I wore Tie o’ A Couple of Weeks Ago at a pre-Christmas dinner with Rowan, at his aunt’s and uncle’s abode. Rowan does not wear ties so I shared mine with him for the photo. I did count this tie in our Holiday Tie Tally, but just haven’t posted the photo until now. It is one of my fave Christmas ties, with its clever reference to Grant Wood’s painting, AMERICAN GOTHIC. I am a fanatic for all things clever.
I had no time to post this morning because I had a PT appointment in Farmington at 7:45 AM, and an appointment in Daybreak with my crazy-head doctor at 8:00 AM. It is nearly impossible to be in two places, 35 miles apart, at the same time. I am not a flash-speeding superhero. Nor do I have an invisible plane like Wonder Woman. I managed to switch my PT to 10:30, so it all worked out. [I wasn’t stoopid enough to schedule the appointments to conflict with each other. It’s a long, boring story about how that happened. Trust me, it ain’t interesting enough to be worth your time to hear it.]
I am mystified about how often I have whole weeks when I have zippo in my calendar, then I make one single solitary appointment, and then something else has to be done the same day– or even at the exact same like, like today. And as I look ahead at my calendar, I can see I have no appointments scheduled until an appointment on February 3. Wanna bet some doctor visit, or other can’t-skip thing, has to be taken care of on that same day? And then I will again go weeks with no appointments scheduled, and when I finally do schedule an appointment, the whole weird thing will happen again.
To further illustrate my point: Last week I found out Suzanne and I will be in Tucson in March, from the 3rd until the 6th. On the same day I found out about Tucson, it just so happens that I learned BAND OF HORSES will be doing one concert in Las Vegas on the 7th. I must see them live. I must go. I will not be dissuaded. So… Do we fly back to SLC and turn around immediately to fly to Las Vegas? Or do we fly from Tucson directly to Las Vegas for the concert, then back to SLC? It makes sense to do that, but it will end up costing us a bunch of extra bucks to do it that way.
It’s not just those two time conflicts on that pair of days. Nope, there’s a third thing I’m supposed to be doing. On the 7th, I have an appointment scheduled with my crazy-head doctor. I made the appointment in October, since she is always booked that far ahead. Of course, I’ve gotta reschedule it. Who knows when I can get the appointment rescheduled. Probably May.
See, within a 24-hour period, I’m supposed to be doing three different things in three different states. And there isn’t one appointment on my schedule for the two weeks before and the two weeks after the crazy March 6/7 confluence of to-do things. How and why does this happen?
FYI Not to fear for The Skit. Skitter is already set up for Suzanne’s sister, Marjorie, to come over to our house for a week of sleepovers while we’re out of town. I doubt Skitter would survive staying in a kennel, no matter how great it is. She would shake and shiver until all her fur fell off, or go on a hunger strike. Skittish Skitter needs to stay in her own home, and Marjorie loves to spend time with her. Skitter feels safe with Marjorie. It all works out well.