Word What I Just Coined

[gnomi]

Procrastiknitting: Knitting in order to avoid another project.

Usage Example:

I spent last night procrastiknitting instead of dealing with the paperwork I have to do.

Comments

[madknits.livejournal.com]

Oh, so that's what I'm doing when I'm knitting instead of working on my paper.

Thanks, that's good to know.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeedy. Aren't you glad it has a name now? :-)

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

I like it!

Procrascrochet doesn't have the same ring to it, I'm afraid.

Procrochet? Or have we lost too much of the time wasting element and instead entered the realm of REALLY good afghans?

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

How about procrochenating?

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

You win an internet!

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Yay! I've always wanted one.

[elaine-brennan.livejournal.com]

I seem to be indulging in this activity right now (with this brief break for LJ!)

[nwl.livejournal.com]

Love it!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I like rikchik's suggestion. :-)

[bbennett.livejournal.com]

You are just brilliant. :)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks.

::blushes::

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

That was very nearly exactly what I was about to comment, so I shall instead just agree with you.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

::blushes harder::

[i-beckygardens.livejournal.com]

Very clever!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[lordavon.livejournal.com]

I'm at the point where I procastiknit about procrastiknitting.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I know this problem, too -- the "I don't want to work on *that* knitting project; I know! I'll work on *this* one!" issue.

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

I love it! :D

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

I've been procrasticrossstitching a lot lately. "Should I work out? Write? Get more done on my brother's wedding present while getting some backlog off of the TiVo?" The option that involves the sofa always wins.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Indeed! This is why I end up procrastiknitting a lot.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Good word!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[violetcheetah.livejournal.com]

this seems so perfect, and so you, that i have a feeling of deja vu, as if i have heard you use the word. are you -sure- you just came up with it?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I *think* so. I make up a lot of portmanteau words (such as referring to beckyfeld as my pharmacister), so it probably sounds like other things I've said before.

[nwl.livejournal.com]

There is a flier in my local grocery store, advertising knitting classes. The flier lists the various health benefits of knitting. It also says, "Knitting is the new yoga." I think of you whenever I see the flier.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

A woman that I've known for a while just found out that I knit. I couldn't figure out how it was that she hadn't known previously (seeing that I almost always have knitting with me), but then I realized that she sees me most often on the one day a week I don't knit -- the Sabbath.

[(Anonymous)]

It works especially well because it is a change of only one vowel sound. Is procrastiknotting the macrame version?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like that!

(By the way, who are you?)

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Good thing I don't knit. I have enough trouble these days procrastichatting. >:-)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Procrastichatting (on line or in person) is a big problem for me at times.

[fauxklore]

I am entirely stuck on an equivalent for nalbinding. But since that's a craft that maybe 10 other people on the planet actually indulge in, it would probably not get enough use to be worth creating.

Perhaps the generic form is "procrastineedling"?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I like that. Though "procrastineedling" could also be "vaguely annoying someone to avoid doing other work," as well. :-)

[gem225.livejournal.com]

I proscrastiknit so much, but you knew that. *g* Great word-coining!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I enjoy procrastiknitting as well. I did a bunch of it this week.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[shimshonit.livejournal.com]

Way to go, Babsie! (Are you on holideh?)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'm working all week, but I knit on the T and other fun places, and that allows me to get lots and lots done. :-)