Dave and I occasionally travel for business and between the time differences, kids’ schedules at home, and back-to-back meetings afar, we barely have time to catch up those weeks.

I got into the habit of keeping notes of all the things I want to tell him when we reconvene. My latest list from his trip to California looks like this:

• Ashley’s #?
• Can we convince Joe & Julie to move in next door?!
• Mern’s neighbor has solar panels [nb: the “Mern” here is a friend who lives in Colorado, so this also involves a story around how I discovered that]
• J running laps
• Salami drami? Salama drama?

Does anyone else do this? Is it super weird, or only moderately weird? When I mentioned it to my sister, she didn’t miss a beat and said, “of course you do.”