madelinekelly

Turns out I will do almost anything* rather than deal with the pig story.

My "working" method seems to be that if there's a BIG!thing I have to do, then I will put off doing it for as long as possible in favour of doing something little instead, although it takes me a few weeks to admit to myself that I'm not going to get the BIG!thing done before I do actually tackle the little thing. And, even then, I don't tackle the next biggest thing on the list. Oh no. That thing is still pretty BIG! in my lazy opinion so, after again a few weeks of building up to admitting to myself that I'm not going to do it, I'll move on to the next thing on the list. This process of admitting my own laziness and getting past the big things on the to-do list continues for MONTHS until I've skipped everything on my list and am left with the smallest, least useful, least important, most pathetic little task imaginable and, after only a week or so of thinking about it, I'll get on with it. Once that task is done I'll suddenly find myself able to do the next smallest task, etc, and gradually work my way back to the BIG!thing. It's funny how there are always other, lesser tasks to push that BIG!thing further away...

I have now run out of things to do (see footnote) and am consequently getting the urge to make some more home-made cleaning products, which is always a sign that I have time on my hands.

I think I need a new method.

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* And by "almost anything" I mean unnecessary housework, letter-writing, 'net-surfing, rosette-making, obscure-Japanese-craft-researching, book-reading, Haydn-Sonata-playing, bra-buying, crumble-baking, chutney-making, tax-form-completing, concert-organising, OCD-spreadsheet-compiling, sunbathing-on-warm-limestone, weeding, lame-DVD-watching, planet-tracking, knitting and, last but not least, flicking Matt's face with water while he's brushing his teeth.