We’ve been planning the past week to call my cousin for his birthday on the 31st. As I lie in bed at 11:30pm, preparing to turn off the lights, I suddenly discover that today is January 31st.
Well… guess we messed up on that one!
I even talked with my mom multiple times today. Neither one of us had any idea of the date, it seems.
Guess we’ll just have to do it tomorrow! Or the next day, since late is still late, right? 😛 Ugh… why does this happen so often to me???
Post-a-day 2023
“We forgot to close the trunk,” he says after getting something out of the car as we get ready for bed last night. “And by ‘we,’ I mean ‘I.’”
Oh, no… ‘When we got the bags out last night?’ In the rain.‘ Yep. So, it’s totally soaked.’ He affirms again. Yikes. We agree to open it up in the morning, if it isn’t raining then.
Fast forward to today. Weather is gorgeous. We spend time playing with the dog in the house while all talking. Great time. We also chase and destroy flies with our wetted fabric napkins. Much success. We go to a much-too-late lunch, have ice cream as we stroll around the old city square. We go to the grocer for things for dinner and tomorrow. We open the trunk to put groceries in it…
We forgot about drying the trunk out. ::massive face palm
It is already sprinkling again.
We get home after work idiocy with roundabouts and something about going a different way on them, in order to unwind from circling so many times to the left… turning to the right…
Anyway, we play in the backyard with the dog for a while, then finally make and have dinner and hang out and start a movie, and we then finally get ready for bed… at which point my man walks outside and takes the rug liner out of the trunk and sets it on the front porch.
Good thing rain isn’t forecast for all day tomorrow or anything… ::facepalm for forgetfulness and distraction today!
Hopefully, it will dry out well with this lower humidity, and the trunk can dry out, too! Fingers crossed!
Post-a-day 2022
In the morning, I’m going to a friend’s wedding. The wedding isn’t until Saturday, but I’m going early, so that I can be sure to make the wedding, and so that I can have some time to play around the town/island. I’ve never been to Singapore, so this is an exciting adventure for me, in mini form. (I wonder if they have Minis there… Also, on which side of the road do they drive? I don’t remember…)
However, this means that, inevitably, I am up late tonight. I am always up late the night before a trip – be it packing or just general this-and-thats, I am always up late, and usually much later than usual for that given night of the week (this time being a Wednesday night).
Aaaand, along with that being up late, is that ever-present (when prepping for a trip) sensation that I am forgetting something, something vital. I have my passport, phone, and boarding pass, so I technically will be able to survive…, but that doesn’t ease my mind off this feeling. As I was making final touches, I realized that I still hadn’t packed the two pair of shoes I’d needed to pack (for the dance party one night and for the wedding outfit)… things which had been on my mind every day for the past week… thereby giving me evidence that my experiencing this feeling of having forgotten something important is not falsely or without sufficient evidence created – it is not every time that something like that happens, but it is every time that the trip is somehow important that I feel this panic.
Yikes, yikes, yikes, I say! (Well, I didn’t actually say it at first, but then I read aloud the sentence I’d written, so I did, in fact, say that sentence…, but I’m going to leave it as the italicized thought, because that’s more how it originally occurred as a feeling and all.)
Anyway, I’m hoping for the best!
P.S. Does Singapore have beaches??
Post-a-day 2017
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