I’ve been up since 7:30. The stupid Dumpster man decided to WHAM WHAM WHAM the Dumpsters against the concrete in the parking lot this morning, thus rendering me unable to sleep any longer. But it’s OK, I decided, because tomorrow is Saturday and I can try again to sleep in.
I loafed around for about an hour, reading in bed and whatever, until I got kind of uncomfortable. And I also got…Lairded. Sigh. (Getting Lairded is where you are supposed to be relaxing, but then suddenly all you can think about is the stuff you should be/could be doing in order to save yourself time later or finish your work early so that you are the most efficient person in the whole world.)
While I was laying there, I thought Gosh…if I just got up now and cleaned for an hour, I could finish all my work for the day and then have the entire weekend free!
So I got up at 8:30 and challenged myself to finish cleaning the house before 9:00. This really was a lofty goal, even though I had done half of it the night before, but somehow I did finish by 9:10. Then I whipped out the iron and did all the ironing, and was finished by 9:30. Then I went to the kitchen and started pulling out ingredients to get some cookies frozen along with all my meals, but then I realized I was out of butter.
I considered riding Thunder to the store to get some, but that’s really stupid. So I told myself it was not inefficient to wait until tomorrow to make them, it was inefficient to go to the store for just butter when I have no car and it’s raining outside. (I really hope it stops raining before I have to go to NorthPark to meet a friend for lunch, because…I’m going to be really soggy when I get there if this keeps up.)
Anyway, now I’m making bacon and eggs, blogging and painting my toenails all at the same time. Take that, inefficiency! HA!
Sounds like a fun day. I could use your efficiency around my house
Gotta tell Dad about being Lairded. A truer term was never coined.
Sister,
I agree with Mom. Your definition of Lairded enlightened me. I also have recently realized that being Lairded is somewhat of a curse, because, as it seems, I am always doing things to “get a head start” and “save myself time” at some certain point, but I have found that whenever I do that, I simply end up filling that saved time with some other form of work, and thus, don’t end up getting to rest/relax like I planned…so while we may get quite a bit accomplished, we might have a significantly higher blood pressure than most people.