According to Plan

Good ole' Florida, I miss ye.

This morning I woke up to a text from one of my lifelong friends saying good morning and asking me what the agenda was for today.  I answered getting two of my brothers their presents, running, and yell at Paul. 

Life has a different plan.  I did none of those things so far. The first because my brothers have needed the drivable car today, the second because I needed to clean, and the third because I was just kidding.

Instead, I spent about 2.5 hours cleaning the kitchen chairs with a sponge, pledge spray, and a knife; along with the past few days doing endless loads of laundry, cleaning, and more cleaning.  My mother has high expectations of cleanliness, and this is among the celebrations where we go all out on the clean house thing.

Christmas celebrations will be taking place tomorrow and the next with about half of my big fat immediate Cuban family.  My uncle's family will be staying at our house: a family of 8 and our family of 9.  That's 17 people and two bathrooms, and only 6 of us are over the age of 18.  We're experts at these things lemme tell ya!!

So back to the not going to plan topic.  After not doing what I planned, I snuck into my room and watched Along Came Polly on my laptop to enjoy more free-spirited attitude.  This is probably one of my favorite quotes from Polly:

Polly: Hi, Reuben. It's Polly Prince.
Reuben:   Oh, hey, Polly! How's it going? Good.

Polly:   I'm just calling to say that, um, I'm free tomorrow night if you want to get together.
Reuben:   Yeah, I would love to get together. That'd be great.  Should I, um-- Should I pick a restaurant or—

Polly: Oh, no, no. You know what? I should probably just check

my schedule, see if I can even do it.

Reuben: Okay. I'm...Did you say you were free?

Polly: Yeah, no, I'm actually not sure. But okay, I'll talk to you later.

Good stuff, good stuff.

"It's not about what happened in the past, or what you think might happen in the future. It's about the ride, for [bleep] sake. There is no point in going through all this crap, if you're are not going to enjoy the ride. And you know what... when you least expect something great might come along. Something better then you even planned for."

Last night I discovered that something I was really looking forward to in my life may not work out.  After an hour or two of grumbling about the house, I came to the consensus with myself that all I can do is be proactive, make a back-up plan or two, and just go with the flow.  And while I don't believe that everything in life can be particularly enjoyed like the quote says, I do believe that there's a greater interior plan beyond the exterior "crap"...and in that I can "enjoy" things, or rather attempt to live a life in love.

Time to be productive. Too-dah-loo.


~Esa Cita