Spring Break 2016

(Apparently spring break is good for blogging!)

It's my spring break this week and it has been springy (all the snow has melted, except for those big nasty piles in parking lots) and it's been something resembling a break.  I had major plans and of course realized by Tuesday they weren't all going to happen.  I decided the most important thing was just slowing down the pace, and checking some things to do off my lists.  I bring you the gist of it, across four major categories (work, household, personal, relationships). Doesn't include the more banal stuff...

• Complete curriculum paperwork (this was the bulk of Tuesday)
• Edit introduction to co-edited book collection (maybe four hours?)
• Edited some other stuff for the collection (another few hours)
• Major administrative annoyance (this was basically all day Monday)
• Read (among other things, chunks of Smarter, Faster, Better; Reclaiming Conversation; Voyage of the Sable Venus; The Book of Salt)
• Ran some errands, one of which involved LG-and-Mom-Time
• Took Tiny Boy out for breakfast, which resulted in my anger management post, but it was nice for the first 45 minutes
• Went to Hobby Lobby, bought some craft supplies, and started an art project
• Cleaned my desk (mostly, there's still a small pile to deal with, having to do with taxes)
• Cleaned the bathroom and the kitchen (it's better, anyway)
• Did a deep clean on the litter box, as it's been a while)
• Went to lunch with friends
• Took one yoga class
• Went on four walks
• Baked brownies and banana muffins
• Cooked two new dishes for dinner, one of which was so spicy it was largely inedible, but I'll try it again with 50% less chili paste
• Made some phone calls from my list of annoyances
• Got a massage!  (Granted, it left me in PAIN but did get rid of the knot that had created a multi-day migraine)
• Watched pilots of three TV shows (House of Cards, West Wing, and Breaking Bad--turns out I don't like political dramas.  I'll give Breaking Bad a few more eps before making a call)

Tonight I'm going to take a bath (yay clean tub), watch a WHOLE MOVIE (LG has a sleepover), and hopefully enjoy some time with Tiny Boy who will probably want me to buy him a piece of pizza on the way home.

The list of the undone includes: actually bringing tax stuff to the tax guy; buying a chair for the living room and a bookcase for Tiny Boy (these were on my SUMMER 2015 list!); calling about misc. home repair (now that the snow is gone); taking the car in for oil change; going to the bank; dealing with the ongoing saga that is my relationship with AT&T; purchasing an iPad (research money--yay!).  Some of this will be done over the weekend and next week; some will be put off for a while longer.  It's going to be an intense ~7 weeks left.  And then I teach summer school :)