Lazy plans and socks

[selenay]

I have Plans for Saturday. To be precise, my plans for Saturday involve doing very little other than some laundry and cleaning the cat litter tray. I shall be turning off my alarm and sleeping until I wake up naturally, because I need to catch up on my sleep before I fall over.

At some stage, I hope to be able to sit outside under a blanket with my iPod and some knitting for a while.

I am going to resist the temptation to cook or bake. Instead I shall be feeding my aunt skillet shrimp if she comes over for supper or, if she has to stay home and pack, I will be feeding myself on Chinese food from the local store. Minimal cooking required, although option two will require a quick trip out to acquire said Chinese food.

At some stage, I need to finish my tardis_bigbang fic. Or, failing that, finish as much as I can and then write a summary of the remainder so that it's ready to send off on Sunday.

Hopefully I shall find the time to curl up with a book and possibly finish Desolation Island. Anyone have a suggestion from my to be read pile as to what I should read next?: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/archerygirl&tag=to+be+read

Doesn't this day sound lazy and indulgent? When is the spanner turning up to ruin the plans?

Next weekend is going to be busy like woah so I need the decompression and sleep catch-up time. My aunt is moving next weekend and I'm going to be helping out as much as I can, although we're also running our big month end jobs over that weekend so I'll have to pop back to the house periodically to log into the work servers and check how things are going. Busy. Definitely. Hopefully by Saturday evening everything will be stacked in her new apartment and we'll be eating takeout on the floor.

In sock news, somehow I did a ton of work on my sock last night (the cats were too busy playing to interfere with knitting) and now I'm half way through the ribbing on the cuff. It might take me half an hour to finish them off and weave in the ends, so they'll be debut-ing tomorrow :-) Yay! Then it's back to my sister's blanket to knit the final two patches before getting some serious time in with my tunic. But I shall sortly have socks and they are gorgeous.

Comments

[evil_plotbunny]

School story! Chalet School or Abbey or Trebizon (not specifiying because my inclination would be to read in order).

My weekend will both be crazy and relaxing. Up really early on Saturday to get to the festival, but once I get there, it will be a leisurely day full of storytelling and knitting. It ends late so I'll spend the night in a nearby hotel and take my time getting up the next day. Then a leisurely drive back with several stops along the way.

[selenay]

Hmm, a trip to Trebizon does sound rather appealing right now and I've got book 4 there to read...

Your weekend sounds like it should be really enjoyable when you get to the festival :-) It's nice to have those weekends that involve a bit of rush at the start, but then become slow and filled with knitting and enjoyment when you get there.

[evil_plotbunny]

:)

I'm looking forward to it, but it will be my first long period of time without computer access or music/audio plays keeping me occupied. But if I stop doing things now, it will be that much harder to get started again. And the knitting is still on the border I've got about ten more repeats to go before I turn the shawl and start knitting crosswise, but I can do the repeat without thinking now and the crosswise knitting is just plain for the first few rows. I do need to remember to make sure I have a copy of the turning instructions with me, since I'll probably knit that far (10 hours of knitting time at the very least).

[boulder-girl.livejournal.com]

You should read: "The Death of the Necromancer" by Martha Wells. I prefer her Ile-Rein series myself but while my husband really enjoyed the Ile-Rein series (trilogy, I think there were only three?) he enjoyed this one even more. A very enjoyable read.

[boulder-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh and you haven't read Dune? Seriously? That shocks me... I would have assumed you'd read it long ago!

[boulder-girl.livejournal.com]

Last comment I swear :) I loved "The Last Dragonload". Loved it. One of my favourites. But I know a lot of people who were only so-so on it. Also the second book just isn't as good and the third and final STILL isn't out. But I love that you have that on your list. :)

[selenay]

Heh, "The Last Dragonlord" was one of those books that I picked up and thought it looked interesting in a post-Christmas spending of book tokens binge. I still think it looks interesting and have to get it read, but keep finding other things before I get to that bit of my bookshelf. Perhaps this year?

[selenay]

I have made multiple attempts at Dune. The first time I should probably have recognised that it was a bad idea to take that as my post-major-surgery reading.

The second, third and fourth times resulted in sand nightmares. I'm determined to finish it, but can only handle small doses due to the sand nightmares :-)

The mini-series a few years ago was excellent, though. And Dune is one of those novels that my father really wants me to read so we can discuss it!

[selenay]

I've read the first two Ile-Rien novels and loved them to bits. I think that I love everything Martha Wells has written :-) I was waiting on the third one until I managed to find a copy of the second (scored through the library a while ago) so that and Death of the Necromancer are probably up next after I get over the little Trebizon school stories fixation that hhertzof started :-)