Procrastination Always....Velvet

I decided my blog is nothing more than a procrastinator of work!

I sit and work and while doing so, I think of all the other things I would rather be doing....knitting, talking on the phone, reading, sunning, spending time with those I love (even with those few I don't!!), walking Maggie, going to a movie, going shoe shopping, shopping iTunes, organizing my closet (I need Ruth to come and help me with that, she is like expert!), folding laundry (okay, yes, that one is rather a stretch, but it is still better than work!). Almost anything. Yet, I continue to sit here. I always have work on my screen, of course a lot of the time it is in the background, taunting me. So, I will type a few lines, a few reports, a few minutes and then...my mind drifts. So, to make me feel better about not doing work, but remaining at my computer, I do a little Facebook and a little blogging! When my family comes in, they feel so bad for me because I am still here, at my computer, working. Well, mostly working. Trust me...if you are at my house and you walk by my computer, I am working -- remember I always have work on the screen!

I am a bit obsessed about my blog. I am always thinking of things to put in it. For instance, I have had some very strange conversations, both with strangers and my family and friends, that I would so love to document here! Some of those lines are priceless. For instance -- a woman at Friday night's Giant's game and I were standing in line chatting. She looked down at her tickets and noted that the next day was May 21 (my birthday, by the way) and she looked up and said, "Tomorrow is the end of the world." I said, "So I have been told." She said, "We all might just die tomorrow!" To which I replied, "Yes, but we will all have our nice, warm Giant Snuggies (the free giveaway that night) to be buried in!" We laughed! See!!! Tell me that was not blog worthy!?!?

There are some times that Natalie and I just doing something normal and something will happen or someone will say something or we will see something and just bust out laughing! We laugh until we cry. After we calm down a bit, I always think to my self, "Self? Would that make a good blog story?" Or I will see something on the highway or in the mall that I just know I want to write about.

The thing with all that is...my memory! Who knew that at 43 my memory would start to fail?!?!? LOL! I sit here and try to remember that funny thing that happened that I wanted to write about, but I fail! Sometimes I even make a little note on my calendar so I can remember...yeah...my last note says, "American." I have no clue what that even refers to! American? As in ... what?? Pie? Hot dogs? The flag? I don't know. But I did write it down on my calendar with the thought that I would blog about it. I guess my "Notes to Self" need to be a bit more detailed from now on. I know!! I bet you all are wondering what the heck American was all about...I am right there with ya! American? No idea!

So, as I sit here, with my work in the background, taunting me, I am thinking what else can I blog about to avoid my job! I can say this...I have had 5 doctor appointments in the last 3 weeks! I know and I am not even really sick! I can say that my mother and nephew are due in Cali on Thursday! I can say my son returns home on Thursday! My daughter graduates on Thursday! I celebrate my 23rd year of marriage on Friday! I have Monday off!!

That is the really bad thing about my blog ...I like to talk and I like to write and I don't know when enough is enough! And, obviously, I can't remember most of the things I would like to say. There have been about a dozen blogs that I wrote and did not publish; they sit my cue. They were just a release. I have been told several times that writing is a great release; not a truer statement has ever been said. So...I will continue to write.

But for now, I work.

XOXO