Packing Day

RISE conference prep has begun.

You know I HATE to pack.  I'm the slowest packer, but I make a good, comprehensive packing list (if I do say so myself).  List is made.  Packing this afternoon.  Ugh.

Lots to do before I leave too.  Pay bills, clean, get dog stuff ready for sitter (hubby is out-of-town for part of the trip too at an interview -- fingers crossed).

Before every trip, I get anxious.  Travel is exciting, but nerve-racking for me.  It happens every time, every trip without fail.  Thankfully, it doesn't prevent me from traveling.  I'll enjoy this experience, but I'm already imagining coming home.  Strange.  I'll hardly sleep tonight.  Uncertainty -- gets me every time.

When I get back, we're taking a new foster.  Also nerve-racking as I still have some PTSD from the lost foster fiasco.  It's a cream, fluffy male -- found abandoned in an abandoned house.  Our rescue is full and he couldn't be pulled without foster commitment.  We know nothing about him yet.  Jumping back in with 2 feet.  Worthwhile things are often hard.  I named him Ziggy -- super proud of my naming skills this time.  It's hard to tell how big he is ... but he's awfully cute.


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I picked out the last of the window treatments -- motorized shade for the bedroom and a matchstick wooden shade for the side door.  We'll need curtain panels for the bedroom to hang beside the window, but that's a ways away and technically not on the window - hah.

The rest of my "free" Pottery Barn stuff came last night, but I don't have time to set it up.  Pictures when I do.  Bedding for the spare bedrooms, kitchen counter pottery bowl and some misc.

Hopefully, I'll learn some stuff at this conference.  I need to get my worry under control -- life is stressing me lately.  That's my focus, but I'm going with an open mind for whatever might seem helpful.  Either way, I'll enjoy meeting my coaching peeps in person, cool weather, new city, great meals and time to myself.

Reminding myself to be PRESENT and not wish the week away (like I'm doing today).  (Usually, I feel better once I arrive at the destination.)  Feel the "fear" and do it anyway.

I expect to check-in tomorrow, but if time gets away -- I'm back Sunday night.  Later gators.