Time is flying by fast. They say once you have kids time speeds up. You see the calendar advancing and you wonder how you got this far. Wasn't it just spring? Wasn't the snow just melting and giving way to dry sidewalks and bicycles in the street? It all comes and goes so fast, time doubles in the work zone of life.
For those of us that journal online, we should set our Outlook calendar to ping us every 3 days to slow us down. Or perhaps a pop-up reminder when 4 things get scheduled on one day: Warning Warning you're about to max out your day put $5.00 in the toll. And if we exceed our weekly limit of activities the fines would double, ca-ching ca-ching!
I love looking forward. I like looking ahead. I want events on my calendar that draw me out of bed with curiosity and anticipation. My problem is having too many good things to look forward to. Sometimes the good thing is vacation with a travel date looming. Or a weekend to shop for new shoes and new clothes. I can hardly wait for the first "firsts" of each season. Whether it's the first snow or the first rain or the first thunderstorm that first one can be magical. A brand new kind of good thing was my first phone call (post-divorce) from a blind date. I might even note on the calendar the discovery of a rocking new band on SNL called Foster the People.
My calendar does more than denote the passage of time forward it brings me backward to all that was willing, thrilling and chilling. It's like a scrapbook of my life carefully documented with words and dates. Oh look I have a free hour next Tuesday. Pencil me in for some auto body work. I need some outta body girl time for a mani/pedi.....but only if I'm done by 3:00pm because I'm booked and I still have to do X, Y, and ZZZZZZ.
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