Procrastination and our love affair with it

Too sick to do the projects and too poor to hire it done, so.................................it doesn't get done.  Told my wife that when I go she needs to marry rich or marry handy.

Maybe...but she'll never marry better. Just my opinion, old friend. 

I just put off reading the list...problem solved.

Being unmarried I never got such a list so there is no problem with me. And I am tension-free for at least next 3 years more. Good luck to everyone.

BTW Its no rain but hot hot hot here..... Just waiting for that first rain. Want to share some heat, Watch IPL.

I generally procrastinate about procrastinating: I put off thinking about avoiding doing things until I have to admit I'm thinking about that, but then I put off doing anything about it.

Look at it this way: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

Layering your defenses is what it's all about. Also, a necessary critical skill: Selective hearing.

Vocabulary and timing are also important: Pretend to be doing something. Anything. She says something. DO NOT RESPOND. Keep not doing whatever you were pretending to do. If all goes well, she'll turn and make a small, frustrated sound as she leaves. Wait 2-3 seconds and say, "Huh?". Look totally lost. She'll throw her hands up and stalk off.

Upside: Nothing you have to do.

Downside: Forget about "it" for a week.

'It'

Hey, if you don't intend to ever do the projects it's not procrastinationg.  Just tell the little lady to take off the saddle she's using to ride your back because it's giving you sores.

That's true Doc, they do control all of the "it" don't they?

Yep....while they only control 70% of the money, they control 100% of the....well...."it". 

Not necessarily.  It depends on how good at "it" the guy is.  In my household, I control 100% of the money (or 100% of the money controls me...it's semantics, really).  "It" is really controlled all by the moon.

There are no "honey do lists" -- there's crap that needs to be done without having to spend any money and crap that needs to be done that's waiting for the money, and then there's days when I can't tolerate living in my own skin, and between enough of my heavy sighs and grumbling when life gets overwhelming for me, somebody performs the stuff that can be done without spending any money.  So much for "smelling the roses."

We're talking about the "it" belonging to the XX variety of humanity.

Bought the house in February, '87 .....around about now-ish....the extension is finished....;p

Put off everything. That way you never have to do anything

Still have to breathe. Can't really put that off.

 

That "it" isn't all that much fun without the "it" that belongs to the XY variety of humanity, and I'm telling you it's very difficult to sleep next to an XY variety of human who isn't into sharing his "it" with my "it" because I was too naggy about the "honey do list" (i.e., "honey, do get a job because I'm tired of being the only one paying the bills").   I know you guys think it's easy being a woman and we just sit around, finding new ways of making you jump...but that just isn't true.  There are some of us XX variety of humanity that have to live in an XX body, hear about how great previous XX humans before us had it, and "bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan" and all the rest of that happy horse crap -- be the one that got to the XY human AFTER he was ruined by that other XX person...a person we do not resemble in any way, shape or form, but some how get lumped in the pile of "all" the XX variety of humanity as having life by the balls.  

I think I need to hit the gin bottle again...I'm really bitter today.  Sorry guys.

I procrastinate all the time. It's my middle name as for the XX part...no no no...have enough trouble just makin' it from day to day without having to worry about that. Boogers

i was going to write a longer answer, but i'll do it tomorrow

the perfect answer!!!!

I will do it for you:

a longer answer

 

It might be mine also...but I put off using it so long I've forgotten it.

I used to do it, now a couple of kids down the street do it, they make a good days pay, and i get to watch, i have done my fair share, I will tell you though, 16 year old kids have energy thats for sure, maybe i overpay them, but they look forward to it every week, and in this economy it gives them some spending cash, and teaches them some values, you work hard and you get paid well for it

...now I don't feel so bad....I started taking the wallpaper off the kitchen walls, the winter of 2008, half is done and painted...this past Winter, I only  painted the inside of a cupboard.... don't want to finish too quickly!!!

I only procrastinate about procrastination... whether or not I'll think about those things I procrastinate about.  Then, when I get past that stage... if I do, I procrastinate about which procrastination I'll procrastinate further on.

All in all, I'm to far busy procrastinating about procrastination to proceed with whatever I was procrastinating about.

And it gets so tiring, too... procrastinating about procrastination, that is, that I eventually procrastinate as to whether I take a nap... or not.

I took yesteday and today off work so that in total I would have five days off (it's a long weekend) in a row to get all my yard work done and I'm still sitting here on the computer, looking for any excuse to not get started. Damn it, I wish it would rain!!!!