SPRING BREAK----WOOOOO!!!

Disclaimer--my shirt is not currently, nor will it (in public) be in the up position.

The glorious feeling of the first day of spring break is upon me in all its untainted glory. Yes. Glory glory glory. This is the day when nine days stretch before me with no 5:30 alarms or sarcastic sixth graders or traffic jams or 26 minute lunch breaks. It is the day that begins the period known as ANYTHING can get accomplished this week! This same period ends with the feeling of WHAT the hell did I do all week. The shamefully empty DVR testifies to what exactly got accomplished.....sniff......

So, with full understanding and awareness of my previous patterns and habits, I do hereby present my do-list for spring break 2012. Because I will never learn.

1. Exercise every day. First thing in the morning. Start the day right, dammit.

This plan is always derailed by the twin temptations known as coffee and the morning paper. I HAVE to make the coffee so Spouse can have coffee. Then I grab the paper so Spouse can read the paper with his coffee. Because I'm nice. Then before I know it I'm reading the paper and drinking coffee. How did this happen? I do not recall either pouring coffee or opening the paper. Yet, here I am. Now I know I should go put on some shorts and go for a walk. But I just drank coffee and, well, you know. Can't be half a mile from home when that decides to run its course. Soooo maybe I just clean a few things, then go. Okay. I can do that. Suddenly I'm in the shower. What the.....huh. Tomorrow I am totally going for a long walk first thing. Seriously.

2. Make stuff. I don't care what stuff. Maybe some jewelry. Maybe do some sewing. No clothes I make ever fit, but I still try every few years. It's all about the process.

I will probably succeed at this one. I'll spend lots of time at the stores looking at materials, then buy stuff that resembles stuff I already have, then make it, then realize it looks a lot like most of my other stuff, then like it anyway. And maybe even wear it.

3. Do yard work.

If the weather cooperates, I will grudgingly do this. But I don't have to like it.

4. Clean stuff.

Meh.

5. Paint stuff. Walls. Ceilings.

I might buy the paint but this one always gets put off until summer.

6. Finish writing my screenplay.

Ppppffff.....yeah. As much as I would like to remove myself from the cliched group known as "People who have a half-written screenplay" and add myself to the also-cliched group known as "People who have an unsold screenplay", I don't see this happening. Because I kind of ran out of plot....right where every would-be screenwriter runs out of plot. NOT even creative in my failure.

7. Write something else.

Great idea...but what?

8. Write a crappy do-list on the blog.

Check.

Girl: Here's what my Spring Break was like:

1. Don't take meds
2. Finish Mockingjay
3. Continue Dance with Dragons
4. ???
5. Eagerly await the announcement of the Legend of Korra premiere
6. Freak out for a whole day about this premiere
7. Hang out with the only other friend of mine in town this week
8. Get mah herr did.
How did this all take a whole week?

Yay for us.