Seems to be how the last week or so has gone for me. I could sit here and make excuses about busy at work, family emergency, cat pissed all over my laptop and so on. The reality though is that although I have been busy at work I have had enough time to draw up a new DnD campaign (ooohhh nerd poker), my family has had no emergencies in some time and I don't own a cat (though my daughter will probably ask me for one after reading this.
So enough with the bullshit excuses the real answer is I am a procrastinator and it is a terrible thing. It has invaded so many areas of my life I don't even realize I am doing it anymore.
Don't get me wrong I am not a lazy person so much as I just don't want to do any more than I have to anymore. After all these years of living life I don't want to pay bills on time, write letters (do people actually write letters anymore?), go grocery shopping, breathe...
OK I lie I actually do all those things on time, mostly, and I am never too lazy to breathe, well so far at least. There are a million more mundane things I just don't always care enough to make a priority in my life. It is like I have a filing cabinet in my mind and one is strictly so that when people walk into the office they see it so well organized they comment on it, then there is the real one that gets used all the time with random files stacked on it and doors half closed with paper sticking out of them, this is the real file cabinet of my life, the one I need to organize better, the one I am going to organize starting tomorrow in fact.
That file cabinet is filled with simple things, everyday things that seem terribly inconsequential but also the things that people notice the most because they are such trivial items. Things such as take out trash, wash car, write blog entry, cook dinner, do dishes and so on. These things get pushed around for days at a time and it has gotten to the point it annoys even me.
Right now in fact I am looking at a pile of dishes that have been sitting on the sink for a while. It isn't that I don't want to do the dishes and have clean plates to eat off of, but it is so much easier if I just wash the plates I need when I need them, this may last a week or so before I finally take the time to actually wash all the dishes that are there. It's kind of pathetic really but it is my fault that I do this and nobody else is to blame for it.
Luckily enough I have recognized the issue and have come to a solution. As I mentioned before I do have a daughter and she is a good kid who helps keep me on the straight and narrow most days as well as reminding me when I need to do certain things I have procrastinated on. This child of mine, the apple of my eye, my one and only reason for existing in this world shall from now on be known as "Daughter Dishwasher".
Man I am glad I could solve my problem with some simple time put into thinking about it, now I am going back to bed so I can dream up more solutions for procrastination.
So what do you put off for a later date?
Drop comments below and let me know I am not the only one in this world who does this.
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