I've gotten worse about it in the past couple of years. I'm well aware when I'm doing it, and yet I don't stop.
Today is a typical day-after-traveling day, when procrastination is at its worst. I just got back from visiting my Utah family. Michael and I drove over on Christmas Eve for dinner and then opening gifts that night AND on Christmas morning. Then we had our Christmas Day "linner", and my dear husband headed home so he could be back at work the next day. I stayed, with no specific plan as to how to get home. I just wanted more time with my kids and grandkids. I AM on vacation, after all!
It was lovely. I saw 3 movies, which comes close to my usual year-long movie theater attendance record. I colored, read, sang, watched Frosty and Rudolph, and played Princess Candyland with my granddaughters. I talked, laughed, cleaned and relaxed with my daughters and my sons-in-law. And I rode on the train for the very first time in my life (if you don't count the Durango-Silverton train, which I rode as a teenager once).
And now I'm home. Here is what I planned to do at home while on my break:
1. Sew. I need to finish the last few valance panels for my library. And shorten a pair of jeans I just bought so I can wear them when school starts again.
2. Crochet. I have a huge afghan, commissioned by Lisa and Hondo, that has been in the works for a year and a half, interrupted often by friends/family having babies (the NERVE!). So I had to stop the big one and make the baby afghans. Since I have two grandchildren on the way in 2015, I'd better get this big thing done so I can tackle the others.
3. Purge. My closet needs it. My laundry room storage area needs it. You understand.
4. Blog. Ta-da!
5. Update my Goodreads - I have several books I've read but not cataloged. I stated more than once this week, in discussing books with my girls, that I could see myself spending a LOT of time on Goodreads once I'm retired (which ain't happening for at least 7 more years), because I really enjoy, not only reading, but writing reviews on what I've read! I do it for myself more than anything, but it's a huge ego boost to see someone I do not know "like" one of my reviews! My girls are all amazing writers, and I enjoy reading their reviews, too.
6. Shutterfly - every year, for the past 2 or 3, I have made a photo calendar on Shutterfly and ordered them for each of my children and my parents. Problem is, I wait until January so that I have photos from the entire previous year from which to choose...and so, by the time the calendar is made and shipped, it's February! I should just have the calendar start then...but wouldn't it end up being the same cycle?? Jen and I get the shaft, since we're the January babies...
My point in listing all of this is that I'm doing none of it. Zero. Zilch. Nada. OK, I'm blogging, but that is actually a procrastination of all the other things. Although I did actually get the calendar started...I have the first 6 months completed. I did that on Thanksgiving weekend. Forever ago.
And no, I haven't showered yet today either. I'm in my very snuggly warm fleece robe. And my memory foam pink camo slippers. Bet you're wishing I was taking accidental selfies NOW, huh? (That was a reference to my latest Facebook profile picture). I want that George Jetson shower/get dressed machine.
Well, thanks for joining me on the Procrastination wagon...cuz face it, if you're reading this, you are probably putting off something WAY more worthwhile and productive! Maybe, in a future blog, I can share which of those items (if any!) I actually completed.
I wish you all the best in 2015--odd years are usually worse than even years for me, but the multiples of 5 are the exceptions. Don't ask me why I feel this way, I just do. Maybe I could apply for a government grant and study that concept (If you are born in an even year, does that influence whether or not all even years will be better than the odd years?). And don't look for any "Goals for 2015" or "Best of 2014" lists from me. I'm not in the mood. I AM on vacation, after all! (Seems like I've heard that line before...)
Happy New Year!
Love, Cindy
P.S. I did get my Christmas decorations put away last night...does that count for something?
