To DO List

Maybe I am just getting old and fat and lazy.  Still they reckon you can tell a man is on the level if his bubble is in the middle.  That’s me!  I try to be on the level anyway.  I give it my best shot.  That does not mean I always succeed.  As a work in progress there are a lot of labourers here and there is a lot to be done.
Still you cannot fatten a though bred, so while I may appear to be a lean mean fighting machine, I have noticed the bubble in the middle is bigger than it was.  I am sort of at the stage that when I need to bend down to get something I think, “what else can I do while I am down here?”
I am thinking about this at the moment because there are tasks on my “to do” list that are calling out to me.  I am making a real art form of ignoring them.  It is not like what is on my list is new.  I have had them there for the last couple of days.  I don’t even have a multitude of excuses.  It is not like I have broken my leg or anything.  I only have one excuse.  I don’t feel like it.  My better self would say just do it, but my better self is busy right now, and I am avoiding him anyway.  If I do hear him, I just block my ears and say “can’t hear you, can’t hear you, can’t hear you” anyway.
In table tennis if being close counted I would be really good.  If thinking about what I have to do counted, I would go that way.  However thinking about it only seems to be a pre-cursor.  It is actually doing something I have a problem with.
If my “to do” list said something like “build a nuclear bunker with enough space to provision it for two years” I could put it off without excuse.  It does not though.  It says “pot plants” (there are four) and “neaten the front edging.”  It is not like they are hard to do or anything.  Nor is it like they would take long.
This being self-motivated thing is not as easy as it looks (for me anyway).  In a job the boss says, “do this” and I do it.  Right now, the only one saying “do this” is me, and I am ignoring myself.  I can do that and get away with it.  I am incredibly persistent though.  I think that side of me needs to find something else to do.
Besides, Australia beat India in India in the ODI’s (3/2).  That calls for a party. Ok I party at my best on the inside these days.  Beneath this quiet exterior there is a party going on.  I can still party on the outside though.  As long as the party is between say 8pm and 8:04pm then you can call me animal.  After that I would probably need a good lay down.
I am writing this outside and I see no evidence of the world ending because I am not potting plants now.  I have no doubt what is on my to do list will be done (that is what I plan but who knows really? A huge tidal wave may swamp the house and force a change of plan).  I just do not think I will pot plants today.