Confession: I’ve already procrastinated writing this blog post several times. All right, many times. But I’m ready now! I swear!

Okay, here goes.

1. The fridge! The pantry! Must eat… must drink… One cannot type without sustenance, after all, right? 😋

1b. Wait, no! That stuff’s too… er, healthy! I want this!

There we go. That oughta do it. Next!

2. Turn on the computer. Now, this is major. Normally I just have it on “sleep” mode, and it “wakes up” very easily. Well, after I type my password in the little window provided. But today, as it happens, It was completely OFF, because last night I set it to do an update  overnight, when I wouldn’t be around. And I forgot. So after much tapping to try to “wake up” the darn sleepy desktop, I suddenly remembered. I had to turn it ON again. And wait till it did all sorts of machinations (heh, it’s a machine, get it?!) that it does when it’s been updated. By the way, what does any of this have to do with my procrastination? Nothing! Although it’s distracting me from thinking of a number 3 item for this list. Ah! Distraction!

3. Distraction! I can get distracted by the most minor thing in the wor- Oh! Look at that yellow leaf on my jade plant, should I remove it, or…? And that one just to the right of it doesn’t look too great either… Too much water, maybe? Yet the other leaves look fine, so… I’ll Google how often to water jades, I know to water them less than other plants–

4. Ha! See what I did there? Number 3 was a perfect illustration of my wandering eyes, and how distraction takes me away from the task at hand. It’s so common; my husband John also falls prey to this. In fact, between us we have an expression for it: “Oh look, a squirrel!” In other words, we’re just like dogs in a park! By the way (again), while typing this paragraph, I decided to look up a synonym for “distraction.” I wasn’t very successful with dictionary.com, so then was about to check with merriam-webst– but waiiitaminute!! I’m doing it again! Okay, it’s not a word I want, it’s a phrase. And it deserves a number all its own.

5. Going off on a tangent. Yes, it starts with distraction – a squirrel! – but continues when the dog – I mean, I – start to follow it, and next thing you know you’ve followed it right “down the rabbit hole,” as John and I call it. Sorry, I mixed the squirrel and the rabbit up, but you get what I mean. And when you’re down there, it’s a long time before you can climb up and out, and by then you’ve forgotten what your original task or plan was. Well in my case, I wanted to talk about the ways I procrastinate, and I think I’ve managed to do that, sort of. As to why I procrastinate, that’s for another blog post. It may take some time. 😉