This weekend, I’m hoping to get a few things done:

• Get to the library, where a book I’m really looking forward to has come off hold
• Go to the farmers market
• Play volleyball
• Vacuum
• Bake gingersnaps
• Phone a friend
• Find two more quarters and do laundry
• Start knitting a new sock
• Finish cleaning the bathroom
• Spend time outside
• Visit the bookstore that’s having its quarterly member sale

How about you? What are you hoping to do this weekend?

Things I’m hoping to get to this long mid-February weekend:

• Get to the library
• Buy a King Cake
• Play volleyball with friends
• Start my Sock Madness sock
• Take pictures of the socks I finally finished today
• Do laundry
• Put away the Christmas decorations (I know, I know!)
• Buy molasses
• Mop the kitchen and bathroom floors
• Write a best-of 2022 post (again, I know!)
• Finish reading a book
• Maybe plant some peas?

How about you? What are you hoping to fill your weekend with?

During this final weekend of January, I’m hoping my time includes:

• Hanging out with a pup (I’m dogsitting this coming week)
• Talking on the phone with my BFF
• Playing pickup volleyball with friends
• Shopping at the farmers market
• Getting some writing done
• Putting the Christmas ornaments away
• Reading
• Hanging fairy lights
• Knitting
• Baking something (unless Neal has left me the rest of the cookies I left with him last week)

What are you hoping to get up to before we turn the calendar page next week?

Here are ten last things I’m hoping to cross off my to-do list before the calendar turns over, in no particular order:

1. Paint my nails something sparkly.
2. Finish reading and return my last overdue book to the library. (They’re closed and won’t know, but I will.)
3. Vacuum.
4. Make some year-end donations. (Done!)
5. Eat ice cream with Sarah.
6. Check in with my BFF.
7. Get a negative COVID result. (I was on a plane yesterday with a horde of unmasked travellers, after all.)
8. Take out the trash and the compost.
9. Put away the groceries.
10. Listen to new music.

I’m not going to lie: this is going to be a busy week for those of who dwell in the Burrow. What am I hoping to get done, all before my annual tree-trimming party next Sunday, you ask?

• Head back to D.C. from Connecticut
• Learn how to use the 3D printer at the library’s maker lab
• Play volleyball
• Complete a couple of handmade gifts
• Finish cleaning the Burrow
• Kick off the Virtual Advent Tour
• Tackle a couple cooking projects
• Buy a Christmas tree
• Have friends over for dinner and a game night (potentially)
• Attend a seminar with tips for improving your job search
• Grocery shop
• Do laundry
• Make a couple library runs

There are probably some other things that I’m forgetting, but that’s baker’s dozen list as I have it right now.

Norah Jones and Chris Thiles cover Hazel Dickens’ “Won’t You Come and Sing for Me?”