Sorry for the no-post last week. I was sick in bed. I had a sore throat and maybe an ear infection, so I just slept forever and had crazy halluci-dreams.
When I woke up on Tuesday, I was pretty close to all better, so I’ve just been puttering around, doing the stuff that I normally do, and it occurred to me today that I have already failed at adulthood.
Well, I guess technically, to fail I would have had to die, so I haven’t actually failed, but I’ve probably got a pretty low score in this section of my life. Let me walk you through my day, so that you can see what I mean.
Woke up. Blew nose, used bathroom. Ate some leftover candy from Christmas. Went back to bed.
Woke up again. Thought about firing up the laptop and working on a short story. Went bra shopping instead.
Came home and immediately put on new bras. Modeled them in the mirror for a while.
Again, considered working on a story. Decided to reorganize my bedroom instead. Ended up playing with my new Green Lantern action figures, and pretended that they were singing along to the Andrew Lloyd Webber CD I was playing.
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| "I want to be rainBOW HIGH!!!" |
Remembered that I had a blog post due today. Considered putting it off until next week, but then remembered that I didn’t do one last week. Put it off anyway. Got back to organizing things, then stopped and tried to put together a beach background for my GL’s, so I could make a vacation photo album of them to put on Facebook, because I’m a fun and silly person who does that sort of thing. Realized that it would take more than a few minutes to do; lost interest and tried to get back to cleaning.
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| If I didn't do this sort of thing, I probably wouldn't have to clean so much. |
Remembered that I’m supposed to be a writer. Considered writing, but didn’t feel like clearing stuff away from my laptop. Moved some furniture around in my room. Moved it back. Moved it again. Got my mail, skimmed it. Then read it again while talking to my mom. Then actually stopped and read it for real.
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| I accidentally drew myself sideways; decided to just go with it and make it space. |
Had leftover soup for dinner, played around online. Read funny articles and looked over the news.
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| I like this 'doing mundane things while in space' theme. |
Wrote this post. Gave myself pep talk to make pictures to go with it. Got sidetracked on YouTube. Got back to work. Got sidetracked on Facebook. Got back to- had idea for story, had to write it down- work. Finished.
So there you have it: I wasted an entire day doing not-terribly-important things. I know, it’s not that the world will end if I use my winter break to, you know, take a break and all, but I felt kind of guilty today when I was in the middle of shopping for bras and I realized that I haven’t done almost any decent writing for the past couple of weeks. I’m promising myself to do better from now on, and get some good stuff down. So, I guess I tricked you, and this is actually one of those annoying things about New Year’s resolutions? Sorry. Hope you are all taking advantage of the New Year to make a fresh start and improve yourselves. I know that I will. After all, this year I’ve resolved to follow through on my resolutions.
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| But, seriously, everyone needs to take a break now and then. |
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