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I'm procrastinating.

I set my alarm for 8:15 this morning, turned if off, got up around 9:15, got caffeine, went for a walk with my camera around the lake out back (it's foggy today, and just barely 60 degrees, nice walking weather), tormented squirrels by trying to photograph them, came back, read the paper, discovered I adore Paint Shop Pro 9, and am now puttering around on LJ. Notice what I haven't done? Scrubbed the bathrooms, dusted the living room, cleaned the cat box, moved boxes in the dining room downstairs, vacuumed the basement level, done laundry, gone to the grocery store to get chili ingredients and other party stuff, or generally anything else that could be really counted as productive as far as getting ready for having guests goes. At least I'm successfully resisting (so far) the powerful urge to run over to Target "just to pick up 21 Jump Street" -- a trip to Target is never a "I'll just get this one thing" mission, despite my best intentions going in.

I don't know why I do this, but it happens all the time. I've got stuff I really need to get done (and most of this chore list isn't particularly onerous, other than hauling the vacuum cleaner up and down three flights of stairs) but instead I putter around online or turn on the tv or get distracted looking for a particular CD; essentially I will do pretty much anything other than what I have to get done. It's not quite "distracted by shiny things", but more of an "I don't wanna!" Honestly, I don't mind doing housecleaning stuff, and I'd probably be doing some of it today regardless of whether guests were coming over or not, but when I have some sort of deadline to meet I find myself shutting down and finding excuses not to do it. Needless to say, this sort of thing is Not Helping[tm] at work, either. Perhaps it's time to up the Deprenyl dose again and make sure I'm completely consistent in taking it, as that does seem to help with getting motivated to do all that stuff that has to get done.

more miscellany

Link snagged from bratling:  GMail accounts are all insecure.   D'oh!

I haven't gotten around to responding individually to everyone, but thank y'all for your responses to the handfasting news, the well-wishes are much appreciated.

CD swap participants: phinnia and kytynpet, your CDs showed up today.  I'm not opening them yet, since otherwise I'll sit around and listen to music all day rather than doing what I'm supposed to. (Which isn't LJ either, honestly, but it's too late for me on that count.)

Hopefully partygoers will take into account that I'm running on geekchick Standard Time, and that nminusone Standard Time is often even later than that. *grin*  Right, on that note, back to cleaning.