The outfit needed a heart-shaped necklace and nothing I owned was quite right. Unsurprisingly, I didn't get to the store before all the Valentine's Day merchandise had been put away. I hate shopping and go to great lengths to avoid it. People who like stores are people who are successful shoppers. If you go shopping for a red shirt and you find one that fits, is a reasonable price and suits you, you experience an exciting glow of achievement and you will repeat the exercise. If you go and don't find what you want, are dismayed with the image in the mirror when you do try something on and then suffer from sticker shock when finally you find something you might buy, then you become a reluctant shopper. Reluctant shoppers procrastinate.
But wait! Mardi Gras was two weeks later and with some additions this would be a great dress for a masquerade ball. Um, missed that deadline too. I would need to make a mask entailing sparkles and glue and tiny sequins. Tomorrow, I'll make the mask tomorrow. Reluctant crafters procrastinate too.
Barbie always does everything thoroughly and long before the deadline but if she were a procrastinator, this would be her dress.
