master procrastinator

coming to you from pullman

sometimes, i'm a creative or productive procrastinator, like i will cook or be crafty, or clean, or walk ellie; other times i will be a very uncreative procrastinator and just watch tv or lose hours on the internet.  today, was a productive procrastination day.  this was my 30 minute procrastination project for the evening.

first, i decided that i wanted to make a paper countdown chain for Thanksgiving break.  i decided that i would use some of my scrapbooking paper - that's more fun than just regular construction paper.  then i thought i might get extra creative and put little inspirational sayings on the back of each one to get me through the next 80 days.  here's what happened

• i figured out how many days until Thanksgiving break using this website (it's just so much easier)=38 days
• i googled "inspirational quotes" and found this website, which i really like, because it has a variety of quotes organized into many categories that will be helpful getting me through surgery block (particularly inspirational, motivational, happiness, fear of failure, don't worry, and success quotes).  you could probably get really creative with what you put on the back of each link, but since this was only a 30 minute project, i opted to go the copy & paste route.
• i copy and pasted 38 of these quotes into a word document and formatted them to be about 1" apart from each other (in home tab, went to 'paragraph' then under spacing>after, chose 60 pt), which came out to 7 pages. 
• i picked out some 7 pages of fall-looking paper and cut it to 8.5"x11" sheets

• next i printed the quotes onto the white side of the paper (figuring out how to do this on the printer took me quite a few tries for some reason.)

• then, i cut my paper into about 1" strips.  sometimes they turned out bigger if there was a really long quote

•  finally, i stapled them into a chain.  i'm a big fan of stapling to make paper chains instead of gluing.  i remember when i was little, we would make paper chains to countdown to christmas and we would connect each link using paper cement.  i can hardly believe that i had the patience for this as a child; i certainly don't have the patience for it now, especially since it's something that i'm going to be tearing apart soon.

• ...and hung it on the wall!  my cats will probably have it down by the time i get home from school tomorrow, but i think it's the thought that counts.

so there you have it!  a 30 minute procrastination project.  well, not all of those 30 minutes were next to each other, but you get the idea.  how do you procrastinate?  (not that i need ideas)

i think it's about time for a post from julie, so i'm going to cool it and be inspired by my new inspirational paper chain to study diligently and focus on surgery block for a few weeks.  i have surgery block starting next weeks for two weeks, then one week off, then one more week on.  hopefully, i won't be too crafty while i'm away.  either that, or i'll have a lot to blog about when i return from my hiatus. and some exciting news, p-town sisters might actually be in the same town soon!