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taylweaver ([personal profile] taylweaver) wrote2009-03-02 11:15 pm

An amazingly productive snow day

It is not very often that I can look back on a day off and say that I really got as much done as I possibly could have.

I mean, I suppose I could say I spent an extra 15-30 minutes online, or that I slept in later than I needed to... but no, those are both acceptable uses of my time. I needed the sleep, and a short break is just that.

Thing is, on a typical day off, I spend hours reading, or wandering around the internet. Today was different.

I think it had to do with what I was talking about in my previous entry - the fact that this day was such a surprise, an added bonus on a day when I actually needed it.

I did a lot today:

- I got some extra sleep (though it took me a while to fall back asleep)
- I transferred the entire ketubah frame design from sketch pad to cutting paper. That is the annoying part. Cutting it, now that's the fun part. And will be done in small amounts over the course of the next few weeks until it is done. But the transferring part was a big deal, and now it is done.
- I ate lunch, but did not waste time reading
- I went through some receipts that need to be handed in to my supervisor in about two weeks - and figured out I still need to spend $30 more for my students (teachers choice money).
- I did a bit of research online in terms of products I could spend the $30 on (okay, so some of that time may have been unproductive...)
- I spent about two hours revising the novel. A normal amount of time, but time I did not expect to have today to do it. (And that counts as both relaxing and productive at the same time)
- I looked up some info on a new doctor so that I can make an appointment (but didn't get to the actual making the appointment part)
- I returned a library book that was overdue, and a few that weren't, and then...
- I went to Central Park to say I went out in the snow. Not as pretty as the last park in the snow experience I had, but I felt the need to do it, and then...
- I stopped to pick up some groceries on the way home
- I had a long phone conversation with my mother in which we discussed dress alterations for my sister's wedding, and also some stuff related to my mother's job and some recent successes she has had
- I cleaned the living room floor, because that was the snow day cleaning job assigned to me
- I picked up a prescription at CVS

At which point it was around 8 pm, and my snow day was officially over, since that was the point when I would have finished up my meeting.

I went from CVS to [livejournal.com profile] mbarr's apartment to eat Chinese food for dinner and watch an episode of Heroes, a normal Monday night activity. (Of course, we are two weeks behind, but never mind that...)

And now, I am going to go get ready for bed, satisfied that I had such a productive - yet also relaxing - day.

I think it was because it was so unexpected. I felt like it was a gift, and I had to use it well, so I did. Last night, I went to bed certain that I would have work today, but wishing I could have a snow day so that I could work on things like the ketubah frame and the novel. Maybe it helped that, when I got the gift of extra time, I already knew how I wanted to use it.

Whatever the reason, today was productive. I really feel like I could not have been more productive today, but I also feel like the tasks I did were also relaxing ones.

In summary: Snow day was wonderful. So very much appreciated, and I really feel like I took full advantage of everything it had to offer.

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