There was a point to this. I ordered my Erin Condren 2014 life planner back when I still was able to buy an $80 planner and not blink an eye. I've got major love for their stuff, and if I had all the money in the world, I'd buy them out of business. In any case, there was a snafu in my order and the month of November was messed up. Within 24 hours, I had a personalized email saying that they would reprint the entire book for me or give me store credit. I took the store credit as future retail therapy. Duh. I stopped using it mid-October because trying to work around the snafu proved too challenging to keep things in order. Since then I cannot begin to tell you how many appointments I have missed or double booked. Yes, I have gmail, outlook, yahoo, blah blah blah, on my phone and iPad. But I still can't get it right. I'm still having cognitive issues which no one in the medical community seems to believe, but I can't just rely on one or two sources to keep my life straight. I think I'm caught up to date and one of my weekend goals is to start planning again since we're at the end of the month.
Have I mentioned that next week is Thanksgiving week? I do not celebrate the traditional gobbledy-gook meaning of the day, but rather a day that I do what I should do all year round - express gratitude for the people who surround me with their love and light. This year, we're likely not going to do a sit-down dinner, which is what we normally do with friends who also aren't going out of town or just have no desire to spend it with family. One of my trifecta BFFs and I have been planning this together for years and the last few months - things on her end, my health/chemo, etc. - have felt so fast and rushed that we decided to plan something fun for the day. Not sure what that will look like, so I'll keep you posted. :) I will watch the parade, as it is a tradition for me, although it's lame because it's not in real-time for me nor do I have TV (like the basic 12).
Mr. got the entire week off so we're going to plan a staycation of sorts. We're staying home for the holidays again. It's too expensive, too crowded, too filled with tourists (which I am afraid I may have become), and just too....NYC. I think everyone should experience the holidays in NYC once for the experience. But after living there 26 years, I'm kind of over it. Okay, I'd probably giggle like a schoolgirl over the holiday stuff, but all the other reasons would drive me insane.
Mr. has gone the week before the holidays and it was great for both of us. I was a slob with wrapping paper all over the place, eating random things at odd hours, and hanging out with the mighty el Larso. Mr. doesn't have the same aversion to NY that I do and he has a larger extended family that actually gets along.
I would also be exhausted beyond belief from all the walking - bad hip and knees - stairs, trying not to push a tourist down the stairs at the 168th street station on the A line, struggling not to gorge on Dunkin Donuts, etc. I am also afraid of the weather/me getting sick during the trip because I really really really want to meet all my friends' children. Next week is the six year anniversary of our move - lots of babies have been born and there are a couple of newborns in the last month alone. And even though I have the sanitary masks, hand cleaner, and would carry a disposable blanket thingy, I'm sure moms and new moms especially don't want sick people around their infants.
And finally, it's darn hard to get a dog sitter over the holidays. El Larso has some anxiety issues so we need really good people who understand him. He's a sweety pie, but like I said, he's got some issues. That's a post for another day.
Now that it's Friday, have you set up any plans for the weekend? Or next week?
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