Scribbled down on July 10th, 2008 by she
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Welcome to the 35th edition of the screaming pages Thursday Thirteen.
I work at a college and many of my co-workers are off for the summer. Others are splitting their vacation time between summer and winter months. Unfortunately for me, summer is my busy season at work and it doesn’t tend to calm down around here for me until later in the fall and mid-spring. So, while all my co-workers are busy bouncing around Mexico, California and Europe or lounging around at the lake or cottage, I’m stuck in my office. But there’s other things I’d rather be doing…
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Thirteen things I’d rather be doing today…
- Camping in the mountains. I miss the days – before the monstrous gas prices and crazy summer work schedule – when we would load up the RV and drive off to the Rocky mountains for a week or two.
- Fishing at Pelican Pouch in Lake-of-the-Woods. I always catch the most fish there.
- Backpacking through Europe.
- Re-organizing my office/library. I need to comb through the area to make sure I have room for next semester’s books.
- Finish the front yard work. The ugly ass half-dead hedge has been torn out but we still need to plant new (smaller and nicer, juniper most likely) bushes and install the decorative rock. After that, we need to tackle the severely diseased tree in the yard. I think the previous home owners had the same shade of green thumb that I have – black!
- I can’t believe I’m writing this, but I’d rather be reading my course textbooks and working on my papers (2) that are due soon.
- Sit on my deck in the backyard with some lemonade, my textbooks and my laptop.
- Grocery shopping. The cupboards are pretty depleted and I would like to eat this week.
- Determine what I’m getting Loxley for her birthday next week. She wants something home-made (like Christmas) but I’m not sure I can top that. Well, that and I don’t have that many free hours to spend working on her present – see #’s 6 and 7 re: pending papers and upcoming due dates.
- Groom the dogs and cats.
- Go for a walk through the river valley.
- SLEEP! I’m exhausted today. Not really sure why.
- Cooking. I used to cook frequently but got thrown out of the kitchen by a cooking fiend (the hubby) and was never really interested in going back. Every once in a while I get into a mood to cook. If I wait long enough, it usually passes *grin*. Today, I wouldn’t mind spending a day in the kitchen cooking. Mostly, I just want to make food to freeze so that we have a tonne of ready made meals available for the times when I don’t want to cook.
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July 10th, 2008 at 8:09 am
I agree with you on so many of your choices. This said as I’m sitting at work reading TT’s instead of working! LOL
July 10th, 2008 at 8:20 am
I’d love to be camping right now. The weather is perfect for that over here. Happy TT!
July 10th, 2008 at 8:41 am
now on the subject of cooking, my 3 favorite words are “Lets Eat Out”
Happy TT!
July 10th, 2008 at 9:07 am
You sound a bit sad. Try looking forward to the times when your workload will be lighter and your colleagues will be busier than one-armed paper hangers.
July 10th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Mmm…I’d rather be in the mountains too! I live in Illinois and there are NO mountains around here!
Great list of things you’d rather be doing. Hope you’ll stop by my TT when you get a moment!