November Writing Challenge Day 27

I have plans. 

I’m also a liar. I have no plans. It’s something I say in jest, like girls in the 80’s said they had to wash their hair. Whenever someone asks me to go do something outside of my hermit shell, they probably get this stock response.

I mean, I have general plans, like, I’m going to write a blog every day for a year, whether I have pictures to go with it or not, I’m going to read a minimum of 52 books a year (I’m not above cheating. If I knock out a Stephen King, I’m probably gonna read something short and sweet to counterbalance time lost), and I’m going to see my stylist Friday. I’m gonna need a new vehicle within a year or so, so I’m kinda planning on going looking at Nissans soon. 

I’m already married, so I don’t have plans on the romantic front unless you count where we’re going to eat Friday night. I’m fairly content in this house, so I don’t have plans to move. I even like my job just fine, so I’m not looking for anything elsewhere.

I haven’t carried a day planner in years. Of course, I don’t have much to plan. Board meeting once a month, book club once a month…and that’s pretty much it. Sad, I know. I frequently have to call doctors offices and say, “I have an appointment with y’all….sometime in the near future…can you tell me when?” and I write it on my hand or the calendar at work and I might put it in my phone if I remember after we hang up and I don’t get distracted doing something else. 

It seems that when I make plans, it gives me time to dread it and think of all the reasons I shouldn’t go, so it’s best if you can just get me to commit as close to the spur of the moment as possible. Your chances are much higher that I will show up. 

We’re not guaranteed tomorrow, so I always feel the need to say, “Good Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise,” anytime I promise I’m going to be somewhere or do something. But it’s human nature to make plans, trivial or not. So we do. 

I must go. I have plans to go to bed. So I can get up tomorrow and do it again. Very busy. Lots of plans.