Are you good at procrastinating? I’m usually pretty bad at it. Oh, I can be lazy as all get out, and I can waste time like a champion, but I’m not that good at actually procrastinating. At least about things other than working on losing weight or saying no to cookies. Which, come to think of it, are the same thing.
I can spend a good hour or two playing iPad games or scrolling through Instagram posts and reels, but if I really have things to do, especially if I’ve written them down in a list, then I’m pretty good about getting them done. There’s nothing like the dopamine hit of crossing things off a to-do list.
Tonight, I’m home alone. Anders has gone to Tingsryd for the week for work (at least until Thursday), and Karin left as I was sitting down to dinner to spend the night at her girlfriend’s. I could have watched a movie, or started a series that Anders doesn’t want to watch, but instead I’ve done nothing much. I wasn’t procrastinating. I did the few things I needed to: went for a very brisk walk before dinner, washed dishes (the ones that didn’t fit in the dishwasher), loaded the dishwasher and ran it, and updated an AIC web page for tomorrow. I read several chapters of the book group book while I was eating dinner. Now I’m listening to Spotify’s Discover Weekly curated list of new music and writing this post.
But before I started the last two things (multi-tasking!) I spent a good hour and a half playing iPad games and Insta-scrolling. I wasn’t in the mood to watch TV, which is often the case. Even though I like watching movies and TV shows, it’s not often my go-to pastime, which is how I get so far behind on watching shows that are on my list. Eh, no worries. I’d mostly rather read anyway.
The book group book is boring me, though I had high hopes for it. I think the translation is partly to blame, because it feels very stilted. It’s an English translation of a Swedish book and it’s the one book that everyone voted for. It’s the first book in a 5-book series set in Stockholm, but it will most likely be the only one I read. I’m around the halfway mark and I’m finding the characters dull and flat, and the action non-existent. I don’t really see what the point of the book is as it’s not going anywhere. The one thing I kept hearing about it was that Stockholm itself is like a character, but if you aren’t really familiar with the city, which I’m not, despite having visited it multiple times, that doesn’t really help, and I actually think that if that’s supposed to be the case, then Stockholm is coming across as uninteresting and flat, just like the characters of the book. I have a suspicion that the discussion when book group meets won’t take very long, unless things drastically change in the next few chapters. Unfortunately, I don’t think it would be much better if I was reading it in Swedish.
It’s okay with me that I’m being a bit of a slug this evening, since I have things to do after work the rest of the days of this week and into the weekend, so I’ll be wishing for some more downtime by the time I get to Friday, especially considering how crazy work is. Today was one long day of busy and I was grumpy and frustrated for much of it. I also have too many meetings, which makes me crazy since I can’t get any actual work done. And I have to leave work early on both Wednesday and Thursday, which means I have to make up the time at some point. Ugh.
I’m almost done listening to the playlist (I don’t listen to the entire song, just long enough to know if I like it enough to put it on my own list), which means I’m almost done writing this post, in which the main character is ALSO dull and flat, haha!
Mood: lazy
Music: Aqua—Good Morning Sunshine