fun plans > doctors offices

We're coming up on the part of the month that I have simultaneously been looking forward to and absolutely dreading at the same time. Monday starts my slew of doctor's offices for the month with an appointment with my primary doc to check on my anxiety meds. Then it's like I'm mixing in weekends to Burlington every other weekend and trips to the county fair to get me through labs, CT scans and a breathing treatment in Point, another set of labs in Waupaca, and then a trip up to Weston to see my lung doctor himself and get another idea of what is going on in this body of mine.

I'm mixing in the fun stuff to keep me looking forward to something. (Combining business trips with pleasure activities helps too.) My next Burlington trip is the anniversary of my dad's death trip for the third year running. The first year was a fun road trip to show my Waupaca friends where I grew up. Last year I shot a wedding in Kenosha and stayed in a hotel room by myself because my mom was redoing her kitchen and it was the best work trip I have ever had, and made a trip to Burlington before I left to see my family and friends. This year, the only thing I have planned is a wedding consult with a couple that's getting married at the same venue Noelle and Josh did last summer. It's the only work thing I am committing to this year because I want this weekend to be fun-fun, not "I'm running around like a chicken with my head cut off"-fun because I overscheduled myself and then got emotionally burnt out.

Labor Day Weekend I'm making another Burlington trip to photograph a surprise vow renewal in Lake Geneva and I'm so pumped, I don't even care that I'll be cursing under my breath about FIBs and traffic the entire way there. (And if you know me, that says a lot! Haha.) And in between all these Burlington trips is the county fair. I'm trying to get Mini Sessions together but if I just do what I did last year and trade my camera back and forth with Abby, I'll be pretty happy.

The theory is that all this fun stuff will keep me going no matter the outcome of all my tests between Burlington and the fair, and my doctor's appointment between the fair and Labor Day Weekend. Please let the outcome be good.