Procrastinate

I admit it I am a procrastinator. I try not to be, but I just can't help it. I am not a planner be any means of the word. Lets face it every time I do plan something which is hardly ever, well it never works out. I have to say though that I have been getting better. I have two years to get my continuing education done to renew my license for work and most of the time I am scrambling at the last minute to get them all done. Not this time by golly I am ready! The thing is I am always saying to myself I have time there is no hurry and than before I know time has slipped away. I do that a lot with most of the things I have to do for work. I wait until the last moment to renew my CPR, or when I had to get my TB shot I wait until the last possible moment I can. Not sure why I do this because you would think the sooner you get it done the better off you are. Never seems to work for me though.





I think I am more like fly by the set of you pants spear of the moment kind of person. I don't like planning things because like I said they never work out for me. I like to say lets do this today!! Some times I like to do things spontaneously. Like one time we were on vacation and about ready to go home and I said , "Lets drive to the ocean before we go, we have time"! It took us three hours to find the ocean! My family was like mom I don't think I like it when you do things on the spear of the moment, but we did have fun that day!





Well, maybe some times the things I plan work out okay! My wedding for one thing, but it wasn't all so simple because there was a point I just wanted to forget the whole wedding thing and just elope, but we made it through. I think one of the hardest things I did have to plan was my mom's funeral. I think because she was still a live when I went to make the arrangements. She told me I needed to before she died, because it was really hard on her when my dad passed away because he died suddenly in his sleep. Yeah that was really hard for me to go pick out the box for her remains and to give the funeral director all the information and what not. It was I think the hardest thing I ever had to do, but it really was good that I planned it out. Oh I have to say I did procrastinate on that too, because my mom kept telling me you need to go and get this done. I know I know. I just didn't want to face the fact that she was dying. It was so surreal because it happened so fast.





The one time that planning out something did work out is when we took a two week vacation to go camping on the coast of Oregon. I planned out that we were going to go to point A and go all the way down to point G. So we went the whole way down the coast of Oregon staying at a camp ground for two days each. Well it was great except my husband told me, "Do you think the next time you plan on a trip like this that we could get a pop up tent trailer"? Oh what's wrong dear, he said I am getting tired of putting up this tent just to take it down again and put it up again some where else. I told him but you have got it down to a tee!! That was a fun time though and I would really love to do that again.





I can't tell you how many Chirstmas I would wait until Christmas Eve to go shopping! Talk about procrastinating! Not only going shopping, but having to come home and wrap it all in one night just to have it all undone in a matter of seconds! I have been better at starting a little eariler. I am not like some people that get all there shopping done in July, but I do get it done a few weeks before Christmas. One other thing I never do is shop the day after Thanksgiving, no thank you!! I don't like crowds as it is and to go out in that mess just to save a couple bucks isn't worth it to me!





I will probably always procrastinate, but I am trying to get a little better at certain things. I don't know maybe it is the adrenaline rush you get when you have to hurry up and get something done I really don't know why I like to wait until the last minute. I will keep on trying to get this done in a timely manner, but there is no guarantee this will happen anytime soon.