{"id":10155,"date":"2020-04-25T01:06:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T06:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10155"},"modified":"2020-04-25T03:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T08:00:41","slug":"final-april-weekend-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10155","title":{"rendered":"final april weekend planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49815639773\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Oranges from the Office\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49815639773_e182cda5a6_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Oranges from the Office\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>April has simultaneously been the longest month and also sped by unchecked, probably because many of the traditional ways we use to mark time have fallen by the wayside. I have not gotten up on the weekend yet and tried to join my weekday morning video chat, but I know that it&#8217;s only a matter of time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49816485772\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Ojai PIxie Tangerines and Avocados\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49816485772_765c986f1a_w.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Ojai PIxie Tangerines and Avocados\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>However, this is the last weekend of the month, and here&#8217;s some of how I hope to spend it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting literary: Perhaps against my better judgement, I&#8217;m thinking heavily about watching some Zoom webinars with authors. Nationals pitcher and indie bookstore ambassador Sean Doolittle is joining V.E. Schwab for what would have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebookstoreday.com\">Independent Bookstore Day<\/a>. YallWest was supposed to be this weekend (I think), so they&#8217;re having two days of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yallwest.com\/schedule\">YallStayHome<\/a> instead. However, I have noticed since I spend so much of my workday on video chats that I have way less patience for long calls. It may be that I cancel all the sessions I signed up for after the first one tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.24hourreadathon.com\">Dewey&#8217;s 24-Hour Readathon<\/a>. I have no intention of reading for 24 hours straight, but they invite people to participate, no matter how much or little of that time you&#8217;ll read during. I&#8217;m still enjoying <em>The Flatshare<\/em> and I just picked up <em>Less<\/em> out of the local Little Free Library while out on a walk this evening. It&#8217;s not too late to join me for any of those activities.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Eating strawberries and citrus. I splurged on a box of tangerines and avocados from an orchard in California, which arrived this afternoon. And this morning, a box of oranges arrived as a gift from the office. My kitchen smells delightful. Plus, strawberries are starting to come into season down here, so I have ordered a &#8220;bucket of strawberries&#8221; to pick up at the farmers market on Sunday.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Biking across town tomorrow to drop a little care package off on a friend&#8217;s deck. It&#8217;ll be nice to do a slightly longer ride.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Tracking down some strawberry plants to put in the garden. I&#8217;m hoping the hardware store has them, because I also need to buy a toilet seat, because ours just cracked tonight. (Irritating, since it hasn&#8217;t been all that long since we last replaced it, but better the seat than the toilet itself.)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Baking, because we&#8217;re running low on brownies and Oreos and are out of shortbread. I&#8217;ve pulled the butter out the past two days without converting it into another form.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Drinking strawberry daiquiris, because the blender has been sitting on the butcher block for more than a week now and it&#8217;s inconvenient to have it be there without our using it. (It lives on top of the fridge normally, but clearly you cannot mix drinks up there.)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Talking to a friend. She was just wrapping up recuperation from surgery when social distancing went into effect, so I know she must be eager to hear from folks.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Helping Rudi put stamps on campaign literature. 8,000 stamps arrived at the Burrow this afternoon, so I&#8217;m thinking he might need some assistance. Maybe I can do that while watching webinars in between knitting and snacking?<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Shopping locally (and remotely). D.C. is doing a Small Business Saturday event tomorrow (similar to the Saturday after Thanksgiving) to try to support our local entrepreneurs through e-commerce during this tough time. I was lucky enough to get a stimulus check, so would like to get some of the birthday shopping I need to do for the next couple months taken care of and show some love to the businesses, restaurateurs, and artisans who help to make this city unique.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Tidying. Sunday is supposed to be stormy, so I hope to get some of those organizational chores done I keep putting on my weekend lists without the actual intention of following through on them.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Sleeping in. 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