The best part of being unemployed right now is that I am regularly seeing the sun set. Tonight’s evenfall was particularly gorgeous and I kept turning around to snap photos before darkness pulled its curtains closed.
Sarah and I spent Saturday afternoon together eating Southern food and browsing bookshops. I had cheesy grits and (noncheesy) beignets.
Saturday night, I stopped at Glen’s, our local market, to buy a baguette and found their outdoor fireplace lit, but deserted. I was dressed for cool weather and had a book, so bought myself a cup of tea, which I kept warm by keeping my handknit mittens on top of them. Knitters are always prepared.
Today, I caught the final waning rays of sunlight at the park by my house before retreating to the local bakery to continue reading. Sadly, it was too late in the day for them to be doing any baking because when they do, it’s an intoxicating place to sit, filled with the scents of butter and vanilla wafting upstairs.
How was your weekend?
Rudi is off for the next four days and I have no real plans except to take advantage of his not being here to put the apartment to rights. It’s not that his being here prevents that; it’s just that when he’s here, I’d rather spend time with him than waste time on putting away the Christmas stuff or finding the coffee table.
I’m going to head to the library to return things that have holds on them, but not before I make one more try to get the rest of the way through Isle of Dogs. I just don’t really like Wes Anderson films, even when they’re animated. And that will get me outside and into the sunshine.
I made some cookie dough today, so there will also be another batch of chocolate chip cookies to bake and eat.
And I’ll probably see if one of my local friends wants to hang out at some point.
I probably won’t watch the Super Bowl. I don’t care about football, the political bent of some of the Patriots have made them hard for this New Englander to root for, and the commercials aren’t really enough reason to sit through the rest of it. They’ll be on YouTube.
And I’m going to read and knit. Just maybe not until after I put away the Christmas ornaments.
As you can probably see, I didn’t write either longer blog post I hoped to finish, but that doesn’t mean I accomplished nothing on this mild winter weekend.
I saw the sunrise on Saturday when I went to buy bagels. Corey and I then went back to bed, which is the only reasonable reaction to seeing the sun rise.
I went to Georgetown to the library, where I used their printer and picked up my hold and checked out the progress of the bulbs on Book Hill.
I then moseyed down to Baked & Wired for a cup of hot chocolate. The key during busy times is to forego cupcakes and other major sweets in favor of drinks (and, if you want, quick breads), because there’s rarely a line for the latter but almost always a line for the former on nice days.
Rudi and I made homemade pizza before he had to turn in for the night.
Today, I visited the farmers market for some vegetables and worked on getting my ukulele in tune. (I think I need new strings, because these are ancient and do not want to remain taut. Luckily, there’s a music shop a couple metro stops away, so there’s a task for later in the week.) Late in the afternoon, I headed to a local coffeehouse where I sat out on their patio for a while, listening to my audiobook and working on my sock. As I was walking home, I spotted some forsythia, a mid-winter staple in the area. (It was in focus in real life.)
Rudi and I concluded the weekend by watching the live-ish performance of Rent on tv — quite enjoyable.
I hope you also had a nice final January weekend!
This is the final weekend of January. Here’s how I’m thinking I’ll spend it:
How about you? What are you hoping to do this weekend?
Things I’d like to do this weekend:
How about you? If you won’t be spending your entire weekend shifting snow, what do you hope to accomplish?