I have ticked off a broad list of dumb chores today. Website design. Check. House cleaning before the house cleaner arrived. Check. Eyebrow waxing. Check. Now, I have a pot of tea and I am going to read Bobos in Paradise on the front porch and wait for Ian's school bus. Maybe I'll roller blade while he does the scooter. Tonight we're going out to a local restaurant that will donate a portion of the check towards Autism Awareness.
The rest of the weekend promises fantastic weather. My goal is to work as little as possible. I want to read, exercise, and eat. Maybe I will garden. In reality, I have to prep one more week of classes and I have no idea where the kids' shorts are, so I can't be as fat and lazy as I would like.
Question of the Day: What are your plans for the weekend?
Apt. 11d 
Tomorrow I have a gardening consultant coming to help me de-bland my front yard. Yeah, recession ain’t hitting Casa Wendy too hard.
Sunday morning, when it will be 80 degrees and sunny, I have to spend cooped up in a rundown inner-city auditorium at a dance competition. Good news: both my daughter’s dances are before noon, so we’ll be out of there by lunch. Bad news: being surrounded by 200+ girls between the ages of 6 and 16.
I think my babysitter handed in her thesis this week, so maybe we should go to a movie. Adventureland? State of Play? The Soloist? The lure of 80s music and Long Island nostalgia (yeah I know it’s set in PA, but Mottola grew up on the Guyland) may prove to be compelling.
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A bunch of people are coming over from Copenhagen for an exhibition.
And I could really, really, really need a serious dose of creativity to get a paper finished for Thursday.
Oh, and prepare a lecture on globalisation and the welfare state. That one is the easy bit.
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You can’t get fat in a weekend. It takes months, and you have to have the constitution for it. Lazy, that you can do.
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Realistically:
Skip history fair at school? Take C on playdate to see friend and baby chick, go to puppet show, wash C hair, encourage husband to finish lawn mowing and clean garage, light grocery shopping. Possibly make dessert and go to parish anniversary party after church, possibly not. I go to the last meeting of my 13-week personal finance class.
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Well, it’s beautiful outside, and hopefully will stay that way over the weekend. We have softball/tee-ball/drama/hitathon. I’m really hoping to skip the hitathon. My daughter has to finish a “special day talk.” She loves these, really loves them, and can be found making up her own topics, but, this week, we’re delayed, and slow, and I’m not looking forward to it. But, I might be borrowing trouble. ’cause, she really does love them. If I just give her a time and let her alone, she’ll probably get it done. We really need some downtime.
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Sleep, plant a few flowers, vacuum.
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I’m taking tomorrow off to go to the Omaha Zoo. It’s really a good zoo… it will probably be cooler and rainy, which is a good time to go.
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I am finishing my book this weekend. It will take more time than I want it to.
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I miss Omaha. Haven’t been there in several years.
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Expand the herb garden, assemble the new vacuum cleaner, do some weeding, do the grocery shopping, go kite flying with the girls, go to church. Grade the last set of papers from the semester, if I have time and the energy.
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Aaah, the AC is down. It worked yesterday.
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“Aaah, the AC is down.”
You need it already–horrid! I’m hoping to keep it off for another month, but it is starting to get a bit sticky inside. There are 3 magical months in the spring and maybe 2 in the fall when we don’t need either heating or cooling.
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No revolution this weekend. Maybe next?
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I don’t really need the AC, but it would be nice. Its over 80 now, but we have a good breeze going through the house, it isn’t that humid and will go back to 60 something when the sun goes down. It’s more of a scheduling issue than anything.
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Doug’s comment about the revolution and all of the swine flu stuff going on have got me thinking about what to store for emergencies. Beer and wine aren’t very compact, require relatively careful storage, and I’m very likely to drink them well before there is any crisis. Grain alcohol is more compact, but I’d also like to get something that I might want to drink if there isn’t a crisis. Whiskey might seem a nice compromise, but it really has no nutritional value and in an extended crisis, I’d want something with antioxidants as I’m guessing I won’t be able to get any Lipitor should the need arise.
So, I’ve concluded I should store port. It is relatively compact, stores well, has grapey goodness, and, though I like it, I’m not included to drink it if I have beer in the house. Usually, it is a bit sweet for my taste, but I’m guessing that in a post-riot world, I won’t be getting much for dessert.
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Oh, and some food of some sort or another.
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