Yesterday, about 4:30 in
the afternoon, just after I’d finished my eighth assignment, and decided I
could take a break. One thing that needed to be done was checking my emails.
I went to check my main
email account and found one telling me I had something on my schedule for the
next day. I stared at it for several beats trying to figure out who sent it and
what it was for. I wracked my brain for anything I had to do that someone could
be reminding me of.
I mean I knew I had homework
to do. I’d also just finished making sure I had my list of assignments to work
on tomorrow including that two of them were due and needed to be my top
priority.
I then remembered I’d
signed up for a zoom meeting. Since my planner was open, I glanced at prepared
to turn the page from the current date.
I have a Franklin planner
with daily pages so part of each day’s planner pages includes an hourly
schedule. There was only one thing in this part of my planner.
The zoom meeting.
Not only that but it
ended at 4:30. Please note the time this was occurring above.
I missed it.
Heavy sigh. I’d been
looking forward to it too.
So then what else do I
have going?
I’m flummoxed.
I turn back to this concerning
email to see if I can glean any clue as to what I have to attend from it.
I see the date of this
event and that it’s to me but nothing else is sinking into my brain.
Then I finally perceived who
was sending me this email.
Essentially me.
It was coming from my
Google Calendar.
This just confuses me
more. I haven’t added anything to my Google Calendar all year and the only
reminder I could remember setting up was sent the day before. It’s a weekly
reminder. So it couldn’t be that.
Still perplexed about
what this is referring to I go to pick up my planner but stop before I do.
My due tomorrow
assignments, which I’d just finished confirming I still had to do, are always
due on Wednesday. So what reminders do I have on Google Calendar for Wednesday?
Oh. Post.
Breathing a sigh of
relief, I mentally note that in the morning I’ll have to post on Facebook and
Instagram that our weekly blog is up. Only then did I realize that the email
does say it’s a reminder to post.
Duly noted. I can
remember to do that.
Now that I’m not confused
I manage to remember that I have not one, but two meetings scheduled for the next
evening.
The first one has been
added to my schedule since April. When I started school. It’s a zoom meeting
for one of my online classes.
The other is another zoom
meeting though this one is for Henderson Writer’s Group. Since our election
last month, I’m now on the board, and I have to attend my first official board
meeting.
I can’t forget either one
of those either. They are both important.
Then I remember that the
next day being Wednesday also means it's garbage day for us.
So my to-do list now
includes, posting in the morning on Facebook and Instagram, attending my class
and the board meeting, and reminding either Jerry or Royce to take the cans out
tonight.
As I think this Melinda
comes in and asks Jerry to take the cans out because Royce is already asleep.
Jerry reminded. Check.
Though as early as it is
and since he didn’t get right up and do it, I’ll probably have to remind him
before he goes to bed.
Now quite content with
having remembered everything that is on my schedule for the next day, I go to
continue checking my email.
Oh no! Wednesday! Post! It’s
my turn!
I don’t just have to post
on Facebook and Instagram, I have to write the whole post!
Okay, back to wracking my
brain. This time for an idea.
All I can say for today
is I managed to finish eight assignments while missing a meeting I had
scheduled. Nor did I do the tasks I have to do for Henderson Writer’s Group or
my family’s finances. Making two more things to add to Wednesday’s to-do list.
At least I remembered
with enough time to get something written, even if it means struggling with finding
a topic and then finding the words to convey it in the short expanse of a blog
post.
Here’s to less bewildering
days and clearer minds.
Also Happy 245 years
America!
Smile. Make the day a
brighter day.
