saturday OFF

[dragonlady7]

I have actually legitimately got the entire weekend off. Why? Because I asked for it. Why? Because I'm tired of work and, while we have extra employees, now is the time to take days off.
I did not know when I asked for it how very, very badly I would need it.
I had planned to sleep in quite late but the stupid goddamned dog, after having gone out at midnight last, decided at seven sharp that she needed to go out again . I am so stiff from yesterday's hell (and the day before's) that I had to crawl down the stairs. God damn dog. I can't get back up the stairs, either, so I'm stuck in the living room. Dog wants to be petted but I just don't have it in me.

So now I am faced with the challenge to do all the things I always want to do on Saturdays and never can because I'm always at work.
...

Possibles:
* breakfast someplace elaborate: in bed (but i'd have to make it myself; Z had a long day yesterday too), or perhaps fancy brunch in the back yard (but I'd need to go buy ingredients), or perhaps out someplace. Leisurely, anyway.
* do some house/yardwork.
* go to the irish seisun at Nietsche's from 4ish-8ish.
* go to z's office mate's beach party in Canada from 2-sh to "whenever"
* go to Ikea and buy random home furnishings. Z has seemed strangely resistant to this every time I've mentioned it. I've been wanting to go to Ikea since about November, I think. At this point I don't even remember why.
* go shopping, like, at the, like, mall, only Z sort of hates shopping as much as I do and his frank opinions are only good for a yes or no, not a 'what else should i try?' which is more what I need.
* go to a museum
* go to a festival
* go to the Ren Faire in Stirling (~3 hr drive)
* go on a long bike ride down by the river
* take a nap

that last one is happening in a couple of minutes, definitely.


Does anyone else kind of hate all the slick changes they've made to make LJ 'easier to use' since SixApart took it over? Like, for instance, the bar at the top that looks precisely like Blogger? Does all the "easy to use" bullshit sort of seem like a smack in the face to those who've had the journal a while? Like, I mean, it's not like LJ is in any way exclusive, right, but when you go and move things around, then suddenly your usability is biased towards new users and against those who spent so long figuring it out oh, five years ago. God damn it.

I am an old coot on my front porch waving a cane at these damn kids.

Comments

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted one of those bars -- what I wish is that they put the complete LJ bar on every page, but this is better than nothing. It was annoying having to go to another page to begin an update instead of just starting from wherever you were, I thought.

[mother2012.livejournal.com]

Don't really have much to say except that, as always, I love your entries. Although they've been lean lately. I expect you really do need some time off.

You might consider taking Raederle shopping with you sometime. She's rather good at putting together an Outfit.

And I feel the same way about LJ. Why make it 'easier' when your customers are just fine with it as it is?

We're still hoping to make it to the Renn Faire this year, but I'm not sure we can. I think only the last weekend of it is still open to us, since I'm going to ELF next week, and a major family reunion the following.

Canal Fest is still open.

[(Anonymous)]

* breakfast someplace elaborate: in bed (but i'd have to make it myself; Z had a long day yesterday too), or perhaps fancy brunch in the back yard (but I'd need to go buy ingredients), or perhaps out someplace. Leisurely, anyway.

Check. (Alice's)

- Z

[(Anonymous)]

* go to z's office mate's beach party in Canada from 2-sh to "whenever"

Check.

* go shopping, like, at the, like, mall, only Z sort of hates shopping as much as I do and his frank opinions are only good for a yes or no, not a 'what else should i try?' which is more what I need.

Check.

- Z