a method i am willing to share.

I am telling you right now, I know I am probably not the first person to have this idea. I know that I'm not the first person to think it was valuable enough information to put on a blog. But I also know I don't care, so here we go.

You know that really great, sensational feeling when you flip over your pillow when you are in bed? And suddenly your face and arm (kind of) is just overwhelmed with the coolness of the fresh side? And you just want to burrow your face into it and never leave? I'm going mmmmmmmm just thinking of it. Well, I recently discovered a way to take that to the next level.

With blankets.

Here is what you do.

Get the blanket you sleep with. Or just any blanket, I don't care. Find a wall in your house/apartment/condo/attic space/pent house/cupboard-under-the-stairs that is an "outside" wall... meaning the other side of it is the outside. In the morning, loosely roll the blanket up and lay it on the floor by the outside wall. Come bed time, hurry and get the blanket and cover yourself up in it. It's the cool pillow feeling but all over. Oooh yeaaah.

I will warn you, this cool pillow all over feeling leads to great disappointment, only because it lasts for no more than two minutes. Then you are just laying there with a room temperature blanket. But it is worth it. I do this every day. This is my life.

Obsessing over.... my new cool (literally) blanket technique.
Thinking about.... how I have to pee but I'm waiting til I'm done with this to go. Sorry, TMI.
Anticipating.... going to the library tomorrow to replace my library card. I have to get a new one since some jerk stole mine. Who steals library cards? They are FREE.
Working on.... a creative way to hang up my polaroid/Instax pictures around the apartment.
Listening to.... my neighbors upstairs repeatedly drop what I can only guess is a lawnmower.
Eating.... nothing right now. Thanks for reminding me.
Wishing.... I could stop being a procrastinator. Once and for all! I'll start working on this tomorrow...

expectations of my weekend in list form.

My IDEAL list for this weekend:

+Do a bajillion loads of laundry.

+Fold those bajillion loads of laundry.

+Clean the entire living room. 

+Clean out the fridge and pantry.

+Clean the bathroom. Including the tub/shower

  +Find some sort of tree topper for our Christmas tree.

+Start Christmas cards.

+Go to my family's Christmas party.

+Grocery shop.

+Paint my nails. so so so long over due.

+Not procrastinate.

My REALISTIC list for this weekend:

+Eat all and possibly the rest of that glorious cheesecake we bought last night.

  +Forget about cleaning and watch Christmas movies. Home Alone, yesssss.

+Add to my laundry piles instead of minimize them.

+People watch from our kitchen window.

+Sit down to blog but catch myself staring off into space over my laptop screen.

+Continue to start at my nails and think, yeah, I should get these done.

+Procrastinate.

+Go to the grocery store... but for junk food. 

+Draw doodles of dogs that I wish I had.

+Go to my family's Christmas party.

+Find a pet store to play with cage full of puppies and possibly kittens.

I'm cheering for the first list, but deep down I know the second list will happen. Maybe someday I'll know what it's like to cross something off a to-do list, someday...

IN OTHER NEWS: Have you ever gotten an e-mail or a link sent to you to check out some optical illusions? Have you ever clicked the link and  read their instructions like, move your head around in circle while staring at the image or draw a Z with one finger and make a scissor motion with the other hand while sticking your tongue out. You get the picture. Well Reader, I'm pretty sure these optical illusions don't work and someone out there who created them is laughing to themselves at the thought of millions of people doing RIDICULOUS stuff in front of their computer screens, just to see a trippy image. Today, I became on of those million people.

i don't want to be a procrastinator anymore.

Every morning while I'm getting ready for work, I make lists in my head of everything I am going to when I get home from work.

I get off work, drive home, walk through the door and suddenly all those little lists don't exist anymore.

I still DO stuff. Just not the things that NEED to be done. It is a vicious cycle that will probably never end.

Here's to getting over my procrastination... I'll get to it later.