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Oct. 3rd, 2010 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badseed1980I'm back from my weekend in Rhode Island. That was really EXACTLY what I needed! I think that a combination of a lot of minor stress factors with PMS was just making me nuts, and I needed to take some time to relax. It was easier to do that outside of my own apartment, because I didn't constantly feel like I should be doing something productive.
I spent Friday evening chatting with my parents and eating takeout pizza from the always-awesome Cumberland House of Pizza, and then we just hung out and watched the boob tube. Saturday morning, my dad drove me over to my old dojo, just as the morning kids' class was ending. My sensei was absolutely thrilled to see me, and I her. Turns out she never actually got the last e-mail I sent her, where I told her everything that was going on in my life in broad strokes. Hopefully she got it when I re-sent it. Anyway, she wouldn't let me leave without promising that the next time I came down to RI on a Friday night, that I'd give her a heads-up in advance so we could go out and catch up over drinks when I got in. It was really nice to see her again.
The rest of Saturday was delightfully low-key. I got a whole lot of knitting done, some of it while sitting out in the sunshine. I also went for a walk with my parents along the local bike path. We were looking for wild Concord grapes. We found the vines my father had remembered seeing, but it looks like they never bore a crop this year. Pity. Anyway, it was a beautiful walk. We went out for dinner at a Japanese restaurant that opened near them recently. Plenty of sushi got eaten. My poor father got a call from work while we were there, though, and ended up spending about four hours putting out database fires as soon as we got home. My mom and I watched the recent Robin Hood movie while he did that. We also talked to my sister, who was having car trouble and feeling depressed in general. I think I was able to talk her down a bit, which was good. My sister's no dummy. She's surprisingly self-aware. She does have a really, really hard time getting motivated to do things that could help her, though, so sometimes she gets stuck in these downward spirals that worry me a bit. But she sounded better by the time I got off the phone with her.
Today was also low-key. We had a nice leisurely breakfast at home, I did some more knitting, and we chatted. I managed, this weekend, to catch back up to where I'd been on my knitting before having to rip back a whole bunch of rows because I forgot to do something way back. I'm glad I got so much done.
Now, I'm getting stuff ready for lunch for tomorrow (needed to cook veggies), I cleaned the kitchen countertops and the stovetop, I prepped my oatmeal for the week, I set the coffee maker to brew me a pot in the morning, and I went through all the mail. Being productive wasn't so bad after my decompression time!
Now I'm going to eat some leftovers, watch Moon, and then hop in the shower. Life is good.
I spent Friday evening chatting with my parents and eating takeout pizza from the always-awesome Cumberland House of Pizza, and then we just hung out and watched the boob tube. Saturday morning, my dad drove me over to my old dojo, just as the morning kids' class was ending. My sensei was absolutely thrilled to see me, and I her. Turns out she never actually got the last e-mail I sent her, where I told her everything that was going on in my life in broad strokes. Hopefully she got it when I re-sent it. Anyway, she wouldn't let me leave without promising that the next time I came down to RI on a Friday night, that I'd give her a heads-up in advance so we could go out and catch up over drinks when I got in. It was really nice to see her again.
The rest of Saturday was delightfully low-key. I got a whole lot of knitting done, some of it while sitting out in the sunshine. I also went for a walk with my parents along the local bike path. We were looking for wild Concord grapes. We found the vines my father had remembered seeing, but it looks like they never bore a crop this year. Pity. Anyway, it was a beautiful walk. We went out for dinner at a Japanese restaurant that opened near them recently. Plenty of sushi got eaten. My poor father got a call from work while we were there, though, and ended up spending about four hours putting out database fires as soon as we got home. My mom and I watched the recent Robin Hood movie while he did that. We also talked to my sister, who was having car trouble and feeling depressed in general. I think I was able to talk her down a bit, which was good. My sister's no dummy. She's surprisingly self-aware. She does have a really, really hard time getting motivated to do things that could help her, though, so sometimes she gets stuck in these downward spirals that worry me a bit. But she sounded better by the time I got off the phone with her.
Today was also low-key. We had a nice leisurely breakfast at home, I did some more knitting, and we chatted. I managed, this weekend, to catch back up to where I'd been on my knitting before having to rip back a whole bunch of rows because I forgot to do something way back. I'm glad I got so much done.
Now, I'm getting stuff ready for lunch for tomorrow (needed to cook veggies), I cleaned the kitchen countertops and the stovetop, I prepped my oatmeal for the week, I set the coffee maker to brew me a pot in the morning, and I went through all the mail. Being productive wasn't so bad after my decompression time!
Now I'm going to eat some leftovers, watch Moon, and then hop in the shower. Life is good.
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