Productive Procrastination

All day today, I have been telling myself that I need to get homework done.  Well, you know how much I've actually gotten done?  None.  

Instead of making up excuses of why I don't want to do things, I find things that could be more productive or more important.  For instance, I've rewritten my budget 3 times, filed my taxes online, done several online quizzes and finally called the school on my grant that they haven't sent out yet.  I guess I could say I got some things done but it's a super lazy day and I have so many things due on Monday!  

For some reason, when I googled budget, I came up with this:

I think the biggest problem with this is that they all look happy but who am I to judge?  Anyway...


This time, my excuse (even though I only have FIVE followers) was thinking "Hey, maybe my blog followers are waiting for an update.  Maybe if I update it now, they will all send my blog to 5 of their friends and so on and I'll be an over night celebrity!"  No.  I didn't really think that would happen but illogical thinking always tells me what to do when I should be doing something else.

Not only that but I can thank Amber for this being stuck in my head STILL:





I keep asking myself what is so wrong with having it stuck in my head and I can't come up with any GOOD reasons to be ashamed of it.  I bring this up because, at least 5 times today, I have made an excuse to procrastinate HAVING TO DO WITH THIS VIDEO!  Telling myself "OMG, did they really say ___?" or "Maybe if I listen to it, I can get it out of my head."

As a matter of fact, I have pulled apart the video and decided that Narwhals are NOT unicorns as mentioned in this post this post by Amber!  It's very obvious that they are cousin creatures!  Like the wolf and a dog.

The moral of the story:  Don't put things off and if you do, make up GOOD reasons for it!