I’m a major procrastinator. This is something I truly wish I could correct. As you might imagine, it can be a real problem in my day to day life. True to form, here I am 2 days before Christmas, scrambling to buy presents and absolutely perplexed as to why I waited so long. It’s not like I had to wait on an infusion of cash. I wasn’t too busy working or building a house or saving the freaking world for goodness sakes. I was simply being me.
Oh I’ve been shopping alright. I’ve been to all my usual haunts. Target has benefited from my shopping addiction at least 5 times in the past 2 weeks. Did it ever once cross my mind that I should be looking for gifts? Of course! But as usual, that little voice in my head spoke ever so lightly to me. “You’ve got plenty of time for that. Go ahead and get something for yourself now. Worry about everyone else later.”
Well later is now. I thought I would go out yesterday and get all my gifts in one shot. How crazy was that plan? My first stop was TJ Maxx. I racked up on some great, inexpensive household items for the women in my family. As I maneuvered my little shopping cart up to the front of the store, I was feeling pretty good about my plan and thinking I could probably hit one more store and be done! The joke was totally on me. When I realized the checkout line was longer than the line at the Saturday morning swap meet on opening weekend, I almost left that little cart in the middle of the store and walked out. But I just couldn’t pass up the great deals I’d found, so I waited. And waited.
Let’s just say that was the end of my venturing out to buy gifts. I realized I was going to have to go online. Thank God for Amazon and their free 2 day shipping. That website is the procrastinator’s best friend. I was able to get the rest of my gifts with just a few clicks and in less than 20 minutes.
I could have splurged and elected to have everything delivered tomorrow for an astronomical fee, just to be on the safe side. I even considered this for a split second until that little voice spoke up and asked if I was crazy. So now I’m putting my trust in Brown or Fedex. If they don’t show up on time I have the procrastinator’s other friend, a honorary degree in B.S. I’ll have folks thinking I had their gifts sitting in the donate box by mistake and hubby took them to Goodwill. By the time I’m done, I might be able to get out of having to give gifts at all this year and can send everything back for a full refund. I did see a cute little purse at Macy’s the other day.
I see you shaking your head. Whatevs. I’m NOT selfish. I’m tired and crabby and should be paying some bills right now that were due 2 weeks ago.
