(Not really a) Vacation
Apr. 4th, 2014 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieThings I Need To Do on My Vacation:
1. Dentist appointment (surely, surely this time my tooth will be fixed)
2. Doctor appointment #1 (ENT)
3. Doctor appointment #2 (Gyn)*
4. Move winter clothes to boxes and drawers, put summer clothes in closet (FINALLY)
5. Deep clean bedroom
6. Something work-related that has to get done, alas (hopefully less than an hour's worth)
7. Go to Eavan Boland reading (OMG OMG OMG SO EXCITED)
8. Skate like a madwoman (I have plans for at least 10 sessions, maybe 12 if I'm feeling ambitious)
9. Maybe get the bass speakers in my car fixed. It's only been four years since they died.
...Suddenly this is seeming less like a vacation and more like a forced march of personal productivity/taking care of life crap, but none of this was getting done on regular weekend time, so, eh.
At least there's lots of skating! For the last week before they close the rink until September for repairs. :( I'm hauling myself out to Franklin on Saturdays for the duration, but they only have one 90-minute session, and I'm sure it'll be packed. Rumor has it that the club down there is going to cap the number of skaters allowed on the ice and give priority to members of their club. I guess I can't blame them, but jeez, way to have sympathy for your skating brethren. (Also, freestyle sessions are fifteen bucks down there! Versus four up here! This session is twice as long as one of our sessions, so I guess I'm really comparing it to eight dollars, but EVEN SO. Yaaaaay for municipal rinks! My tax dollars get me cheaper ice!) There's a crew of adults planning to drive down to Huntsville every Sunday for a session at a special "Nashville refugees" rate, which strikes me as insane. It's almost a two-hour drive each way. I like skating, but I have better things to do with my time than that.
This week, I'm also going to hit 100K on the not!drawerfic or die trying. I've got fewer than 5,000 words to go. And I have books I want to read. And I really, really want to get back on the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
nx_rewatch train.
Woooo, vacation!
* Verdict on norethindrone/the progestin-only BC pill: I may be in love with this drug. I've gained eight pounds, my face is is a mess, and I still have random twingy abdominal pain--though less than at first--but the pain-relieving and less-hemorrhaging effects are definitely working as advertised. I've moved from "barely functional for four days" to "low-to-moderately functional for two days." And if it takes three months or so for this to ramp up, then it might get even better!
1. Dentist appointment (surely, surely this time my tooth will be fixed)
2. Doctor appointment #1 (ENT)
3. Doctor appointment #2 (Gyn)*
4. Move winter clothes to boxes and drawers, put summer clothes in closet (FINALLY)
5. Deep clean bedroom
6. Something work-related that has to get done, alas (hopefully less than an hour's worth)
7. Go to Eavan Boland reading (OMG OMG OMG SO EXCITED)
8. Skate like a madwoman (I have plans for at least 10 sessions, maybe 12 if I'm feeling ambitious)
9. Maybe get the bass speakers in my car fixed. It's only been four years since they died.
...Suddenly this is seeming less like a vacation and more like a forced march of personal productivity/taking care of life crap, but none of this was getting done on regular weekend time, so, eh.
At least there's lots of skating! For the last week before they close the rink until September for repairs. :( I'm hauling myself out to Franklin on Saturdays for the duration, but they only have one 90-minute session, and I'm sure it'll be packed. Rumor has it that the club down there is going to cap the number of skaters allowed on the ice and give priority to members of their club. I guess I can't blame them, but jeez, way to have sympathy for your skating brethren. (Also, freestyle sessions are fifteen bucks down there! Versus four up here! This session is twice as long as one of our sessions, so I guess I'm really comparing it to eight dollars, but EVEN SO. Yaaaaay for municipal rinks! My tax dollars get me cheaper ice!) There's a crew of adults planning to drive down to Huntsville every Sunday for a session at a special "Nashville refugees" rate, which strikes me as insane. It's almost a two-hour drive each way. I like skating, but I have better things to do with my time than that.
This week, I'm also going to hit 100K on the not!drawerfic or die trying. I've got fewer than 5,000 words to go. And I have books I want to read. And I really, really want to get back on the
nx_rewatch train.Woooo, vacation!
* Verdict on norethindrone/the progestin-only BC pill: I may be in love with this drug. I've gained eight pounds, my face is is a mess, and I still have random twingy abdominal pain--though less than at first--but the pain-relieving and less-hemorrhaging effects are definitely working as advertised. I've moved from "barely functional for four days" to "low-to-moderately functional for two days." And if it takes three months or so for this to ramp up, then it might get even better!
