Purple Stain

I'm getting fat and lazy. Emphasis on... well, both. But today showed me more of my lazy side. It's not so much as that I'm lazy, it's just that I don't like doing work. But it's not so much as that I don't like doing work, it's just that I'll do anything I can to get out of it, including more work.

Today for instance, I had to clean the downstairs bathroom before my Aunt Carol came over. After procrastinating for days, I finally got caught and was sent below. I shook out the rugs and hung them somewhere. That being done, I had to sweep and mop the floors. But that was where my morale started wavering.

The broom and the mop were all the way upstairs, and I had no clue where the ammonia was. I had to think: What did I have to do to get the job done using the resources I had then? First I did an inventory check. Toothpaste, floss, aftershave, hair gel, water, toilet paper, paper towels, baby wipes, and lysol wipes. The mopping part might be solved, but I was broomless.

It was coming down to the line, either I get it together now or run upstairs for my supplies. Lo and behold, revelation struck! The clothes on my back could easily be made into a makeshift broom. I took off my shirts and started brushing dust and debris out the door (dirt doesn't matter on the cold hard cement floor). That didn't take so long. But mopping would.

My bathroom is a rectangle about 5'x5'. I had decided to 'mop' with the lysol wipes, but without a mop, this was going to be a hard task. I wasn't about to go up a whole flight of stairs when all i needed to do my job was right in my hands. I set to work, scrubbing with every possible part of each wipe. Floor, sink, and shower. With two wipes to spare! It took me twenty minutes to complete a four minute job, but at least I didn't have to run upstairs to get the mop.

Running upstairs would have been a horrible waste of energy and simply put, not a mental challenge. I had to survive by my wits, using what I had to complete a difficult task, with a minimal amount of energy. Gee... It's amazing what I do to 'get out of doing work'.