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January 6, 2020


early january weekending
posted by soe 1:43 am

I captured only the low-hanging fruit this weekend. I slept in. I got outside (in a steady drizzle yesterday and the sun today). I went to the library (and the grocery store and the farmers market). I stopped by the garden to take down the last of the vegetable cages and stakes I’d left up in November.

I left a message for my friend. I raced through The Art of Theft. (I now need to track down Sherry Thomas’ The Heart of the Blade series for more of a crossover character.)

Other projects proved more high-jump than hurdle. I thought about doing laundry, but then decided having the drying rack in the shower (where we put it during the Christmas season to avoid giving cats a perch from which to bat at upper-level ornaments) would be inconvenient to my pre-work trip shower. I looked for semolina flour for the shortbread, but didn’t buy any. I’m not sure emptying one bag and vacuuming really constitutes tidying. I took my shawl with me, but didn’t actually sit down to knit. I spent too much time playing on my phone and not enough writing Christmas cards. I read instead of writing that best of 2019 post, which I suppose was a fair trade. And I watched a terrible Christmas-themed sitcom instead of a terrible Christmas-themed movie, which was probably an improvement.

Luckily, as Karen noted in her comment to me, it’s too early in the year to feel guilty over how a weekend is spent (particularly after a month of feeling guilty for not accomplishing more most weekends). Volleyball doesn’t start for another week, so I can spend tomorrow evening finishing my Christmas correspondence. And maybe I can set aside another evening for finishing my shawl. After all, how awesome will it be to have my first finished object of the year so early in January?

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But your weekend plans post inspired me! I was home, mostly alone (22 year old son does not really count). I finished my Best if 2019 post, got out for an early Sunday hike with some women I’ve been hiking with and met mostly through FB, did a load of laundry, got to the library to pick up a book and pay part of a fine, got some groceries, read some of the 4 books I’ve got going including The Art of Theft, got to son’s basketball game even though he wasn’t playing (concussion protocol), got Christmas boxes put away.
See, you weekend plans were actually a to-do list for me as I had a lot the same plans! I didn’t get to Farmers Market or bake anything, but I thought about it.
Happy January!

Comment by raidergirl3 01.06.20 @ 5:50 pm

Oh don’t be so hard on you!!!! Volleyball restart will get you back in the moving swing of things!! Maybe you need rest now!@

Comment by kathy b 01.06.20 @ 6:22 pm