Things I Want to Somehow Do This Weekend
1. Have a romantic evening with my boyfriend Friday night. It’s already planned – we’re going to a sexy restaurant and then a movie.
2. Buy a new (used) car. A mini-van, actually. I wanted a hybrid SUV, but the ones I can afford aren’t getting good reviews. I need a whole mini-van, anyway, though, because my children are huge and they can’t sit in the back seat of my Altima anymore without punching each other and fogging up the windows. Also, I suspect that I should get rid of the Altima before it becomes completely worthless or attains a problem that’ll cost a bunch to fix.
3. Go to a party at the house of one of UH’s most awesome professors.
4. Start my next book, as soon as I decide which of two topics it’ll be on.
5. Put up Christmas lights, maybe buy a Christmas tree.
6. Or, at the very least, remove the rotting pumpkins from my yard. And edge the lawn. And weed/feed the lawn. And rake. And trim the hedges.
7. Spend some time alone. I’m not an introvert, but I do need some alone time. I haven’t been alone, really, for several weeks now. If I had a day alone, here’s the sub-list of what I’d do:
a. Sleep.
b. Read.
c. Play World of Warcraft, but only for a little while.
d. Lie on the couch and watch TV.
e. Absolutely nothing.
I never get to do those things, dammit. Never for long enough.
8. Get a pedicure.
That’s all I want to do. Eight things. And I already know that there’s no way in hell I’ll do numbers 4, 5, 7, or 8.
Also, I have to drive to Austin on Sunday to pick up my kids from their dad’s house. That never, ever gets old or stops being fun, not even when their dad moves 30 miles farther from my house than he lived before. (I’m being sarcastic. God, I hate driving to and from Austin twice a month.)
Okay, that’s all. I know this entry was a lame-ass, cop-out of a things-to-do list, but I hardly ever write those here, so I hope y’all don’t mind just this once. Or, we could call it a glimpse into the real life of a single, working mom and author.
Happy holidays! I hope y’all have productive yet incredibly enjoyable weekends.
