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Because I swear to you, this is a disease, man
I’ve had a package, two actually, sitting in my living room for SIX MONTHS that I need to mail. It contains time sensitive materials. They are full of clothes for my sister’s daughter, I think you call that my niece, and my good friend’s daughter.
It’s literally been six months and I doubt they will fit their children anymore.
I’ve had a check sitting in my purse for three weeks. It’s not that we don’t need the money, ohgoodlord trust me, it’s that I can’t seem to actually DEPOSIT the check. And I’ve walked by the ATM. Twice.
I really don’t know what this is about but I actually fail to be a grown up sometimes, but I’ve somehow managed to clean the dishes every night and catch up on Grey’s anatomy. I must be doing something right.
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I think everybody does this from time to time. What really helps me is to just accept it, let the people involved know “Sry, didn’t do it, my bad” and move on. Beating yourself up over it only makes it worse for me, it increases the inertia to get things done because I think of failing to do a similar task in the past. Jus’ sayin
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Oh, yea, I usually just tell people, “Um, hey! Look! Your christmas present from 2007 is about to arrive! Happy birthday!”
I should give you Harmony’s address for the clothes - they might fit her 5 month old! Mine’s already growing out of 12 month sizes.
I have an outfit sitting in my girls’ closet. We’ve had it for four and a half years. It’s a baby outfit that I had bought for my youngest to wear home from the hospital, but then she was born two months early. In the insanity, that outfit got misplaced and forgotten. I found it two years ago, just in time to find out my sister in-law was pregnant with a girl, my first niece. I figured I would pass the outfit on to them. For some reason, that never happened. That outfit still sits in the closet, and my niece is now 18 months old.
Maybe someday some baby girl will get to wear it.
p.s.-I totally do the check thing too.
p.p.s.-if you haven’t read it before, look up Hyperbole and a Half, and read her post titled “This is why I’ll never be an adult”. (I tried just linking it, but your blog yelled at me for doing that.)
*snort* Want to turn in my over-due library book on your way to the post office?
@Leslie: I didn’t say you wouldn’t make an ass out of yourself, just that you’d better get it out of the way and get on with things
, it’s easy to let trivial mistakes in the past pile up to become a big obstacle for the future…
Ya, I’m with you. The whole “failing to mail parcels” is a disease! Sadly, there is no treatment
Let’s go donate the clothes and make a date to deposit checks at the bank. lol
I deposit checks via my phone. It’s pretty simple. And yet, checks often wait a week or more to be deposited. Sigh.
I am the SAME WAY. I don’t even bother checking out library books anymore, because they probably won’t get read anyway, and then they sit in my house for 3 months and my car for another 3 months, and then I finally return them because the automated voicemails from the library turn menacing.
Oh I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve left the house and 5 minutes later said “OH Crap!” I forgot whatever….! I think my life is just to busy for ME to handle it. Think some other, more organized, with-it person, should take over on my behalf.
If you ever figure this out, let me know. I need help.