Time-Wasting & Barbie Face-Making

I have a problem. Well, I have a lot, but many of my negative qualities go around masquerading as quirky strengths, for my own amusement if nothing else. This, however, needs to be confronted without rose-tinted glasses.

I am...

A Perfectionistic Procrastinator.

It’s a bother, really.

I somehow manage to do everything under the sun except for what needs to get done.

*Some may recall my very first blog post where this presented a problem as well.

Example:

Since Friday, my plans for the weekend included two necessary tasks—cleaning my room and studying for my Spanish exam/completing Spanish workbook.

Since Friday I have done a lot of stuff, none of which have included these.

By Friday I say "It doesn’t matter." Procrastinator.

By Saturday I say, “I can do it tomorrow.” Procrastinator.

By Sunday morning I say “I’ll do it in the afternoon…” Procrastinator.

And so the story follows until we are now at Sunday evening. Oh, it’s still going to get done. I will study for my exam and do my Spanish workbook, AND I will get an “A” with a clean room because…the Perfectionist kicks in.

This has been my Sunday, and how my line of thinking goes to put off such necessary tasks:

Wake up.

Think…

“Oook, today I need to study. Ugh, it’s only 7:41.”

Go back to bed.

Wake up.

Think…

“I need to study."

Walk in to closet to put clothes on.

“But I should clean my closet first. I’m hungry.”

Eat breakfast.

“I have all day.”

Try to watch Bucs game.

Fail.

Watch The Office instead.

Read.

Look up picture mom sent to email.

“I should finally put up pics from my trip.”

Facebook (I’m not actually gonna say “facebook” for all the times I was on today, because that’d be a waste of space, and also a little embarrassing).

Make a recycling poster for our kitchen

Rake

Kill a spider

Read NY Times articles on iPhone

Eat lunch

Watch SNL

Oh my goodness, this is rather tedious actually.

So fast-forward to the most time-wasting thing I did today, which actually prompted this post…

**The most wasteful and useless matters happen as what I really need to complete gets closer and closer.**

Run face recognitions on MyHeritage.com. Face, face, face.

“Jessica Alba, she’s pretty.”

Google images: Jessica Alba

“Soo pretty. I think she looks better with lighter hair. I wonder what I would look like with lighter hair.”

Google: Hairstyle photo upload

Mess around with photo. Dye hair (virtually).

“Ew.”

Make Barbie Jaimie.

And so…here is my before and after:

Before: Jaimie the Time-waster 

After: Jaimie the Barbie

And it only took blonde hair, plucked eyebrows, pink blush, coral lipstick, and blue colored contacts. Ha.

 *If you look closely, you may be able to see that I also googled "perfectionistic procrastinator" to see if such a thing existed. Despite the fact that "perfectionisitic" isn't actually a word, I do have fellow PPs out there.

And I think it’s safe to say I will never go blonde.

Now that I’ve done one more time-wasting thing by posting this, I might have to do work.

It may take staying up a little late and waking up a little early, but I’ll deliver that “A” and my room will be clean come tomorrow afternoon.

Yours truly,

Perfectionistic Procrastinator.