October 5, 2010
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coming up next
A few years ago, I was living in Europe, and my upcoming plans consisted of weekend trips to random cities in random countries, with dive trips and safaris planned on short notice. I live a more settled life now, not necessarily by choice, and my plans are less exotic and not as spur of the moment.
At least I still have plans, though. If the day ever comes when I have no plans to go somewhere else and do something outside of my normal routine, I will be very sad.
Current plans:
This weekend: flying out to New York and driving upstate for a wedding
November: go dog-sit for my cousin (I know, this doesn’t sound like much of a plan, but between my cousin’s two large dogs, my small dog, Superman’s large dog, me, and Superman in one house, it still counts as a departure from the ordinary)
December: a weekend in Monterey with the fam to celebrate an early Christmas; a trip out to Chicago for Kanga’s shower, New Year’s Eve, and a dinner at Alinea
February-ish: a Big Trip somewhere with Superman (and perhaps Kanga and Roo or other friends if they’re able to get away) — we’re torn between diving in some tropical paradise (Fiji or Rangiroa are possibilities) or going on safari somewhere in Africa (Namibia, perhaps)
April: My college roommate comes for a five day visit (without her kids, much to the relief of Superman and me, who are both bad with kids who aren’t related to us — this is exciting, as I won’t have seen her for five years, since before she had aforementioned children, and we have a lot of catching up to do); Kanga and Roo’s first wedding in Chicago
May: Kanga and Roo’s second wedding in Z-town
Yes, I know that most of the plans aren’t to distant and exotic lands, but I’m just hanging on to the fact that I haven’t given up and settled down too much yet. I still have plans.
Comments (2)
exactly, those are still plans. and as long as you have a couple of those grand traveling plans each year, i’d say you’re enjoying life at an ideal pace!
Ermm… might I point out that having plans is not incompatible with settling down? Having wild wacky spur of the moment adventures, that might not count as settling down. Having plans to have wild wacky spur of the moment… wait, is it a contradiction in terms to plan spur of the moment adventures? At any rate, I don’t believe that either plans or settling down are bad things per se. Settling for less, now that’s not so good.