I’ve been feeling unmotivated lately (it’s the grey and the lingering chill and the mud season preventing us from playing volleyball outdoors and everyone else’s beach vacations), so decided to resurrect an older blog feature — the weekend planning post. I never expect to get all of the items accomplished, but it’s helpful to giving me some shape to the next couple days and to use to refer back to when I falter a bit. Here is a baker’s dozen activities:

• There is a Holi celebration at Dupont Circle Saturday afternoon co-sponsored by the Indian Embassy, and I am curious about this celebration of color, spring, and the triumph of good over evil.
• It’s the member celebration sale at Politics and Prose, and while I absolutely do not need more books, I might still like to pick a particular one up, since it hadn’t yet been published when I went looking for it on my birthday bookstore jaunt last month. I should probably peek at the calendar to see if there are celebrations that will require a book in the next few months.
• Buy cleaning supplies. The main P&P store is up by Rodman’s, which is an independent shop with a little bit of everything (groceries including their renowned international section, home goods, deodorant not behind a locked case, a watch repair counter). It’s a throwback, and I need sponges and cleaning supplies and a new toothbrush and cat food and Hobnobs, so I’ll be heading that direction.
• Eat pizza. My favorite pizzeria completes that northern-D.C. triangle. I mean, at that point, do I even have a choice?
• Make bread. I literally just need to spend five minutes putting things into the bread maker and then commit to 3 hours at home waiting for the reward of a hot, fresh loaf.
• Change the cat box liner. I bought new litter earlier this week, but I’m a few days late with this monthly chore, since I haven’t yet dug out the new liner.
• Tidy the living room. (Such a short sentence. Such a Herculean task. But the only way through is through, so let’s make some inroads.)
• Hit up the farmers market on Sunday. While I can take compost to a number of receptacles around the city, the pickup at the farmers market in my neighborhood is most convenient.
• Watch the UConn-Georgetown playoff game on tv.
• Finish knitting the mitt I’ve been working on. I have an inch left, plus the thumb, and then I probably need to tear out the bind off on the first mitt and fix it, but my best guess is that’s under two hours of work. It’d be nice to have these ready to go for chilly spring evenings.
• Write a letter. I owe cards and letters to a few people, and it would feel nice to send them some cheer in their mailboxes.
• Tackle the February Into the Stacks post. I only read five books, so it should take half the time the January post took, right?
• Saturday would have been my grandmother’s 105th birthday, and it feels like I should make one of her recipes to celebrate. A cookie and a cuppa while reading a mystery feels like a good way to remember.

What do you hope to get to this weekend?