Weekend!
It’s been another week out here and boy are my arms tired.
The strangest things I’ve noticed are how when you have a list of the form:
Monday: DO MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER []
Once you put a box in that check (and that box was checked at 7:52 Eastern Standard Time on Monday), the rest of the week is kinda anti-climactic. There’s still plenty of things to do before the Christmas “ghost town” week but none of them really merit all caps.
As such, this weekend will involve me doing laundry and preparing the way for Maribou being out here next week. Oh, and I will probably visit a local church on Sunday as well because it was exceptionally pleasant to visit this one last time. (Also, I kinda want to see how Unitarians handle Christmas. No religion. (No pun intended.[/efn_note]
So… what’s on your docket?
I’m doing the next 3 B5 posts.
Okay, I’m doing the next 2 B5 posts and the last one, which I haven’t done yet.Report
I’ve had freelancers luck of an unofficial vacation because my assignments ended and my boss has yet to give me more to do. He has been in the process of doing so. If he does, I’ll be working. If not, there is a showing of The Thomas Crowne Affair (Steve McQueen version).Report
Really, is there another version?Report
Pierce Brosnon and Rene Russo remake. They steal art instead.Report
Well, I was trying to make a funny, but it apparently flopped. That said, I am not a fan of remaking movies that were successful. There are plenty of “almost there” movies that could be remade, how about fixing those?Report
Going out to dinner with a friend tonight. Then Friday will be the busiest day of the year at work, I think. Whenever I and my beloved minions finish checking in ALL OF THE BOOKS (5? 7? 10?), I will go home and zone out until I fall asleep. Saturday I’m visiting friends in Denver, Sunday the friend who is going to check on the cats is coming over to get the lowdown and I will be doing laundry and maybe even starting to pack, Monday I have a breakfast date with Jaybird’s mom and dinner with our Monday night friends, interspersed with finishing packing. Tuesday I fly out to visit Jaybird!
(It’s all weekend once winter break starts on Friday night, hence my extendamix.)Report
Been a hectic week at my work, which will include Sat. dayshift. Saturday eve, noting the passage of the solstice with family to include some Christmas-lights viewing. Sunday an unabashed, guiltfree day of vegging, with a little football on the telly. Off on Monday, taking Raven & our spawn to see the next installment of “The Hobbit”.Report
This will be the final, very last, thank god this is done, parts of moving.Report
Heading off on our annual Christmas trip. This year we’re taking the kids to Cleveland, a city none of us has ever visited, where we’ll see the rockenroll hall of fame, the aquarium (with walk through shark tank!) and the science center which currently has an exhibit of Titanic artifacts. Plus, some selection of Turkish, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Korean or Ethiopian food. (With so much variety in food, how can the city possibly be a mistake on the lake?)Report
Don’t forget to see the Hellmouth while you’re in Cleveland.Report
You wouldn’t happen to have coordinates for it, would you? 😉Report
Just listen for the weeping and gnashing of teeth, you can’t miss it.Report
Just listen for the weeping and gnashing of teeth
So you just need to find your way to FirstEnergy Stadium, then.Report
Chris beat me to it. Our hotel is kitty corner from the stadium…are the Browns at home Sunday?
Went to the art museum today, her nice, and ate Korean food. The kids all ate octopus and kimchee–I have awesome kids.Report
I also love Korean food. Now I’m jealous.
Fortunately for you (traffic-wise, at least), the Browns are in East Rutherford Sunday.Report
Went to the art museum today, her nice, and ate Korean food. The kids all ate octopus and kimchee
That’s a good squid pro quo.Report
Oh man, I love Ethiopian food.
Have fun in Cleveland.Report
Too bad you’ll miss seeing a game at the Jake. It was one of the first new-style (that is, idealized old-style) ballparks and an integral part of the Tribe’s renaissance in the mid-90s.Report
Clancy passed the boards! Clancy passed the boards! We’ve been waiting on pins and needles since she took the test. She was convinced that she did very poorly and had even asked around the office what would happen if she had to retake them (the answer was, it wouldn’t be the first time this happened and she would still have a job).
Not only did she pass it, she moidahed it. She got 670 out of 800, with only a 390 needed to pass.
Clancy being Clancy, her thought is “Next time I will just have to study much, much harder so that I don’t spend six weeks needlessly worrying about it.” I can only barely follow the logic…Report
Congratulations to Clancy!Report
Hurray!Report
Excellent! Are any celebrations specific to passing the boards on the agenda, or will that just add to a pervasively festive atmosphere?Report
Our celebration will be in the negative. We will celebrate by not spending our next week scheduling the retest and figuring out how I am going to afford her the time to study for it.Report
Congrats!
And that really is a better response than “Cool, next time I won’t study at all”, held by some children I’m otherwise reasonably fond of.Report
As for this weekend, we’re flying back home tomorrow. Then spending a few days with my family and a few days with hers.Report
Tonight or tomorrow I’ll make my birthday cake. Normally I would have made it a month ago to let it properly soak up enough rum, but I’m late starting this year.
Tomorrow night we get on the train and head home for the holidays. The timing is fortunate – If we were leaving earlier, I wouldn’t be home to get the newspaper with the giant Christmas crossword, and my dad and I would be circling his one copy like vultures.Report
Looks like I will be seeing the Thomas Crowne affair and potentially Inside Llewlyn Davis on Sunday.
My long-distance girlfriend is heading to London on Saturday.Report
So she’ll be your longer-distance girlfriend.Report
For the first time since I was 15, I have next week (mostly) off, though New Year’s Day.
I’m…kinda giddy about that.Report