Stop!!! You don't want to work right now!
It's time to set aside your mamby-pamby, half-hearted attempts at deferment. This lens is here to help you maximize your procrastination potential!
I'll need your help to make this the most awesome lens on Squidoo. After you've finally finished meandering through the site links - whenever you get around to it - Answer the poll questions and sign the guest book.
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Before you get busy trying to "Get Your Stuff Done"...
You NEED to see this video!
Procrastination Report
Once Again, Groovy Waits 'Til the Last Minute!
Ah yes, I've managed to do it again.I decided to enter a writing contest online. (Sadly, the site is now defunct.) Like a good little freelancer, I mused carefully over possible topics as I blog-hopped and scrapbooked and tinkered with Squidoo lenses and played with html codes for my blogs.
Slowly, a theme began to form in my mind. I dutifully avoided the keyboard until the fateful day that my hubby was working and Grammy took the girlies away for a few hours. All my distractions were gone. Now I had no excuses left; it was time to write my entry.
I sat and stared at the blank page, then left to make a cup of tea. I typed several sentences, but it was hard to focus because the house was SO unusually quiet. So I put on a motivational cd. I sat down to type some more.
Unfortunately, the cd was TOO motivational. I got up and danced around the living room, gustily singing. Hey, wait - I liked that bass riff. I grabbed the cd and ran upstairs to spend WAY too much time trying to duplicate it on my Fender Mustang. A quick glance at the clock reminded me that time was ticking away. I needed to get back to my contest entry.
But first, I needed a snack, preferably something that required chopping and baking and warm conforting aromas. (Sigh of contenment) And more tea. I needed more tea!
OK. Back to the contest. I typed some more. In fact, I really buckled down and didn't stop writing until I heard Grammy pull in the garage. Unfortunately, the entry was choppy and lifeless and WAY over the word limit. I hit "save" with a disgusted sigh and went to play with the girlies.
As each day passed I thought, hmmmm, I really should edit that entry and send it in. Yup, I really should.
Well, it was due by midnight on November 8th. I edited it on November 8th and sent it in by supper time. The editing worked major miracles and now I feel it's a piece that will really catch the attention of the judges.
Procrastination pays off, yet again.
The Procrastination Experts
I'm not the only one...
- Embrace Procrastination!
- These folks don't want to "cure" you, they want to help you embrace your put-it-off nature. You know you can trust them becasue they have afros and veeeeerrrrrrrryyyyyy groovy voices!
Oh Dang!
It's Happened Again
I came here to add some fun new stuff to my favorite lens and I got distracted by computer games and political phones calls and fixing food for my kiddos and trimming my nails and typing away on my NaNoWriMo novel and watching Saturday Night Live clips on Hulu.com and noshing on some chocolate and reading a romance book so I can review it and, well, you know...stuff.Now I can't remember what it was I wanted to tell you about.
Sigh.
The Procrastination Cheer
Come on Folks, Show Your Pride!
What do we want?Procrastination!
When do we want it?
Next week!
A Poll for you to Fill out
When you get around to it!
It's too early for Christmas, ...
...so buy Your Mom a Late Gift for Mother's Day
Wisdom From Larry the Cable Guy
Or so they tell me...I'll check out my sources tomorrow.
1. A day without sunshine is like night.2. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
3. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
4. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5. Remember, half the people you know are below average.
6. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
7. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
8. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.
9. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.
10. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
11. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
12. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.
13. How many of you believe in psycho-kinesis? Raise my hand.
14. OK, so what's the speed of dark?
15. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
16. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
17. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
18. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
19. What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?
20. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
21. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, "What the heck happened?"
22. Just remember -- if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.
23. Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
24. Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow.
Here's Some Better Stuff For Your Mom
Give the Wigs to Your Mother-in-Law...
Guilt Free Procrastination!!!!
You Can Waste Time AND Help Feed the Hungry!
I checked it out on Snopes.com and it's legitimate.
The words are REAL buggers - waaaay out of my league (In Balderdash, I'm the one who makes up fabulous definitions, NOT the person who guesses the correct ones!)
So, in the true spirit of charity I have cheated for some (most) of the words by looking them up. Thus far I am up to 940 grains of rice and that's after missing a few because I gave a poorly educated guess or it wasn't in my dictionary.
So, go have fun, increase your word power, and help the hungry too!
Procrastination with power...I love it!

Free Rice
(Click on the colored words above for the link. Groovy is too geekless to figure out how to make the banner linkable.)
The Ultimate Gift for Procrastinators
That's For OTHER Procrastinators (like your kids or spouse or employees)
- I'll do it when I get around to it...
- Have you ever put something off saying "Why do it today when it can be done tomorrow?"
Do you know someone else who has the same attitude?
If so, then this site is for you (or them), because now they can finally get 'a Round Tuit' (around to it).
And Don't Forget Father's Day!
Dad Needs Ways to Avoid Yard Work too.
Oh Look!!!! Shiny Things!!!!
Take a few <strike>hours</strike> minutes here to Ooooo and Aaaaah.
OOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo.
- Shiny Things dot com
- One would hope, with a website name like this, that one could find lots of distractions. I didn't find LOTS of distractions, because it's mainly a techy site featuring "internet services" and I am geek-impaired. BUT, it does feature the intricate, interactive game "SneezyMUD" which looks well worth investigating.
Not only that, but they have "ScrubbyBubbles" which is fun to say over and over again even if it IS only a webhosting service.
:D
You NEED These Books!
After all, we could all benefit from being a little Gamier. Um....hmmm.
It can also prevent you from getting your work done.
Woot!
So on to the game books!
The Big Book of Humorous Training Games
Ah. It's BIG. It's HUMOROUS. and it teaches you games that train you.
Train you to what? I dunno. I didn't have time to research it because I was busy doing other stuff. YOU buy it and let me know, K?
The Big Book of Brain Games: 1,000 PlayThinks of Art, Mathematics & Science
Games for your brain: I wonder if they have little badminton racquets for your neurons?
Baby Shower Game Book ~ Hugs n Stitches
Planning a baby shower? What a superior way to waste time! You can read about and and plan and buy supplies for all sorts of games that no one will want to play!
The Ultimate Playground & Recess Game Book
Can't remember the rules to "Red Rover"? It's time for a review!
National Observer Book of Crosswords
Crosswords are GREAT. When I do a crossword, I get out maps, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and my Thesaurus. Each puzzle takes me HOURS to complete!
These people want to help YOU Stop Procrastinating...
YOU??? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
- Overcoming Procrastination
- These kind souls want to help you. Really. They do.
- Stop Procrastinating
- Psychologists here. They want to help you too. You can tell because their website has BOLD print and fancy yellow highlighting and obnoxious video testimonials. Oooooo. Aaaaah.
"And after I bored you to death with lots of psychological jargon, how did you feel?"
"I'll never play a video game again...." (I'll just watch myself online over and over and over and post it on my blog and email it to all my friends and make Squidoo lens about my experience and write up my fascinating memoirs and earn zillions of bucks selling your book as an affiliate!) - Tame Your Brain
- Just visualize yourself being productive...
Yep, I can do that. I can visualize the floor being mopped, the dishes being done, and the yard being mowed.
I kind of like this. Visualizing it is a heck of a lot easier than actually DOING it and I have lots of time left over to goof off!
Oh No. DON'T Tell Me You Forgot Your Niece's Birthday!
What? You Forgot Your Nephew's TOO???
Games, GAMES, and MORE Games!
C'mon...Beat that high score. You can do it!
I'm starting to discover so many game sites, that they deserve their own module. I've put them here so you can vote for your favorites AND add any others that you'd like to share with your co-procrastinators.
(This is a family friendly site, so please don't add anything "adult". Thanks!)
Play Games, Free Online Games at AddictingGames
They're FREE, They're GAMES, and They're ADDICTIVE more...2 points
Ridiculopathy.com: Crappy Flash Game:
Crappy Flash Games. Need I say more?1 point
Free Cognitive Games from Cognitive Labs - LIST
Oh. These are PERFECT! They help your brain grow more...1 point
virtualiToy.com
Awesome free virtual flash toys and games!1 point
Play SneezyMUD
C'mon...How can it not be fun with a name like Sne more...1 point
Hairdresser Games
Play hair games with cute girls and become virtual more...1 point
Dress up Games
Online dress up games for girls with hundreds cute more...1 point
Celebrity Games
Celebrity dressup games - Dress up Hannah Montana more...1 point
Fashion Games
The clothes featured in this games has got class a more...1 point
http://www.gamedesign.jp/index_en.html
Lots of fun flash games. I especially enjoyed squ more...0 points
GSN - The Network For Games
And yes, here are some MORE games for you to play! more...0 points
Video Game Sound Quiz
Probably need to be about 30 years old to guess mo more...0 points
http://www.armorgames.com/games/
More Games here than you could play in a month!0 points
Zwok Online Game
Here it is. Zwok. Rumor is that you can waste 7 more...0 points
New The Onion, Daily
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[audio] Area Woman To Award Herself To Winner Of Barroom Brawl
- [audio] Abstinence-Only Education Ruined By Trip To Zoo
- Cancer Walk Goes Under 15-Straight Miles Of High Tensile Power Lines
- 7 Million People Direct Descendants Of Single Smooth-Talking Ancestor
- In Focus: Spain Vows Eternal Vigilance In War On Bulls
- [audio] Abstinence-Only Education Ruined By Trip To Zoo
Need a New Way to Waste Time?
Here's an ever expanding List!
- Check your email...then check it again!
Text message all those people you care about
Hmmm. I think your NASCAR (teapot, blue phrog, Barbie doll, Pez dispenser, key ring, Elvis poster) collection is a bit dusty. You'll need to polish those up a bit before you can get serious about work.
Face Book...Try every application they have and see how many "friends" you can amass, so you can poke them.
Have a snack
blog, Blog, BLOG
Blog Hop (Make sure you visit mine at http://groovybell.blogspot.com/ )
Twitter (Howdy, Tweets!)
Play a computer game (Come on, BEAT that high score!)
Enter online contests. You might actually win something! (I did. In 2005 I won an Edy's ice cream party for 100 people. It was SO totally cool!)
Reorganize your closet.
Download some new music.
Reorganize the music you already have.
Play with your kids (This one truly isn't wasted time...)
Find a new use for Duck Tape.
Watch some Reality TV (It'll help YOU escape reality!)
Read those tabloids. Giant Martian babies are running for office!
Make a phone call. Make several!
Clean the house, or your desk, or your car
Play with your pets.
Reminisce over all those pictures in your photo program.
Scrapbook a page or two (or more!)
Read a novel, read a play, read a magazine - heck, read a cereal box!
Work on a silly, but fun Squidoo lens instead of an important money making one!
Doodle!
Practice a musical instrument
Fill out online surveys
Search every inch of your skin for possible skin cancer
Take a walk or go for a bike ride. How far can you go before you collapse?
Wii
Play with your I-Phone
Practice your kazoo playing.
Procrastination Videos
Now you can waste time learning from the pros!
The Procrastinator's Delight
Awesome Places to Waste Your Time Online
- Hallmark Ecards
- "...when you care enough to send the very best" FOR FREE!
Even better, there are so many cards and they are so entertaining that you could literally waste hours here looking for just the right card for that special someone. - Neo pets!
- Talk about top-notch time wasting. At neopets you can adopt a virtual pet and then while away extra time every day feeding and caring for your little fella.
70 million procrastinators can't be wrong! - Making Fiends
- My Favorite! Here are 21 episodes of some of the funniest cartoon work on the 'net.
Vendetta is mean, vengeful, conniving, and fiendish. Charlotte is obnoxiously sweet and kind and thoughtful and, well, um, stupid.
Join Vendetta and Charlotte as they face school days with their hilariously antagonistic relationship. - Smileys Galore!
- Maximize your procrastination efforts by searching this amazing site for the perfect smileys and expressive characters to include on your forum posts.
There are dozens and dozens and dozens to choose from! - Bookcrossing.com
- You avoided much necessary work by reading that incredible (or horrible) novel or "Self-Help for Procrastinators" book. Now you can go one step further. Log in to Bookcrossings.com, register your book, write a review of it, label and set it free.
I just left labled copies of "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Treasure Island" in a coffee shop downtown. Now I need to log onto Bookcrossings weekly...well, no - daily so I can see if someone else has read my books and reported in.
Hey...it's educational, right? - You Too Can Talk Like a Pirate!
- Ahoy there, maties! It's time fer some "Pirattitude".
This be the place to go if yer wantin' to be ready fer "Talk Like a Pirate Day" next September.
There be piratey videos and swaggering prose to swashbuckle yer mind.
After much practice you'll be able to face every deadline with a masterful "AAAaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrr!"
Warning: While it 'tis a helpful and humorous site, I can't be vouchin' for it's moral character. Keep yer wits about ye when visitin' there! - Urban Legends
- This is THE website for researching all those annoying email warnings and stories you get every day.
You know the ones: "Madelyn Murray O'Hair is bringing the atheist squad to YOUR house!" or "Fix boat leaks with mayonaise." or "Hillary Clinton on collision course for PLuto."
You can go to Snopes.com to research any questionable story that's going around. Then you can hang out there indefinitely reading other drivel that folks pass on as fact. - Bored.com
- You'll find a little bit of EVERYTHING here: games, useless bits of information, tests and quizes, stupid videos, parodies, phony fortune tellers, puzzles, etc.
Bored.com is the ULTIMATE time-wasting website! - Star Dolls
- Yes, here you'll find all your favorite stars of music, screen, stage, and stadium and YOU get to dress them up. There are a skazillion to choose from, so have FUN!
- Left Hand Mouse Pad
- Yes, now you can waste another fun five minutes by reading through these HILARIOUS (and useless) instructions for safely moving your mouse pad for left handed use.
- Pink Flamingos
- Come on...You KNOW you want to know everything there is to know about tacky pink lawn ornaments! This is a tremendously FUN lens...Take your time browsing.
- Clean Jokes
- Need something to make you smile? Here you go. A whole website full of clean jokes and funny pics. Pretend you're using your time wisely by memorizing some of the jokes and upping your group entertainment value!
- Buy a Meteorite!
- You don't want to be left out of this one. An important investment like this will require a great deal of research and study (and time). This lens is a great jumping off point for a true procrastination adventure!
- Fun and Artsy Puzzle
- Here's an excellent lens where you can put off 'til tomorrow what you should do today while learning cool facts about art and doing a puzzle. Do it once, then do it again (and again) to see if you can better your time. Think of it as your contribution to The Arts.
- Sock Sorting Amusement
- Who wants to spend all day sorting and folding socks? Talk about a waste of time! Oh wait, that's why we're here! On this website you can spend all the time you'd like sorting and matching clean socks. Just drag them out of the basket and try to match them up. See what happens when you do! (Oh, will the excitement never end?)
- The "Svedish" Chef Lens
- OK...You've GOT to check this lens out. What could be more entertaining than spending great chunks of time learning all there is to know about the muppet Swedish Chef? It get's even better when you start to learn mock Swedish. Imagine how amazed your friends will be when you supplement your Pirate lingo with mock Swedish. We're talking serious fun here!
- Stupid Shoes!!
- Have a shoe fetish? Hate Crocs? Want platforms? Won't go to the mailbox without your orthotics? Want to watch fashion models fall on their tushies? I spent WAY too much time enjoying this lens. I think you will too!
- Fishing Bloopers
- I had a ball watching these bloopers, and I think you will too. What could be better than watching a pro get a fishhook stuck in his nose?!
- Ridiculopathy News and What Not
- This is your premier online source for news parodies and other farcical foolishness. Is it true, or is it warped and insane? It's ridiculopathic!
- Forty-Two (42)
- I could give you at least 42 reasons why you want to go to this lens and waste time. Don't wait even another 42 seconds, GO NOW!!
- Useless Information That You Don't Really Need, BUT...
- Just think how much fun you'll be at parties when you can recite the history of toilet paper or the details of SOS pad politics or the intricacies of penguin infidelity.
- Jigsaw Mania
- This is the lens for you if you want to do a jigsaw puzzle without making a perpetual mess on your desk. Better yet, you can watch a video of other folks completing a jigsaw puzzle - 36 hours of work in 5 minutes of viewing time. Talk about time well wasted!
- Zwok Strategies
- Here's everything you need to know to spend fruitless, um...I mean fruitFUL hours online playing Zwok. The link to the actual game is in the game links up above.
- Office Pranks
- Let's face it, there simply is no better way to waste time than by planning and executing a quality prank on a co-worker!
- Introduction to Japanese
- The best way to put off doing the dishes or writing the report is by studying to learn a foreign language.
This is a WONDERFUL (and long) lens that will have you spouting Japanese at the sushi bar in no time at all. And there's so much cool info to learn that I think you'll have to spend a looooonnngggg time on this one! - Funny Web Sites
- This lens has a mile long list of funny websites to visit. I need to hurry back and try on my mullet wig. Bye!
- Mushy Gushy FREE E-Cards
- Now hang on a minute. These are not your grandmother's E-cards. They couldn't be because your grandmother never even HEARD of e-cards!
These are free cards where you get to do "head transplants" by taking photos of family and friends and putting their heads on cartoon figures that can be used in a variety of animated e-cards.
It's addictive, it's fun, it's hilarious, and it's totally free. You will spend hours there and still be laughing!
I promise! - The Spork
- Spork = Spoon + Fork
Finally.
Everything you EVER wanted to know about sporks, and then some, all on one fabulous and entertaining website.
Prepare to read about sporks for AT LEAST a half an hour.
Go on, you know you're DYING to check it out! - Words and Phrases That Should Exist, But Probably Don't
- Now here's a Squidoo lens worthy of sucking up your procrastination efforts. You get to learn all the ins and outs of finooglong your own new words. How groovacious is that, eh?
So go increase your word power and conflastergate all your neickos! - Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
- Did you know that one day a year - January 28 -is set aside as Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day? In celebration you really need to visit this site and honor the Bubble Wrap Therapeutic Popping Phenomenon.
pop * pop * pop * pop * pop * pop * pop * pop
Oh this is so much FUN! - Two Minute Mysteries
- You KNOW you're supposed to exercise your brain to stave off that age related dementia. Well, this lens is the place. Quick little mysteries for you to solve. It'll only take a couple of minutes; Of course, there ARE quite a few of them. I think this is a job for a procrastinator!!
- Online Dating Tips
- Well folks, I am happily married (26 years now, Whoo-Hoo!), so it certainly never occurs to me to spend my precious time looking for Mr. Right. But YOU may be in a different boat. If so, this extremely well done lens will help you groom your skills so you can land the perfect mate!
- Deviant Art
- Stick Man.
Is he a victim or a victor? Watch this very clever and fascinating animation to find out. Then call your kids in to watch it with you. Then watch it again to figure how they did that one scene you liked so much. Then email 200 of your bestest friends and send them HERE so they can go there. And then you'd better watch it a couple more times so you can discuss it with them intelligently.
Oh yeah, this one is good for boatloads of wasted time! - Pointless Sites
- Oh Hurrah! Another fun clearing house for time-wasting websites! There is so much here to choose from: Shall I learn about "unecessary quote marks" or shall I "shave my yeti?" Perhaps I could veg out watching mouse artwork or think outside the flock with "Duck".
The possibilities are both endless and pointless.
EBay and procrastination go hand-in-hand
Don't miss a chance to bid on these fun items!
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Tell us YOUR favorite ways to procrastinate!
Scientific studies (mine) prove indisputably that Procrastination, when well done, prevents insanity and keeps us smiling. Kick off your shoes and sit a spell and don't leave here until you're smiling and chuckling and ready to get your stuff done with a good attitude.
groovyoldlady wrote...
in reply to mrvardeman Welcome new friend! Kick off your shoes and stay awhile - - a looooong while!
mrvardeman wrote...
Cool lenses. I like your blog lens. My sister has a blog. Fun times!
groovyoldlady wrote...
Oh...I DESPISE the phone!!!! Need to make calls? I'll be blogging instead!!! [in reply to ChineseKitesforKids]
ChineseKitesforKids wrote...
I don't procrastinate anything other than phone calls. I'm always the person who wants to get everything done NOW rather than later because I have stuff to do later. But phone calls, those I procrastinate. I can't stand talking on the phone. In fact, I set my Mom up on Facebook so I didn't have to call her so much...ha ha That sounds worse than it is. It's just I don't have time to be on the phone because I have things to do. My brain is a non stop working machine. I go go go. Great lens. Very funny! I love your work.
At first I thought I wasn't in your fan club already because I saw the "join my fanclub" button..... then I realized, I wasn't signed in... ha ha Just one more thing to do!
Orlandobuddy wrote
Checked it out, groovy Now I gotta go do my laundry, pay my TWO traffic tickets (relax, no insurance card and registration in the car, which by the way was in the car, but it was too messy too find!) Make spaghetti sauce, iron, mop the floor and bunches of other stuff. Well I may not ACTUALLY do all that, but it makes me look good on this lens to say that's what I'm going to do, because none of you will ever know if I really will do all those things!
groovyoldlady wrote...
Awwww, Look at all these fine upstanding citizens who I am proudly misleading! Thanks for stopping by folks. Next time, can you bring your OWN snacks? You all stayed so long that the fridge is empty and the cupboard is bare!
clouda9 wrote...
Grr! Ize done it again...pooped away a whole other hour doing something I shouldn't instead of doing something I should. Any consolation...I enjoyed the heck out of it!
jfield wrote...
This is great, groovy! I'm a huge procrastinator. I bought a subliminal tape about 15 years ago to help me with that--the only change I noticed was that I started speeding:)
poddys wrote...
This is a very funny lens, and YES I do procrastinate an awful lot. I love the personal stories. I think we have all been there at one time or another. 5***** and lensrolled to my Daily Jokes Lensography lens.
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