{"id":10770,"date":"2020-11-21T01:08:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T06:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10770"},"modified":"2020-11-21T07:47:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T12:47:57","slug":"staycation-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10770","title":{"rendered":"staycation planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50628549271\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Staycation Reading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50628549271_730c5efdbe_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Staycation Reading\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My office generously gave us all next week off from work, which means I get my first prolonged stretch of time mostly for myself this year. Sure, would I have preferred to spend that time in Connecticut with my family and my BFF? Definitely. Would a good back-up plan have been to spend it here in D.C. with Rudi and my local pals doing a Friendsgiving? Absolutely. Is this 2020, when the lessons of making the best of things and making do and making new traditions is hammered home again and again? Yes, yes it.<\/p>\n<p>So, I will do that. What will my time off include?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of reading. I picked up this pile at the local library this evening and have two more books waiting at other branches for me. The mid-Atlantic has adopted a pathetic fallacy for its Thanksgiving week forecast, so I believe I should have plenty of time to cross a bunch of these (and some others) off my TBR list.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Knitting. I just have the toe decreases left on my second sock, so those will definitely be wearable on Thanksgiving. Once that&#8217;s done, do I pick up projects I put down partially knit or start something new?<\/li>\n<p>\t<\/p>\n<li>Cooking and baking. My Thanksgiving meal is still evolving, but I&#8217;m narrowing in on it. I&#8217;m also thinking that I&#8217;m just going to bake every day and maybe see if local friends or my upstairs neighbors are interested in braving my germs. (All fair if they aren&#8217;t. This isn&#8217;t a normal year.) At the very least, I&#8217;ve got a couple pies (or maybe mini pies?) on my to-make list and want to give some thought to Christmas cookies. And I still have dozens of tomatoes I need to do something with.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Prepping the apartment for Christmas. This is sort of a catch-all item that includes cleaning up my living room so there&#8217;s room for a tree, putting new batteries in the fairy lights, and <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Making some progress on my Christmas to-do list. I&#8217;ve been working off and on on this year&#8217;s Christmas mix and should start working through a playlist. I bought stamps for Christmas cards (also already in hand) this week. The local bookstore is having their quarterly sale and the downtown holiday market has come up with a socially distanced shopping plan. Rudi and I need to talk through virtual tree-trimming parties.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Biking and spending time outside. I haven&#8217;t been great at finding that midday break from work to get outdoors, so I&#8217;m definitely going to take advantage of unfettered access to daylight (even if it&#8217;s behind clouds) this week. I also still have potatoes in the ground in the garden that I should dig up.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Having at least one more Netflix date with Rudi.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Writing postcards to Georgian voters!<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Holding a bunch of video chats with friends and family. We have several in the planning stage, but no set times, so I will need to marshal folks into order in the next couple days.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Catching up on sleep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, that does look a lot like my normal weekends these days, but that&#8217;s probably okay. If I can make it to next weekend feeling less exhausted and burnt out and on edge (or maybe just one of three, since this is 2020), I&#8217;ll feel like the time has been spent well.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s your weekend looking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My office generously gave us all next week off from work, which means I get my first prolonged stretch of time mostly for myself this year. Sure, would I have preferred to spend that time in Connecticut with my family and my BFF? Definitely. 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