Wow, that was easy after all

Have y'all ever put off something because you just KNEW it was going to be a pain in the butt…only to find out it really wasn't?

We're living in our first house with a homeowner's association–moved back in September. At Christmas, my mom decided to give us a storage shed (pretty sure she took one look at the garage still full of boxes and decided we were desperate). That's pretty much the best present EVER, but do I have a shed yet? No, I do not. Why? Because I freaked at the idea of getting approval from the HOA.

I emailed the folks and got a form. I read the CC & Rs. I heard all this stuff about architectural plans and such.

And I just put it off.

Recently, *I* looked at the garage and decided we were desperate. So I sucked it up. I went to Home Depot, found our shed (it'll be smaller than the one in the picture– height restrictions–and I found colors that matched our house for paint and trim (also per the rules). I pulled up the form which was about the easiest form to fill out in the history of the world. I drew a so-very-not-to-scale picture of the shed on our plot map. I scanned the Home Depot flyer into a document. I put the whole packet–flyer, map, application–into a PDF document and sent it by email to the HOA. Then I waited.

The rules say 2-4 weeks.

Two DAYS later we were approved.

The shed–my Christmas present–will be delivered and installed next week.

Now WHY didn't I do that sooner?



What have you guys procrastinated on that turned out to be not painful at all? Somehow, it seems I do this kind of thing a lot!