Holy Cow Batman, Talk about Mad Distractions... Wednesday, March 13

At exactly 11:14pm I sat down to write my article for 10 Magazine.  It was to be a 650 word informative article about Flipside Fitness and our new boxing club.  Snickers was out of the house, out of city actually, attending a meeting with our sponsor so I wasn’t expecting him home any time soon.  I figured I’d walk my four-legged cuties and then settle into my office chair, get all comfy cozy and start my article.

By 1:14am, I only had 180 words on my computer screen, three of which were my name so that didn’t really count.

By 2:14am, I was at 200 words but that’s only because I had totally scrapped the earlier draft to start fresh.

… and then the perpetual-like stream of distractions started.

• Balboa peed in the bathroom.
• Decided to try to teach him to pee in the bathroom.
• Gave him lots of water, trying to make him pee again and sat around trying to catch him
• Bathroom instantly became their favourite “hang out” spot because they weren’t allowed in it before.
• Pyen Chi learned how to open the toilet lid.
• Pacquiao fell into the toilet.
• Showered Pacquiao.
• Discovered I hadn’t washed the pup’s towel.
• Did one massive load of laundry.
• Blow dried Pacquiao.
• The excitement of the hair dryer meant I then had to take him out to go pee.
• Took all 3 four-legged cuties for a walk.
• Ran into a friend of mine who owns a local bakery.
• Helping him unload the delivery truck turned into coffee for me and bread for the pups
• Returned home and got distracted by the recycling piled up in my front door.
• Collected all my recycling stuff and took it out side.
• Decided to take the garbage out while I was at it.
• Came back in and decided to rearrange all the shoes in my shoe closet.
• Decided to throw out a pair of shoes.
• Headed back outside to add my shoes to my garbage pile.
• Ran into my landlady who had just woken up.
• Ended up helping her clean up the apartment main stairwell.
• Returned home to realize Snickers was still not back.
• Video called Snickers, he was at the tattoo shop with our sponsor.
• Sat back down to continue on my article and realized the laundry was done washing.
• Hung up all the laundry.

Yup, this was the scene that played out tonight from exactly 2:14am to 8:40am when I finally called it a night and went to sleep.  I should note too that I did actually get my first draft done, completed it at exactly 6:13am.  I finished it 6 hours and 59 minutes after I initially started but I did stay true to my claim that I wouldn’t go to bed until I got it done.  Sure I was incredibly distracted (I didn’t even touch base on the distractions of Facebook), but it’s done... the first draft that is.