Ways to avoid cleaning one's house:

Goof around on the computer

Read a chapter in a good book

Check on your spread in Frontierville (aka, goofing around on the computer)

Write a few e-mails (see above)

Have lunch

Check to see if your e-mails have gotten a reply

Decide the dog has to go outside, right now, regardless of the actual urgency of the potty dance being performed

Update your Facebook status from your iPhone (doesn't count as computer-goofing)

Scrub a bathroom or two, just to have something to show for yourself--do it well, your pride is riding on this, and you don't wanna have to come back

Take a break, reward yourself by goofing around on the computer