Last time I posted, I was using Pentatonix reaction videos to get through my days. Things were rough, I said. It was a coping mechanism.
Well, things continue to be rough. So I’ve fallen back on the original distraction, in my life anyway–today I am reading a book.
I don’t have a lot of time for reading, usually. Or, I do, if I, you know, I didn’t do all those other things that I should be doing. So I don’t do a lot of it. I know me. If I start a book, I want to FINISH the book, and everything else can go hang.
So guess what I did today?
In my defense, I was stuck in a dentist’s office, waiting for a loved one to have a procedure. I had intended to write! I have a story due. But the office was loud. And hot. And did I mention dentist’s office? Very uncomfortable all around. So I tried to write, and it didn’t work. And then I tried to go on Twitter, because that’s something that only takes the time you have–but I recently came down on myself for wasting too much time on Twitter, and set my app blocker to only allow seven minutes of every hour. Locked the profile, too–can’t turn it off for ten days.
Whoops.
So there I sat, in the dentist’s office, trying to ignore drills, trying not to think about the bill, not wanting to use data… (yes, I know Twitter uses data, shhh…) and so I opened a book I had downloaded on my phone.
Eight hours later and I’m sitting at home. I should have finished my blog post hours ago, made and eaten dinner, be working on writing my story…but I’ve just finished my book and now it’s time for bed.
oops.
Anyway. It’s Courtney Milan’s The Duke Who Didn’t, and it’s really a lot of fun. You should read it. Perhaps not when you’re supposed to be doing several other things, though.
I probably would have been better off with Twitter, huh? See what happens when I take steps for my own good?