better never than late?

I used to think like that, bolstered by the maxim, “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” And I was a nerd.

Now, in my new-found laziness, I’m finding new aphorisms. Tomorrow is a lovely word.

Always put off till tomorrow: what you can avoid today. Avoid is a lovely word.

Today is too urgent.

So what happened yesterday? I threw it away.

The road to hell is paved with bad excuses. I didn’t have an excuse.I found one.

Having spent the day either browsing Netflix or dozing or napping, I sort of decided to write a blog after dinner, when Matt went home. But. The laptop battery was out of power and I didn’t want to sit tethered to an electric cord. So I puttered, which can take quite a long time, as you know, and went to bed.

Actually, I didn’t putter aimlessly enough.

I found an unread file folder, not hard to find, and I read the contents. Inspired anew. Hard to avoid.

If you’re still with me, I’ll tell you about it. I will give you today a list, a wonderful list of ideas and activities, each one good for a blog.

  • the luxury of old clothes

  • a philosphy of underwear

  • quotations. I have dozens and dozens of books of quotations, a collection begun before the Internet riddled us with Brainy Thoughts. A casual browse yields unexpected delights.

    • {browse  verb [no object]

       survey goods for sale in a leisurely and casual way: he stopped to browse around a sporting goods store. • scan through a text, website, or collection of data to gain an impression of the contents: she browsed through the newspaper | [with object] :  I decided to spend the night browsing the internet. 

      (of an animal) feed on leaves, twigs, or other high-growing vegetation: they reach upward to browse on bushes | [with object] :  the animals browse the high foliage of trees.

       noun[in singular] an act of casual looking or reading: the brochure is well worth a browse. vegetation, such as twigs and young shoots, eaten by animals: a moose needs to eat forty to fifty pounds of browse a day.}.

      IMAGINE!!! (Online Dictionary)

  • waste not, want not. Make it do, do without. Slogans left over from thriftier times have to be refurbished, rethought, and re-practised and hey—RECYCLED!

  • the perfect day—today, five years in the past, in the future?

  • the importance of NOW

  • secret desires—that you can tell, things you’ve always wanted to do, but haven’t. A good list to invite people to share, if they dare

  • related to this, a list of odd places where you’d like to make love or already have (remember the Mile High Club?). Reader participation, but NOT total involvement

    NOTE: it should be more memorable for the person than for the place.

  • Liquid Paper. Remember? Those of us who made a living on the typewriter saved ourselves from many re-typed pages with a little dab of white to cover and type over an error. I read somewhere that the magic fluid was invented by a woman in her kitchen and that she’d made a fortune (before computers and delete and erase buttons were available). The inventor of Velcro retired to Bermuda. In an effort to expiate the inventor of the rip-top can is trying to invent something that won’t mess up the planet . Or so I have read.

  • the seven wonders of the ancient world. Can you name them all? (How about the seven dwarves?) Are there any wonders any more? What qualifies as a wonder now? Have we higher standards or are we suffering a loss of wonder?

I started my day well—too well, I’m afraid. I missed my early swim, but I’ll make it up this afternoon when Matt comes. I’ve been up for three hours and I’m hungry. Waffles, I think.

I’ll go over this later and correct my typos.

Punctuation, too