Procrastination

We've talked about downstairs for 15 years

Putting of downsizing to a smaller property.

Just the thought of it is exhausting.

Breaking my last ties with the labour party, that go back to 1959. I am fed up with Corbyn and his anti-Semitic sidekicks.

Clearing out cupboards, rooms, my art and textile stuff in boxes everywhere, selling my unwanted clothes on eBay, finding plumber and builder to remedy leaks and damp in the walls, decorating rooms not touched for 40 years plus, exercising regularly, weeding, batch baking....and there's more. Just returned from holiday so need to tackle the mess somehow but now have heard my dad has a health emergency and I'm scared and can't do much more than vacumming and putting washing out....

I prefer to call it creative avoidance...not sure if I'M avoiding being creative or doing creative avoiding

Should be doing the ironing but......

Ironer, damn you autocorrect!

gransal I am a professional ironed and doing all those curtains for a tenner is exploitation.

Ending a FWB relationship that is very one sided....
I'm more interested than he is sadly.

Washing a load of towels - very unexciting and it will have to be done again next week. Then emptying dying flowers - equally boring though they've given us much pleasure these last couple of week. Oh yes, filling the bird feeders. I'd much rather chill out and read or do some activity I really enjoy.

DIETING

Oh yes! Like the previous person, I like to do admin work so have spent the morning at the computer. I always put off getting dressed - it's such hard work, shower, teeth, clothes, make-up etc. If I don't have to go out I'm often in my nightie all day! Comfort before criticism! Now it's stopped raining I might go and do some gardening (or I might not!)

I haven't ironed since my son left home, and do very well without it. What i have got really lazy about is filing. There is a pile waiting for me to address - and it is massive.

I too do the bare minimum of ironing.Everything gets folded as soon as off the line, undies and sock straight in the drawer. t shirts on hangers or over the bannister if i cant find a hanger trousers on hangers only special things for going out in get the feel of the seam iron, just cant be bothered anymore I have too many other interesting things to do instead. I love my garden and my knitting, i love reading or listening to audio books, i love my Tv , so many good series and films to watch plus of course all the political senanigans!!!! Not really interested in watching sport, but love playing bowls, going to my various social groups and generally being out and about. I do dither over things like clearing cupboards and wardrobes, even though i know life would be easier if i just did it!!! lol. Daren't look under the bed either. Who knows what lurks there. Glad to know there are so many of us with the same ability to procrastinate!!!

At this particular moment, I'm putting off tidying the kitchen after breakfast, (DH made the breakfast.) I'm having too much fun, fannying about on Gransnet!

I'm also putting off getting the hedge trimmers out to trim a very large privet shrub. I have to get up a step ladder to reach the top and I just can't be arsed.
Only did the blasted thing a month ago and it's all shaggy again.

Even now I am mowing the lawn.....not!

Septimia : me too! I try to get my work done in the mornings, so that I can sit down and watch Wimbledon all afternoon... had to go out yesterday at 6, and missed the end of the Federer match!

Hurray! I did the ironing early and was washed and dressed before 9.30 which makes a change. There's still the damn vacuuming and dusting.

Funny that this is the second item about procrastination that I have seen on line yesterday and now today. I must complete an application for funding for a not for profit scheme to provide professional support for service and ex-service families. It must be submitted next week. We have been developing the project for 6 years and now funding is available which our project perfectly. I was very ill for a virus for 3 weeks last month so was unable to do anything. There have been other stumbling blocks along the way but the truth is, I am a serious lifelong procrastinator. I practise all the tips here and on the previous post but here I am on Gransnet, hiding....

Going to the dentist, six years overdue!
Painting the back gate and the garage door. Waiting for a dry day but then it's too hot to stand in the full sun.

The washing up, going into the garden and collecting up all the weeds I pulled up yesterday on return from holiday...

Gabriella54 what a wonderful idea. I shall try that.
My list is long and varied, but at the top is weeding the allotment, if you could eat weeds, they wouldn't grow half as quick!

I've managed to put off ironing anything for three years. What a waste of time and energy it is.

Claiming some overpaid tax back from HMRC, I've started, so I'll finish....eventually.