Do you often have times where you’re soooo looking forward to something, then it either turns out to be a total let-down or it doesn’t happen?

This has happened to me a couple of times just in the last week. Firstly, my mum wanted to go and see Avatar, which I have already seen, but I said I’d go see it with her again because I really did love the film. We were going to see it last Friday while Michael was working, but then on Friday morning, Mum called me and said that Dad also wants to see it, so we’re putting it off till next Wednesday. I said that’s fine, no big deal – and it was really a better time for me because that was my payday.
Wednesday comes around, and now Mum is in too much pain (back pain) to sit in the cinema for 3 hours. Again, fine, but I was kind of looking forward to it. We said maybe Thursday, possibly Friday.

It’s now Thursday night and I think we’ll be lucky if we get to see it tomorrow night. There just seems to be something else that gets in the way, or something just disrupts plans, when I’m really looking forward to doing something. I’m not a very social person, so for me to make the effort to go out outside of work hours is an achievement in itself, but it really peeves me when it’s something I really want to do, and then it gets screwed up.

I’m REALLY looking forward to sleeping in the extra half-hour that I get to every day next week. Please, Universe – don’t ruin that for me too.