Midnight Madness

I'm making potato salad for lunch after/at church tomorrow. Yes, it's 12:30.

I'm not quite sure why my m.o. tends excessively toward procrastination. Perhaps it's having the attention span of a goldfish and being easily distracted by shiny things. Tonight I'm thinking it was lemmings and Hugh Laurie, although in no particular nor simultaneous order. I think I just prefer working against a deadline and figuring backwards how much time I'll need to complete it. Of course, I've been trying that every morning for the past 25 years (well, maybe 20 consciously) and the only things it's proved to me is that I am a poor judge of time and an eternal optimist thinking that I can double my speed and manage to magically get out the door anyway. Haven't I heard that as the creative definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. The only thing I manage not to procrastinate on is my taxes. Yep, I file them by the end of January. Now if I can only up my quota of timely actions to more than 1 per year. We all have to have goals.

In my defense tonight, I did take a nap this afternoon. It was meant to be a two minute resting of my eyes. Four hours later, I got up again and puttered about my apartment.
Essentially, that drops the time back from 12:30 to 8:30, which is a perfectly reasonable time of the evening and leaves me with an overall margin of quite enough time for rest. I love creative math!

More later about the musical and wedding I went to (again, not simultaneous)...

Pass the pollen

I'm new to the whole allergies thing. In fact, my preferred method of dealing with them is denial. So, when once or twice a year I come down with sinus stuff that won't leave me alone for weeks to months, it takes a long time to step from denial to acknowledgement. I keep hoping that if I insist I have a cold, I'll just get better and that'll be the end of it. But when many of my co-workers were also complaining of allergy symptoms and mentioning the excessively high pollen counts, I thought there might be something to it. Turns out that my little corner of Florida was in the high 10-11 range of pollen activity (measured on a 1-12 scale). For kicks, I checked out a Minneapolis zip code and the activity was under 1! I'd stay inactive too, if temps were below freezing. But I hear that's slowly changing and signs of spring are on the horizon there too.

After getting my allergy medicine refilled two days ago, I've been feeling much better. I guess doctor's visits are good for something :)