Avoidance Tactics

I am supposed to be updating my CV. It needs to be done by 9 May and I thought the long May Day weekend would be a suitable time to tackle the task. And it is certainly a task that needs tackling. I've not updated it since about 2001, the reason being that all the jobs I've had since then have involved an application form and so my CV has become redundant. Except that now I need one, it feels like a Herculean task to update it.

So, when faced with a big challenge, what do I do? I find other things to do of course! Having found Mad Men on Netflix I decided that I would play catch-up with the final two series. I read the other week that the main rival to Netflix is sleep and I almost agree. What is it with binge-watching television series? It really is the crack cocaine of entertainment!

However, I have been fairly strict with myself (who am I kidding?), setting myself the task of achieving something from my to-do list between episodes. So far I have been to the Post Office and visited every charity shop on my local high street. For the record, there are seven. I know it is only April but this year craft club have agreed to do a Secret Santa where the gift has to come from a charity shop. The budget is £5. I have drawn a name from the hat and, in unhelpful but typical ElleAyJay style have something quite specific in mind. I'm therefore trying to visit charity shops at every opportunity. This weekend was my first proper attempt at the 2017 search and I came home empty handed but was inspired with a plan B if my plan A fails to materialise.

I have also done three loads of laundry, including the door mats and cat blanket (was that third load really necessary?); vacuumed the house (that really was necessary!); trawled reviews to find a yoga app so that I can attempt to be a relaxed, stress-free individual and free from back pain at the touch of a button (well, I can dream can't I?); completed a personal impact opportunities and challenges analysis (don't ask!); and (my proudest moment) changed the side light in my car's headlamps (thanks YouTube!).

After all that the to-do list was getting pretty thin so I went off-list, which is always dangerous, and I made a cake. I made it once before at the end of February when I had a day off and a fruit bowl full of very ripe bananas. I was due to visit friends at the weekend so I knew the bananas wouldn't get eaten but would be horribly over-ripe by the time I got home. The solution was to make Banana Bread and take it with me to my friends'.  It went down very well so I kept the recipe on my phone. The only trouble is, every time I open my internet browser the recipe is there, staring at me, and that is what happened today.

Now the problem is how to ensure I don't eat the whole loaf myself. It would seem by best option is to have a day out with the family tomorrow and take it along, although that means I won't be able to send time developing my CV. Darn it, things were going so well too! I shall have to console myself with a couple of episodes of Mad Men tonight.