Distractions

I have been a lazy bum for the past several days. I did some good cleaning a few days ago during a short spurt when Wiley actually napped long enough for me to eat, pump and still manage to pick stuff up, organize a bit and vacuum. We then went to Patrick's dad's house for dinner with his dad and his younger (half)brother. We didn't get home 'til relatively late, way past our now regular bedtime. The next day, which was intended to be spent cleaning, was spent napping and then when Patrick went to work it was spent watching Ghost Hunters, which is what I've been doing lately. Today was really not much more productive. Everybody got a bath, including the dog and baby, but not much was cleaned and I napped and spent the majority of my time watching Ghost Hunters and caring for Wiley (and this morning poor Patrick did most of the work, I honestly don't know what I did the majority of the morning besides watch that show.

I re-started our Netflix account and unfortunately I'm one of those people who is so easily distracted by the TV and computer that I don't get much done (while pregnant at least I had the excuse of being pregnant and getting worn out easily, but I also played way too much Candy Crush Saga, scrolled Tumblr and poked about on Facebook for hours on end. By the end I was bored out of my mind but really couldn't do very much (and I still tried to clean, I really did, but I had to take much more frequent breaks). Since giving birth I have kept myself off Candy Crush and have done really well not getting caught up in distractions... that is, 'til we petsat for Patrick's mom. She has Roku and so I got to watch Netflix and I'd heard so much about Orange is the New Black that I started watching it. Since I was getting so bored at home nursing the baby with nothing to do since I can't easily scroll Facebook (and I run out of updates) I re-started our account (I had closed it after I had binged out the last time and had run out of things that I really wanted to watch at the time). Since then I've watched all of Orange is the New Black, Sherlock and now I'm working on Ghost Hunters. I think I'm easily distracted and I'm one of those people when my focus gets on something I can get hyper-focused.

So hopefully I'll run out of shows to watch soon, cancel it again and go back to being productive.

I've made a conscious effort to make eye contact with Wiley while feeding him and to spend lots of time interacting with him, but it is nice having a distraction when he falls asleep in my arms or while I'm pumping.

My other problem is I'm so bored I'm snacking constantly. On top of that, I feel like I have a craving for something unknown and I keep munching things trying to satisfy the craving but it's never it so I just keep eating. I've got to start eating less junk food. I'm hoping to start that tomorrow and definitely within the next week (once we go grocery shopping, though I think I've eaten the majority of junk foods, I just need to find something that will satisfy that chocolate craving I get without me eating the entire thing at once.