Long weekend

By some miracle, I have an honest-to-goodness three-day weekend, starting today. Oh mah gah. Can I tell you how badly I’ve needed some time off? I know I just came home from vacation a month ago, but you should know that my life has been nonstop stress and busy work ever since then. Usually, I have clinic over the weekends, busting my ass for 9 hours at a stretch at the hospital, learning what I can and soaking up as much experience as I can grab. I was even supposed to have clinic this weekend as well, but by the grace of my poor instructor, I got out of it and will manage to enjoy my three-day weekend like a normal person. Hooray!

Unlike most normal people, though, I’m going to choose to spend my long weekend being as productive as fuck, because I can’t do it any other time. And because I am in love with making lists, here is the one I’ve made for this weekend:

FRIDAY

• Check out a possibly awesome antique garage sale
  (the pickings were slim, but Kevin snagged an old drive-in theater radio)
• Go to the bank
• Go out for vegetarian Indian food at Masala
  (we ended up eating at Exotic India in Coralville to avoid the Jazz Fest crowds, and we really missed Masala)
• Go to hardware store to schedule garage drop-off, price railroad ties for retaining wall, buy hole saw, price garden sheds, stare longingly at hardwood flooring
• Lie around watching Moon and drinking cocktails (hey, gotta start the weekend out right, am I right?)
  (Moon was delicious, and only partly because I want ravage Sam Rockwell)
• Write grocery shopping list/menu
• Organize linen closet
• Hem living room curtains (which have needed to be hemmed for over a year)

SATURDAY

• Workout at the gym
• Study session with clinic girls
  (didn’t get up in time, so I studied at the gym)
• Take stock of spice cabinet
• Trip to Kalona for cheese curds, doughnuts, and spices with Dawn
• Order some spice jars to get that shit organized and pretty
  (I ended up getting a case of 24 2oz jars)
• Take pictures of backyard and baby birds nesting on the side porch
• Write up backyard/garage update
• Barbeque for dinner
• Bake something
  (Can I pretend I baked something if I bought a Dutch apple pie in Amish-town instead?)
• Build shoe shelving in front closet
• Organize front closet

SUNDAY

• Workout at the gym
• Study/homework
• Laundry
• Organize basement
• Take pictures of basement
• Write up basement update blog post
• Help classmate with setting up her iPad
• Boating with friends
• Bake something
• Barbeque for dinner
• Go watch Iowa City’s fireworks from parking ramp rooftop
  (we watched from the Pentacrest instead)

MONDAY

• Workout at the gym
• Study/homework
• Friendship bracelet-making!
• Set up computer backups on new hard drive
• Bake something
• Pedicure
• Buy new cat food bowls
• Go watch Coralville’s fireworks in the park

Jesus, that’s an ambitious list. We’ll see how far we get.

Vacation!

Okay, so you have to know that we haven’t been on vacation since I last posted in April. BUT! We DID go on vacation last month! We took a break, from my schooling and Kevin’s grueling work tearing the house apart and rebuilding from scratch, to drive to Colorado to see some mountains. It was glorious.

Oh yeah, and this happened, too!

Yeah, it was a good vacation.

Basement!

I’m 12 days from finishing this semester, and we’re 21 days from an epic roadtrip into the mountains, and what does Kevin decide to bust his ass doing? FINISHING THE BASEMENT. Oh shiiiii- we’re going to have the most ass-kicking basement ever. What’s on the docket? Insulated walls, VCT tile floors, swanky furniture, arcade games, a bar, and lots more. Here’s the start: