This last weekend went by in a haze of hot, humid and rainy weather. A party on Saturday night, preceded by dinner and a movie (Sex and the City) with Bf and friends was pleasant. Farmer’s market on Sunday morning equally so. Spending Sunday afternoon curled up on the sofa reading was just what I needed before what’s sure to be a hectic week ahead.
(Senior Correspondence person is away for the week – sick, or sick of her job more like – and so I am ‘acting’ in her place.)
This morning I’ve spent in contemplation. For one thing, why do I find this job so insanely easy? I have double the work and still I’m here twiddling thumbs. For another, why can’t I stop biting my nails? Mysteries of the universe, I tell you.
So, in order to alleviate the boredom a little, I’ve been making a list. Not just any list, though. A list of things I want to do when I move to Random Asian Country later this summer. After consulting numerous resources on the phenomenon of becoming a trailing spouse, I’ve discovered this bit of advice in almost all of them: Making a list is meant to help me find some sort of purpose once I’m out there. Apparently.
So far, I have:
1. Become a kung fu master (Okay, I know this is silly but wouldn’t it be great?).
2. Take dragonboat racing lessons.
(Both of the above are to help me in the bigger goal of losing 15 lbs.)
3. Take cooking classes.
4. Take some sort of landscaping class (just something that’s always interested me).
That’s it so far. It’s comforting to know that if one day I’m bored of sitting in my skyscraper home in a huge, polluted city, I’ll be able to look at a list and have that irrisistable urge to get something done in order to cross it off my list.
6 Comments
June 2, 2008 at 3:38 pm
so, when you get there, you’re not going to be working? ooooo i think i would do something to do with interior design or i would take some art classes or or or i think i could make quite a big list!
oh, you have to do the crazy martial arts thing in the park in the morning like you see on the TV!
June 3, 2008 at 8:19 am
You’ll definitely need a list of things to do, otherwise you’ll go stir crazy – it’s only nice to be a tourist for so long!
June 3, 2008 at 11:45 am
I have a list with ‘do cooking course’ on it too. I think it’s a good idea.
June 4, 2008 at 8:35 am
Pinky – No, I can’t work. I’ll have a fancy diplomatic passport, see. And diplomatic immunity. So both the Canadian and Chinese government forbid me to work. Silly, isn’t it?
June 4, 2008 at 10:59 am
Well at least with diplomatic immunity you can run amok instead
June 5, 2008 at 8:24 am
Perpetual – Quite!