Super Planner ! ! ! ! ! !

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I know I’m a super planner and all, but like to know what to expect and how to plan accordingly.

My friend, Jules, and I agreed this past summer to spend 4^th of July 2005 at my parent’s condo on the beach in Florida. And this crosses my mind just now so I whip out a calendar and begin to start figuring “If we leave on such and such a day and come back on such and such a day we’ll need to take “x” amount of vacation time”. Yes. I’m a nut. I even went to far as to begin pricing out roundtrip tickets for myself.

I almost brought this up to her but decided against it because she’ll be like “You’re crazy for thinking this far in advance !” and that will just annoy me.

I’m going to have to sit J down sometime soon and try to talk about what our plans for the coming year insofar as trips are concerned. We were supposed to “postpone” Ireland until 2005, but I doubt we’ll be taking that trip in the coming year with the amount of money this house has been sucking out of us. My mother has offered for me to go to Ireland with her and my brother sometime in 2005 – just the 3 of us. And I’m a bit conflicted about that trip because I’m sure J will be annoyed that #1 – he’s not invited and #2 – I’ll be going somewhere without him. There’s also the issue of putting me and mom together for any length of time . . . .so that’s one to think on. I definitely will need to escape to Florida to see my family for a week sometime next year and I think I’d like to do it around a holiday. So. What’s a girl to do when she knows she’ll only have 2 weeks + 3 personal days for the year? Careful planning ! That’s what ! Hence why I need to start picking Jules’ brain as well as J’s. I NEED to KNOW what the plan is going to be ! ! ! !