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Timeframe: T-3 days
This is the mission I have presented myself with. After the posts of last week I realised that I needed to actively do something to turn my current state around. I put in early in the week for Monday as annual leave and it was approved on Friday. I am hoping that a long weekend, with a focus of relaxation and sleep might help me get some of my groove back.
Of course, this did not prevent me from drawing up a schedule and task list for this relaxation and sleep filled weekend. To which C declared, “As the sun will rise every morning and set every evening, so too Alisa will overcommit herself.” Whatever. How do you know if you achieved anything if you can’t tick it off a list?
Still, I have my list and I’m working through it. I started last night with a long hot bath, my first in this house, a glass of champagne and a good book. Today we met Barbara and Kathryn for a lovely brunch on the waterside at Toast. Then we visited my parents, popped past the Post Office (and collected two books that came in the mail! Octavia Butler and Holly Black) and then headed off to the Good Food and Wine Show. We got tickets last minute from a friend of C’s who could no longer make it and had seats to see Gary and George (from Masterchef). We spent a good couple of hours tasting wine and looking at all sorts of things - C was great, I was not enjoying the crowds - highlights included some lovely Moscato wines, a ginger liqueur, a hot cocoa with chilli, white belgian chocolate mousse, an excellent jam show bag (with 2 jars of jam, 6 mini jars of jam and a balsamic vinegar). And of course the Gary and George show which was hilarious. We were the last show of the day and got an added bonus Ready Steady Cook off with some shopping centre winners from Karrinyup and Carousel cooking with Matt Moran and Manu. And it all went haywire and George and Gary came back and it was maybe not the best cooking but a pretty entertaining show all the same.
I tend to stress out when I’ve been out all day on the weekend - and away from my computer where there is work to do - but C has been reminding me the last couple of weekends that this was *exactly* what I dreamed of doing when I was working on Swancon. That the spending hours with friends over coffee or wandering around an expo with my boyfriend is the way I want to spend my time in this recovery year.
So, it was a good day.
And tomorrow is a pottering around the house day. Much I want to do, and not do. And a couple of posts I hope to get round to writing too.