Up early, and at it.

I was able to push myself out of bed by 8:00. I could not remember when my homemaker would be arriving, though I thought it was to be early. Certainly enough, around 9:00 or 9:30, she was here. We cleaned several areas, though only the bathroom was in strong need. Still, I was about to become overwhelmed and I knew it. She does a very good job and she is rather personable.

I am up and going for the day, so I am hoping to knock three things out immediately and see where things go from there. I will be shipping some clothing back, calling the college to check with them but I will give them until 14:00 to contact me first, and I need to call in an order for medications. Anything else that gets completed, started, or has another step finished will be purely incidental.

I am also trying to remember what I am forgetting. What am I forgetting, you might ask. To which I must reply, I do not recall. Every trip for which I have ever prepared has left me feeling unsure, as if I had forgotten something or some things. Whether I have planned well and long or whether I had been required to load and go quickly, I always feel as if I am forgetting something. Lists only help just so much, and my memory is not good enough to reliably go without a list. My memory is actually limited to remembering where the lists are, as even the creation of the lists is developed from the planning someone else has completed (though with my own added development in the works of course).

I have most of the larger things settled, now I am doing some nitpicking. Things like how to pack my backpack are popping up. Where to put these, those, and the other things by weight, need, use, and bulk has become a big thing, being my first packing event and not having more than a book to depend upon. Although, I think I did this a time or two in the service, using an inner frame backpack as well. I will have to see if my ideas match with what I read about packing. Then too, though I will not be fishing for sport, I will be taking line and other fishing kit in a pill bottle. I still do not have the little necessities of survival kit, such as a wire or other saw. I do not have the little other items, like a real first aid kit (though I have some stuff), signal mirror, or storm whistle. Some of that may still be on the way. It is easy to get lost in the thing, so I really need to stay on track at this point. Lists, I tell you, lists.