Things you do with a couple of winter weekdays off and nothing planned

1- Sleep in

2- Try to talk yourself into exercising

3- Fail at this

4- Eat breakfast sometime around eleven (hey, at least it’s still morning)

5- Make green chile stew

6- Eat an entire half-batch of Monster Munchies (recipe to follow. You can thank or curse me later)

7- Notice that there’s mold spreading all around the edge of your kitchen ceiling

8- Wash a queen-sized bed sheet by hand and rig up a way for it to dry indoors

9- Experiment with sautéeing spinach (it’s really good)

10- Decide to do something about the mold in the kitchen before you get sick:

a. Dilute bleach in portable laundry tub
b. Scoot bench around your kitchen and balance on the back edge of it to reach the ceiling
c. Hope bench back doesn’t break
d. Notice that the 40-qepik work gloves actually absorb the water and your arm is wet
e. Realize that’s bleach water running down your arm and onto your plum-colored shirt
f. Swear
g. Knock tub of diluted bleach over onto the hardwood floor
h. Swear a LOT
i. Frantically use an entire roll of paper towels to absorb the bleach water
j. Sigh audibly and finish wiping the ceiling, this time balancing on the sink to reach the corner with the peeling paint
k. Spit paint flakes out of your mouth
l. Stand back and threaten the mold to return

11- Watch two entire seasons of Downton Abbey, one episode after another

12- Watch Love Actually

13- Cry

14- Make Bisquick coffee cake for breakfast

15- Read Anna Karenina

16- Roll your eyes at the characters in Anna Karenina

17- Make Kraft macaroni and cheese and stir in a bunch of sautéed spinach (it was so amazing)

18- Hand wash laundry

19- Nap

20- Watch The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

21- Realize the actors in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel are also in Downton Abbey and Love Actually

22- Make thin-crust pizza, with half fresh basil and half green chile

23- Stay up til midnight chatting with people via Facebook

Monster Munchies:
~12 oz semisweet chocolate
~6 oz butterscotch chips
~Chinese “chow mein” noodles (one can or 5oz)
~peanuts with the skins on
Melt the chocolate and butterscotch and stir until completely mixed. Stir in the noodles and peanuts until coated. Drop by spoonfulls onto waxed paper and allow to dry.