{"id":13508,"date":"2026-03-07T01:25:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=13508"},"modified":"2026-03-07T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:11:08","slug":"early-march-weekend-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=13508","title":{"rendered":"early march weekend planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been feeling unmotivated lately (it&#8217;s the grey and the lingering chill and the mud season preventing us from playing volleyball outdoors and everyone else&#8217;s beach vacations), so decided to resurrect an older blog feature &#8212; the weekend planning post. I never expect to get all of the items accomplished, but it&#8217;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&#8217;s dozen activities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;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&#8217;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.<\/li>\n<li>Buy cleaning supplies. The main P&amp;P store is up by Rodman&#8217;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&#8217;s a throwback, and I need sponges and cleaning supplies and a new toothbrush and cat food and Hobnobs, so I&#8217;ll be heading that direction.<\/li>\n<li>Eat pizza. My favorite pizzeria completes that northern-D.C. triangle. I mean, at that point, do I even have a choice?<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Change the cat box liner. I bought new litter earlier this week, but I&#8217;m a few days late with this monthly chore, since I haven&#8217;t yet dug out the new liner.<\/li>\n<li>Tidy the living room. (Such a short sentence. Such a Herculean task. But the only way through is through, so let&#8217;s make some inroads.)<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Watch the UConn-Georgetown playoff game on tv.<\/li>\n<li>Finish knitting the mitt I&#8217;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&#8217;s under two hours of work. It&#8217;d be nice to have these ready to go for chilly spring evenings.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Tackle the February Into the Stacks post. I only read five books, so it should take half the time the January post took, right?<\/li>\n<li>Saturday would have been my grandmother&#8217;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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you hope to get to this weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been feeling unmotivated lately (it&#8217;s the grey and the lingering chill and the mud season preventing us from playing volleyball outdoors and everyone else&#8217;s beach vacations), so decided to resurrect an older blog feature &#8212; the weekend planning post. 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