Being Early is Killing Me

I am a planner and an early preparer. I am usually early to places and I anticipate what might go wrong and have back up plans. This is a life long trait from being the oldest child of two oldest children. I never once missed the school bus. There was even a back up plan for my school bus that if I missed it on my side of the street I could cross the street and walk down a few houses and get it on the way back since it made a loop and drove both ways on my road. I never even did that. The idea of missing my pick up horrified me.

Once I thought I might have missed the bus because the 4 boys who lived door to me were not at our bus stop and I assumed the bus came already and I missed it. Turned out they had gone away and were missing school that day. Thankfully the bus came before I crossed the street to try and catch it on the way back. This happened over the 50 years ago and I still remember it.

So as a person who plans well in advance I am ready for Carter’s wedding. There is not a lot that I had to do as Carter and Claire have everything under control. The things I need to do, I need to do in Maine and Carter will tell me exactly what those are.

So even though I have left these last few days free to get stuff done for the wedding, there is nothing for me to do. I have laid out the clothes and shoes to pack, but don’t want to pack them so they get squished more than they need to. I have asked Russ to look at his clothes and he has done that. I have written my speech, which I will rewrite again tomorrow and again on Tuesday, but there is only so much writing and rewriting I can do.

It would be nice if I could test out make-up, but since I have a sever skin allergy I can’t possibly test anything now because if I have an allergic reaction to it I won’t have time to recover. So no makeup for me, other than mascara and lipstick.

I wish I left more things to do right now because I am sitting around like a kid waiting for Christmas. As I write I see some splits in a quilt on my bed. I could be repairing these, but that is not the kind of busy work I want to do. I did make a Christmas ornament today, working ahead of my one per month schedule. It’s just being early is killing me.