Chet’s Chatter

The Grand Old Lady in my life

Posted on 30 March 2006 @ 11:11 in Family

My mother. She turns 80 today.

Happy Birthday, mum!

Mother, Christmas 2005

2005 Birthday Post

Too organised for my own good?

Posted on 27 March 2006 @ 12:23 in Personal

I’d gone to Singapore for a quick personal business trip on Saturday. On Friday night, in an ultra organised mood, I did some packing (some, but not all). On Saturday morning, I completed the packing, and couldn’t find my thumbdrive or box of meds to put into the backpack.

I left for the airport with another set of meds but no thumbdrive. I figured both items were somewhere in the apartment. After I got to Singapore, I went straight to the meeting that was the whole purpose of the quick-quick trip. Business out of the way, I walked about a bit, bought some stuff and returned to my brother’s apartment. Somewhere along the way, I dug into the backpack for something, and found both the thumbdrive and box of meds.

Either I need to do my packing in one go, or have a checklist of what has been packed in and where each item is.

BTW, the trip this past weekend felt like a dry run for the big one in two weeks’ time.

12 days to London
20 days to Rowy’s birthday party, featuring Janis Ian in a charity Living Room Concert