Thursday, October 09, 2008

I am bored.

Not just with TV.
or the elections
or reading


But with everything...except the boy :)

So far, this limited employment & working from home experiment has not been a roaring success - apparently I have no will power or strength of character

With no external forces gauding me to get up, get to work, earn my keep - i am hanging back, hanging loose and sleeping in - LITERALLY all the time! (and really the 'sleeping in' term looses its context when you wake up aimlessly at 4 pm - it becomes such a bland, un-'pillow inviting' experience when you can have as much as you want and have not the will power to not be an Augustus Gloop about it), procrastinate over trivial matters and Facebook ain't helping any.
Doggone it, youbetcha!
Because it cunningly gives you the impression that you are not actually just sitting on your expanding behind stalking ex-crushes or ex-boyfriends' girlfriends and varied combinations of that but rather interacting with others by seeing the pretty pics they put up, communicating by putting wall posts on your whereabouts and theirs and geez, if you have photographs to put up (which I sadly don't any more because - insert common refrain - I HAVE NO CAMERA), well that's just a whole afternoon's work.

Exhales breath.

So today,

I woke up at 8, despite sleeping at 4
Brushed my teeth,
Washed my face
Combed my hair
Prayed
Read the Bible
and was on my way to start doing some work and then proceed to do/fold/iron some laundry (my current relaxation - don't know what it is, but the sight of wrinkles erasing out at the pressure of my iron - oooh muscle by muscle i get all untensed)
when I got distracted by shiny new laid out blog (thank you Hillgrandmom!)

But shall continue on my mundane domesticity (and that's the thing - there are women out there, like mother and so many others, who are disciplined enough to do a job at this even when no one is watching - i, on the other hand, clean up because of the whole 'oh frack what if I die today, what the hell with the CSI people think of the house' thing - I want to be that person who has a routine not because it's imposed on them but because they are freaking organizational gods who do things because they have a misson, a goal)
anyhoos - back to my oath - i may even put in some project work, get some gym time and who knows make this a regular thing?

fingers crossed!


Re-Edited to add:
none of your snarky advice from gainfully employed, gainfully interacting with outside world others...for in two months or so, I shall be a working Jane and shall remember your snarkiness !!!
advice away, advice away, if you must !

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

no advice. Wish I sitting at home under the duvet, eating from a bowl of ice cream while reading.

Anonymous said...

No advice. See I am not employed gainfully or otherwise :)

Sig said...

oooh nice template....i like. the peaches are making me hungry tho...

well since i was in the same boat just after i got married (i had about 2.5 months of nothingness before i started my job) - 1. beware of daytime tv!!!!

2. get a dog - then u can play with him and talk him for walks :)

3. download lots of tv shoes u haven't watched or gotten round to starting (i personally want to get into Heroes and House)

ENJOY the nothingness...esp if u have good weather :)

amna said...

u do realise that if you use this template then ur posts need to out-do the peaches every single time? ;)