work to do...

i think i work best under pressure. i know i did in my college days. even in high school, i'd leave things til the last possible moment. i recall doing an autobiography in senior english that i spent the night before actually writing...not just proofing or assembling. writing. i believe it was 10-12 pages long.

then in college, i'd leave papers til the last moment. my roommate would go to bed at 11ish and i'd watch her go to sleep, wishing i could be in my own bed, snoozing away. yet i would stay up til 3 or 4 in the morning, typing and making up shit (now known as MSU in our household...) so that i could just have the paper DONE. i often wonder what my grades would have been if i hadn't procrastinated so often.

however, now i do the same thing. but now it's not for assignments or papers.

my parents are coming to visit us tomorrow. and my house is a pit.

a little background: my m&d live in iowa. we live in connecticut. that's 1200 miles & 2.5 days of driving. they left on sunday to drive here, and i've known that they would leave on that day for 2 weeks. so now they'll be here in about 20 hours and i have mucho work to do. all 3 bathrooms (3 toilets, 3 sinks, 2 tubs, 3 bathroom floors--puke!, and 1 cat box). vacuuming 2 levels. scrubbing kitchen floor. some laundry done so the kids are clean AND cute. some grocery shopping to do so i can put together a meal tomorrow night. oh and add in there that i need to lose 40 lbs. :) i can do that all by 3 or 4 tomorrow afternoon, right? :)

another challenge is that i currently have 3 books in the house that i'm interested in reading. and they seem to show up right where i have the most work to do: the bathroom. (yes, i am a bathroom reader. in fact, i've looked in home depot for a magazine rack for the bathroom. did you know i've STILL never found one there? linens & things has plenty. they should get some sort of award for offering something that's so vital!) so it's sooooo tough to clean up pee drips and scrub the grungies off the bathtub when i'm wondering what's happening to jamie frasier in diana garbaldon's latest. sigh.

and it's not like i get a second alone when the kids are awake. that will be interesting to have to do that much housework while keeping the kids entertained and from pulling out what i just put away. maybe i can lock them in a box for a few hours. (just kidding, of course! i would only do that for 15 minutes, tops.)

maybe i'll just get a good night's rest and work on the house tomorrow. i'm kind of tired from all this procrastinating.