Categories: housework, procrastination-techniques, prayer
Date: 17 November 2008 11:28:57
I have observed, in my copious reading of wiblogs to avoid housework or other distasteful but necessary tasks, that it appears to be a well established tradition to use blogging in various ways either to aid the procrastination, or to use it as the carrot on the stick to keep oneself on task. Or to beg for the aid of the community in keeping to the work in hand.
This is something I can embrace with much enthusiasm! I have been forced into copious hoovering and floor washing and bathrooms cleaning for the best part of the morning, and am now exhausted. I did start by reading a blog or two with my morning coffee, but resolutely kept to my list and with the exception of hoovering the guest room, and my own room, I am done.
I even washed the floor of the bathroom I generally refuse to do on one of my whirlwind go through the entire house in a morning efforts. Mostly because I could ignore the dust balls hiding behind the door no more. I think there was more dust visible than floor, though the rest of it had obviously been washed and swept since the last time I decided to do it. But, also because we have a guest coming who's likely to use that bathroom. It's the one with the shower in, and as I don't shower, (don't be rude, I have a bath regularly and wash behind my ears every day.) I rarely, if ever use that bathroom.
It's also one of the mornings where I can get on with a fair amount of praying. I hate housework, as you may have gathered, and to keep me from getting wound up about it, I pray as I work. So, I got on with the somewhat daunting list of urgent intercessions that gathered late last night! It was most scary being on an instant messenger thingy with two upsetting conversations going. One person upset about the death of his grandmother, and another updating me on a mutual friends family situation which is getting grimmer by the day. I'd've got off the computer and phoned, but we were all trying not to disturb other members of our households who should've been peacefully slumbering.
However, I do now have to return to the battlefield, then take myself off out to do some other things I've been putting off.
EDIT: Smugness reigns. I have finished the hoovering and washing of floors. Ahead of Schedule.