6 months

What can happen in 6 months?

1st month

November 4 – November 10, 2025
You can fly to Portland, rent a car, check in to your AirBnB in Lake Oswego, eat dinner at your sister’s house, pick up your parents from PDX, eat lunch at your mom’s favorite bakery in Multnomah Village, eat dinner at your sister’s house, meet with a realtor, look at several houses, visit Ole Bolle and eat lunch at Nordic Northwest, eat dinner at a restaurant, tour one of the houses again, make an offer on that house, eat dinner at your sister’s house, attend your nephew’s performance of “Anastasia,” meet with a loan officer, and eat dinner at another restaurant.
November 11 – November 17, 2025
You can fly back to Salt Lake City, see the northern lights from your deck, talk to your realtor in Portland, meet with your realtor in Ogden, consult with your re-modeler, hire someone to paint your kitchen cupboards, and pack up your kitchen.
November 18 – November 24, 2025
You can consult with your re-modeler, talk to two insurance brokers, meet with your therapist, have a massage, move back into your kitchen, and talk to your realtor in Portland.
November 25 – December 1, 2025
You can take your shoes to the cobbler in Salt Lake City, see your dermatologist, eat lunch with your son at a restaurant in the Avenues, shop at REI in Farmington, eat dinner with your daughter, celebrate Thanksgiving with your family, and meet with your writing group on Zoom.
December 2- December 8, 2025
You can open a new bank account, see your primary care physician, have a conference call with your dad and daughter to discuss a car purchase, get estimates from three moving companies, consult with your re-modelers, visit your former colleagues on campus, celebrate your cat’s gotcha day, meet with your therapist, and eat dinner with your former book group at a restaurant in Ogden.

2nd Month

December 9 – December 15, 2025
You can sign the papers to buy a house in West Linn, accompany your husband to his colonoscopy, pick up boxes from your moving company, pick up your shoes from the cobbler, have a massage, eat dinner with your parents at a restaurant in Salt Lake City to celebrate the purchase of your house in Oregon, begin taking Amitriptyline, and pay someone to clean the windows in your house.
December 16 – December 22, 2025
You can take gifts to your former administrative staff, meet with a representative at your new bank, get a haircut, and eat at a restaurant in Ogden with your husband to celebrate your 7th wedding anniversary.
December 23 – December 29, 2025
You can watch “Diehard” with your kids on Christmas Eve, open presents and stockings with your kids on Christmas morning, and eat lunch/dinner with your parents and brother’s families on Christmas day.
December 30, 2025 – January 5, 2026
You can gather stuff you want to give away, have coffee with a friend from your former book group, eat lunch with two friends and former colleagues, meet with your therapist, consult with a representative from your moving company, pay a junk removal company to pick up your unwanted stuff, have a massage, give your Christmas cactus to another friend from your former book group, give away your remaining plants to a neighbor, and see your primary care physician for a final visit.

3rd month

January 6 – January 12, 2026
You can pick up your shoes from the cobbler, eat lunch with your parents, pack up your house, make several trips to the community donation center, meet with your realtor in Ogden, eat dinner with your husband at a restaurant in Ogden, watch the moving company pack up your house, rent a U-Haul trailer, take stuff to your ex-husband’s house, have dinner with your kids, pack your car, drive to Baker City with your cat, and spend the night at a motel.
January 13 – January 19, 2026
You can drive to West Linn, unpack your car, buy food from the Safeway up the hill, sleep in a bed left by the previous owners, eat lunch with your sister-in-law at a restaurant in West Linn, reunite with your husband, read a book while he recovers from a cold, buy furniture for the family room and kitchen, see your sister, wash bedding and towels, and greet the driver of your moving truck.
January 20 – January 26, 2026
You can shut the cat in the spare bedroom, show the movers where to put your stuff, sleep in your own bed, clean the cupboards and pantry, unpack boxes in the kitchen, eat lunch with your sister and sister-in-law at another restaurant in West Linn, unpack clothes, and buy recliners for the living room.
January 27 – February 2, 2026
You can unpack boxes, chat with your family on Zoom, buy recliners for the living room, walk around the neighborhood, meet a neighbor, and eat dinner at your sister’s house.

4th month

February 3 – February 9, 2026
You can wish your daughter a happy 26th birthday, sit in your new recliners, wish your mother a happy 88th birthday, wish your sister-in-law a happy 57th birthday, put your house in Ogden on the market, take your car to the DEQ for an emissions test, purchase an Oregon license plate with an image of a gray whale, receive a temporary Oregon driver’s license, eat lunch with your husband at a restaurant in West Linn to celebrate your new status as Oregonians, contact health care providers and your health insurance company, schedule an appointment with a vet, and walk around the neighborhood.
February 10 – February 16, 2026
You can schedule an appointment with a health care provider, have coffee with your sister, wish your nephew a happy 28th birthday, have dinner at your sister’s house, wish your son a happy 28th birthday, and visit Willamette Falls viewpoint with your husband.
February 17 – February 23, 2026
You can talk to a faculty member at Washburn University about a former colleague, schedule an appointment with a dentist, eat dinner with your husband at another restaurant in West Linn, and walk around the neighborhood.
February 24 – March 2, 2026
You can see your new primary care physician, meet with the previous owners’ gardener, hire him to remove yard debris, and walk along the Tualatin River with your husband.

5th month

March 3 – March 9, 2026
You can take your cat to the vet for an annual exam, sign the papers to sell your house in Ogden, clean the downstairs, set up two guest rooms, pick up your kids from PDX, eat lunch at a restaurant in West Linn, walk around the neighborhood, take your daughter to visit her friend in Beaverton, eat brunch at your sister’s house, shop at Powell’s Books, drive to the coast, eat lunch at a restaurant in Seaside, visit the aquarium, walk along the beach, and eat dinner at an Irish pub in Lake Oswego to celebrate the sale of your house in Ogden.
March 10 – March 16, 2026
You can hike around Tryon Creek State Park, eat dinner at a different restaurant in West Linn, visit the Willamette Falls viewpoint and the pier at Bernert Landing in Willamette Park, take your kids to PDX, cry when they leave, wash bedding and towels, attend a performance of the Portland Baroque Orchestra with your sister at Reed College, have your piano tuned, contact piano instructors, and eat at the Irish pub in Lake Oswego.
March 17 – March 23, 2026
You can meet with your accountant on Zoom to file your income taxes, have a mammogram, attend a webinar about strategies for memoir writing, talk with your friends in Kansas who plan to move back to Utah, hike around Tryon Creek with your husband, consult with a construction company about repairing the front steps and utility room, attend an awards ceremony for your former administrative assistant on Zoom, drive to your sister’s house to care for her cats, walk from North Willamette Park up the hill, swing on the swings, and schedule twice monthly piano lessons.
March 24 – March 30, 2026
You can see your primary care physician about your right knee, have an x-ray of your knee, pack up your refrigerator and freezer, watch the guys remove your old appliances and install new ones, drive to your sister’s house to care for her cats, wish your sister a happy 57th birthday, discover Trillium flowers in your backyard, have a massage, watch the guys deliver your deck furniture, sit in your Adirondack chair, meet with your writing group on Zoom, consult with your construction company about refinishing the deck, meet with a pest control company about the insects in your house, and cancel your piano lessons until your mental and physical health improve.

6th month

March 31 – April 6, 2026
You can try to find a therapist, see your new dentist, start taking antibiotics for your infected tooth, eat dinner on the deck with your sister and her family, celebrate your husband’s 71st birthday, drive to the coast, eat lunch in Manzanita, walk along the beach, and watch for birds and marine animals at Neahkahnie viewpoint.
April 7 – April 13, 2026
You can watch a representative from your pest control company spray the inside and outside of your house, visit the West Linn Library, get a library card, walk from North Willamette Park up the hill, swing on the swings, see a physical therapist in West Linn, have a hair cut in West Linn, see an endodontist about your bad tooth, join the Willamette Writers for a Friday Write-In on Zoom, have a massage, eat brunch at a restaurant in Portland, use the gift card your son gave you for Christmas, attend a Portland Baroque Orchestra concert with your husband at Reed College, see a periodontist about your bad tooth, walk around Foothills Park, and submit “Circle of Comfort” to Inch.
April 14 – April 20, 2026
You can begin your twice weekly physical therapy, have an MRI of your knee, walk along the Tualatin and Willamette rivers, meet with your memoir chat group on Zoom, attend your nephew’s performance of “The Time of Our Lives,” move your car out of the driveway for your construction crew, pick up a book from the library, and walk around Mary S. Young Park.
April 21 – April 27, 2026
You can continue your physical therapy, walk along the Willamette River near Roehr and Foothills parks, meet with your writing group on Zoom, stop drinking for two days, take a Benzodiazepine, have your bad tooth extracted, and begin taking antibiotics and Ibuprofen.
April 28 – May 3, 2026
You can cancel your physical therapy appointment, have a massage, water the beds in your backyard, continue your physical therapy, return a book to the library, buy a recumbent exercise bike listed online, and eat dinner at your sister’s house.