organizing

I love organizing.  The downside?  I tend to become super obsessive about organizing when I am nervous or stressed out about something.  The downside to that?  I don't realize that I'm stressed out until AFTER I've done all of the organizing.  The story that explains where this self discovery came from?  As follows:

This evening I spent approximately 2 hours (yes TWO) taking the agenda for my trip and putting it into my Google calendar.  When I first started doing it, it seemed like a great idea for several reasons.  1. It would make my itinerary easier to distribute to my family and friends. (This proved to be false.) 2. It would give me easy access to it while traveling; look it up on my phone and voila! no shuffling of papers and such.  (Also, proven false.) 3. I thought it would be quick and easy. (Again, false...clearly.)
#1 was wrong because I realized, after I put everything in my Google calendar, that I had already forwarded the email with the agenda to my parents.  I'm sure my mom has already printed it out and put it on her desk at work.  If not, she will this week, for sure.  (My mom did, however like the idea of having access to a day-by-day plan of what I would be doing readily available on HER phone.)
#2 was false because, as I mentioned in my previous post, I cannot access the internet on my cell phone while out of the U.S. (I still think that I can sync my calendar though, and not have to be connected to the internet to view it.  Working on that one.)
#3 False again because, well, it took me 2 hours to do it.

And after all of this, I realized that I was spending time 'organizing' (aka being counter-productive) because I am getting so nervous and excited about this trip, and I can hardly contain myself.  Too bad I didn't think about that fully before I started working with my Google calendar.  Then maybe I could have made a better plan of action!

If you would like the link to my Google calendar so that you can check out all the cool places I'll be going...like Lake Sevan and the birthplace of Stalin, then comment with your email address, and I'll forward the calendar link to you.  It really is going to be an awesome trip, and looking at the agenda for 2 hours did make me even more excited about it!