{"id":10964,"date":"2021-01-16T13:40:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10964"},"modified":"2021-01-16T13:40:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:40:54","slug":"mlk-day-pre-inaugural-weekend-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10964","title":{"rendered":"mlk day, pre-inaugural weekend plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoops! I logged on to pay a bill and discovered I hadn&#8217;t posted this last night:<\/p>\n<p>This will be another weekend of self-care. I&#8217;d love to see some studies on the psychological effects of constant helicopter surveillance, but when I try to look it up, all I find is how overbearing parents affect their kids. Clearly not enough researchers live in urban areas during periods of unrest. My friend Sarah and I began the weekend by doing an Inaugural ice cream tasting at a local scoop shop this afternoon, so I&#8217;m hopeful that sets the tone for what that will look like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watching the latest <em>Jumanji<\/em> movie, the new episode of <em>All Creatures Great and Small<\/em> (Have you started watching yet? It&#8217;s quite good.), and something streamable (Maybe <em>Bridgerton<\/em> or <em>The Prom<\/em>). I watched a mediocre Christmas movie last night, and may continue the trend after Rudi goes to bed (ski coaches go to sleep very early during the season).<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Enjoy our Christmas tree. It&#8217;s still going strong this year, and my goal is to keep it up through Wednesday, at the very least. (You do you. I&#8217;m seeing a lot of trees still in windows this year here in D.C.)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Spend time outside. It rained here tonight, just after I got home from the cross-town journey back from the ice cream parlor on my bike (thanks, weather gods). The forecast suggests most of the weekend will be dry and some might be sunny.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Bake. I know, I say this every weekend and then fail to do it. But I have a package that needs to go out next week and some cookies are part of it, so&#8230; Plus, I am picking up a new sourdough starter at the farmers market on Sunday, so that means I need to start planning for discard baking again. (The height-of-summer fridge death killed off my 2020 starter and I was too disheartened to get one going again this fall. But this week is one for new beginnings.)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Buy the makings for gardener&#8217;s pie (our vegetarian version of cottage\/shepherd&#8217;s pie) at the farmers market. Rudi and I were talking about the need for comfort food this week, and that&#8217;s one of ours that we haven&#8217;t had yet this winter.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Order out. One of the things that Rudi and I talked about after I did an end-of-year reckoning of my bank account was that as long as we aren&#8217;t frivolous with our other spending, we can probably to support our local restaurants once a week. We&#8217;ve already lost several favorites and I&#8217;d like to help stem the tide.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Finish a knitting project. I have several lingering on the needles, and I&#8217;d love to move them from potential clothing to my wardrobe.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Wrap up my overdue reading. The library is closed until after the inauguration for the safety of their employees, so this can extend into the week. But I&#8217;d like to start the Biden administration without feeling guilty about books the library wants back. (Plus, if I return them before Wednesday, I can wave to Kamala and Doug, who currently live in the condos adjacent to the library (but who will move to the VP&#8217;s mansion at the Naval Observatory after being sworn in.)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>MLK Day has begun to shift toward a day of service projects. A pandemic isn&#8217;t a great time to join a group event, but I can probably find a park that needs its litter picked up at a bare minimum.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Clear off the coffee table. My living room in general needs several days of work, but this feels like a manageable place to start.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How about you? What do you have planned for the long weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoops! I logged on to pay a bill and discovered I hadn&#8217;t posted this last night: This will be another weekend of self-care. 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