Well this has been a week of plans going awry! I didn’t get to ride
my bike to work on Thursday and Friday or get my measurements properly. I
got sick which
definitely not on my list of Excellent Things
To Do and then I got well again which made me appreciate my health! Yay
for getting sick right?
No.
So Saturday was to be a BIG day. HUGE! Here’s how twas supposed to go.
1. Get up at around 6. Website upgrade was to be launched on Friday
night and it was supposed to go live in Australia at around 5-6am.
2. Best staff member ever coming over at 7am to oversee launch and be
here if things went wrong and we needed to field a lot of
questions/emails. Mr JDF leaves for a motorbiking weekend with the boys.
3. Best staff member ever leaves around 9. My daughter and I hop on
our bikes and go for a ride. We get juice and then ride home again. We
wake my son before we go. Daughter gets picked up for sleepover at all.
4. Make a big vegan curry with the lentils I soaked overnight, do some housework, read a book.
5. Ride to the local shopping centre for an early dinner followed by a movie with my son.
Cool huh? I love being organised and well planned. I feel settled
when I know what’s going on. But you know what? The universe had other
plans. This is how it went.
1. Site launch delayed due to unforseen circumstances. No problems. I
potter around for a bit excited thinking it will go live in the next
hour or two.
2. Best staff member ever gets in touch. Can’t make it, her dog is
sick. Ok! No worries. I’m impressed with my coolness and flexibility.
Totally rocking this!
3. I decide to go for a ride with daughter anyhoo. If the site
launches while I’m out, it will still be there when I get back. I wake
her up, her back is sore. she’s already been to awesome back dude to
have it fixed this week so… Darn. Back to techie, skyping, site’s going
to be awhile yet. So I hang around the pc. Too afraid to shower in case I
miss the big launch right? I should have showered.
4. Daughter gets collected on time. Excellent!
5. Son gets up, all is well. We decide to go for our ride early and
then a movie later in the day. I contact techie, he says go for your
ride. I’ll be fine. So we go to go out, and the keys for the bike locks
are missing. We really needed those bike locks because neither of us
enjoy exercise enough not to have an end purpose so we were going to hit
the exercise store, get him a new helmet, and some new runners for me
to reward me for all my patience and my fantastic new found laid back,
working-around-the-broken-plan-without-flipping-out way of being. Darn!
I’m ok… just breathe and giggle! So we laughed at it.
2pm. Site still not live. Worried about customers, embarrassed as I’d
put on facebook that the site was going live first thing in the
morning. Breathe and go with it. I upload a youtube video and start
editing another.
Worried about site, getting tense in shoulders and
starting to get snarky. Think about what I’ve been learning in therapy,
‘do I need to be tense?’, ‘how does it feel to imagine that I just
relaxed and went with it?’. I relax, find my happy, keep on trucking.
Site goes live sometime between 5 and 6pm. At 7.30 my patient saint of a son and I finally go out for a meal. No movie.
9pm I get notifications that the site’s not opening, Syntax error.
Darn!!!! Lucky techie is still awake and it’s an easy fix. Phew! I keep
an eye on social media and emails for just in case scenarios until I
can’t stay awake and go to sleep.
Crazy! To top it off I forgot about making the curry and the lentils
started to ferment… ew. They literally smell like a fart before they
become one! Hahaha. But I was so happy that I didn’t go into my usual
panic about the
plaaaaan not working out. Delighted with my
ability to just go with it and enjoy the day anyway. That’s not me! I’m
just not that cool. If the plan doesn’t work out, I flip out! Start
yelling or go to bed and wish I could cry.
Today was day two.
My plan was to go to the local organic farmers market, with a note to
remember to visit the frozen mango man and get two kilos of frozen
mango with everything else. Mango man’s not there.
What?
I can deal with that… From there we are to go to the shops to get new
bike locks and do the grocery shopping. Shops don’t open until 9 and
we’re there at 8! Damn… that’s what we get for getting up early! We go
home, unpack the market stuff, then head back to the shops. They’re out
of the bike locks except for the really shit ones. FARK! So we head off
to the bike store. They don’t open until 10.
#$%^&&^*&&%^$
We head back home, book the movie tickets and drive the damned car to
the movie. It was great! We then revisit the bike store and get some
good locks, pick up daughter and head home. Fabulous!!! Collecting
daughter was definitely a part of the plan.
Now we can go on a
bike ride. Bout friggen time! So I pop my phone, credit card, bike lock
key and garage remote in my bike seat bag (really must look at what
they’re called) and son and I leave to go. He then announces that Mr JDF
has put his bike seat up too much and he can’t ride it. That’s when I
start to get annoyed. I feel that tension in my shoulders, open the seat
bag, and reach for the garage remote to put the bikes away. He quizzes
“mum, what are you doing”
“I’m putting the bloody bike back”
“Why?”
“Because you said you couldn’t ride it!”
He looks at me like I’m freakin’ nuts and announces “I just lowered the seat so we can go. Lets do this!”
Who knew he could do that himself? No tools needed…
Awesome! So off we ride. We have a great time. Son has gotten a LOT
stronger since I last rode with him which was so lovely to see and we
had a ball. He is also gaining confidence on his bike and it’s
wonderful. I actually feel like a good parent for a moment. A rare
feeling for me. A few months ago he was terrified of riding but that’s
another post. We arrive at the sports store, lock the bikes and go to
take out my phone, credit card and other valuables from the seat bag and
guess what? I’d not zipped it back up after the ‘seat to high’
business. The phone was still there as was the garage remote (thank
goodness!), however my card was long gone. Darn! So we turned around and
went home and strangely enough really enjoyed the ride. I wasn’t
worried about my missing card at all.
After that I just gave up and went with it. There’s a bunch of stuff I
didn’t get done this weekend. So much stuff. But you know what? I got
to rest in front of my pc nearly all day yesterday. I had a great night
out with my son, my site is fine and lovely though needs adjustments and
today I had a lot of laughs at the movie, got some delicious oranges,
and I have a shiny new card on the way, money in the bank and had a
great time with my son several times over the weekend.
And I got to ride my bike.
The very best part of this weekend? Riding up the ‘difficult’ hill and finding it easy. I’m stoked!
Another funny incident. As we were riding I said to my son “I’m
such a knob”
To which he replied
“yeah but you’re a
smart knob“
Hahahahaha! I hope y’all had a great weekend.
