Procrastination

It seems like I can't focus lately. I blame it on the whole being pregnant thing, but there's more to it than that. I was talking to my husband about it last night and he thinks it's my weird work schedule.

You see, with my job it seems that I get absolutely no work for the first two weeks of the month and then I get dumped on with impossible deadlines and a ton of work. That persists through the end of the month and then... back to nothing. So in the beginning I'm bored and looking for extra jobs. At the end of the month I'm out of my mind busy and basically fried.

It seems like spacing the work out better would help, but I have zero control over that. You see, I am a freelance writer. So, the way I imagine things going down, in the beginning of the month my editor is being told to save money. Avoid hiring out jobs. Do work yourself.

Which he doesn't do.

Then, at the end of the month he goes in with a panic saying oh no, if we don't hire out jobs we won't meet the deadlines. So then he starts dishing out work he has known about forever, but with ridiculously short deadlines.

It's really not that awesome. It leads to burn out... and I just have to get through another week before I can rest for 1-2 weeks and recuperate... I can do this. I will do this. Focus.

Addicted to Facebook

I'm going to make a serious admission here. I am addicted to Facebook.

I'm sure you gathered that I'm on the social networking site quite a bit by my previous posts, but it's to the point where even I'm seeing a problem. The worst part is it's like I just navigate there automatically. I have a Facebook tab open right now, even as I'm typing this. It's that bad...

Why am I addicted? I like reading about what's going on in other people's lives and I love browsing the yard sale sites. I rarely buy anything, but I love to look. I may ask a question or say interested on an item that has 15 people already in line, but I rarely rarely buy anything.

Lately, I've found myself going to the site in the middle of working, which has made it very very hard to stay on task. The reason is because my job can be super boring and extra tedious at times. I write content for websites and often, it's not for sites that I find exciting or interesting in the least. That makes it even harder to stay on task and so I pop over to Facebook for a minute to see what's going on and then an hour goes by and I'm like no problem, I'll catch up. Then the kids need something and when I sit back down I'm like ok, lets just check out Facebook to ease back into things... and another hour goes by.

Look, I almost just did it again. I meant to close the Facebook tab and instead I clicked it. Ugh!

So folks, have you ever had a Facebook addiction? If so, how did you overcome it and stay off the site? I'm super glad that it's fall and a couple of my library books came in because now I have TV shows to watch twice a week (I had none before, and that's when the Facebook addiction started - at night when I was bored and the hubby was watching his shows, but I still wanted to be in the same room as him) and I have books that need to be read within 2 weeks. I can always clean the house, but at night that's the last thing I want to do. I'm the most productive in the morning, so that's when I try to get work done... however that hasn't been happening lately... Wish me luck as I work super hard today to quit the Facebook habit and catch up on a huge mountain of work. The house will not be getting cleaned today and I hope the kids can magically get along and not need me for long periods of time... you know, like 15 minute stretches. LOL