Sometimes things happen and they make you understand a little more about yourself as well as others.
I am not a procrastinator. When I have something I need to do I pretty much jump in with both feet and go until whatever the project was is finished. If I have a deadline or a “due date,” you can bet that I will be finished a few days before that day. I don’t like unfinished business. I don’t like to be late. And I don’t like to-do lists, unless they are finished.
At the beginning of last week Max let Jesse know he had to get his pinewood derby car finished. It was urgent. It had to be done! Jesse and Max sat down and worked out a design and then they went to work. The car will be a pencil. Did you know that going from a square to a hexagon was quite difficult? Me either. I watched at the boys worked and sanded and started to paint and wondered why Jesse was getting such an early start on this project. The derby is not until the 28th. Jesse usually waits until the week before to get started on the cars.
Jesse had no idea the race wasn’t that very Saturday. Or even the next one.
Max seems to be even less of a procrastinator than myself.
On the other hand, I had a certain child miss a bus and have a bit of a breakdown, (ok guys, it was really me that had the breakdown) because a certain assignment that he/she has had for months had to be typed and printed. And of course the computer (not the laptop) wouldn’t connect to the network and print the danged thing! And also, I had no car because it was getting an oil change. AND Jesse had already left for the day. Fun morning.
I am thankful for my lack of procrastination skills after dealing with the anxiety that I had to swallow this morning. Meanwhile, Max is producing anxiety for Jesse in an entirely different way…
I so get this. I am a time-freak. I am anxious when I leave a little past the time I set for myself to leave. I was the kind of girl that did my homework on Friday afternoon so it would be done for the weekend. Nice to know I am not the only one out there.