I know I’m procrastinating when I spend the best part of an hour shopping for doll accessories. I can’t even shove this into the “creative avoidance” category. It’s pure and utter time wasting, not to mention hard on the bank balance. I somehow managed to order a buggy/stroller/whatever-the-heck-you-call-it-in-your-country for my daughter’s doll. Seriously. A fricking doll’s buggy!
Then I spent/wasted another hour looking up current clothing fashions. It’s been so long since I shopped in a CITY where there’s VARIETY that I no longer know what’s “In” and what’s “Out”. Our local town has an Esprit shop, and….well, that’s pretty much it. I do have a legitimate excuse for the fashion research, though: I need to clothe my characters. *cough”
Having shopped for toys and clothes, I made the oh-so-logical leap to elliptical trainers. I’ve picked out the one I want for Christmas. I even ran it by C, who approved its purchase. He might have been half asleep at the time this conversation took place, but I’m interpreting it as a “Yes”.
I know I’m procrastinating when I feel a sudden urge to clean. I clean because I have to, not because I get any joy out of the process. An urgent desire to clean is generally indicative of wanting to avoid doing whatever it is I really should be doing.
A more entertaining method of creative avoidance is baking. I love making cakes. I also love eating them. There’s something therapeutic about the whole process.
Anyway, I have 302 words to go until I reach my daily word count goal. Sadly, this post doesn’t count. 
What do you do when you procrastinate? Clean? Bake? Engage in a spot of retail therapy?
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I pester people on Twitter when I’m procrastinating
I fire up photoshop and create a banner…or button or something equally smutty or funfilled to make. That or change my blog…but after 18 months of fiddling with that I think I’ve got the whole look I wanted and decided to step away from blog
I twitter, blog hop, read, and play yahoo dominoes.. and a million and one other things.
I am the queen of procrastination, I have it down to an artform. Seriously.
What do I do when I’m procrastinating? I’m doing it
P.S. I must advise you never to get into American Girl Dolls … time suck, money suck, and yet such fun!
My favorite proCRASHtinaSHUN technique is historical research for current WIP.
Janet for reasons you stated, we’re not getting into it.
Twitter is the ultimate procrastination and visions of Ryan Reynolds.
Comment on blogs?
Actually, I don’t have a lot of time to waste.
@Pearl: Twitter is dangerous. Suddenly an hour has gone by and I was convinced it was just 20 minutes.
@Leontine: I go through phases of tweaking my blog’s look, but it’s time-consuming.
@Edie: Yahoo dominoes?! No, don’t tell me. I’d just discover something new to distract me from all the stuff I’m supposed to be doing.
@Janet W: American Girl Dolls…nope, I’m not going to Google them.
@Keira Soleore: I also use research for my WIP as a form of creative avoidance.
@katiebabs: Ryan Reynolds isn’t my type but I’m a fan of another Ryan – Ryan Gosling!
@heidenkind: LOL! Commenting on blogs is something I love doing but it takes up so much time. Until I finish my Book in 3 Months Challenge, I’m mostly reading posts but not participating in many discussions.