1. Trip. Sam and I have been talking for a few months about taking a trip to visit a family member. His dad is in Atlanta, I have aunts, cousins, and grandparents in Pittsburgh, he has an uncle in San Francisco, we both have family in Florida... Basically we have have lots of great places to visit and people to see! I think I've figured out the best time for me to take off work, so now I just need to get it approved, Sam needs to take the time off, and we need to buy tickets! Hm, when I write that out it doesn't like we're actually that close to a trip...
2. Running partner- A girl I went to high school with recently posted on Facebook looking for a running partner. We weren't friends in high school. We were both on boards of different Young [Political Party] clubs and worked together planning a debate, but I think that was the extent of our interaction. Still, I commented on her post and it turns out that we live just two miles apart. She lives in the other arts district in the city. My neighborhood is the hipSTER spot and she's in the hipPIE area. We have a run planned and I'm looking forward to it, but also kind of nervous! What if our pace doesn't match up? What will we talk about?
3. Errands- I buy groceries/household supplies/pet things from lots of different stores. One place has the best prices on organic produce, but I get vitamins from the health food store, and spices from the Asian market, and so on. Normally it's not that much of a hassle, but this week we ran out of everything, so I have a million stops to make.
4. Library- I used to buy any book I wanted to read. I wanted to have them so in case it was great and I recommended it to someone I could just pull it off my shelf and lend it to them! That was great, until in college when I was in a new apartment pretty much every year and, DUDE, books are heavy. I realized I was constantly moving a collection of books that I had no real attachment to. Pretty soon after they came out my dad got me a Kindle for Hanukkah. I love the convenience, but it seemed expensive for a book you can't physically hold in your hands. For a while I was buying used books, figuring if I just donated them or sold them back to Half Price Books when I was done, it was no big deal because, meh, it cost few dollars to begin with. Recently, I've rediscovered the library. I don't know why it took me so long to end up there! I mean, I was the kid with my own library card with my name scrawled in newly-learned cursive on the back. I LOVE the library, but I find it a little stressful. I feel a lot more pressure to finish a book knowing that it's due back soon. I have two reserves ready and I'm putting off picking them up, because I'm not done with my last book yet, so I don't want to start the clock ticking on the time I have if I can't even start them, and it's just a lot of pressure, OKAY?
5. Poop- I started my morning picking up cat poop from the bathtub and dog poop from the living room. Our stupid foster dog is perfectly housetrained when it comes to peeing outside, but is convinced that the corner of the living room is the only possible place for poop. Super adoptable, right? Does anyone want a pit bull with a janky leg, a skin allergy, and the promise of poop in your house? Not everyone at once, now!
6. Short run- Thursday mornings I do a short neighborhood run. Depending on my miles for the rest of the week I do either 3.5 or 4 miles on Thursday. Somehow the difference of half a miles seems huge. In reality, it adds or subtracts MAYBE four and a half minutes? But somehow when I have 3.5 planned I hop out of bed and out the door thinking "I'll be home in no time!"But when 4 is on the schedule? I reeeaaally have to talk myself into it.
7. Sunday dinner- We've recently started hosting Sunday dinner at our house. My mom comes, Sam's family came last week, and next weekend a friend from school is joining us. I love it. It encourages one good mopping a week, I love nothing more than feeding people, and it's just a nice way to end the weekend. I'm hoping that it becomes the type of thing that our friends and family remember each week and join us whenever they can.
