At the moment and for the next hour, I am at Whole Foods. This isn’t something I planned. It just seemed to be the best option for me right now. I left home shortly after the sitter arrived. Normally, I would have gone to the Y, but I had a meeting at United Way at 2:00. At the last minute, the meeting was changed to 3:00. Then I thought I might get together with Mark Harrington who is helping me with the technical aspects of getting this journal ready to be launched as a blog. He and his wife have recently moved to a new house. It turns out that he has a commitment to meet someone who is doing some work for them.
That has left me in a peculiar situation. I usually have a definite plan for the four hours the sitter is with Kate. Today I didn’t. The good news is that I always have things I can do with my journal. Almost all of them involve reviewing all previous entries and putting them in categories so that readers can sort through them for things of special interest. I don’t foresee that I will finish doing that before my launch date in January.
Having a bit of time that I need to fill is not something that happens very often. I either have plans or I have other commitments that demand my attention. For a while, I was concerned that four hours was not sufficient time for me to do the things I needed or wanted to do. For that reason, it feels funny to leave Kate with a sitter. It is as though I have a sitter but don’t need her today. I wonder if other caregivers ever find themselves in this situation.
That reminds me that yesterday I spoke with the agency that provides the sitters. We were making arrangements for the January schedule. They asked if I would want someone on New Year’s Day. I told them I didn’t.
I just got a call from my contact at United Way. They are now thinking of handling the 3:00 meeting by phone because of the weather. That is fine with me. That may give me a little more time this afternoon.
