Have you ever been busily preparing for a trip, packing and planning and shopping and organizing, when you all of a sudden get very sidetracked by the condition you will be leaving your house in?
I look around and I say a silent prayer that we will not be hit head-on by a drunk driver, or drowned in the canoe by whitewater rapids. Or contract food poisoning from under-grilled hamburgers or picnic potato salad left out too long. I cannot die on this trip because if someone had to come into my house and sort through my things I think I would die of embarrassment.
It is so hard to stay focused- to get the job at hand done- the packing and planning and such. I want to scrub my floors and wash my windows. Heck, I just want to be able to see the floors and reach the windows! But it all must wait because if I don't have the packing done by tomorrow at exactly nineteen-hundred hours, I think Derick's head will explode. ;)
We are leaving on Friday afternoon and I was given a strict agenda for getting everything ready so as to avoid that last minute packing thing that I like to do. So while I run around here and try to accomplish everything on his To Do Before We Go list, I will put the blinders on and hope and pray that we aren't mauled by a Black Bear while we sleep.
Have a great night everybody!
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We find it impossible to leave on a trip with a messy house - those things are on my things to do before we go list! Can you imagine - if you weren't maimed - how embarrassed we'd be for the strangers to come in:) Have an awesome trip! (I'm sure you'll be safe and no one will know!)
*chuckle* Well, you've got to know you're not alone, right?
I like to clean the foyer first, then pack and put all the suitcases in the one room I no longer need to mess with. They're all *right there* - proof that I've earned the right to be as neurotic as I please and clean the back of the backsplash with a toothbrush because "we're LEAVING THE HOUSE!" And crime detectives always look for anything suspicous. (Like gleaming backsplashes in an otherwise less-than-stellar home aren't suspicious, right?)
Enjoy your trip!
Dy
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