I left the cabin today, so I had one last breakfast with the bears (salt and pepper shakers). When I was planning for my not-quite-a-week away at the cabin, I had a few things I wanted to get done while I was there, and I can say that I failed to do pretty much all of them. I didn't even do any drawing. I thought about it, but... nope.
I did play guitar almost every day. My dad has his acoustic up there, and for some reason having a guitar ten feet away is more tempting at the cabin than it is here at home. (There are actually two guitars sitting about six feet away from me right now.) I also wrote -- not much, but a bit. I haven't worked on any writing since my laptop died last summer, and I lost all the first-halves of novels that I've started (I always seem to get bored after the first half). I wasn't avoiding it out of grief or anything, but it was a nuisance to have lost the start of the one story I felt like working on.
I managed to do all the binding on my quilt, so that's finished now. I had done the machine sewing before I left, and I decided at the last minute to bring the quilt with me, which was a good decision. Watching TV in the evenings was perfect for boring sewing by hand. So that's three things I managed to do at the cabin that I hadn't planned on.
And I met up with a friend I hadn't seen in six years, so that's pretty great. And I went to one of the corner cafes in Sandstone and got a 'one cake, one egg' (blueberry and poached, respectively) with coffee for under $4. Oh, AND I found magnetic catches for my kitchen cupboards for 99 cents each at Ace Hardware. I installed them when I got back today (just on the doors whose hinges are broken), so now I don't have any wandering cupboard doors. And I saw a really good moon. And it was pretty (but cold).
So, yeah, I didn't get to any of the stuff I'd planned on doing, but it was still a pretty good stay at the cabin.
I always have such a ambitious list of things I want to do on vacations like that. I went on one during the autumn and I did very little of any of it. I think it is good to let yourself off the hook if none of it gets done. The list is just *suggestions*. I love the image.
I know just what you mean about the "vacation" weeks. I usually end up getting about half of what I had planned, but that's what vacations are all about I guess. Just wanted to comment to tell you who much I love those salt and pepper shakers!
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sounds productive to me! and as long as you relaxed, then it you really accomplished something