Summer Vacation

Having finished my first year as a music instructor, I found myself looking forward to summer vacation. With all that time on my hands, who knows what I could accomplish? I had visions of planting a garden, refinishing the cabinets in my kitchen, learning to play a new instrument, and preparing healthy and delicious meals for my family. Those tasks would definitely take up the first week. After that I could go wherever my whims took me.

The reality? Weeks of extreme slothful indulgence where I have convinced myself that simply bringing one load of clean laundry upstairs for my children to truffle through was actually a task that required a lot of effort resulting in the need for a nap and/or a drink to recover. Who knew summer vacation could be so tiring?

Today, I woke up and felt strange. What was that alien feeling? Deciding not to waste too much time on the problem, I started my day. Here is what I accomplished.

1. A three-mile walk with a friend.
2. Wrote down an extensive list of household chores for my children to do and assigned them in random order.
3. Sat on the couch while watching my children do said tasks.
4. Felt guilty for sitting and watching and not helping out.
5. Started cleaning my bathroom.
6. Stopped cleaning when my sink started to back up.
7. Spent some time debating whether this was a clear sign that I should stop cleaning and wait for my husband to come home and clean the drain, or if I should tackle that job myself.
8. Decided that marital harmony was more important than my gag reflex and started cleaning the drain.
9. Spent some time gagging over the horrible slime I had to extract from said drain and cursing my need for marital harmony.
10. Finished cleaning the bathroom.
11. Sent children off to zoo with their grandparents.
12. Had lunch with a friend.
13. Did some light shopping and had to contend with some snotty salespeople.
14. Spent some time wishing I could pull a Pretty Woman on said snotty people, minus the prostitute part.
15. Made dinner for my family.
16. Revived my husband as he had dropped in a dead faint when he came home to find dinner on the table.
17. Cleaned the kitchen.
18. Read a book and a half.
19. Wrote my first blog entry in months.

Who knows what I'll do next summer?