We're so lazy these days...

Sent my overseas Christmas cards today. Too late. Again.

I'm so unorganised.

It's funny how I seem to have fallen into a pattern of only sending
cards to overseas family and not to local friends. Thing is, I don't
have them in my address book. I have no idea of the actual addresses
of most of my friends - except for the ones I've known since school
whose details are imprinted in my brain. I have email addresses on my
work computer and moblie phone numbers in my phone. That's it. I don't
even have landline phone details. If I want to visit someone and I
don't know which apartment number to buzz, I stand at reception and
call their mobile phone with my mobile and say "I'm downstairs. I can
never remember which number you live in."

Are we the "need to know" generation? So used to getting information
when, and only when, we need it that we can't be bothered storing it?

The other day I called Hubby from where I was in the house to where he
was in the garden to ask him to bring something with him when he came
back inside the house. We also frequently call each other from
different aisles in the supermarket as we shop for things "You get the
toilet paper, I'll get some bananas - I can't believe they're only $3
a kilo here now - that's almost normal. Oh, can you get some
toothpaste? Oh, I can see you! Wave at me!" I guess part of it is
having work-paid phones. But seriously, that's so lazy. I am getting
less organised as the years go by, simply because it's so easy to
access people and information.

No one has any set plans these days. On Sunday, Hubby had invited some
friends for a BBQ at 5pm, and at 4pm, we still didn't know whether
they were coming or not. It was always "I'll call you and let you know
where we are." And no one knows whose bringing what and we always end
up with too much or not enough food.

I watch my younger cousins go out with their friends each weekend and
they never have any actual plans. If something happens and someone
isn't answering their phone, it's sooo frustrating beacuse no one
knows where anyone is meant to be.

We're unorganised because we're used to getting things when we want it
and finding out what we need to know when we think of it.
Even with little things - when I was a kid and I wanted to know the
lyrics of a song, I'd have to tape it off the radio (after waiting
days, diligently, to hear it) then painstakenly write down the lyrics.
Knowledge was a labour of love.
If I wanted to meet someone, we'd work out the time and place beforehand.

These days, it shits me how disorganised (unorganised? disorganised?
Sorry, I was in the grammar-less generation) some people continue to
be. They expect other people to work around them because they can't
get their act together.

Do you know how many people don't realise they've run out of tablets
even though they're swallowing the last tablet from the pack? They
come into the pharmacy saying "I didn't realise that I've run out and
I don't have a prescription and I didn't realise it was the last
repeat" and they expect someone else to sought it all out for them.
When it happens once - okay. But when it happens to the same person
almost every month with multiple medications, you wanna bang a
saucepan on their head while saying "Stupid, stupid, stupid!". Grrrrr!

In times past, you couldn't just go to the fishmonger on Christmas Eve
and buy two kilos of prawns without ordering it first. These days they
expect people to not plan these things. Butchers take orders, but they
know that most people wont actually place one. People just ask for
what they want, when they want it.

I want to be all Old-School.
To not have shops open on Sundays so they can be all about family and
quiet time again. To have things ordered and planned in advance. To
not turn up half an hour late for everything while texting "Soz -
running late! CU soon!"

Maybe that will be a New Year's Resolution.

Along with the standard "lose 5kg" which I never quite achieve.