Preparing to Leave.

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Greetings Gentle Reader, ‘tis time to prepare for vacation. The Teen is making a brilliant use of her mom’s legacy, to visit one of K’s favorite places on earth. We don’t have the most well thought-out plans in the world, and I anticipate a certain amount of “eyes bigger than stomach” kind of situations, but if we take it easy, wear sound (albeit unfashionable) footwear, and above all maintain humor, I think it will be a grand trip. I am not a great gift-giver, as I’m an equally poor -getter, but I need to overcome this to supply my host for the first part of our trip with a welcoming thank you gift, to be followed up by something we’ll send afterwards. I also want to get trinkets to trade/gift when we’re there, and of course, when we return.

We need to gift the friends who will be house sitting, of course. Funny, it’s the odd stuff to be done that worries me. Not clothes (I can tough it out no matter what) or getting lost (our phones will have ZERO data plans, so we won’t have our usual crutches). And now, hours later, I’ve just read the intro to Bruce Schneier’s essay on the fallacy of worst-case thinking. And I get it, we should stop trying to think of what COULD go wrong, since we’re so bad at it. And instead, should look at what responses we have that work well, and accentuate them, keep them well practiced. Like “training your strengths.” Or not complaining about the tools you DON’T have, and get on making stuff with what you DO. With THAT in mind, I’m off to do some errands for the trip.