Have You Ever Procrastinated Your Way Into a Solution?

I’ve been procrastinating on my blog lately. Yeah, I know you can’t tell. I’m fairly good at hitting deadlines, even when they are only self imposed, and I consider midnight my blog deadline. This week I procrastinated myself into a bind, but it wasn’t my fault.

The problem was a lack of clouds.

This week’s PhotoHunt was clouds. I’d planned on doing this thing where I’d have Jack and Jill holding hands in front of a sun set. Evening after evening I would look to the West only to find there wasn’t a cloud in the sky.

Considering this is the dry season around here, the time right before forest fires become a major problem, the lack of clouds should be no surprise. I simply hadn’t planned around it. I thought I had a whole week. No problem. Doy.

Friday afternoon, there I am with the bendies on a clear jewel case, trying to capture the one and only cloud in the sky. Yes, I said one. One of the clouds in the picture was photoshopped in. The sunset thing was out the window.

So what do I see the next morning?

If I had only procrastinated a little longer I would still have ended up in the yard with a jewel case, but I wouldn’t have had to fake a cloud.

Oh well.

So my question is, do you ever benefit from procrastination? Do you trust everything will work out all right? Do you fall flat on your face if you do? Would you be out there with the jewel case the day before, or would you have gotten it done weeks before?