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I didn’t take down my Christmas tree, Karen. It fell down.

Good (grumble, grumble, #@*% early morning meeting) Morning! 

I am a combination of 3 of your descriptors. 

I’m a Snogger Dodger when it comes to work projects and deadlines.  (You just don’t mess with your paycheck.)

I’m a Slooper Snail when it comes to housework.  If I figure no one is coming to visit in the next week, I’m ok for another week and I just keep repeating the old addage.....As long as the largest dust bunny isn’t bigger than the smallest child...I’m in good shape.

I’m a Snickety Wiggins with paying bills and returning library books.  They’re always on time but probably get posted 3 minutes before the late fees would be assessed.

My Christmas Tree was down the day after Christmas only because it was up the day after Thanksgiving and frankly, I was tired of the demon cat breaking my glass bulbs. 

I’m such a Snickety Wiggins! 

Said the person whose book is now...um...8 months overdue.

Love the blog, Karen!

Eloisa

Thank you all!  And thanks to Connie for posting about ‘that other blog.’ I didn’t expect a url—SUCH generosity. I won’t steal a chicken leg on my way out.  Uhm, not that I was going to. No, really, I wouldn’t think of it . . . .

Prudence, that’s a great thought, to be different about different parts of your life. I can see how some people ARE that, like my sister who is a Snogger Dodger about work and a Slooper Snail at home. She needs a housekeeper sooo badly!

I’m afraid I’m pretty much the same ole Snickety Wiggin with everything—it gets done, but barely. Man, I WISH I could be Snogger Dogder in one thing at least . . . wait!  There is ONE thing I’m prompt with: Hugh Jackman movies.

If there’s one out, I am in line, popcorn in one hand, cup of diet coke tucked in the crook of my arm, ticket clutched tightly in the other hand and ALWAYS on the FIRST release day!

Hey. I’m starting to feel better about myself.

Oh, I’m a Snickety Wiggins.  I’m not the prototype - but a darn fine copy of the same.  In psychology, that means I am a meyers-briggs “P” with a big capital P.  Your description of putting up the Christmas Tree and of distraction from writing describes me exactly.

Would I change it?  Nope.  I would just change every other person who finds fault with my being a Snickety Wiggin. 

And the Christmas tree?  Well, it came down sometime in January - but it went up before Christmas a year ago . . . good thing it was small and artificial.

Lynn

I never put a Christmas tree up.  I’m not sure what that makes me except a Scrooge.

I guess I’m a combination.  I’d say a Snogger Wiggen.  I try very hard to get things done (who the hell’s idea it was for a grown woman with a child and a full time job to go back to school I have no idea!) but they usually get done barely on time.  We won’t mention that I have birthday cards for both of my siblings still sitting on my kitchen table.  Their birthdays were in January.

My problem is I’m a born procrastinator.  A true professional at it.  I was even born nine days late.  See, I started early....

Don’t even get me started on Christmas Cards! Oh, Terrio, don’t get me going on those! I’m a L’Doink when it comes to cards, so I guess I AM more than one type, afterall.

Sigh. 

Every year, I buy Christmas cards, I write little personal notes in them all, address them, put cute little Christmas stamps on them, and then leave them sitting around until after Christmas when I place them in a box and store them with the decorations. The next year, I get them out, look at them, wonder if perhaps I could just send them this year, then decide I couldn’t because I might have said something timely (like, Congrats on the new addition to your family, too!) which would make the card an Obvious Recycle.

So I chuck ‘em. And start all ... over ... again.

I’d like to be with your mom, Karen, a slooper snail..I try to be!
But deadlines do loom, and so I go for the snogger dog! I don’t know about right the first time, though!
-I have learned the art of the “no” though..that was a hard lesson learned! No to things I really have no time for, therefore will turn into burdens! And half-a$$ed done burdens at that! So I guess there’s a wee bit of snickety wiggin in there too! (does that make me a psycho-snog-wiggity? )

I have to say that I fall into the Snickety Wiggin category.  I just put up a 3 foot tree on top of the TV thinking the cats wouldn’t bother it--Hah!  It’s still on the TV, but on its side where the cats knocked it over after they knocked off and broke all the ornaments.  It’s now the latest cat bed so I wouldn’t dream of putting it away.

Now when it comes to organization, my house is a total disaster, but I can’t work if my desk isn’t organized (besides, I’m the department receptionist so I’m expected to keep a certain level of order).

I sent my Christmas cards in January this year.  Better late than never, right?  And I only sent them because I had included pics of my kids and didn’t want to throw them out.

I’m a conflicted snickety wiggins.  Because I’m a control freak, I should be a snogger dodger but am way too much of a procastinator.  I really want to move to Key West and become a slooper snail.

I’m a Snogger Dogger and a Snickety Wiggins.  Most things I just go ahead and get over with because I’d rather be reading, but when it comes to cleaning I’m a Snickety Wiggins.  I just drag it out to the point where I’m cleaning what was there last week when I first started. 

I hate decorating a Christmas tree.  Every year I campaign for no Christmas tree and every year I’m shot down.

I’m with you on that Billie.  My desk and office are totally organized but I have a file container sitting in my living room with a to-be-filed stack on top of it.  I must have bought that thing six months ago!

I get so ashamed about my Xmas cards.  At least you get them signed and addressed.  I have at least half a dozen boxes of unopened Xmas cards.  I buy more every year and I always say “I’m going to get them out this year!” but I never do.  That might be why I don’t get very many.  Next year, I will.  Really.  I’m serious.  I. Will. Send. Christmas. Cards....sometime this decade. *sigh*

we got rid of our pumpkin around new years..... what does that make me?

lol....

Funny, funny, funny blog Karen!
Heck I don’t know which ol’ dog I am. If I had to choose then I’d say that I was a mutt. You know like a Snickety Dodgers Slug-in-a-Shell or a Snogger Wiggins Snail Trail. I am organized AND I don’t care. I am the hardest working Lazy Person you’ll ever meet. I could be President of the Galaxy or a Philanthropist who throws Gala Balls that Benefit Women With Cellulite. But I don’t care…
and
I’m easily distracted
by
I can STAY here? You like me? You really like ME?
Do I get a golden statue like that other short brunette got?
Wow. I’m simply speechless (a first) …

Julie, the Snickety Dodgers Slug-in-a-Shell, Snogger Wiggins Snail Trail Mutt

PS. I Never take the Christmas tree down. 
My Husband does it.

Karen, sweetie, you know I love you.

I’m a die-hard snickety. My hair is burning as we speak.

I’m a Snogger Dodger, no doubt about it.  My husband has nicknamed me Bree (as in Desperate Housewives Bree), and while I try to deny it, I am.  I scan each year’s tax documents into my computer and then put them on disks which I keep in a safe place where they can be grabbed if the house is ever on fire.  I make Xmas gift lists on my computer and add things I think of throughout the year, and I start my Xmas shopping the day after Xmas for the next year.  However, I have a lot of time on my hands b/c my kids are both at school Monday through Friday in the mornings.

The only thing I’ve been a slacker about lately is the Xmas lights which are still up on the highest part of the roof, but I have a good reason - it’s hasn’t been completely free of ice since early December.  Why I live in Montana, I don’t know.

I’m a total Snickety Wiggins. And guilt ridden.

I leave more skid marks than a teenage boy with a hotrod and a girl to impress. If there’s a deadline, I’m late-night queen. I get it in on time, most of the time, although I’ve had some spectacular crash-and-burn incidents. I tell myself it’s the artistic temperament :D.

As for Christmas trees… ! I have a 4-foot artificial tree that I left the lights on last year when I put it on my brother’s basement. This year I hauled it out of the basement about a week after Christmas, put it on the table in my living room… and there it set, no further decorations, not plugged in, until two weeks into January. Then I moved it into my bedroom to get it out of the way. Then I moved it to the office to get it out of the way. Finally, last weekend, I put it in the backseat of my car to take back to my brother’s house. I’ve been there several times since. The tree is still in my car.

Karen, I bought your book a couple days ago but my parents are in town and my mom just came down with a stomach virus. So I haven’t read it yet. I’m saving it for a reward when things settle down. I love your books!

I would have to say that I am a Snickety Wiggins. I am such a procrastinator. I have lots of paperwork that needs to be filed, but just haven’t gotten to it yet. I do try to keep up with my housework, but sometimes that doesn’t always get done.

I tend to start one thing and then see something else and start doing that...forgetting about what I had started.

Oh well maybe one of these days I’ll get it straight, but I seriously doubt it.

I was going to answer this earlier, but I put it off. 

I live by the motto, “I’ll procrastinate tomorrow”. 

I guess that makes me a snickety.  I’ll get back to you on that.

I never put a tree up either, but I still have a wreath and roping on the front porch...and 4 feet of snow, so maybe it will all stay until Easter. I used to have my closet color-coded, and it was heavenly. I could get dressed in the dark. Being organized truly is a time-saver, but you have to save time to get organized.

At work I’m like weeks ahead of where I need to be; at home, I’m been working on the same WIP for more than a year and PLEASE don’t look in my closets. They’re definitely not color-coded anymore. So I’m mixed-up like everybody else.

Karen, I’m on Chapter 11 of HTAAHL and loving it. Someone must control the weather around here and be really frosted---we had a blizzard. I had two days off from school to get my domestic act together...yeah, right. Like that will ever happen. I’m going to finish your book instead.

Maggie, I’m glad you’re enjoying HTAAHL! I think a MacLean must’ve come to Disney this week cause we had some huuuge storms. And I don’t blame you for reading instead of doing housework.

You know, my house is NEVER clean unless I have a deadline. Then, ANYTHING is preferable to writing. Like housework, mowing the year, trimming the shrubs, washing the dog, vacuuming the french fries out of my jeep, grocery shopping, visiting my snarky neighbor who hates me . . . you know, pretty much ANYTHING.

Ever notice that you get all sorts of things done, EXCEPT what you need to? Or is me?

And Connie, put that fire out!  Hair products are so flamable—just ask Michael Jackson.

Karen, I was thinking about adding HAHL to my TBR list...you sealed the deal when you mentioned being prompt with Hugh Jackman movies!

I fall in with Prudence...it depends on what area of my life one looks at.

I was a Snogger Dogger in high school.

These days I’m more of a Snickety Wiggins at work, a Slooper Snail when it comes to household chores, and a Snogger Dogger when it comes to books, movies, and music.

I’m also a Slooper Snail when it comes to writing.  I have ideas but that’s all they are.  They get so jumbled up on their way out of my imagination that I put off jotting them down. *g*

I am a combination of a Spoinker L’Doink and a Snickety Wiggins!  I spend WAY too much time spinning my wheels trying to figure out what to do first then I lunge into high gear and skid into appointments and deadlines.  The heels of my sneakers are the first thing to go on them!!

Oh and can I hate your cousin, too.  My brother is the same way but I call him anal-boy.  She isn’t married, is she.......

Santa

Psst...don’t tell Connie.  I’m going to stop by your blogsite.  If she asks, just tell I was going to lurk only!  I swear!

The Ass on Fire Girl, that’s me. I majored in Procrastination.  OMG, did I ever major in it.  But I have bit of the extremely lazy, napping person too.  This combo does not bode well for my writing career.

I’m a Snickety Wiggins.  When we have company visit, I spend the entire day before (sometimes two) cleaning the house, doing laundry, and running errands that need to be done before said company arrives.  Then I’m inwardly cursing same said company because I’m tired and dirty and don’t have time to relax before they arrive.    And I’m very easily distracted.

I don’t have my own Christmas tree yet because I’m always expected to be out of town at someone else’s house, so I figure what’s the point?

Karen, that was so cruel of you to profile each of the Squawkers’ personalities--and with photos no less! 

Teresa, a Snogger Dodger in all things in life except for her writing where she morphs into a Snickety Wiggins

And um...oh yeah...I took down my Christmas tree the day after Christmas (but only AFTER I’d gotten up at 5 a.m. to hit the after-Christmas sales!)

I’m definitely the Snickety Wiggins type....generally...over all!  In some areas of my life I fall into the other categories, but mostly I’m the Snickety Wiggins type.

I haven’t sent out Christmas cards in a couple of years either.  Does that stop me from buying them?  Nope.  I have a whole collection to choose from when I finally get around to sending them. 

My Christmas tree goes up about a week before Christmas.  I still go get a real tree and decorate it.  I’ve campaigned for a no tree Christmas also, but the kids always shoot me down.  The tree usually gets taken down after January 6th.  This year though I think it was up until about the 14th.  I hated taking it down even then because it was still fresh!!  lol

--dorothy

ps....we got 2 and a half feet of snow yesterday.  Mother Nature got us all in one day!!

I am definitely a Snickety Wiggins--procrastination is my middle name.  For some insane reason I function better that way.  I confess, I did send out Christmas cards this year, but for the last few years I didn’t.

Gotta dash--just came up for air after a wonderful Valentine’s Day reunion with my hubby!  My word verification is hot 43--how true!

GANNON!!!!  Glad to have you back. And ESPECIALLY glad you and such a hot reunion with the hubby. Give him a hug and a WELCOME back from us wll, would you?

My daughter SWEARS she can’t accomplish anytihng unless she has ‘too much to do.’ So she works, has an incredibly active social life, takes a full load of classes, writes for the campus paper, and manages to paint and play the guitar, too.

Whew!  I’m tired just writing all of that. And here I am, with 12 pages left to write today. Maybe I’ll just take a nap and then get up and finish my work. Yeah . . . a nap. Sleep is important, right?

(And Santa, we won’t tell Connie you’re over at thegoddessblogs.com . . . she’s so POSSESSIVE, isn’t she? Sheesh!)

Halloo ladies,

Two words.

Snickety. Wiggin. 

It’s 1:00 pm, and I’ve really got to go make my kids’ beds now. 

As soon as I find that Valentine’s chocolate I gave them yesterday (they can spare a few squares for their poor, overworked mother, can’t they?) And make a cup of tea. And pluck my eyebrows, because that really needs doing. And, well… you get the idea.

I am a Snickety wiggins/ slooper snails blend
living with a snogger dodger. there are days I admire him. other days I envy him, and there are days I hate him, (but in a loving way.) I think he/them has some strange genes that I missed out on.

Karen, if you don’t take yoiur Christmas tree down you will be right on schedule the day after Thanksgiving. Not only will the tree be up - but it will be 1/2 decorated.

(err… my word verification - not86)

I wish I could be a Slooper Snails, but alas, I am a Snickety Wiggins.
I wish I could be one of those people who just isn’t bothered by anything. I worry about everything and in the end can’t get much done because I am too busy worrying.

I’m saddened to see all of my fellow Wiggins here, struggling along with me.

Rise up, sisters!  Rise from your divans and couches, and naps!  One day, we’ll rule the world. One day, we’ll ... is it 2 o’clock ALREADY? Young and Restless is on right now.

Uh. I’ll be back at three.

Yeah, I think I’m another combo person.  I’m a slob, procrastinator but yet I’m the total opposite in other things or other times.  LOL

Lois

Add me to the Snickety Wiggin list.

The only thing I don’t procrastinate about is buying new books and reading them. My priorities are straight. Who cares if I have to get up at 3:30 to get to work? I have to see how this book ends!!!!! And.....I can nap tomorrow.

As for company, I finish stashing things and cleaning (if you can call it that) just as they walk in the door. A wonderful elderly neighbor man used to say “did you come to see ME or see if I cleaned the house? If you came to see the house, you can leave”

Gannon!!  Coming up for air! I’m blushing over here!!

Psssttt...I just got back from the goddesses.  Nice digs you got there. 

I’m not worried about Connie.  She’s still stealing spoons over at the courthouse!  Right?

If you’ll excuse me Blues Clues is on --- again.  Second Snow Day here followed by President’s Weekend......sigh.......

lol Gannon!

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Karen, hilarious!  I love the types.  I’m definitely a slooper snail at heart, but a snickety wiggin in practice.  I have to have a deadline to get things done.  If there’s no deadline, they get looked over until they double.

The Christmas tree this year?  Yeah, I took that bad boy down immediately after Christmas was over.  Why?  It was the tree from...somewhere terrible.  About a week into having it up, we started decorating.  After I got all the lights on, the strand on the bottom died.  So, it was to un-decorate until I could find the dead bulb.  I went through 25 bulbs, blistered fingers and all, and my 6 year old daughter walks up, picks up the strand, drops them back down and they all light up.  Then, after it was re-decorated, the thing fell over.  Water all over the presents.  Disaster.  And it died before Christmas.  Terrible and brown and yucky trees are depressing.  Most years, it’s up until February.

I picked up HTAAHL the other day, also.  I’m about 100 pages in.  Likin’ it so far!!  Wishin’ I had a lightning bolt of my own.  lol

Oh I’m a bit of them all too lol. As for the tree, we always get live ones and usually it doesn’t go up until very close to christmas so I try to hold onto it as long as possible - usually when we have to actually shovel up the needles lol.

Gannon...you go girl!! 

-Santa, I feel your pain, kids are off tomorrow too..*sigh*..yes, Spongebob is a familiar face around here, lately.. gads, what would we do if we lived in N. NY right now..where there is real snow ? grrr..
It’s getting bad, I’m cleaning out junk drawers now..

I thought I was a fellow Snikety Wiggins, until I became a SAHM, where it seems I’m just a plain ol’ Slooper Snail.  Maybe if I HAD deadlines again and was accountable to someone I could drag myself back up to being a Wiggins, but it all seems like such effort....

Snow day today.  Kids home and hubby locked in the home office (which is also the craft room) working from home.  I commisserate with my fellow inmates.

Knitterlynn, I’m a P too. My J sister threatens to hire an assassin every time we work on a project together.

I am a Snickety by nature. Hey, what are deadlines for? If my deadline is noon, and I meet it at 11:59.99, I’m on time. Right?

Sometimes I have to act like a Snogger, but believe me, it’s all an act.

Our christmas tree was up till almost the end of January. Course we didn’t decorate it till Xmas eve but still… :o)

I am undoubtedly a Snickety Wiggins.

I say if the Christmas tree is still up, take the decorations off of it and hang shamrocks on it and call it a St. Patrick’s Tree!  Start a new tradition.  Dare to be different. 

--dorothy

"AnneriAilin said…
I say if the Christmas tree is still up, take the decorations off of it and hang shamrocks on it and call it a St. Patrick’s Tree!  Start a new tradition.  Dare to be different. “

I love this advice.  Great idea.

Thank you all for being blessedly honest about your struggles with the holdiays, deadlines, and getting the housework done (it’s supposed to be DONE?).  You make me feel almost normal.

I had a GREAT time here and now I’m jogging over to the romance tv site to take a peek at Christina’s performance. Who knew so much went into filming????? It’s so cool, our little Christina is an official a movie star!

Thanks, too, to those of you who’ve stopped by thegoddessblogs.com!  That’s so nice of you!  And thanks, too, for those of you who bought my book this week. WOOHOO!!!  Every time I sell fifty-seven books, I get a new pair of shoes, so the next time you’re out, feel free to pick one up for your mother, your sister, and your best friend. I NEED new shoes. No, really, I do. LOTS of them.

Bye, ladies! Until next time!

Karen H

I’m a Snogger Dodger when it comes to anything financial, a Spoinker L’Doinks when it comes to household projects (like painting the LR) and a Snickety Wiggins when it comes to library books and rental movies.