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d wasting time one woman s perspective on consumerism and culture pages home about me wednesday february 19 2025 procrastination popcorn and un finished projects let s get this out of the way right now i am a procrastinator however i m much better at it than i used to be over the years i ve developed a better sense of priorities and a much better sense of how fast i can do a thing when i have absolutely no time priorities are important because let s be honest a lot of the time the stuff we procrastinate on is stuff we really don t want to do anyway but somehow we ve convinced ourselves that we should do that thing for some reason i say we but i mean i unless you agree then yes we do that so glad you understand my friend the past few years i got on a productivity kick read books like atomic habits and deep work and and a few others started using a project management app asana to track my to do list did weekly planning for my life every week same old crap i ve done since middle school just with a new style and slightly more follow through this certainly helped me to not forget about things which i think is in a whole different category from procrastination just because you decide to do something later and then forget to do it later doesn t mean you procrastinated later may have been the exact right time to do the thing and then unfortunately i only remembered it much later maybe even too late so planning organizing time management that helped to cut down on the forgotten tasks however a side effect of all this organization was that the true procrastinated tasks began to stand out in an embarrassed display there on my app seven weeks past due three months past due six months past due yes these were all arbitrary deadlines for my own self imposed projects true i had supposedly evaluated these things a being important priorities that would improve multiple aspects of my life certain personal financial planning tasks and some big overhauls of our personal computers and other technology pretty sure we are paying for more virus protection than we actually need and why are there so many devices clogging up our wi fi in order to motivate myself i d reschedule these and mark rescheduled and rescheduled 2x rescheduled 3x by the time i got to 4x it was no longer motivating and that was just the things i really thought i wanted to accomplish stuff like organize recipes and learn to play numb little bug on the piano didn t even make it to the level of getting rescheduled but just lingered in the more than one year overdue category anyway in the course of my 108 item purge i found some overlooked christmas chocolates which i disposed of in the best possible way and after eating them decided to clear out a thank you card and stamp to send my brother and his girlfriend in appreciation for the chocolate and out of a bit of guilt for not sending any christmas card or gift their way before i could get it in the mailbox i misplaced it which sent me on a full throttle mission to clean up all the paperwork that had accumulated over the holidays and once that was done and no card found the only thing that was left was some loose printouts of various recipes stuffed in among the cookbooks you know procrastination is often just inertia and the counterpart of inertia is momentum once i started out came all the cookbooks and the three ring binder and the recipe box and the new unused received free from my local buy nothing facebook group recipe specific binder i pretty much figured organize recipes was never going to get checked off my project app never i mean organize family photos was a much more likely contender in my obviously misguided opinion of what is actually important to me however i powered through for well actual hours on a winter saturday and got the job done just in time for tax season when of course i will not have time to cook however i did organize all the little recipe books that came with various small appliances and looking through one for a popcorn snack realized that i had in the pantry an unused free sample of nutritional yeast i d been meaning to try as a popcorn topping so i made the herb popcorn recipe which was delicious and got one step closer to getting another item out of my pantry oh and the thank you card was in my purse all along no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday february 11 2025 108 bells and a breville blender i took a broken blender to my dad s when we stopped to drop off the dog on the way to nub s nob for ski team weekend does your dad even expect or want this matt asked when i told him my plan so i gave dad a heads up and he was as expected immediately enthusiastic about having a new project i was not entirely optimistic but i needed to get the blender out of the house because the fact that my lovely shiny glorious breville blender had stopped working about 3 months after its 2 year warranty and that the so called replacement part was just a whole new pitcher and would cost almost as much as a brand new blender was giving me rage anytime i saw or thought about that blender especially because maybe it was my own fault for putting parmesan cheese into the sauce too early in the blending process and since i had to get rid of 108 items from my house before the end of the month i packed it up and rang a bell but i have to go back to january 1st to explain all this on new years day while sitting on my butt eating cookies i decided to scroll an online article list about new years traditions from around the world in hopes of finding inspiration for my new year s resolution because the way my brain works i have to have a gimmick to get motivated about halfway down the list of 50 was a japanese buddhist tradition of ringing 108 bells on new year s eve to clear out the old year the article was quick to add this wasn t about clearing clutter from your house but rather a symbolic release of negative desires however i was quick to think but why couldn t it be about clearing clutter and just like that a plan was born i decided to declutter and ring a bell for each item i discarded donated or used up with an explanation to the family and a few loose ground rules no credit for using ordinary items that would be replenished but using up the second string items that have been hanging around forever like the less favored scented deodorant would qualify the journey began yes i literally rang a bell part of the christmas decor a cutesy knick knack my mom had given me at some point and tallied the items as i purged i tried to give some attention to desires and loftier thoughts although i have not yet studied buddhism thoughts of appreciation for the things i have and of actually using the stuff i currently own and if i can t use it then why am i keeping it the answer to that it s probably genetic and while i don t have the full hoarder impulse i am reluctant to throw a useful thing away but somehow i managed to purge extra christmas decorative items without too much guilt over whether or not it was a gift a ludicrous quantity of pencils faced the chopping block i don t even use pencils i forced myself to discard any that had any type of flaw tooth marks too short hard eraser obvious cheapness dumb cartoon characters and cut the collection in half i only allowed myself one bell for the pencils taking credit for a whole dozen items felt a bit like cheating by the time i decided to send the blender to dad s house i didn t have any expectation of a repair i just wanted to ring another bell and get rid of that negative energy that boiled up in me every time i thought about that damned broken expensive blender matt asked how does this count as getting rid of clutter if you re just moving it to your dad s house the obvious answer is that dad s house is where clutter lives it is where the lifetime hoard of useful items takes up residence at the very least one blender would simply disappear into the nether land of to be repaired tv s speakers tools good as new once it s cleaned pans and perfectly good barn wood perhaps an attempt at fixing would be made perhaps it would join the graveyard of unfinished projects but it would be out of my house not my clutter anymore we returned from the long cold ski weekend with a rhubarb pie from the up north pie shop to celebrate dad s 88th birthday with a dinner he made for us of his favorite aldi items lentil soup and burnt ends much to my surprise he told me the blender was fixed he explained about the gasket and some rubber shavings that rubbed off around the bearing and once he cleaned it up and replaced the bearing it was just fine where did you get a bearing matt asked he still doesn t quite understand out of a vcr dad said as if this was the most normal thing ever you just had a vcr sitting around that had the same size bearing yeah of course why wouldn t he he doesn t purge his clutter and ring bells so now i have a working blender once again made a smoothie with some sad bananas and some frozen mango chunks that had been in the freezer for ummm years it was delicious yes i rang a bell for the mango 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels consumer rants monday january 3 2022 annual obligatory update back in december i attended a banquet for the first time in over a year and was reminded that this blog still exists and more importantly that other people exist and it s time to expand my world armed with 3 shots of covid 19 vaccine and vague memories of how to function in society now we re off and running into a new year and new coronavirus variants with no lockdowns no available same day or even next day testing and my several orders of genuine or counterfeit kn95 masks in black by request of family immediate goal is to stay healthy until our postponed italian bagna cauda celebration mid january should be easier for me since once again it is likely tax season will be off to a slow start pending irs delays however since the kids refuse to explore my suggestion that they sneak off somewhere in the school to eat lunch in isolation the possibility is strong that the virus will follow them home especially the younger who is still ineligible for a booster vaccine i have a few times a year that i get on an organizational and efficiency kick usually in may after i ve recovered from tax season and september a throwback to back to school habits and then in january with all the new year resolution energy however this year my september organization went particularly well as i started using a project management app to keep track of all my personal and work goals and tasks unbelievably there are eleven projects i m actively pursuing in my life in my apparent effort to cram several lifetimes into the one i ve got due to eleven categories of balls to drop i m trying to use more tools to improve my efficiency including my early christmas gift a smart watch the initial goal was to just be able to unobtrusively read text messages from my kids while working with clients but it is also a fitness watch i started using it early to test because i ve gotten burned before by delaying use of a new purchase and then finding out too late that i m dissatisfied however i m very satisfied that my smart watch is also a fitness watch which really helps me to stay on top of my health and fitness project my point with all of this is that i ve come into the new year without my customary lull of not following through on my great september plans well almost once again all the fall gardening tasks that i listed in my gardening project remain incomplete thanks to getting very sick with not covid just a cold and subsequent ear and sinus infection that knocked me out during the peak fall clean up weeks in october i did absolutely nothing even when i put out the outdoor christmas decorations finally the day after christmas i put all the flower pots with dead plants that i had intended to baby through the winter into the garage and checked everything as complete from my fall gardening list project management app tracks tasks as complete or incomplete there is no category for not complete too late now never gonna do it stop nagging me already anyway i ve started off the new year and my first writers chat night by writing this post my time is up see ya next year most likely blogging is not one of my eleven projects although writing is 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday january 30 2021 running me like a business not sure this is a new years resolution or just a rant but i m increasingly curious about what it would look like if i began responding in kind to every obnoxious business practice that plagues us in modern times a few examples let s start with the ubiquitous terms and conditions i think it s high time i develop some terms and conditions for anyone who would like my business i would include provisions about per minute charges for wasting my time on hold and a mandatory inconvenience charge if i need to pursue a refund because the product is defective or unsatisfactory another annoying time waster is the retail companies who are constantly hitting you up to donate a little extra something something every time you make a pos purchase time for me to set up my own non profit organization the helping my kids buy stuff foundation when cvs asks me if i d like to donate to whatever random fund i will whip out my little envelope and brochure and ask the manager if i can count on cvs for a corporate donation to hmkbsf a worthy cause shall we move to the lovely multi level marketing companies i love how these companies enlist the services of my friends and neighbors to use every sneaky approach to ply their wares i ll be setting up a paetron account so next time i get invited to sally s super purse pals i can quickly reply and invite sally to join maria s pithy insults club sick burns for a small monthly fee or custom ordered insults to fit any jerk or occasion anyway that s my business plan for monetizing my life more to come i m sure no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom maria s stories snowflakes first stab hidden places departure point followers twitter follow me on tumblr my tumblr view my complete profile maria anna witt pasttimes include being the only person laughing in the movie theater consuming too much caffeine and taking things to their logical conclusion blog archive 2025 2 february 2 procrastination popcorn and un finished projects 108 bells and a breville blender 2022 1 january 1 2021 1 january 1 2020 6 august 1 may 2 april 3 2019 1 may 1 2018 6 september 4 august 2 2017 4 august 2 july 1 january 1 2016 4 august 2 february 1 january 1 2015 20 december 1 september 2 august 1 july 1 june 4 may 3 april 2 february 4 january 2 2014 4 december 3 november 1 2013 3 november 1 august 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