Procrastination, Thou Art a Heartless Witch

 Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?  Or later?  Everything in its season, so to speak, but today isn't season enough.  I have other things to do.  Take a nap.  Write an email.  Feed myself.  Phooey on the rest.  I'll do it when I have more energy and/or it becomes necessary.

Then, suddenly, Necessary is days or weeks ago.  Now I'm into Critical, and I have to stop everything to take care of something that would have been enormously easier had I done it earlier.  Yeah...it's that bad.

I'm not a hoarder, but I do have some hoarder mentality.  "Don't throw that away.  I might need it sometime."  Decades later, I have no clue where it came from or why I saved it, but it has taken up space far longer than any purpose for which it might have been useful.

And then there's the whole food thing.  My refrigerator is full of produce and milk that expired and spoiled long ago.  Why is it still there?  Because I'm going to take care of it all at once, when I get to it.  (Truth: some of it has been in there since June when my sister and husband visited.  I'm so ashamed!)  And the dishes, pots, pans, and eating utensils have piled up at the sink for a couple of weeks.  Some of the pots and pans were filled with water to soak before cleaning.  Now there is scum on the water, and as I finally clean them up, I wonder when I had a meal with rice in it?  And then I notice that some of the rice is moving and a mini-cloud of fruit flies are in my space.  (Are you scared yet?)

Why have the dishes and pans piled up?  I have a dishwasher, after all.  Well...the dishwasher hasn't been unloaded since the last load run.  Why?  I'll do it tomorrow.  Sometimes, I empty the dishwasher but don't fill it again right away.  I can do that tomorrow, too.

I mean well.  My intentions are to keep up with daily tasks, etc., but...but...you know how that goes.  Fortunately, I have a helper who tries to keep me on task. I'm really not a slob.  When someone is keeping score, I keep up.  On my own, however, I go with how I am feeling at any given moment.

At this given moment, I am cleaning up the kitchen.  When I am done, I will wear a halo for a day or two.  But don't blink.  The earth doesn't rotate on good intentions.  Time moves on, no matter what I choose to do.

As soon as the dishes are done, I'm going to take a nap.  There is a huge mound of laundry to do, but I have my priorities.  I'll do laundry tomorrow!