Mini-Snerffle Round Four

Early Poll today, I get to spend the entire day in a concrete seminar! Yay! The thought of it makes me... so... very... happy... *grits teeth* Anyway, speaking of happy, there are a lot of songs out there that, no matter how you feel, make you smile. They lift your spirits, at least for the amount of time you're singing along. But association can be a cruel thing - for instance, happen to be listening to a song when you get bad news, or associate a song with an ex (and a bitter breakup) and it can ruin even the most upbeat song out there...

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(Crap, that's what I get for trying to type so early in the morning, and I can't edit a poll. Forgive the typo, I need coffee.)

Don't forget to answer the easy Round Three (posted rather late last night) and Round Two and Round One! Round Five should be up later today (if I can remember what I was going to post) and the final round Friday morning. Then I'll stop pestering you. Answers and winners announced Monday!

Mini-Snerffle Round Five

I can never do those memes that tell you to put your MP3 player on shuffle, because while I do own one, I put a few songs on it once and really rarely use it. I'm sooooo last millenuim with my CDs, I know. But whatever, a Cd really is a better sound quality... ;)

But speaking of music...

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I'm kidding about the de-friending, of course. I'd only snub you for a few weeks... ;)

Also, having loads of fun at the conference. Haven't even had time to surf my f-list much, I've been web-cheating on the concrete test. Hope I got enough right to end up in the drawing! :D

If I'd been born 20 years later, I might accomplish things

Because I'd have been medicated and in therapy over my somewhat ADD-like behavior. Back in my day it was just called being scatter-brained or hyper, or on an insensitive day, being blond (which I was for many, many years).

It's weird. I both have an unbelievable drive to finish things (now now now!) and an almost pathological avoidance of finishing anything. If I can't get something done in a millisecond, I tend to set it down and only finish it with great difficulty. And my scatterbrained approach to life leaves me with a messy, unorganized house because whenever I try to clean, I'm distracted by shiny.

Tonight was a prime example. After a hideous day (I won't bore you with that, but I will say I'd sell organs before I'd commute downtown to work every day) I sat down to watch last week's Burn Notice on the DVR so I'd be set for tonight's season finale. I also figured I'd finally finish that octopus I'd been working on for... months, now (not continuously, obviously!). So I crochet the eighth leg and get to within 3 rows of finishing the underside. All it needs is three rows and to be sewn together. But... I'm thirsty and my throat hurts. So, after popping by the computer, playing some Bejeweled and Royals Trivia and checking the blogs, I head down to the kitchen. While making tea I remember Mr. Smeddley complaining about not having any snack food. So I rummage through the cabinets and while I have no cocoa powder (for brownies) I do have chocolate chips. I whip up some chocolate ship cookies and while they're baking start reading the library book that was on the counter. Not the book I'm reading on my nightstand or the book for book club Monday, mind you. Another book. Though that reminds me that I didn't get a copy of the book because I knew I had it, though I hadn't been able to find it. Maybe, I think, I don't own it? So I fire up the little Mac and check Bookpedia, and sure enough I do own it. Now I just have to find it. Sounds simple enough, but Bookpedia also tells me we own 1,782 books. Long story short (too late) after another search I find it. Yay! But now it's almost two hours later, I still have those three rows to crochet, I'm missing Burn Notice (that's fine, I'll just watch it from the DVR and skip the commercials), and, frankly, I'm ready to just go to bed (my throat still really, really hurts). Though I just remembered I really need to get that laundry out of the dryer...

And I say what I always say. "I'll do it tomorrow." Then again, I'll say that tomorrow, too.

What on earth can I do to motivate myself to actually finish things?!