The Here and Now

This past week I have been doing what is necessary to get everything that needs to be done, done. I have made a vast number of calls that needed to be called, reserved things that need reserving, and bought things that I really don’t need at all, but I just love shopping.

In the hustle and bustle of doing these many things, a few things may not have been properly documented.
For example: the name of the hotel I will be staying in when I reach Anchorage.

As I lay here doing the necessarily pointless after-midnight internet surfing I made the realization that I had no clue which hotel it was that has my credit card reservation.

Damn.

Advice from a friend led me to check my credit purchases. Good idea in theory, unfortunately I haven’t stayed there yet, therefore they haven’t charged me yet.

Damn.

Now what?

I did the only logical next step.
I pulled up Orbitz, typed in the day I wanted to stay and proceeded to call every bloody hotel with high-speed internet (my one requirement in lodgings).

“I have a stupid question. Last week I made a hotel reservation… I just can’t remember which hotel. I am listed with you?”

You cannot imagine how many times I was laughed at.
Mocked.

“Don’t forget this time!”

But, on the upside, I now know, and I doubt that I will be able to forget a second time.

This all goes with the day I have been having.

I had a girly doctor’s appointment today. I drove up to the office, prided myself on the fact that I had arrived 15 minuets early, and sauntered coolly up to the door.
Problem, my doctor’s name was not on the door.
It read, “Jackson and Jackson, attorneys at law”

Damn.

I found a phone (having left mine back at the apartment) and called the proper office.
They moved a beautiful 3 years ago.
I have actually been to the new office.
Twice.

Damn.

I sped to the new building, scurried into the office, and was sweaty and gross by the time I made it into the back room.
To get felt up by a stranger.

All in all I would say it has been a successfully forgetful and hopefully forgettable day (except the bit about the hotel, that needs to stay with me).