Goals

Things to Do Today: Highly Optimistic Version

November 24, 2024

❏ Record podcast sponsor pieces for December

❏ ERRANDS: FedEx, library returns

❏ Book Vegas flights for gymnastics meet (have done a ton of travel booking lately; my credit card feels like it’s on fire)

❏ Fill out 2025 Essential Calendar (this is an affiliate link; you will get 10% off with code BESTLAIDPLANS) for at least first quarter 2025!! Super excited for this.

❏ Write 2000 words

❏ ? Take kids to Wicked . . .

❏ Book restaurant for post-race dinner (have to call, blah)

❏ Notes for podcast ep next week

ALL must be complete by ~6p tonight because we have a date night (Ben Folds, woohoo!). NOT on the list is all of the usual “prep for the week” stuff because we’ll be traveling and the kids have no school! I am working tomorrow, however, so I am not really feeling that ‘vacation’ mindset just yet.

I will acknowledge this is maybe not the world’s most realistic list. We will see how much of this I can get through! I accept my own challenge . . .

8 Comments

  • Reply Lisa’s Yarns November 24, 2024 at 10:22 am

    Have the best time at Ben Folds!! I love his music! I saw him in concert for the first time when I was studying abroad in Australia in 2002 and have seen him a few other times. He’s so good!

    That is a big list! I feel like going to Wicked would make it extra tough because it’s almost 3 hours, so there goes 3.5ish hours of your day… I could not sit through that long of a movie!! I miss the days of movies being 1.5 to maybe 2 hours long!!

    • Reply Sarah Hart-Unger November 24, 2024 at 10:27 am

      oh jeez I did not know it’s 3 hours!! really 4 hrs gone because we’d have to drive there too . . plus previews . . . hmmm.
      (I am not entirely sure G would sit through it, either . . .)

      • Reply Lisa’s Yarns November 24, 2024 at 10:27 am

        It’s technically 2:45 I believe. But with getting there early I would plan for 3 hours in the theater… way too dang long for me!!

  • Reply Noemi November 24, 2024 at 2:29 pm

    You can do it! Good luck!
    (And if you don’t, it’s no big deal. 😉

  • Reply Sesb November 24, 2024 at 2:43 pm

    How are you going to a concert on a Sunday???? My husband went last night to the orchestra and didn’t get home til 11 and I was like nope! I’m going to bed! Your endurance always impresses me.

    • Reply Sarah Hart-Unger November 24, 2024 at 3:41 pm

      I know … a little nuts BUT a) I slept in today until 7 (no early workout) and b) I can leave for work slightly later tomorrow, like 8am, since I don’t have to take kids to school. I do have a monster workout in the AM… I imagine I will crash a bit when we travel Tuesday!

  • Reply ernie November 25, 2024 at 3:54 pm

    Hi Sarah. I’m hopping over from Elisabeth’s blog. She shared a link to your blog in her interview with Kae. I love the ‘optimistic’ label on this list. Are your to do lists always this neat? My notebook where I keep my lists are a mess of cross outs, and writing in the margin. This will shock no one, but I’ve not heard of Ben Folds. I enjoy music, but I rarely know the names of musicians and can never remember who sings what song. I think I was born without a chip of some sort.

    • Reply Sarah Hart-Unger November 25, 2024 at 5:02 pm

      Haha yes they usually are!!! And no worries for not knowing Ben Folds – his biggest heyday was in the 1990s and early 00s so totally not an artist everyone would know!

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