Putting Weird Things in My Mouth… Revisited

I don’t know why, but whenever I commit myself to something, I always wind up not doing it. If there’s an actual clear-cut deadline, then yes I will do whatever it is that has to be done (granted, I’ll only start it at 3a.m. the night before the deadline), but if there’s no set timeframe then you can be pretty sure I’m just going to sweep it under the rug. I start off with the greatest intentions, motor into whatever project I have lined up and then suddenly lose steam. I’m perfectly happy to carry out a task to its completion until I actually say that I’m going to; it’s only once people actually have expectations of me to do it, once I’m under some sort of obligation, that I become incredibly unreliable and spend more time looking for excuses not to do it than actually doing it!

So if I have that little gleam in my eye as I excitedly announce my latest project, you can be pretty sure I’m not going to finish it any time soon—if ever.

One such instance is the ‘Putting Weird Things in My Mouth‘ challenge that I set myself in January. As you can see, it lasted for two days which is hardly impressive. Partly I gave up because there just wasn’t anything weird around to put in my mouth, which rendered the whole thing impossible. I was also under a lot of stress at the time… Mostly, however, I’m pretty sure it was just a case of laziness.

I’m writing this entry today to inform you that the challenge has been reopened. My friend Emily pointed out that the things she sent me in her care package a little while ago would be perfect for it. I’m following her suggestion, so expect blog entries about MOAR strange Japanese confectionary soon. Not “soon” as in tomorrow, and certainly not Trent Reznor “soon”, but it’ll happen at some point—don’t you worry. I also can’t tell you exactly how long this challenge will last, or how frequently I’m going to update the blog with my exploits, but we’ll see how it goes, eh?

-Rowan

~ by Rowan on 8 April, 2009.