Best Laid Plans

This committing myself to stuff can be really time consuming.  I don’t regret it at all, but it has taken ages.  Time I could have spent doing….doing….ummmm other stuff.  Actually, there was nothing else I would rather have been doing.
It’s the deadlines that mean I need to do things.  If there is no deadline then it can be “I’ll do it when I get around to it.”  A deadline means it has to be done by a certain time.  No pressure….aggghhh!
Yesterday I prepared for something that was happening that night.  I prepared for many more than showed.  Three came, including one not even on my list.  Still it was great to catch up with him and others.  A friend of mine is fond of saying “there are no such thing as strangers, just friends you haven’t met yet.”  I feel I made some new friends.
Today was D day.  Actually, Thursday was, but that was stretching it a bit.  I had all I needed today, so I did it.  It took hours.  It was not like I was slow or anything.  It was just the nature of the beast.  I had thought, “this morning I will do this and this arvo I will do something else.”  Well it is late into this arvo now and I have just finished.  I haven’t even ha my customary sleep.  I only just thought of that though.  It is not like I am in a stupor for lack of sleep.  Best laid plans and all that.
Tonight I am going to veg.  By veg I mean play table tennis.  I do not know that I am as good for extended periods as I was.  I used to get off on outlasting the younger fella’s.  Now it is often me that is ready to quit.  It is funny to me how I have no aches and pains while playing, but when I stop, I have on more than one occasion felt a twinge that would have prevented me from playing if I had felt it before.
I have done it to myself again for tomorrow.  I have an appointment and I am expected to know stuff.  I would if I had actually read the book I bought.  I have not yet though.  Looks impressive but.  It seems the assumption is that if you have a book you have read it.  Not always the case for this little black duck.
Still I have tomorrow morning after I have visited someone I have an appointment with.  I have looked at U Tube videos on the subject.  I sort of have a handle on stuff.  Tomorrow morning will sort of be a reminder.
That’s the plan anyway.  The best laid plans of mice and men can come unstuck.  Still I think it is better to have a plan than not have one.  As someone said if they knew an event that would stop their plans in their tracks was going to happen tomorrow, they would still plant a tree today.
I’m a bit like that.  I make plans but it is not like they are written in stone.  Things change.  If I am malleable, I can make changes.  If I am not, then I will break.