This year for the 4th, I've decided to be a recluse. Why you ask? (you were thinking it) It's not that I have anything against our country, or our independence. I like independence. Here's the thing: 1) I'm not really into crowds. Never have been, never will be. 2) I like fireworks and all, but to watch a public display here in Tacoma is like getting through a labyrinth. 3) I've never really had that 4th of July "tradition". Meaning, most of my friends and family have had their things they do set it place for eons. I was married for 18 years and we really just kind of winged it every year, so now that I'm single, I don't have a "thing" I do every 4th.
Put all those things together and when the 4th came around, I was kind of like, "meh." My bosses gave us today, Friday, off, so I decided to have myself a little staycation to catch up on all the stuff I'd put aside while I was working on my major marketing presentation for said day job. So, this is what I have planned:
- Deep clean the house. Seriously, my house is totally disgusting
- Shop for a new washing machine. I've been going to my parents house to do laundry for like a month now and I'm over it.
- Put together furniture that has been sitting in my garage for a year. Seriously.
- Frame prints a friend gave me over a year ago and find a more prominent spot to display them. I had them sitting on a window ledge, but they need to be in a better place.
- Print out pictures to fill frames that have been sitting on my mantel for 6 months.
- Load music on iPod. I've had a gift card in my purse for about two months. This also include getting my besties country music OFF my iPod that inadvertently got synched on. I had it playing yesterday and wanted to tear my ears off.
- Walk the bridge. I slept through kickboxing this morning.
- Weed. Yeah, I have lots of weeding to do.
- Find all the typos in Dissected. Yep.
- Work on publishing house website. I'd like to get this done before the book come out.
- Find a box and finally put away those Cinco de Mayo decorations that have been sitting in my living room for two months.
- Handily avoid my children. Now, don't act like that. I love my children, but it's their dad's week. However, whenever they're with their dad, they always come over and end up staying for hours eating my food and messing up my house that I'd more than likely just cleaned. I told them about my hermit weekend and that the house was off-limits. Of course Thing Two already tried to come over last night with nine of her closest friends for a sleep over. I was like, "uh uh, no way." She was not pleased.
- Find workout shorts that don't threaten to fall down revealing me in all my glory during kickboxing. Seriously, I don't know what it is. I guess I just have a weird body shape. I fear if I go down another size they will be so form fitting I won't be leaving much to the imagination. My body is shaped weird. Or maybe it's just that I have curves and usually what fits my hips falls off my waist. Who knows? I'm an anomaly.
- Organize my cupboards. Kind of. Not spending a lot of time on this one.
- Clean my office. You would think this would go along with cleaning the house, but my office is a whole 'nother dimension. I would take a picture and post, but honestly, it's too embarrassing. Imagine stacks of paperwork, computer programs, manuscripts, newspaper articles, book swag, office supplies...and I mean stacks and stacks and stacks and stacks.
- Write. I want to work on my contemporary. Because I love it.
Next Pandora song (Imagine Dragons station):
Book of the Week: Designing Brand Identity by Alina Wheeler
Netflix of the Week: Jeff, Who Lives at Home. Indie Flick with Jason Segel and Ed Helms. I really liked it.
Quote of the Week:
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.~ Susan Sontag
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