Sunday Spotlight: Laziness

Every Sunday, I highlight one thing: one book, one idea, one dish, one person, one show, one anything. Today, the spotlight is on:

LAZINESS
as illustrated by this photo of Carter

Now, laziness is defined as "a disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to act or exert oneself" and I suffer from it every single time my mother watches my children on a weekend or weeknight. I'm the master of productivity from Monday to Friday and when my kids are with me on the weekends. But on the occasional night the kids stay over at grandma's or the random Saturday she takes them to have some playtime, I lose my shit.

I'll get a few things done. The necessities like homework or, actually that's it, just homework. But once that is done, I got nothing. I will sit and stare at the massive mess in my living room. Toys everywhere. I will contemplate upon the laundry that is piling up downstairs, the dishes that may or may not be precariously stacked on top of each other on the counter, that DIY project I have NEVER EVEN STARTED, my closet which has all of my clothes haphazardly hanging in no order whatsoever.

But instead of using my alone time to power through my disgustingly long list of things-to-be-done, I end up sitting on the couch, nothing tv playing in the background, and really just staring off into space. This is, of course, followed by increasing feelings of guilt and regret and promises to do better next time as the hour gets closer and closer to the pick-up-the-kids time.

I have the ability to act, the ability to be awesome and organized and clean and on-top-of-things, I just don't have the inclination.

Lazy Trisha. Aaaahhhh. :)