…spring break!
Sonia and I just finished our second big biology exam, and now we get a week off from biology and our biology lab.
I’m doing well in it, but this class is legit a lot of work, and it will be nice to have a breather.
Will I possibly use some of the spring break time to work ahead on the next chapter? Yes.
But that will still feel like a breather because I will have more margin.
And maybe I will read something other than a biology book; I have definitely noticed that I am doing very little for-fun reading because I am busy reading the biology textbook!
I am also looking forward to Zoe’s spring break, mainly because she and I will get a breather from geometry. Her geometry tutor assigns a lot of homework, and she and I get a little overwhelmed by it.
(For reference, we are a family that routinely does every problem of every lesson of a Saxon math book, and I still think this is a lot of geometry homework.)
Anyway! Two spring breaks are what I’m looking forward to right now.
Ha. We just finished our spring break, so now I’m looking forward to summer. Not just the summer break, but the season. Food from the garden, lighter clothing, natural grazing for the animals (I hope–the drought last year meant that we started buying hay for them in late summer and haven’t stopped since, which is REALLY EXPENSIVE), and this year, we’re going to experiment with a solar oven. I am unreasonably excited about that.
I get sick of summer much faster than winter, actually, but I always look forward to the next season before it comes. That’s the benefit of four seasons. 🙂
I also hope the drought breaks in the Land of Enchantment because I want to visit my family on wheat harvest there, but that can only happen if there’s a crop.
I hope you blog about your solar oven experiments! My husband and I are full time RV-ers and we threw around a lot of different ideas about how to cook in case we were boondocking (self sustained camping) and a solar oven was one of the ideas. It turns out I’m not the boondocking type so we live with full hook ups in a 55 and over park in Arizona. I need more creature comforts than boondocking provides. 😁 But we are still really fascinated with solar ovens so I look forward to reading about it if you try it!
I very much live in the day to day, but there are fun things on the horizon. Fun to me, anyway. We have a damaged cat who’s been indoors for a couple weeks, and I look forward to him returning to the great outdoors. Someday school will be out, and even as I am profoundly thankful that we will have done a full year in person, I look forward to a time with no alarm clock. I look forward to closing the estate I’m overseeing. I look forward to getting mud flaps and floor mats for my new-to-us family vehicle. Anyway. And so on. 🙂
… the beginning of the gardening season (water in my garden will be turned on on Saturday, yeah!)
… being able to travel again once these crazy times are over (hopefully soon, my wanderlust is growing by the day)
I am looking forward to getting the Covid-19 vaccine. I will get my first dose sometime next month, by the middle of the month if not sooner. That will allow me to enjoy a miniaturized family wedding this summer and get out and about more overall.
I’m looking forward to getting my tomatoes and peppers in the ground. I have to wait a long time, though. I am so nervous that my cats are going to dig them all up and I’ll lose everything. It happened once already, but it was the first night after they were planted so it was no big deal. I don’t have a great way to keep them safe once they start getting bigger. We may just need to be more creative about where they’re stored or how they’re covered and be willing to deal with having them in a location that we don’t want them – like our dining room.
Menopause! Is that too much information?! Sorry! I suffer from endometriosis and look forward to things getting better as it’s been worse lately and now, so it’s presently on my mind! You asked! Ha!
My best friend and I discussed this just last week — her cycle is also particularly bad. And my poor, long-suffering husband gets to hear me say this on the regular. Thankfully, no complicating issues for me, just exasperation — I feel so bad for people for whom it’s so awful.
Thanks for your empathy Karen!
Gardening. By the time produce gets to northern Alaska, it is pretty tasteless or one minute from being spoiled—the tomato looked fine in the grocery store but by the time I pull it out of the grocery bag it is soft and mealy. Eating stuff straight from our greenhouse is such a treat.
I’m looking forward to the snowbirds going back home so that I can start swimming laps in the pool again. The pool here is too busy in the winter to get in and do laps. But after people start going home the place becomes a ghost town and I can have the pool to myself. (Or almost, anyway.) However, with that comes constant 100+ heat. Sigh.
Yeah, gardening, the delicious and beautiful results of gardening; beaches, sitting outside on the patio, walking, getting all of the broken things fixed, and most of all, I think traveling a little bit! I hope to go to Iowa for a weekend, which will be a big deal since I haven’t gone anywhere since Christmas 2019!