Need Stamps
Kiddo and I applied for our passports yesterday. To tell the truth, I am pretty excited for it to get here. Then all that stands between me and traveling to far off places I have never been is planning. I like that.
Our first trip (with or without the passports, actually, but it would be fun to have them anyway) is a cruise this November. It was my mom’s idea - she sent the link to all the family members and asked if we wanted to do something different, and go on this cruise together. It’s around Thanksgiving, so she thought we could do that instead of getting together on the big turkey day. Sure, sounds good, so I put down the deposit and put the rest of the money aside since it’s not due until next month.
I sent an email to her a few days ago, asking if they were planning on canceling and getting the deposit back, or if they were going to go ahead and book it. We are going, whether they go or not. It would be fun if they were there but since we have already planned for it, I don’t see why we shouldn’t go anyway. I mentioned the email to my brother and he looked at me funny. He asked me, “Why wouldn’t she book it? She put the whole thing together. Is she flaky like that? To just put the whole idea together and get everyone to go and then, NOT go?”
Well, it sounds bad when you say it like that. But, truthfully speaking, yes. Yes she is “flaky” like that.
The next morning I got an email back from her saying that it was interesting that I had asked, because they were just talking about it the same night I sent the email. (Hello, can you say ‘intuition?’) She wrote that she was waiting until the rest of the money was due before she did anything, but pretty much - they have decided not to go.
Do you ever find yourself in a situation where you almost wished you were wrong about someone? Yeah, that’s a recurring theme for me these days and I will not miss it when it stops, that’s for sure. I am a little disappointed but not too much, because honestly I am not very surprised.
Poor me - now I will have to try to make up for all the fun she will miss out on while I am there!
