the procrastinating girl

Home Base

Just a few days ago, I first heard the term 'staycation,' the trend of people spending their days off at home since they can't afford a real getaway.  As often happens, now it's everywhere I turn.  Even the cover of the Sunday Styles section of the Times ran a piece on it last week.  So I've been thinking.  If I had a free week in my house, what could I do? 

• Watch borrowed DVD box set of first season of Arrested Development.

• Work on novel.

• Draw to-scale floor plan of house so I can plan what furniture to buy.  One day.

• Update address book so it would no longer read:  Grandma, Silver Spring, Maryland.

• Remove remaining 2-year-old clothes from almost 4-year-old Zoe's closet.

• Work on novel.

• Scrape encrusted art-project glitter off floor mats of car.

• Acknowledge existence of cookbooks.

• Work on novel.

So, tell me, what would you do???

Look, I have a blog

Ok, so it's not the parting of the Red Sea... But since my blog is based on this life-long personality flaw, it's kind of a miracle that I exercised my limited follow-through skills to get it up and running. So here it is, or rather, will be, a chronicle of what I don't do... for no good reason other than my own inertia. I'm hoping maybe the public humiliation will force me into a new, more organized state of being. People say blogging is powerful. Can it undo 36 years of saving everything until the very last minute? We shall see...