Staycation

At the end of the month, Kevin and Gavin are going out of town for a week. This is to help balance out the 5 weeks Kevin spent out of town for work. He gets a chance to bond with Gavin without me around. I get a week of greatly reduced responsibilities. And Gavin will hopefully be shaken out of his momma's boy tendencies.

Also, since I just went back to work full time I don't currently have any PTO while Kevin's starting to worry about his expiring because he's been working so much.

It's win-win, and I have big plans for when they're gone. They're traveling Friday-Friday, so I even get an entire weekend to myself during which I can stay up late and sleep in and lounge around.

I'm trying to find a balance between doing everything I want and planning too many leisure activities and inadvertently stressing myself out during my "vacation". Who knows if I'll succeed, but here are my plans:

• Spend one weekend day doing stuff
• Get a haircut
• Go to the used book store (even though I really don't need to buy any more books)
• Eat either lunch or dinner (or both?) out with a book
• Grocery store (because my responsibilities won't just evaporate)
• Bike ride
• Spend one weekend day on the couch
• Start watching one of the following shows:
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• Preacher
• Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
• Anne with an E
• The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
• Schitt's Creek
• A Series of Unfortunate Events season 2
• Santa Clarita Diet season 2
• Sense8 season 2
• And I still need to catch up on iZombie 
• Oh god, I'm so far behind on TV
• Read for a couple of hours without interruption
• Organize my bookshelves
• Also organize Gavin's bookshelf and get some more of the picture books we already own on there and maybe start pulling some of the board/baby books
• Figure out a book-based advent calendar for this Christmas (how many Winter/Christmas books do we have, how many should I buy at the used book store, and what order should they go in. And maybe start wrapping them )
• Make risotto, while drinking wine and watching TV
• Make gnocchi?
• Neighborhood ladies night on Tuesday
• Book club on Thursday
• Spend one weekday evening watching TV and eating either leftovers or takeout
• Spend one weekday evening reading

I think this is all doable, except for that glut of television that I'm never going to catch up on. Never mind the handful of movies I want to watch, too. I just need to pick one and go for it.

I'm very much looking forward to this week without my kid (who I will probably miss even more than I'm anticipating). It'll be a good chance for him and Kevin to hang out and for me to relax and recharge. I can't wait to have (almost) nothing to do.