A lot goes on behind the scenes of our lives these days. Keeping this operation afloat requires both myself & G to be working at 100% capacity. He tends to be the muscle, while I'm the brains (only because I enjoy & excel at planning, list-making & remembering minutiae). When I'm down for whatever reason, he can make up the slack as long as I am capable of reminding him of the details. For ages I packed for him so as not to repeat the forgot-glasses-on-beach-trip and long-weekend-with-one-shirt debacles, now I just help him make a list. I like lists. These days, I need lists, or my tired fuzzy mind gets overwhelmed.
Well, Friday I woke up sick. Fever/bronchitis/asthma/etc... It was pretty bad. I made it through work and entertained G's cousin & her boyfriend who were in town for the weekend & came by for dinner. Then I collapsed in bed, completely ignoring the fact that we were supposed to leave at 9AM to go visit my sister for my niece & nephew's birthday party. Woke up, even sicker, and decided to pack (she lives 3 hours away so we were staying the night) sans list. Threw things for myself & the boys into a suitcase. Its only one night! Easy peasy!
B got carsick. Twice. I only brought one outfit for him. Yup. I only brought diapers for him, no pull-ups, which he generally wears during the day. Also I forgot my PJs. And socks for B for the next day. Thankfully we were at my sister's so we could borrow everything once we got there, but B had to sit in dirty clothes for 2 hours in the car. Once we got back, I forgot to give the dog her special medicinal bath (she has a skin thing, the vet fleeced us out of $250 last week for 2 weeks of antibiotics & antifungal bath soap). I told G I could stay home today for the roofers, then realized I had a meeting and an experimental procedure I had to be at work for, so he had to come home after walking all the way over.
Physically, I'm feeling better, but mentally, still off my game. I hope it doesn't last much longer...
HA! So sorry to hear about how sick you've been, but I didn't have this excuse, and this sounds a bit like our recent trip. We had a good packing list for Bun Bun, but I thought for sure I could throw my stuff in the suitcase at the last minute. I forgot a number of handy items, including UNDERWEAR. Also glad it was a short trip. Hope you recover soon...
ReplyDeleteI am also pathologically dependent on lists. In fact, living around me means finding random scraps of list-containing paper everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry about the trip. This is probably the reason that I have had pretty much zero ambition to stray to far from the homestead these past 3 years.
We've actually traveled a LOT with B...always fanatically over-prepared. I think this being such a short quick trip made me let my guard down...
DeleteSorry you've been sick. I think something's going around and I'm just waiting to catch it myself.
ReplyDeleteI would not be able to survive without lists. But you know the best part about them? You get to cross stuff off. That is sometimes the most satisfying thing I do all day.
Feel better soon!