2000-12-13 - 22:07 MST

Decmber 13, 2000

Hullabaloo

Famous last words, "Next year we will pack less stuff, write up a time scheduled check list covering the two weeks prior to our trip and will follow it exactly. Hah !

Today we went out and bought a vacuum cleaner. Yesterday we bought a hand held mixer and an electric can opener plus a cordless phone/answering machine.

Bragging ? No, they are needed and were on our buy list. No budget busting stuff, all calm, cool and collected, you know, done with each others cooperation and blessings. So what the flaming heck is the big deal ?

We are leaving in about three days for a couple of weeks. I am sitting here tonight wondering what the heck drove us to spend time doing all that instead of concentrating on doing the all the necessary, frantic last minute hoo ha we usually go through around about this time while preparing for a scheduled trip.

Our packing is in a so-so, half donkeyed (three letters for donkey) condition. Some done, some not yet done and left to do yet after all that, is the jettisoning of the things that won't fit in our luggage. Some things done, mail stopped and other "while we are gone arrangements made." Old Fuzzy-chin got a haircut and beard trim. Christmas cards all out, some other stuff still left to do.

Here I am punching keys when I should be folding and packing shirts, etc. yadda, yadda, yadda.

Wind up a runny mouth, what does it do ? Jabber, jabber on and on and on.

Whazzit ? Failure to concentrate, Alzheimer's, second or third childhood, super senility or just plain brainless activity intentionally designed to make that last minute flurry a totally debilitating thing ? Beats the heck out of me, but I signed on for the duration, plus recovery time. Like always, it WILL BE DONE and we WILL fly out of town, collapsed in our seats, resting just enough to joyfully field two wonderful grand kids and their Mom. But the preparations and unforseen complications will take us down to the wire in the usual Hullabaloo . . . . . . . .

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