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Yep, I'm doing that annoying countdown thing again. A girl I knew once updated her facebook status almost daily with a countdown to something or other that no-one bar her really cared about (if we're honest), starting at about 200 days. It was extreeeemely irritating.
Well, too bad. I totally get it now. I'm excited, so countdown and rub your faces in it I will (whether you care or not). 60 days guys! 60 short days and we will be on the plane to Paris and beyond! ONLY 60 DAYS TO GO GUYS!
Good, now we've done that I can move on. So, where are we up to?
A very good question. My brain is a bit overloaded at the moment. And by a bit, I mean Completely Scattered. Maybe it's just because there's actually nothing more I can do at this stage (other than wait, and wait some more)…but I feel like I should be doing things, organising things, buying things - something! Despite all my lists and spreadsheets, which we will come to in a moment, I have lost track completely of where we are at and what I need to do.
Organising a holiday is one thing, but trying to do that at the same time as preparing for handover at work, wrapping up our lives at home (who knew that even without kids, pets etc we could have tied ourselves down with so much stuff, so many accounts etc!) , and preparing for our new life in the UK - it can all get a little overwhelming at times!!
To combat this, I write lists. It keeps me motivated and on track, and orders my thoughts. I think I probably get this from my Mum, except instead of writing lists she compulsively rearranges the furniture :-P
Anyway, I LOVE lists. And spreadsheets. And office stamps. And wardrobes filled with consistently coloured/shaped coat hangers. You get the point, I can be a bit of an organised obsessive control freak. If you could see our itinerary, you would probably laugh at me. Its colour coded, it's hyperlinked, it's got formulas and conditional formatting and it's budgeted in both EUR and AUD. It's completely ridiculous.
So obviously, I already have a to-do list. But it's no good to me today. It's not enough to read it, my brain's just not taking it in. I have to re-write it.
So I pull out my laptop and I open up excel. I create my columns - a due date, task, task description, task completed (tick?). I make it pretty.
Then I sit there and stare at it for the next half hour, and I can't write a damn thing.
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60 DAYS TO GO GUYS!! WOOO! YEAH, 60 DAYS, YEAH!
Liss xox
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