5 Reasons Procrastinators Don’t Like Spring

All around the blogosphere and the real world outside of my computer, I keep hearing people shouting out the praises of spring.  How beautiful it is and all that jazz.  Well, I’m here to rain on everyone’s parade.  Sure, I love spring as much as the next person, but I do have a few things to gripe about.  I realize that my issue isn’t with spring itself and all its beautiful splendor, but combine it with my own terrible habit  of procrastination and we’ve got a serious problem.  So I present to you a list (because if you haven’t already figured it out,  I love lists) of The 5 Reasons Why Procrastinators (Like Me) Don’t Like Spring:

1. Seeing our arms in short sleeves is scary.  Very scary.    You know that resolution you made on New Year’s Day?  Yeah, that pesky little thing called diet and exercise.  Well, if you are a procrastinator like me, you probably never got around to it.  Oh and when you combine the flab with the paleness it just becomes a total nightmare.  Being pale like Nicole Kidman only works on Nicole Kidman because she is thin and it almost doesn’t work for her.

2.  Going every other day without shaving is over.   Heck, who are we kidding, we went weeks between shaving our legs everyday and now that capris and skirts have been pulled out of storage, this must all come to an end.  We sure don’t want our kids’ friends asking them why their mom is part bear.  On a more serious note, I’m sure this will make my husband a happier guy.  Oh I guess this is also where we complain about having to do weekly pedicures as that hasn’t happened since September either.

3. Gardening is a new task that must be added to the to do list that we ignore daily.  When everyone else’s pretty tulips started blooming it reminded us that we also ignored “Plant bulbs” on the to do list last fall. 

4.  Waiting until the last minute to go shopping for new spring clothes for the kids is not a good thing.  Due to putting that off, it seems that my son’s shorts are now fitting like those good old OP corduroy classic shorts for way back in the day.   For those not familiar, see exhibit A:

Thank the Lord these have gone away.  Note to fashion world:  Please don’t anyone think of bringing them back.  Men’s shorts should never, EVER, be that short.

5.  Spring cleaning.  These two words are like nails on the chalkboard to procrastinators.  The pressure to finally get the house into some state of order and cleanliness is in full force this time of year.   

Now I leave you with a cute picture I found that I’d love to hang in my office one day:

 

 

 

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April 19, 2008 | Filed Under Hopeless Homemaker, The Art of Being Lazy | 4 Comments 

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