Thought: is it possible to dream about being asleep? I have had nested nightmares before, but that was dreaming about waking up rather than sleeping per se. If you were to dream about being asleep I suspect you’d end up in some kind of recursive and therefore comatose state, which would be restful.
Right; a new week is upon the Magnificent household (or the Man household if one must be a traditionalist about these things). This week’s challenge is to spend a day on each of five categories, doing it with gusto and throwing Balance to the winds. Viz:
Gardening/Outside
- Mow the lawn
- Water the snow peas
- Plant leeks, carrots, onions and silverbeet
- Clean the chickens’ cage
- Uproot the weeds from the cracks in the pavement
- Harvest a Jerusalem artichoke to see if edible (one website said they have a formic acid taste but added that some people don’t mind it, which makes me wonder about some people)
- Harvest basil
- Weed garden
- Turn compost
- Mulch garden
- Plant out basil
- Spread eggshells
Sewing
- Finish ruffley (ruffly? rufflesome? ruffleshous?) cushion
- Make pants for the snortlepig
- Make cunning hat for the snortlepig
- Make winter shirt for the snortlepig
- Finish tiny quilt
- Fix new skirt again, properly
- Work on hand-sewn quilt
- Finish daisy beastie cloth
Writing
- Work on Script Frenzy script
- Do Bible study homework
- Query magazines
- Write Suite articles
- Write bally Bride and Groom article which have been putting off for bally months for lack of a bally deadline
Cleaning
- Clean out fridge
- Remove masking tape from floor in living room
- Clean sliding door where an unidentifiable substance is congealing at snortlepig-height
- Clean mirrors
- Remove smeg from saucepan cupboard
- Valiantly deal with kitchen bin
- Hand-wash white shirt
Cooking
- Cook up large batch of pumpkin and freeze in pie-sized portions
- Make something dairy-free for sister-in-law
- Dehydrate tomatoes (if can’t find something better to do with them)
- Make minute quantity of basil pesto with basil from garden and freeze
- Do something with puff pastry in freezer
I’m sure I won’t get a tenth of that done, but it’s a guide. I also need to spend some time every day doing Script Frenzy, for obvious reasons; and I should really invite an old friend over one day, given that I got her phone number when we ran into each other in he DVD store and I promised to call her with the sort of pleased enthusiasm that makes one feel like a cad and a traitor when one runs into such an acquaintance again eight months later and hasn’t. I’ve decided to choose which activity I want to which day on the Morning Of, to allow for weather and such and make me feel important.