I am NOT procrastinating!

HAHA!  I posted on Thursday about a 'procrastination project' and said I would tell you about it on Friday!  NO, I didn't post it.... but it was NOT because I was procrastinating!  I seriously have some issues when it comes to deadlines and getting things accomplished, I am the FIRST to admit!  Yesterday was just a busy day because my hubby was heading out of town with the kids and I had to wash clothes, pack, etc...

OK, so what is this Procrastination Project?  Well, one of my gal-pals, LINDA, who I met through one of my stamp design teams WHIMSIE DOODLES was posting about this on her blog HERE.  What I didn't realize is that this wasn't something that she had found some where else!  This is a project she came up with herself, having a background in counseling!  WELL NOW, that gives it some substance doesn't it!?

Instead of me trying to give you all of the details about it each and every day AND ALSO so that you don't just get my view, I suggest you read and follow LINDA's BLOG too each day about this and her experiences with it.  She has already started doing the project/exercise which takes three weeks to do in its entirety.

When I emailed her about this, this is what she wrote me:

'The procrastination project I started is as much to help me as others. It takes 21 days to establish a new habit... PROCRASTINATION NO MORE has 21 letters....so taking a letter a day you do something you have been procrastinating about....P could be 'put away holiday dishes' or 'paint closet door'.....something you need to do. Each day for 21 days do something you have been procrastinating about.'

I also asked about her background so that I could share with you all her experience a bit:

'I have a BS in elementary ed., a M.Ed. in administration/supervision, and am a Certified Elementary Counselor. I taught elementary ed. for 8 years, was a school counselor for 7, and worked with families of students for 10 years as the Parenting Coordinator. '
 
So, now what I am supposed to do is create 21 things out of those letters that I have been procrastinating! WOW, that's a job!  I haven't had time to do that yet, but will get to it as soon as I can! I don't know if I have the gumption to share the list of 21 things PRIOR to doing them, though.  That really would make me commit to it, HAHA!  I know a few things off the top of my head that NEED to be addressed, like getting the mud off of my long coat from a year ago... or was that two years ago?  OH MY!  I do need HELP!
 
Well, my tummy is growling at me, gonna go drink some water and take a shower and then see how hungry I really am.  Most of the time our body just needs water and we put food in where we don't need to!  So, by the way, you can also follow my trip to losing the ALMOST 10 lbs I just gained over the holidays!  I know that doesn't sound like much, but for me, that is a lot!  Especially when I was just 10 lbs away from my GOAL!  SO, now I am back to almost 20 lbs to my goal!  That sucks, huh?  Halloween candy + three kids + a hubby who loves pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving + traveling + Christmas cookies and pies + traveling again + candy canes and homemade candy from a friend + no will power to say "NO" = 10 returning lbs!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Did I mention that I was in single digit jeans for a day?! HAHAHAAA!  So, I guess I can put it out there, I weigh 142, I was down to 130 for ONE DAY, then hovered around 132 for a month.  Figured out I had a fractured ankle, had screws put in which made it worse and obviously couldn't exercise for months on end seeing as how I was on crutches for 2 months and in a walking boot for another 6 weeks or more.... took off boot around October and then the holiday FOODS commenced! HA!  My ankle is still problematic, I still walk with a limp when I get out of bed each day and at times my ankle is so swollen I can hardly bend it.  So, exercising has its issues too.  BUT I am bound and determined to get back to 135, that is 7lbs, totally doable, if I would just stop buying snacks for the kids, but can't do that!  So, I guess I should just stop snacking off of their left over cheetos! HEE HEE!
 
My goal is 120, which I know sounds small, but I am a tiny framed person at just 5' 3" and was 105 at age 30 when I got remarried in 2001.  And that was without exercising but 2 or 3 days a week by just 'walking'!  Of course I have had three kids (within three years time, and none are twins) since then and my gut needs to be cosmetically removed.  No elasticity has been left, so I have a sharpei puppy on my abdomen that needs to be taken off.  Over 9" to be exact, according to the surgeon I had a consult with.  Of course when I come up with a spare $10K I will get it done, Hubby okay'd it, but till then, I will just keep shoving it down my jeans! HAHA! 
 
SORRY if that was TMI, but like I said, this is not just my family blog, but also my personal blog, too, so if you don't like frankness, then you may not be interested in reading my posts!  I will try to soften the edges at the appropriate times, ok?  Well, if you are still reading this, and want to do the PROCRASTINATION NO MORE with me, then comment and link me to your blog!  IF you don't have a blog then get one started!  You can even have a blog that is closed and private, but just available to me and a few of your close friends, etc, so that we can support each other with comments and stuff!  How does that sound?  Email me if you would like, also!  My email is in my profile!
 
I will be back with my 21 things and then will post a day when I will begin doing this!  It won't be tomorrow, I will need a few days myself to get some other commitments wrapped up so I can really focus on letting this experience work my brain the way it needs to!  So, go get your 21 things written down!  I know that one of my "T" letters is to 'Toothbrush dust all of the grooves of my bedroom set'.  This set was purchased as my parents wedding gift to each other back in 1966 and was over $4K then!  So you know it is a nice, solid wood bed set, but the grooves and crevices have years of caked in gunk.  I need a soft bristle brush and some water and a nice butt-pillow to get this task done, but I have been wanting to do it for YEARS, so that is ONE item that WILL be tackled on a "T" day! 
 
OK, that is that, back soon!  And I hope to hear from you via email or commenting here!
 

Hugs and Blessings to you !!