Whatcha Doing/Cooking/Watching/Buying This Weekend? Oct 24-26

OctoberKate
Sat, 25 Oct 2025 23:09:54 +0000

I am super bored this weekend. After being furloughed for three weeks, I’ve done All The Things that need doing around the house. I’ve run all the errands, cleaned out all the closets, taken all the donations etc etc. So bored. This weekend my husband is off camping (even though our boys are done with Scouts, he’s still an Assistant Scoutmaster and this weekend they are doing his favorite campout of the year) so I’m on my own today and half of tomorrow.

Today’s excitement was: (1) three loads of laundry; (2) scrubbed the shower; (3) actually put away the laundry; (4) got flu and covid vaccines; (5) watched a lot of college football even though my kid’s school wasn’t playing this week; (6) made some lentils with a made up recipe that didn’t suck; (7) started thinking generally about a short family vacation to Montreal in December; (8) did some general research for random Christmas gifts; (9) researched some off campus apartments for my college freshman who will want to move off campus next year.

For obvious reasons (my husband and I are both furloughed, so no paychecks) this isn’t a great time to be spending money. But boy, when I’m bored that’s usually what I like to do. It’s been a conscientious effort to not just go vaguely amazon crazy.