Weekend Plans Post: What You Gotta Do Before What You Get To Do
This is the weekend BEFORE the big celebratory weekend. Next weekend will be all of the grilling hot dogs and meeting with friends and having a glass of something on the deck and talking about how pop culture was totally better back in the 90’s.
This weekend is not that.
This weekend is the weekend where you know that you’re not going to get anything worth talking about done next weekend, so you have to do everything now. Costco for steaks and hot dogs, PetSmart for the cat supplies, and King Soopers for the stuff that goes bad after a week but that’s okay because it takes you 6.5 days to get through it all anyway (eggs, milk, those hard little rolls that could cut your cheek if you bite into them wrong but, inside, they’re fluffy like a cloud).
On top of that, there may be a reason to go to Whole Foods and/or Trader Joe’s for the wacky little things that you never know would make for a great thing to throw into a bag for when you go over to friends. “Hey, everybody! I brought dark chocolate peanut butter cups! We can make ice cream shakes with them!” Because, seriously, there’s nothing else that those dark chocolate peanut butter cups are good for.
There’s also the whole issue about how doing fun things with fun people that you like very much is wonderful, it’s also something that kind of drains the batteries… so it’s good to charge the batteries up beforehand and, surprisingly, going out and running three errands and coming home with a Yaris full of groceries is one of those things that makes me say “you know what? Yeah. I got a lot done. And I didn’t even have to talk to anybody beyond standard protocol.”
As such, I’m really looking forward to that.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “get set…” by aliceson. Used under a Creative Commons License.)
This is kind of a pre-weekend for me too. Next weekend I’ll be flying down to Christchurch to catch up with my parents,, following which I’ll be having a much-needed 2 weeks off work. This weekend will mostly be resting on Saturday and running the introductory session of my new Adventurer Conqueror King campaign on Sunday.Report
Today is my “weekend day.” First up is the screening mammogram I get every year (AKA the one medical test that doesn’t give me anxiety – never had a bad result and there aren’t metal instruments being jabbed *into* parts of my anatomy, so). But then I’m going to go antiquing and also do some grocery shopping in the next city over (which has better shopping).
Tomorrow I’m going to go in and finish a manuscript; I think I’ll work better on it for having taken today off.
Sunday is a potluck at church but I’m going to make one of my typical dishes (a bastardized form of carne machaca/pulled beef, made in the slow cooker) so I have that figured out and also it will be an easy preparation.
Next weekend will be good: a friend of mine who lives several hours away is planning to come up and we’re going to spend the day running around looking at nearby historical sites and maybe going to a tiki bar.Report
My wife took me to one of her gynecology appointments once and all I can say is that these dudes who go on about how ultrasounds aren’t a big deal need to go sit in one of those, because I’m sitting there and she’s all up on the table and the doctor takes out this thing that looks like a hose clamp tightener and I’m like “what’s that” and whaoooaoaAOHAOAHAOAAOAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHH!H!!!!!!!!
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Like, if you honestly think that this stuff isn’t a big deal then all I can say is that you don’t actually know what’s involved. I sure-hell didn’t. I’m…well, to say I’m glad I was there would suggest some very specific fetishes that I do not share, but I really appreciate her sharing that experience with me because it’s not really the sort of thing that people who haven’t got vaginas really get, I think.Report
Yup. My wife and I went through two rounds of IVF (and other “minor” procedures before that), and she went through hell. I have a great deal of respect for what women go through.Report
We’re all going to electronic music festival #1 this weekend, then I’m traveling straight to music festival #2 to help with set up while the rest of the family he’s gone for the week and come out next weekend for the festival itself.
Today we run around and get groceries and replace the camping stuff that got stolen out of the truck on Tuesday and do a bunch of laundry so we have something to wear while we’re away.Report
Festival one is over. It rained and rained oyn the lead up and we pretty rainy during; fortunately we arrived late enough that the ‘roads’ through the site were already mud bogs and all the low areas were underwater – so we set up right near the entrance to the grounds, and the high ground was easily identifiable by being above water. My friend who’s giving me a ride to the next festival was called far from the gates – it took us a good hour to drive his front wheel drive car off the site, walking ahead, planning our route around the bogs. We did it though – probably half the vehicles got towed out by a tractor.
It was a lot of fun, but it was a lot of work to have that fun.Report
Younger boy is heading out for an evening with friends and another parent is handling transportation. I don’t believe I have anything going on Saturday so maybe I’ll employ the double excuses of “it’s hot” and “the outside air is full of pine tree pollen” to stay inside all day and explore the Steam Summer Sale. Birthday party for older boy this Sunday–he’s a teen so it’ll be a lot of family and a passel of his friends who will require zero supervision from us so that’s easy. Otherwise–laundry. I’ve been slacking so I’ve got to–GOT TO–wade through the pile on the guest bed. Providing motivation is the imminent arrival of a house guest this weekend who will be here for about a month or so. And that’s probably my night tonight–catching up on the various Arrowverse shows (I’m trying to watch them in story order), enjoying a few adult beverages, and laundry.Report
(To be clear…the laundry on the guest bed is cleaned and sorted. It just needs to be folded and put away!)Report
Our monthly dinner club meets tonight and we’re doing a Mexican fiesta theme. I’m going to try my hand at making some churros with this recipe. It has the triple benefit of me already having all the ingredients in the pantry, easy to make, and likely very tasty.
Like JB I have to make a Costco run for some meat for our family Fourth of July picnic. It was my grandmother’s birthday so the extended family always got together. She died 26 years ago, but the tradition lives on. I think this year might be the 60th.
The rest of the weekend will be spent decompressing after finishing a major project at work, and dealing with a pretty sick wife.
Happy Independence Day to all American readers!Report
I… Don’t think I have any plans. So, I might break ranks and go see a movie, as there is a new Jim Jarmusch/Bill Murry film playing at the local art house. Other than that, I think I will try to get caught up on projects, which seem to be multiplying.Report