Day 30: The Procrastinating Housewife…and other things
As someone who is able to take as much time off of work as I have been, you would think I would end my procrastinating ways. Once I got into the swing of being home by myself to take care of Abigail, I started to get a handle on the household chores…all those things I dreaded doing before. The two biggest ones that need to get done on a weekly basis are laundry (averaging 4 loads a week) and vacuuming (we have a dog who loves to shed). At first I would start with these things on Monday or Tuesday…one load of laundry here, vacuum one floor of the house there. Slowly, though, as the weeks progressed, it was a Wednesday start or a Thursday start. But on this last Friday, nothing was done. Of course there is the weekends for these things, but I do love family time when the three of us can hang out together, so I really do like to get things done by Friday.
But this really has been the story of my life…procrastination that is. First there was the “chair.” That’s where everything went. Clothes (clean and dirty), bags, books, mail…this all started as a teen. “I’d get to it later,” I would tell myself. I thought when I went off to college I could shed my “chair” ways, but nope. I continued to pile stuff up on my desk chair, and then it would spill over to the desk with piles of notebooks, assignments…well you get the picture. And as far as college work went, I would procrastinate on that too. Well, with the amount of reading I had to do, I couldn’t procrastinate too much or else I would lose my mind, but writing papers was another story. I would chalk it up to “needing to let the creative juices flowing.” Yeah right! Who was I kidding. (I always got them done on time, though.)
I thought as I got older…I am 30 right now…that my procrastinating ways would stop. I thought that was a part of becoming an adult. As an English teacher, I tell my students not to procrastinate on their work. But I’m such a hypocrite! They get their work turned in…well most of them…and I procrastinate grading it! I procrastinate planning the curriculum! I procrastinate doing my photocopying! I procrastinate filling out my clock hour forms! I just procrastinate!
I think I will always be a procrastinator at heart, but I am trying to be better. And here’s to not having another Friday like I did this past week!
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Procrastination is my middle name so you are in good company!!
I feel you. I have one week to lesson plan the whole semester or as much as I can get done before I go back the 8th! and to freshen up on the subject since I haven’t taught biology since 2008.