{"id":4211,"date":"2010-06-03T13:48:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T20:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannarisse.com\/blog\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2010-06-03T13:54:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T20:54:39","slug":"procrastination-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/procrastination-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Procrastination Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I sewed instead of working on my paintings. It&#8217;s my way of procrastinating. I suppose it could be worse. I could have procrastinated by sitting around, doing nothing. But lately, I just call that being pregnancy tired, and the only thing I can really procrastinate against when I&#8217;m &#8220;pregnancy tired&#8221; is sleeping. But yeah, last night I had energy that should have been used for painting. But things needed sewing anyway. I sewed this table cloth and napkins:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/4666560837\/\" title=\"new tablecloth by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4020\/4666560837_b6f64e66db.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"new tablecloth\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I sewed some more diapers too. But I have 23 days until my deadline and 4 paintings to finish. I&#8217;ve only just barely started two. My energy levels wax and wane with this pregnancy, so when I have energy, which is so very rare after 5pm, I really should be cranking away on these paintings. Looking at charts and graphs about common pregnancy symptoms, it appears I&#8217;m scheduled more for tiredness in my third trimester so my hopes of finishing these, while holding down a full time job, doggy class, baby class, and getting all the house\/baby stuff done might be unrealistic, but I&#8217;ve never missed this deadline. So I&#8217;m thinking about that a whole bunch.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I had a meltdown. Probably calorie related. It&#8217;s been hard getting enough to eat. A bowl of cereal sounds like heaven to me right now. Easy, yummy food that requires no work. Mmmm cereal, I love you. Someday we will be together again and I will treat you with the respect you deserve. My meltdown prevented me from going to my old favorite prenatal yoga class in SE. I had to cry and eat hamburger and take a nap instead. I&#8217;m realizing I&#8217;m at that use it or loose it stage of pregnancy. And if I don&#8217;t get back into a regular stretching and strength routine, I&#8217;m gonna regret it.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m in a work countdown, I&#8217;m starting that list of all the things I&#8217;m going to do. Marathon appeared on the list. It&#8217;s been bothering me I never completed a full marathon. A half just won&#8217;t do, I want the full monty. Mostly the list consists of a regular daily art practice and lots of walks and jogs. Those two activities sound heavenly. I&#8217;m feeling really thankful I haven&#8217;t gained too much weight because it seems like recovery won&#8217;t be that bad. So I guess I&#8217;m ok living without cereal for a little while.<\/p>\n<p>My baking scale came in the mail today. I was going to use it for all the fantastic whole grain bread I was going to make, but now I can&#8217;t use it for that. I weighed my cottage cheese, just to have something to weigh. It was pretty fun, but not as fun as weighing flour.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking of weights, and waits for that matter, I&#8217;m going to do some exercise while I wait for some work assets to be delivered. ttfn. or&#8230; Should I paint while I wait? Shall I procrastinate on exercising but painting? Or procrastinate on painting by exercising? Or procrastinate by continuing to blog until I get my assets and I have no time to do either? Hmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I sewed instead of working on my paintings. It&#8217;s my way of procrastinating. I suppose it could be worse. I could have procrastinated by sitting around, doing nothing. But lately, I just call that being pregnancy tired, and the only thing I can really procrastinate against when I&#8217;m &#8220;pregnancy tired&#8221; is sleeping. 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