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Motivation and I had a fight

So…I think motivation and I had I fight.  Motivation is giving me the silent treatment.  Inspiration might also be giving me the silent treatment, I’m not sure.  I think maybe inspiration just took the weekend off.  I hope it’s only the weekend and not like…a month or something.  What is this, Europe?

Anyway, how about this post from a long time ago from another blog?  Huh?  It’s actually kind of a problem right now, so I thought it was fitting to post it again.  Oh, and also sleeping through my alarm/turning my alarm off in my sleep.

I was minding my own business mid morning yesterday. I was a little late that morning and I was reflecting on that and decided that the only recourse is to just get up when my alarm rings the first time. Then I would have plenty of time to do whatever I needed to do in the morning and still get to work on time, just like that quarter in high school when I would roll out of bed and stay out of bed right when my alarm rang. That’s when it hit me. The snooze button is not my friend. It never has been my friend. It probably will never be my friend. All these years when I would hit the snooze button for another 5-10 minutes of sleep has not done be any good. It’s only created mad rushes in the morning as I tried to do everything that needed doing before leaving for my destination. The snooze button has only caused anxiety and tardiness in my life. I feel so betrayed.
That being said, I hit the snooze button twice this morning and I was late for work again.

And also, this comic by Nedroid:

Business card box for displaying…BUSINESS CARDS!!

The other day I was getting pretty frustrated at work.  It was just a constant stream if interruptions with people asking for help or clarification or a sympathetic ear or whatever.  They were just interruptive.  All I wanted to do was complete a few tasks and I couldn’t go five minutes without an interruption.  On top if that, there were business cards everywhere.  EVERYWHERE.  Because sometimes vendors would stop by and interrupt me too, which meant I would get their business card(s) and I would have to have mine out in order to complete the exchange.  So, what to do with the mess and the lack of fulfillment because you can’t complete a single task?  MAKE A QUICK CRAFT TO GET BACK INTO THE SWING OF THINGS!

So, in the five minutes between interruptions, I made a small open-topped box out of my over-generous supply of business cards (nigh two full boxes for the two hats I wear at work, although one is unofficial now despite the official business cards).  I got the idea from Jessica Jones who in turn got the idea from Ned Batchelder.

Materials:

  • five (5) business cards
  • five (5) minutes
  • tape or glue

Procedure:

  1. Fold five (5) business cards as shown on Ned’s site.
  2. My predecessor (of sorts) left me her glue stick, so I put glue on the flaps as necessary.

    A very important picture.

  3. Assemble the box as shown on Ned’s site, but make sure the outside faces of the flaps of bottom and two horizontal side walls are on the inside so you aren’t making a mess somewhere with all that glue.  For the two vertical side walls, the outside face of the bottom flap will be glued onto the bottom of the box and the upper flap will have glue on the inside face and folded over the flaps from the two horizontal side walls.  I realize now that I didn’t take pictures when I was assembling and I don’t have enough business cards on my person to make another box to show you what I did.  Sorry.  But I’m sure you can figure it out.  If you mess up, it’s ok, because you have an over-generous supply of business cards, right?

    Yes, I know how ridiculous it is for me to pixelate everything. But I like pixelating, okay?

  4. Fill your freshly assembled business card box with business cards.

    If you look carefully, you can get an idea of what kind of hats I get to wear at work.

Completing this craft unfortunately did not make everyone else less interruptive.  Sugh.