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I just REALLY annoyed myself by putting off or forgetting for WEEKS a task that just took me literally five minutes. My brain is in need of several stern talking-to's and also possibly better meds. 

There are several other tasks like that sitting there looming glumly at me which I suspect could also be tackled with similar speed if I can just kick myself in the head enough to start ROLLING. One of those tasks is blogging. For someone who likes to write and sometimes can even get paid to do it, I am deep down convinced that I am very boring. 

To heck and darn with it I say, all right, let's experiment with smacking a few birds with one stone today. Today, I shall CLEAN. Which is boring. Intensely boring. No one wants to read about cleaning. I don't want to live the act of cleaning firsthand, why the hell would anyone want to do it vicariously? WELL TOO BAD because if anyone is reading this you are ABOUT to live through this vicariously. I am going to LIVEBLOG CLEANING MY DAMN ROOM in the hopes that it A: gets clean, and B: I can feel less guilty about how neglected my so called social media "presence" is. 

It's also a useful psychological exercise for me, DELIBERATELY writing/doing something that I already know will be weird/dumb/boring/flawed. It always has been, and I highly recommend it as a trick. When I was sketching as a teenager, I used to fret intensely that my sketches from life didn't look "realistic" or exactly like their subjects. 

So what did I do? I started sketching with coloured pencils and markers, and deliberately using "wrong" colours.

I would sketch people in purple and green and shade with orange. I would draw trees with hot pink. And now I didn't have to WORRY about being "unrealistic" or "getting it wrong", because I knew from the start it was already wrong, so I could relax. The pressure was off. And consequently, my sketching skills improved immensely. 

When I had to tell stories in front of a crowd and was worried about "embarrassing myself" or "looking silly?" I put on a silly hat. 

Now I don't have to WONDER if I look silly! I KNOW I look silly! It's too late! Might as well get on with it and stop worrying!

So I am about to go on tumblr (seems better for this kind of task, also more followers to hold me accountable) and liveblog the most boring unpleasant mind numbing task ever invented. And I WILL bore and annoy people! Including myself! AND I'LL DO IT ANYWAY!

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