Preparation - Key to Relaxation

I'm packed ... the main stuff at least.  I have to go over my toiletries and such in my travel bag, but the hard stuff is FINISHED!  Yea ME.  I'm the opposite of most - hate packing, no problem unpacking.  And I fit into winter clothes - that's good news.  Not into my skinny jeans, but that I'll work on when I get home.

I'm taking lots of luggage because the gifts take up so much room (as do my boots, jackets, vests, etc).  Winter packing is so much bulkier than summer.  Maybe there is some shopping in the northern lands and I can fill that suitcase back up on the way home!!

I also got Gigi's food ready for her temporary foster.  Cooked chicken and rice (thank you Instant Pot), chopped the chicken in the food processor and Food Saved into daily amounts.  A labor of love and LOTS of kitchen gadgets.  And her first bath - she's so soft and fluffy!  I wish she didn't need to bounce around again this week.  Nothing I can do about it though.

I'm up bright and early this morning.  Lots to do in the first half of the day.  Then I'll finish packing and head to bed.  I'm so glad I prepped so much yesterday.  I would be a wreck today if I had all that left.  PREPARATION - my super power.

This trip is one of the only multi-day trips that I don't have an exercise plan going in.  Logistically, it's just too much:  lots of added bulk to luggage, it's raining the entire trip (no outdoor runs), staying in a small, historic cottage and smelly workout clothes.  That said, I packed a couple of exercise resistance bands.  I can do a quick, down-n-dirty in the bedroom ... if the spirit moves me.  I have a couple of pesky sore areas (my right arm and my left hamstring).  A partial week "off" might be just what I need.  I would also workout on my travel day, but I need to leave the house at 4:15am.  That is pushing it - even I'm not that obsessed.  I thought it was going to be an active trip, but now it's not ... that's a bummer, but I'm sticking to my original plan.

I don't plan to check-in until I'm home on Sunday (maybe Monday since Sunday is a full day of stuff).  If you never hear from me again ... well, that not good news.  I love to travel, I don't love the actual traveling though.  Small planes, thunderstorms ... ugh.  I'm fully in my nervous mode.  I've had some crazy flights - stories for another time - I don't need to relive them today!

My self-serving INTENTION for the rest of the week is to STAY SAFE.  Fingers crossed, wood knocked and all that.  Later gators.