Last night, my 12 year old had a valid question. He asked, “How come we get President’s day off, but not Halloween?” I mean really. Halloween is a much more important holiday.
So the kids are home, the house is a mess, and I should probably clean it again. But here are ten things I will likely do to procrastinate work that will be undone as quickly as I do it.
1. Check FB to make sure I’m not missing something really important.
2. Go grocery shopping. It’s a terrible task, but you get out of the house and obtain interaction with actual people.
3. Play Just Dance with my kids on the Wii. It’s a little reminiscent of “helping” my mom Jazzercise when I was a kid. And I’m just as coordinated as I was then, but at least the kids don’t make fun of me too much.
4. Check all my email accounts to make sure I’m not forgetting something that is more important.
5. Call my sister to chat.
6. Go for a run. Then I feel all productive even though I haven’t done anything else I was suppose to do. It’s really a win-win situation.
7. Check FB to see if anything interesting happened in the last five minutes.
8. Check Twitter and say hello. If I don’t tweet to myself, I may stay on for a few minutes.
9. Get all the kids in their snow gear so they can play in the 1 1/2 inches of snow outside.
10. Watch Let’s Make a Deal and try to figure out where the Big Deal of the Day is. Then declare it’s lunch time.
11. Play Where’s My Water. If you don’t know what that is, you should really go find the app and download it. It is good for hours of procrastination.
It’s not really the cleaning I object to, it’s the fact that you can’t tell I did it by dinner time. I equate cleaning with children to shoveling in a blizzard. Both are fairly pointless.
Isn’t it a bummer that when you have kids you’re expected to also go to the grocery store and FEED them as well as keep the place CLEAN? Jeesh! (-:
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If I exercise for the day, can anyone really expect anything more from me? Laundry & a swim, ha! Too much for one day!
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Halloween is not an official out of school holiday because all politicians are clowns–it would be redundant. Heehee
LOL! What is it about facebook and its irresistible draw to suck time and brain cells from our bodies? I think I have checked it four times since I started reading your post.
Jeremy said he saw a quote that said something to the effect that facebook is like a refrigerator, nothing in it really changes or is new, but we keep opening it and looking anyway. Oh and from a mom with sick twins, cleaning can be WAY overrated sometimes.
Ha! Yes, all of those sound good to me.
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Yes it is exactly like shovelling in a blizzard
so where is my water? Must go check. Hope you did zero cleaning today!
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Really, it IS pointless when the husband comes home and can’t tell all the work you do during the day… FB is a good way to procrastinate!
Where’s my water leaves me so frustrated!
But it is good for procrastination!
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