I had a plan for my day but...
By marguicha
@marguicha (215604)
Chile
June 22, 2010 7:13pm CST
Has it happened to you that you have a day absolutly arranged up to the last minute and suddenly you have to change everything?
It happened to me today. I don´t usually have a tight schedule as I´m retired and live alone. But today I decided to make the day count
. I went to the farmer´s market in the morning and did not buy a couple of veggies. I bought A LOT. Plan number one: process the veggies to have a lot of nice food in the freezer later. Plan number two: While the veggies were cooking (or steaming) I would dye my hair as it is not easy to go to my cousin´s (another city) now that it is Winter. Plan number three: As I can only do so many things at once, I would skip housecleaning today, at least until everything in the kitchen was under control.
The phone rang at midafternoon. It was this boy who wanted to come TODAY so that I could teach him language. He had got an awful grade so he needed the lessons urgently. And as I need his money urgently too 
, I said ok.
So from then on , it was a sort of a one person race. Finish peeling the fava beans while waiting the number of minutes with the dye (all this semi nude and VERY cold as I don´t have a cozy dress to get full of dye); making my bed, doing some cleanup in the living room (my grandson had been there 2 days ago), cleaning up the kitchen, finishing dyeing and taking a shower ( getting a more decent suit than the old jean I had on). Studying a bit to understand how was I going to approach the lesson. WOW!!! The boy is coming in 20 minutes. I´ll do my class and go to bed.
Do you have days that start normal and end up as ordeals? Please share. I don´´t want to be alone in the world.
. I went to the farmer´s market in the morning and did not buy a couple of veggies. I bought A LOT. Plan number one: process the veggies to have a lot of nice food in the freezer later. Plan number two: While the veggies were cooking (or steaming) I would dye my hair as it is not easy to go to my cousin´s (another city) now that it is Winter. Plan number three: As I can only do so many things at once, I would skip housecleaning today, at least until everything in the kitchen was under control.
The phone rang at midafternoon. It was this boy who wanted to come TODAY so that I could teach him language. He had got an awful grade so he needed the lessons urgently. And as I need his money urgently too , I said ok.
So from then on , it was a sort of a one person race. Finish peeling the fava beans while waiting the number of minutes with the dye (all this semi nude and VERY cold as I don´t have a cozy dress to get full of dye); making my bed, doing some cleanup in the living room (my grandson had been there 2 days ago), cleaning up the kitchen, finishing dyeing and taking a shower ( getting a more decent suit than the old jean I had on). Studying a bit to understand how was I going to approach the lesson. WOW!!! The boy is coming in 20 minutes. I´ll do my class and go to bed.
Do you have days that start normal and end up as ordeals? Please share. I don´´t want to be alone in the world.4 people like this
11 responses
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
23 Jun 10
All the time! I still make plans but only loosely these days because tactics will inevitably change throughout the day! Sometimes all it takes is a phone call letting me know someone is coming over and that’s it, my plans are shot! The best way is to just go with the flow, react to what happens and forget about plans...
@marguicha (215604)
• Chile
23 Jun 10
I usually do that. But my hair was terrible and I had bought the veggies and had started to process them when the boy called. And it´s about $20 an hour´s class (plus another half hour before that that I spend on studying a bit). Nor bad at all.
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@buenavida (9985)
• Sweden
23 Jun 10
I am almost retired and work at home, and many things can happen that change my plans for that day.
Often some of my friends turn up and brighten my day and we have a chat and a cup of coffee. A phone call from a good friend can last one hour or two.
A little business can take some time and also my Internet projects. 
Things like cleaning my home I often move to the next day.
Things like cleaning my home I often move to the next day. @marguicha (215604)
• Chile
23 Jun 10
That does happen to me all the time, but as I don´t plan so much it doesnt matter. Today it was different because I planned on doing ( and started to do them) a lot of things that I almost never do. And this class came from heaven as money goes, but I could not open the door before I readied my house and myself. So it was a lot more work that I usually have.
@sweetlady10 (3611)
• United States
23 Jun 10
That happens to me some time, I think it happens to all at some point of time, so you are not alone for sure :). Personally I sometime feel lazy to stick with my plan for the whole day lol. If it is not something to do with official work or not affecting other people's plan then I don't feel guilty to break my own rule, there is always another day to work on. But if it is something on my plan that can affect someone else than surely I do stick with it and finish it.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
27 Jun 10
Two Fridays ago, my day off, relax, do a little paperwork, laundry, relax some more. Then all of a sudden the in-laws are coming over for a barbecue and it's clean, clean, clean, go shopping...
@raviteja_ravi84 (2620)
• India
23 Jun 10
well i find that that sort of stuff happens to me also. Usually we make ahead and plan out whatever we want to do but life has more plans in set for us and decides to give us a little twist. But i like such sort of experiences as it shows how well organized you are and how you can handle the most embarrassing situations all by yourself and how you can find out the solution. Usually the simplest solutions are the most effective. So i always go with them...
@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
23 Jun 10
I often seem to end up not getting everything done, but generally NOT because I over schedule things but because I often don't feel up to doing somethings, and so I don't get a lot of things done.
Some days its because other people fall down on their jobs.
My hardest thing is to get the roomie to unload the dishwasher, but then again, some days its empty but I don't feel up to loading it either.
The roomie got it yesterday, for example, but having had to re-arrange the front room to get the "new" TV in where the older one was was more than enough for me. So today, when I got home, I didn't have enough space to load all the dishes. Oh, I got MOST of them, just not all of them.
Well, if the roomie unloads it tomorrow, I will have a start on the next load!
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
23 Jun 10
AS an old saying goes, u had too many irons in the fire. I do the same thing. If i'm feeling better than usual i will try to do too many things in one day. I am the type of person that has to stay busy & i believe u are the same way. I don't see how people just sit all day & do nothing. I think they have just given up & i'm not going to do that.
@Ladyslipper (1327)
• Philippines
23 Jun 10
It has happened to me a lot of times. When I was still in College I live in an apartment with a housemate. It was a two bedroom apartment. Sometimes during weekends when we are not expecting for a visitor would wait until Sunday to do the housecleaning. On Saturday we would watch a movie, just laze around, bake some cookies or have some popcorn with pillows everywhere in the carpet in the living room. However, sometimes my Aunt who is an old maid would call me and tell me she's on her way to my apartment and will be arriving in 15 - 20 minutes. I hate it when she does that. My housemate and I would need to rush and cram tidying up the place.
We don't want my Aunt to think bad about us specially that we are both girls in the house. I'm sure my Aunt would lecture on how we should always keep the house clean and tidy specially that we are both girls living in that apartment, etc. etc. Well, now I have a place of my own and a family and I'm living in a town very far from my Aunt. At least, I would not worry that she might just show up without notice anytime in our doorstep. Lolz!
