I think something is wrong with me!!!

[Feelslikeadream]

So we have been planning since 300 day. Now we are at 21!!!! I was sooo flippin' excited in the beginning I drove everyone crazy. Up until maybe 2 weeks ago, the excitement was amazing... now I am in a major funk!! I don't feel the excitement and don't seem very into it.. AM I SICK!!! WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH ME!!! I still have a few things for the trip to pick up, not many things. What can I do to SNAP OUT OF IT!!!

Am I alone, has anyone gone through this. It's not right. Will it come back?? I hope soon!!!!

If you have any recent videos I would love to watch them, maybe it would help.

Please send the dust my way!!!

 

[DreamofDisney]

We are due to go in 9 days (yay single digit dance ) and have been counting down for over 300 sleeps - I went through a similar funk about three weeks before that was then followed by blind panic thinking I wasn't organised enough - that lasted a few days and now I am beside myself with excitement again - crying over pictures of the day (on the theme parks and strategies board) - beware watching the link to illuminations may send you over the edge!

Don't worry you'll get the magic back

 

[Smileybug]

I have also experienced this same thing!!

 

[fizz13]

I know what you mean, I booked this trip (9 days away) last May and went into overdrive. My plane tickets arrived this morning and I'm just bleah... haven't been feeling it the last couple of weeks. I think its cos the sooner I go the sooner its over till who knows when? The thing is I know that as soon as I drive under the purple arches I'm gonna be fine. I was exactly the same last trip, sending some for a magical trip.
BTW, try reading a thread on The Year of a Million Dreams, all the good stuff happening lately has got me excited about something magical maybe happening for us,

 

[nja33]

YES! And I leave Saturday morning. I was really excited when we first booked the trip but now I'm just not. I've done everything I can do to try and make the trip a good time but I just don't even want to go anymore (the horror, I know). I'm sure I'll get over it once I'm on the plane but I kinda just want the day to come so I can get it over with and stop worrying about what I could/should have done. I think a large part of it for me has been that I've been sick for the last few weeks. It started out as allergies then a throat infection and now who knows what. The weather here has been crazy so at least I'm excited about knowing the temperature there is going to be fairly consistant. None of this 70s one day, 40s the next.

And now I'm just rambling. Sorry

 

[outlander]

Yep. Been there. It will get better.
Have a great trip!

 

[cakesnkids]

We're leaving in 10 days and I've got the blind staggers...just realized I haven't made the tshirts OR reservations for one night to stay while driving....DUH!!

 

[clombardi]

It happens to me every trip! I think you start to realize that now that the trip is approaching, it also means it is almost over. I just try to appreciate every moment while I am there.

 

[LOVEDISNEYLAND]

It happens to me every trip! I think you start to realize that now that the trip is approaching, it also means it is almost over. I just try to appreciate every moment while I am there.

I totally feel ya!!! I still have 43 more days which is pretty far away, but we booked our trip in July and I was so excited back then I couldn't control myself. We have our doc's all ready and so I looked at them yesterday and for some reason I wasn't really all that excited and started to feel real bad. I start to think about what it's going to be like when I have to come back and that depresses me lots, so I try not to think about it and instead think about the up coming trip I can plan.

 

[goofygirl77]

Don't worry, you'll get out of your funk. DH and I went down 9/30 - 10/8, and we were in the same boat. We were so excited, then the week before we both had CRAZY weeks at work(DH worked 3rd shift 2 nights before leaving, which messed him up until like tuesday of our trip!!!) We both felt really rushed packing. So to avoid this funk, do all that you have to do now, so that the anticipation of your trip brings out excitment, not that feeling of being overwhelmed!!! Have a blast!!!

 

[pwrflpills]

Yes, getting as many little things done now will REALLY help your anxiety as the trip approaches. Also, I'm not sure about how many kids you have to keep track of, but give yourself a minute here and there to slow down and take it all in when you're there. That's the hard part about planning a year in advance is that the wait for the trip is so long that even if you're there for a week, which is a very long trip, it's almost like it didn't happen! Good luck and have fun!

 

[UrsulasShadow]

RELAX...you've been putting so much energy into this you've burned yourself out. I'd say avoid the boards for a few days, do something else that is completely UN-Disney. It'll probably come back to you. I think we put so much of ourselves into the planning and preparation, that we forget the end is not having everything perfect...it's going to someplace fun and doing things you don't get to do everyday. Let go of the uber-planning mentality for a while, and think of your upcoming vacation as a brief respite from the mundane.

 

[saschab]

I feel your pain! We decided to book our trip in late August for early November. It would be quick planning compared to our other trips. So I went nuts on the board; as things have change so much in the 5 years since our last visit.

I burnt myself out so quicky that I'm now in a major funk with 12 days to go.
I haven't even packed yet.

I know I'll come around....you will too! Enjoy your trip.

 

[vanyel]

I've seen this thread before and have felt the same thing. Last year as I was planning our trip, someone else mentioned this and it was the same thing that I had been feeling and worrying about.

The feeling comes back, trust me. For me it was that I normally plan my trips more spontaneously and planning 9 mo ahead of time drove me crazy. It was too long to wait. I had too much time to think and there really wasn't anything I could do.

You'll get over it - we all do!