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Procrastination

© Sue Murray

After much contemplation I have decided that procrastination is actually a pro-active exercise. I mean the last article I wrote was written because I was procrastinating about researching and writing an assignment. Now I have just finished my last exam and my last assignment and you should see what I have managed to get done.

For a start the overgrown driveway that hugged the car as I went up and down is now trimmed and neat. The front gardens which have been the blain of my life, for they were invested with twitch (a grass weed) are now cleared, weed matted and Bark put on top. The Tree in the side garden that had got too big is now ground level and what a wonderful difference it makes.

Each day for the last 2 weeks of study, I have managed to work on my vegi garden; I now have lettuces, tomatoes, chives and parsley planted. I have sewn my potatoes, carrots and radishes. I did notice though that procrastination did not stretch to getting the house in order, I think that is one of those things that is resistant to this theory.

The car wasn't immune though. For months I have been driving this very temperamental car, that the mechanic could not fix, as it never broke-down for them, (no I am not blond, just grey). What it use to do was about 5min out from my home in the morning it would choose to die in the middle of any intersection I was trying to take off at. It would do this about 2 or 3 times and then be fine for the rest of the day. My children were refusing to drive with me and the tension level in the car each morning was palatable. The car would doubly punish me if I didn't use it at all in the morning and its first drive was in the afternoon, then it would not only die, but it would not start again until it sat for about ½ hr. This is all true. It turned out it was a Distributor, which was very expensive to buy new, actually cost more than my car was worth. So in my procrastination state I scanned the local buy-sell-exchange paper and found a car the same as mine being wrecked - privately, (I hate going wreckers - Auto-dismantlers), and I got my part and now my car is fixed.