Hello
So the panic has begun! I like to be packed with a week to go so I know that I will not forget anything. I also like to make sure I have cleaned the house before I go (so I don’t have to when I get home), and left it all nice and tidy. Well, I made my list the other day but I keep having dreams where I get off the plane and find I have not even packed underwear.
Today started with mince pie porridge;
Yum, sprinkled with cinnamon of course!
It was the christmas play at work and I was feeling nervous, (it went fine) but I have been feeling all day like I have been full of adrenaline- its a weird feeling. Anyway, it wasnt the play because even when it was over I still felt funny. After work I had 2/3 of a graze flapjack (I didn’t know they did them until it arrived in my box)
(along with a cardboard make-your-own reindeer which I made of course). Good for a pre aerobics snack anyway. (Aerobics was fab, very high evergy which is what I needed). I thought it might help but I still feel a bit panicked. I have put some of my holiday clothes in a box in the living room as I don’t want to wear anything that I want to take in case I don’t manage to wash it in time.
Anyway, I am going to relax now – hopefully the start of my packing will put a stop to the nervous dreams!
So what kind of packer are you? A list and organised kind, or a shove it in the suitcase the night before and don’t worry kind?
Night 🙂
It’s definitely all about shoving it in at the last minute! Where are you off too; hope it’s a great holiday…
And I was just wondering where to get some gift bags like that – thanks 🙂
I am off to America- to florida, charleston and savannah 🙂
I’m an awful packer. I go for the throw it all in a nd hope for the best approach!
That is kind of what Andy is like!
I do the same thing with cleaning the house before I go. It seems pointless for some people because they think if you’re not going to be there, why have it super clean? But it’s just really REALLY nice coming home to a clean house after traveling all day whenever it’s time to go back.
Yes I dont want to have to clean when I get home because I know I will be really tired! So to do it before I go away means I dont need to worry about it!
That porridge looks good!
I’m a stuff-it-all-in-and-sit-on-it packer! 😛
I’m definitely the “shove it in the suitcase minutes before” kind …. I’m impressed I remembered and and got kiddies passport updated before we went away this weekend ….. yip, I’m THAT bad sometimes! But I always have to be at the airport super early not screeching in with only second to spare.
I try to be as organised as possible, I hate that awful anxious feeling that lingers on and you can’t put your finger on it. Hope starting getting packed has helped!
I’m a bit of both, I love a good list but I still usually end up last minute and panicking!
p.s. I ALWAYS forget to write the capcha… you’d think I would have got the hang of it by now but no… sometimes I question my intelligence haha
I used to be a list maker, but as I get older I’ve become a stuff-it-in-at-the-last-minute girl! Problem is, you do usually forget something that way.. Maybe there’s some middle ground between me and you? 😉
Hope your nerves settled anyway. This is such a busy time of year, maybe you need a night on the sofa with a tea pig and a blanket? 🙂
I am the absolute worst packer in the world! I just throw everything in a bag, and always bring so much more than I need. My husband makes the most detailed list possible and goes through it all and checks it twice. It’s funny because normally, I’m the overly organized one and he’s the procrastinating anti-planner haha I do love cleaning my house before we go anywhere though! I absolutely hate coming home to a messy house!
Emma- love the image of you sitting on the case and trying to make it shut! That is normally the end of the holiday for me!
Lara- Things like not having passports are like my worst nightmare!Yes I like to be at the airport early too.
Stylish Laura- glad someone else feels my pain!! Haha!
Boxing Laura- that is actually my style- do a list but panic anyway!
Alison- teapigs and a blanket sounds like heaven! 🙂
Emily- coming home to a clean house makes the return journey not so bad!
🙂