Wafflings

I got up barely in enough time to get ready for church this morning…and then suddenly it was 9am which is when church starts and I wasn’t even out the door. The upside was that I am up, dressed and have some time to do something…

I do want to catch up on facebook and blogs (including my own!) but for me that can be a form of procrastination. What I’d really like to get done this morning is finish off a valence for our bedroom window – I finished the one for the smaller window and now just have the larger one to do…it’ll take a couple of hours (I’m only a beginner seamstress…and my skill is limited to curtains that just require sewing fabric in straight lines!)…I should really get started. I’m hopeful that I’ll wrap this post up in the next 10mins or so and get on with it unlike many another day where I’ve messed around with lots of other little things and suddenly found the hours I thought I had were passed.

While I was typing this, Oscar came and sat on my lap. Apparently watching me type was not what he wanted and so he started tapping my arm, while staring at me intently. I’d pet his head and then return to typing, only to have another tap on my arm a moment later. He was persistent and I acknowledged this as I scrubbed his head a little and he purred. This went on for a while, until he decided that his taps were not eliciting the desired response of me focusing all my attention on him and he nipped my arm.  As he was evicted from my lap I thought, “I wish the things I wanted to do had that kind of persistence”, while realizing that it’s up to me to have that kind of persistence in focusing on these things.  But wouldn’t life be easier if it wasn’t all up to me to thwart my procrastination?