Procrastinator

I’m not a procrastinator . . . I think that’s evident with my founding of Advanced Planners Anonymous; however, these past 2 weeks have been WEIRD for me as far as procrastinating!

Let’s start with Halloween. I’ve known for months that Dude wanted to be a Lego Darth Maul. I’ve known for 3 weeks that he had a birthday/costume party on the 24th . . . yet I didn’t start his costume until Thursday evening the 22nd. I will say that I spent a lot of time brainstorming the best way to do it . . . but still in the end, I chose to go to bed early and read this week instead of making the costume (which has been nice!). Now it’s Saturday morning and the costume is almost complete - we just have to finish putting the head together. Hubby and I know what we’re going to be as well, yet I haven’t started making those costumes yet, either.

We can move on to Daisy Scouts. I’m co-leading Princess’ Daisy Scout troop and volunteered to be the one in charge of getting the stuff ready to help the 15 K and 1st graders make smocks ($2 as opposed to buying them for $13!), be the tracker of all patches/petals/pins for the girls, and open the troop checking account. Um ya . . . I have a boatload of fleece in my hobby room, but still have to cut 13 smocks out of it - our meeting is Monday after school. I had planned to go to the scout shop on Monday to get the pins/petals/patches that we need, but turns out they’re closed on Monday! So yesterday I hightailed it down there after work and made it 2 minutes before closing time - I was THAT person . . . yuck! I got all the stuff, but still - I’ve had an entire week to do it - and 2 of those days I didn’t work! And I knew I had to volunteer in Princess’ classroom on Monday from 9-11:15 and the Daisy meeting is at 3:10. What was I waiting for?

And last, but not least, I was in charge of getting the coaches gift, thank you cards, and party snacks for Princess’ soccer team - their last game is today. Um ya - last night at about 9:30 p.m. I remembered! Their game is at 9:00 a.m. today . . . so I made thank you cards last night (thank Goodness for scrapbooking supplies!), get to leave early for the game today so I can stop at the grocery store on the way and then go to Kohl’s when they open at 9:00 to get the gift cards . . . yes, I’ll miss part of the last game because I’m a dumbass. And THIS stuff I’ve known about all week as well - heck, I was AT Kohl’s on Tuesday and forgot the gift cards! I was AT the grocery store Thursday and forgot the snacks and drinks!

Sheesh . . . I don’t like being a procrastinator . . . it doesn’t fit into my lifestyle very well