As if I needed another thing to snatch my time…

Last week my sister and her fiancee gave me a Target giftcard for my birthday. The first decent thing I bought with it was Kingdom Hearts II for my PS2. “A videogame?!”, you ask… yes. That’s one of my other hobbies/loves. And not just the ordinary play-a-level-or-two-and-call-it-a-day games… I love Role Playing Games and Platformers. The kind of games that you can easily pour 80+ hours into and STILL not have done everything.

If that wasn’t enough, I also picked up embroidery this week, with the help of this book my mom got for me.

So far it’s pretty good, relatively easy without the other jumble of needlework activities thrown in. It seemed kind of hard to find a book strictly about hand embroidery. I didn’t want machine embroidery or cross stitch and just about every publication I saw jumbled them together. Also, the patterns/diagrams (whatever they’re called) are pretty and something I would actually want to use instead of just 2 out of 30 projects that I might think about doing.

Another thing I have to work on is that cotillion dress. I have the bodice pretty much done. I know that’s the hardest/most complicated part and if I buckled down, I could really get it done tomorrow… but then there’s the gaming and the embroidery also calling me.

Oh, and another piece of the pie is the fact that I could totally be working on the 10-page research paper for my music appreciation class. Yes, it’s not due for another month, but it is due only 4 days after the wedding and who knows that during that last week before the ceremony everything is going to be crazy for this maid of honor. Aaaand there’s my final painting assignment that I’m pretty sure is going to take 20 or so hours to complete.

I like school, but I’m kind of over this semester >.< Now would be the time for Time Budgeting and dividing my day up into different necessary tasks… but this week feels a lot like Christmas vacation because I have no school all week. It’s like an early taste. I know how I am the first couple of days… I know I’ll shape up in 48 hours… It always get’s cranked out in the end.