When I was a kid we had the Sweet Pickles books. My favorite book in the series was Goof Off Goose. Goof Off Goose's motto was I 'll do it tomorrow.... She would forego the task at hand and go sleep in her hammock.
Oh the irony of foreshadowing... I am a known procastinator. Let's see, I've been applying for graduate school for 3 years now, starting to run again for the last 6 months, starting my career of writing children stories for about 2 years, and have been doing laundry for the last 3 days. And this blog has been a project for the last 6 months.
I freak out for a moment, and reapeat the mantra- I'll do it tomorrow.
I don't go and lie in a hammock. There's no time for that. Instead I get distracted. I play with my 19 month old daughter. I go for walks with my husband. We go out with friends. And these in my opinion are very important things to do. Far more important than the items on my to do list.
But alas, after the fun is had I freak out about what should have been done. What I need to do. And the phrase I'll do it tomorrow enters my vocabulary again.
Goof Off Goose in the end learned her lesson. Disasters happend and she learned that there was no hammock until she finished her chores and learned some good time managment.
I read Goof Off Goose to my own daughter now, and hope that Goose's lesson will rub off on me. I would really like to those tasks done and lay in a hammock myself. I wonder if Goose had a good therapist?
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