Procrastination at its finest

I cannot even express how much I hate packing up a house. I’d like to say that I’ve been doing ok, but there is a reason I started so early. It is because I knew, without a doubt, that I would have trouble motivating myself to get it done.

I’ve packed and moved some things, my mail sorter, my mugs off the wall, some of my favorite paintings, but the thought of packing everything just gives me hives. And the fact that I’m opening boxes I haven’t even touched since the last move cracks me up. I would think I could just toss whatever was in the box, but I’m finding all sorts of documents I need to shred or file under ‘let’s keep this until the end of the world’. I have packed up the books from one of my bookcases, but need to grab smaller boxes to get the other bookcase. Don’t even get me started on the cookbooks.

Tonight, in fact, I went to pack up some of my pans, and casserole dishes only to discover I had just the right ingredients to make snickerdoodles. I don’t need snickerdoodles. In fact, I was mostly out of vanilla and ended up substituting Mexican vanilla blend (no idea why I had that) and maple syrup extract (with zero understanding why I had that too). Then, for reasons, I ended up putting a bunch of mishmash seasonings into the dough that don’t belong. They aren’t the worst cookies I’ve ever had, but they aren’t the best either.

And the pans still aren’t packed.

I was able, finally, to get the rest of the dirt into the raised bed gardens. I’ve got plants and seeds in, now I’m just waiting to see what happens. I’d course, this after realizing that the outdoor water spigot, doesn’t actually have a turn handle to distribute the water. I need to find a handy person. Cause it isn’t me. I feel like I should make a go of it, but then the logical anxiety ridden part of my brain rumbles to life and asks just hours many nightmares did I want to set up for myself by ‘handling’ it.

I’m having difficulty making a counter argument.

The desk is built in the office, now I need to find out what color I would like to paint my office. As well as how I want to post up my router. I’d rather it not just sit on my desk.

I’m also trying to determine if I want plants in the stairwell. The window that faces west is enormous and I can see some plants taking advantage of that. The only problem is the window isn’t easily accessible so I would need to devise a watering system.

The upcoming list of things I need to work on: