Motivation

I need motivation. There are things to get done and… well… I lack motivation.

TASK: Going out to the cat clinic and getting cat food.
DEMOTIVATOR: A cold wind whistling in from the north at about a thousand miles an hour.
POTENTIAL MOTIVATOR: The cats will start nibbling on my cold, dead body if I don’t get them some kibble soon.

TASK: Hemming the new curtains.
DEMOTIVATOR: Getting out the sewing machine, finding a place to set it up, cleaning around the place I set it up, and keeping cats out of the fray.
POTENTIAL MOTIVATOR: Getting the stuff out of my room, where it’s cluttering the place up.

TASK: Sweeping, mopping and vacuuming.
DEMOTIVATOR: Sheer tediousness.
POTENTIAL MOTIVATOR: Having my husband come in and squat down to pet a cat and remark on how much the floor needs sweeping/mopping/vacuuming. Life is better when he is oblivious to these things.

TASK: Getting the baby’s room organized.
DEMOTIVATOR: It’s not like we’re feeling like we’re ever going to have a child any time soon. If at all. You kind of lose the magic when you’ve been waiting for a family, what is it now, FOUR YEARS?
DEMOTIVATOR #2: We’ve been using the room as storage. Where are we going to put all that STUFF?
POTENTIAL MOTIVATOR: You never know. We might get a referral. And monkeys might fly out of my butt.

TASK: Christmas shopping.
DEMOTIVATOR: No money.
POTENTIAL MOTIVATOR: Better now than when the crazy people are out shopping.

TASK: Blogging.
DEMOTIVATOR: I write every. frigging. day. What is left to say?
DEMOTIVATOR #2: Hardly anyone reads or comments on my blogs.
DEMOTIVATOR #3: I don’t get paid, and there are other things I SHOULD be doing.
POTENTIAL MOTIVATOR: The people who read my blogs enjoy it. And one day, somebody might pay me. But I doubt it.

TASK: Cleaning the cat litter and Opus’s cage.
DEMOTIVATOR: Dealing with poo.
POTENTIAL MOTIVATOR: It gets smelly when you don’t clean frequently.

TASK: Christmas baking.
DEMOTIVATOR: No money.
DEMOTIVATOR #2: We really don’t have a lot of people to bake for.
DEMOTIVATOR #3: I don’t feel Christmassy.
POTENTIAL MOTIVATOR: Beats sweeping and mopping and vacuuming.