I am the type of person who simply has to have a plan for everything.  When I don't have a plan, I feel completely lost.  My friends mock me for this, which isn't surprising since for every situation, at least three or four times, I wind up saying "Ok, I have a plan," or "Wanna hear my new plan?"

"Haha, ok, Fyre, you always have a plan...  let's hear this one."

But the really sad part is that most of the grand plans I come up with are abandoned.  It's not that they're not *good* plans, usually they are, but every plan relies on a certain specific set of circumstance to occur...  and usually they don't, at least not in the way that will fit into my Plan.

Which is why I usually have so many different plans, for a million different situations.

I even rank my plans.  Good plan = this would be fun, it's likely I could carry it out or at least it would be the very best outcome I could hope for.  Bad plan = not something I want to do, but that I could do if it came to that.  Yeah, those are the rankings...  all two of them.

It's like a security blanket.  It makes me feel like I have a stronger grasp on reality than I usually do.  It makes me feel like I'm in control.  It makes me feel like there's more than just muddling through whatever situation needs some kind of resolution.

So when I talk about my Plans, when I scheme and plot and map out my next course of action, afford me a little forgiveness.  I can't make it through if I have no Plan.

No Plan = pure and utter panic.

~FG };^>