What Was I Thinking?

Two things fall into the "what was I thinking" category. The first is the new built-in closets I've ordered for my sons' bedrooms. I was thinking I would finally get all their junk organised and stored behind doors instead of stacked in corners, on top of wardrobes and under beds. A good plan, I thought, and I booked the builder to come during the April school/university holidays so I would have said sons on hand to do the said organizing and storing.

What was I thinking? Why on earth did I believe that said builder would appear on the promised date??

Son #1 returned to university last week. Son #3 returns to boarding school tomorrow. The builder delivered all the materials yesterday and will be back next week to install. Which, I might point out, is May not the promised April.

Guess who gets to do all the organizing and storing?

On a positive note: this way I'll get to toss out whatever takes my fancy (and deal with the consequences) AND in the process of organizing, I'm spending today giving my office and work-space a thorough going over. I will concentrate better on my book when I'm not wondering if the skyscraper of boxes will topple down and bury me and how long it will take my family to notice my absence (when they get hungry? when their clean clothes run out? when the fridge is empty?) and whether my stores of body fat will keep me alive until then.

Tomorrow I am going to Sydney to a dinner at son #1's college to celebrate the award of scholarships. He is an awardee so, yay. As I was going to be in Sydney anyway, I found myself agreeing to a live in-studio radio interview. My first. What was I thinking? Okay, I was thinking of this as an opportunity to promote romance and also as an opportunity to see how a radio studio works (future reference and research, y'know) and also because it's new and interesting and different. They say it's character building to do something scary every day (does working beneath a gigantic stack of boxes count?) Hmm.

The radio station is 2GB, Sydney. The presenter is Chris Smith. The time 2pm Monday May 1.

That's midnight Sunday American eastern, but hours earlier for western time zones, so if anyone wants to check out the 2GB website I notice there's a "Listen Live" link if you have the Real Player or whatever's necessary to tune in. They do podcasts of select shows and, ack!, I see a "Live Webcast" button. Hope that one's not going during my bit!