Packing It In

In two days Carter will be home from five weeks of camp. It seems like a blink of an eye. I had such big plans of what I would accomplish while she was away and in typical fashion I only completed about ten percent of my list even though I never slept late one day or lazed around one evening. Sleeping in and lazing around were even on the list. Of course I did go on the best vacation of my life so I think I can double count that in my achievement matrix due to its high quality.

So here I am with two days left to myself trying to pack as much in as possible. I have every moment accounted for in military like fashion, but today I just adverted sure disaster in my well thought out schedule.

I started today having my annual physical. Knowing that my doctor can get way behind on his schedule I tried to get the first appointment of the morning, but was thwarted and ended up getting the 9:30 slot. Surely there could not be too many other people in front of me then.

I have a small window of time to get my exam because my daily medication prescription is about to run out next month and I need to fit the visit in before my next vacation. It’s not that I could not wait until after I go to Maine to see the Doctor, but I happen to be at a low weight and I know this is the thing that makes me have the best exam. I hate to go to Maine and not get to eat lobster because I have to be weighed the day I get back.

I also had a school related meeting today that was fit in because I had screwed up and double booked two meetings at the same time earlier in the week. Then came the fun of the week and something I purposely planned to do right after my physical weigh-in, go to Afternoon Tea for my friend Mary Lloyd’s birthday. See all eating for the month had to be planned to take place right after I saw the Doctor.

I had also planed out my eating for the day since Afternoon Tea does not include one single thing that might be considered diet friendly, save the actual tea. The day was going to go like this; get up, don’t eat breakfast, see the doctor, grab some fruit at Whole Foods on the way to school meeting, solve the problems of the world, pick up friends for tea, indulge, come home, feel guilty and do my walking and all my writing assignments.

I got to the Doctor’s office early and was immediately concerned when I overheard three other women who came in after me register to see the same doctor with appointments before mine. Being a good eavesdropper does not help my blood pressure. I asked the receptionist exactly how far behind he was already and her response was, “Not as bad as usual.” I asked if I could get my blood work done before I saw him to at least get that out of the way. Nobody in the doctor’s office likes an ex-efficiency expert.

I made it through that task by a hair and still was able to grab fruit and get to the next meeting. While I was still in that meeting my friend Christy called to say that the birthday girl had a child with an ortho issue and she was off to our favorite x-ray spot. What to do about our Afternoon Tea? Since it was paid for we decided to go and stall the server as long as we could in hopes that the birthday girl would get there. Thanks to most potential children’s broken bones happening at sleep away camp this time of year, Mary Lloyd was able to make tea only half an hour late so we enjoyed our naughty, but yummy celebration fully. It was a good thing because I had promised her that we would do a make-up tea if she missed this one and my thighs can only handle so many Afternoon Teas a year.

So now I’m walking and writing my blog rather than my magazine work. I just feel a little too bloated to write something nice about a wonderful person doing good work in the world. I do those stories much better when I’m feeling a little deprived. This is going to have to carry over to the already too busy tomorrow calendar.