A Blah State Of Mind

I’ve been afflicted by Blah & Meh Syndrome lately. Symptoms of Blah & Meh are:

• Can’t be arsed
• Do it tomorrow… maybe
• Whatever
• Really?
• Doing things other than what you are supposed to be doing

I’m not entirely sure what’s bought this on, maybe the time of year doesn’t help, but I seem to have sunk into Blah & Meh with gusto. Eldest Daughter has been trying to give me a verbal kick up the backside which, given that she’s roughly ten and a half thousand miles away, it isn’t really working.

In an attempt to motivate myself, seeing as I’ve got loads of things I need to do, I booked my flight to Australia in the hope that Blah & Meh would be banished. Unfortunately, all it’s done is made me think, ‘meh, I’ve got loads of time before then.’ In other words, blaaaaah.

I did manage to haul my sorry ass into London on Thursday night to meet a friend and one of her colleagues after work, and ended up at the Boulevard Brasserie in Covent Garden. We all got pleasantly tipsy and had a thoroughly enjoyable evening, although I ate waaay too many potatoes (a random fact you probably didn’t really need to know, just thought I’d throw it in there). During my train journey home, I hoped the evening would have been enough to kick-start me into action and drive out the Blah & Meh’s.

Did it, fuck.

Today, instead of being galvanised into achieving stuff I need to do (and no, I didn’t have a hangover), I poked around on the internet and found something to do that’s right up Blah & Meh’s street - the iPod shuffle game.

Basically, what you have to do is stick your iPod/whatever on shuffle and use the title of the song as your answer to the questions. No cheating is allowed – no skipping songs – the song that comes up is the one you have to use as your answer. Waste of time? Hell, yeah. Fantastic way to procrastinate? I have it down to a fine art at the moment.

So, here goes:

1. What does this year have in store for you?

Cooler Than Me – Mike Posner

(I hope this isn’t a prediction for our summer weather.)

2. What’s your love life like?

Let Me Entertain You – Robbie Williams

(Wait. Er, who exactly am I supposed to be ‘entertaining’?)

3. What do you say when life gets hard?

Summer of 69 – Bryan Adams

(I could be very rude here, if not downright filthy.)

4. What do you think when you get up in the morning?

Poker Face – Lady Gaga

(See answer to question 3)

5. Your favourite saying?

Don’ Cha – Pussycat Dolls

(Really? Really?? Wonder how many smacks in the mouth I’d get if I wandered up to random couples and asked the bloke, “Don’ cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?” I’ll be giving that one a miss.)

6. Favourite place?

Flying Without Wings – Westlife

(My iPod is trying to kill me. I want, no, I need any plane I fly on to have wings. Oh, and at least a couple of engines.)

7. What is the thing you like doing most?

Temptation – Heaven 17

(Yeah, that chocolate in the fridge ain’t gonna stay there long.)

8. What is your state of mind like at the moment?

If I just Lay here – Snow Patrol

(Yup. I can do that. With the chocolate.)

9. What song describes you?

It Only Takes a Minute – Take That

(Glad I’m not a bloke. *snort* Also, see answer to question 3.)

10. If you could go back in time, what would you change?

Yeah – Usher

(Yeah, what? That’s not helpful.)

11. What scares you the most?

Oh Carolina – Shaggy

(Erm, if I knew a Carolina, maybe I’d be scared. Or I may not. I’ll let you know if I ever meet one.)

12. What do you want to be when you grow up?

If You Like Pina Colada – Jimmy Buffett

(A bartender? Nah.)

13. What do you think about often?

Don’t Play Nice – Verbalicious

(Don’t tempt me.)

14. What song will you dance to at your wedding?

Ain’t Nothing Goin’ On But The Rent – Gwen Guthrie

(Hang on a cotton pickin’ minute. What wedding? Oh that’s right, the one where I bribe some poor unsuspecting sod. Rent A Groom here I come. *snort*)

15. What is your biggest secret?

Shut Up & Let Me Go – The Ting Tings

(Nope, not my biggest secret. It’s staying secret. There’s only a select few that know what it is. Oh, that makes it not quite so secret I suppose. But wait. They are sworn to secrecy. I could go on. But I won’t. Just as I won’t be telling you what it is. Sorry and all that.)

 

As I said in a previous post, simple things amuse me.

So that’s me, Princess Procrastination, buggering off to bed now in preparation for another day of… yup.

You got it.

Dragging my feet and postponement.

God I hope not.

It’s doing my head in.