What is something you don't like doing but you have to, so you just turn off your brain and get started?

Cleaning muddy dogs. Ugh. At this time of year, sometimes we’re all soaked twice a day. Labradors have this special insulating fur that’s dense and layered, so the mud sticks to them perfectly. I try to turn on a podcast and think about what I’m hearing, not the work.

I can’t stand folding. The stuff is just gonna be washed again, rinse and repeat.

Deep cleaning. I think that’s why I enjoy yard work and manual labor in general, so my brain slows down to focus on only the physical. Basically it closes all my apps except the one I’m using haha!

Deep cleaning, light cleaning, any housework. Ugh ugh ugh.
Musicals on the TV, very loud.

It’s almost always something dealing with regimentation and bureaucracy. Filling out forms, waiting in interminable lines, the nightmare of attempting to comply with the tax codes, trying to resolve ANYTHING with a phone call, virtually any visit to the DMV. Prior to covid, I hadn’t a clue as to how being deeply enmeshed in tedious silly problem solving so defined my life. I’m wondering how many others have caught on thanks to the disease?

How odd. I’d probably live in the shower if I could get away with it.

Raking needles from the pine trees in front of my house.

Hanging up clothes on hangers.

Setting up a profile for a website or account.

Making phone calls to airlines or cable companies.

I love warm showers myself, but to answer your question. Doing the dishes. Sadly I don’t have a dishwasher, and must do them by hand. Sometimes I have the tendency to let them pile up and have too many.

Standing in a line in a convenience store for a cup of coffee or snack on my way to or from work. Always a ten mile long line with only one clerk at the cashier post, while two or three others fritter around on other tasks. And I always get behind someone who wants to buy a hundred lotto tickets. I just have to gaze out the window at traffic to get my mind off of my frustration. Seems like twenty minutes later I am still in line, while the person ahead of me buys five more quickie pickies and ninety seven Casino Royals. Damn I hate the lottery.

taxes

Cleaning cat litter boxes.
Cleaning gutters.

Cleaning Toilets in the house. Get-R-Done

Doing dishes.

@Dutchess_III I have shower inertia going both ways. I have to drag myself to get in the shower. But once I’m in, I don’t want to get out.

Yeah. It’s not the actual taking a shower that I dread. It’s all the advance (and post) preparation I dread.

Mental preparation?

Yes! And I’m doing it as we speak. Got the hot shower running to warm up the bathroom now.

Go, Dutch! Go!

SUCCESS!!!!

[high five]

Unless you’re still nekkid.
In which case, I’ll wait. :P

No. I will spare you that!
Boy I sure feel good after a shower.