Procrastination

~ Laura

I am being a complete asshole and not finishing something that I should have knocked off in an afternoon. Instead, I'm tackling other "projects," "really important shit," "things that absolutely must happen now." 

What I've done in the past two days:

1. Purchased every white accessory at Target, IKEA, and KMart to relieve Ian's room of the maroon color that he picked for his wall.

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Want a tip on a white rug? Dorm room rugs are cheap, cheap, cheap, right now. Go to KMart. $25 for a 5×7. 

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2. Organized the shelves next to my desk. But now I've decided that I need to go back to IKEA to get better shelves and whimsical boxes. A coat of paint is very needed. 

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3. Researched where to get a sofa reupholstered. We bought this Adirondack style sofa at an estate sale for $180. Nice, huh? 

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Next up. Find a good iPad keyboard. Load the boy's bedroom with the white stuff. Forbid them from "decorating" themselves until I take a photo of the finished product. Clean up our bedroom which is filled with the stuff from the boys' room and resembles a crack den. Decide which wall decal I should buy from Etsy: Lego theme or Star Wars theme or Star Wars/Lego theme? 

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9 thoughts on “Procrastination”

  1. I’ve been doing similar stuff. Totally rearranged the living room. Redid the mantel decor. Resisting the urge to go either to Target or to the antique mall. I like the red in Ian’s room. I had actually thought about red for our bedroom, but now I think I’m going with a slate blue.
    Might have to scope out Etsy myself. I’d say Star wars lego. Cute.

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  3. You could be formulating or expressing an opinion about that girl with the solitary facial expression who cheated on her co-star/partner with two facial expressions.

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  5. I blew most of the day running errands. Now it’s cocktail hour and to hell with real productivity: I’m going to play some Bejeweled Blitz and drink down the rest of my rum and coke.

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  8. “The secret of my incredible energy and efficiency in getting work done is a simple one. I have based it very deliberately on a well-known psychological principle and have refined it so that it is now almost too refined. I shall have to begin coarsening it up again pretty soon.
    The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
    (“How to Get Things Done,” in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949)”
    http://grammar.about.com/od/writersonwriting/a/benchavoid.htm
    Laura, the next time you are out rooting around in New Jersey tag sales for books, keep an eye out for Chips off the Old Benchley…

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  9. “The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.”
    Bravo.
    I have a cousin who (during a stretch that it was VERY important that she finish her dissertation) finished her basement instead. (The dissertation got finished eventually, though, and everybody lived happily ever after.)

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