Monday, September 17, 2007

I'm Very Busy and Important You Know

This morning after successfully squeezing my lunch into the overflowing work refrigerator, and while cleaning up a spilled cup of coffee from my over-tired clumsiness, I started to think of all the ridiculously easy things that I put off simply because I'm very busy. OK fine. Because I'm very lazy.
  1. Throwing away old food in the fridge. Sometimes, I actually leave things in the fridge so long that I don't know what they are anymore, causing me to decide to throw the way-to-expensive tupperware away along with it, simply to avoid opening the lid and passing out from extreme potent smell of unknown substance.
  2. Getting gas. Sometimes I put it off so long that I'm actually worried that I'll break down somewhere between my house and the BP on the corner.
  3. Hanging up laundry. I don't actually mind doing the laundry. But putting the clothes away sometimes never even happens. And then I end up rewashing clean clothes because I can no longer tell the difference.
  4. Emptying the dishwasher. Filling it, fine. Emptying it, boring. Time consuming. And I always stab myself when reaching for the silverware.
  5. Washing my hair. I will actually plan my hair washing around events. For example, my hair was clean yesterday, but not straightened. And so even though I washed it Saturday night, I rewashed it Sunday morning so that I would not have to redo my hair before work on Monday. Allow me to elaborate here and say that its not the actual hair washing, but the hair styling that I tend to try my darnedest to avoid.
  6. Returning library books or Blockbuster movies. Let's just say I'm on my mothers Blockbuster card because I'm pretty sure my name is plastered on the walls of all of the local BB locations saying "Do not rent to this woman." I don't know, it just seems like a waste of perfectly good time to drive to Blockbuster just to drop off a movie. I should just wait until I'm ready to rent the next one, right? And frankly, I'm saving gas by not unnecessary driving around town making returns...therefore putting off having to do #2 above just a little bit longer. (Same goes to say with the library books.)
  7. Getting an oil change. I know I know, 3000 miles. But the thought of sitting in a Jiffy Lube waiting room alone for an hour, staring at the coffee bar that never has brewed coffee just sounds to painful to tolerate.
  8. Returning unwanted merchandise back to the store. Refer to #6.
  9. Saving myself $10 a week and brewing my own damn coffee. But really, its just not the same as it is at Dunks.
  10. Carrying heavy/awkward things in to my house from my car. For example, a case of water. Had been in car when weather was not excruciatingly hot so I'd always have water for the gym. Now after 3 months of hotness, and not drinking the boiled water, I finally brought it in and put it in the fridge. Hoping its not now poisonous. Other examples of things that don't make it inside right away...new vacuum, paper shredder, other largely boxed items...

OK, so rereading my list of ten makes me worry that some of these things make you now think I'm dirty. I'm not. My house is very clean. I do shower every day...just not always with hair-washing. And fine, the food in the fridge thing is pretty gross, but admit it...you too should have a lot more tupperware in your cabinet than you do...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'd be curious what things you do IMMEDIATELY. I put off some things almost forever: I don't open the boxes of new things for months, even years, such as my boom box, coffee maker, even a fax I bought in 1999 and never opened. But some things I can't avoid doing for even a couple minutes: Bits of paper must be picked up from off the floor, must check e-mail every few minutes, no leaving empty packages anywhere for even a few minutes. The entire Psych Department at Yale probably couldn't figure out why.