to-do, weekend: a retrospective list

Friday
--Teach class of fourteen. Mark ten absent.
--Come home, debate taking nap.
--Dog walk.
--Invite friends over to back patio, dubbed "tiki lounge" by awesome neighbors.
--Beer run.
--Tiki lounge time.
--Take post-tiki-lounge self-portrait. 

Saturday
--Sleep in.
--Watch two hours' HGTV while the B snoozes. Make Lowe's mental list.
--Hit up university-sponsored arts fest.
--Discover arts fest is really for children.
--Pet random dogs.
--Buy decoupaged triceratops at vendor booth. Tell artist: Yeah, I spray-paint dinosaurs, so this is sort of a love connection.
--Head out to neighboring county in search of pick-your-own strawberries.
--En route, almost drive off road when friend innocuously says, My parents, who live up near DC now, have this great grocery store near them ... Wegman's? 
--Shout WEGMANS? YES. WEGMANS. MY GOD, HOW HAVE WE NOT TALKED ABOUT THIS YET? IT IS THE GREATEST STORE IN THE WORLD.  

--Calm down about the Wegmans thing
--Pick own strawberries.
--Invent "ha-HA" catchphrase, to be employed when trying to out-pick friends' berry efforts.
--Pizza and afternoon beer in town.
--See current student in sequined bikini top at nearby table.
--Debate reminding student that essay is due Monday morning.
--Order beer instead.
--Introduction to mix-your-own-shit-in frozen yogurt place.
--Lose shit, pile on the mini caramel cups.

Sunday 
--Wake up early, the better to beat Lowe's crowds.
--Buy soil, containers, flat of Mexican heather, replacement oregano and dill plants.
--Backyard mess time.

--Spill potting soil on feet.
--Make big container #1: rosemary.
--Make big container #2: basil.
--Make big container #3: parsley, oregano, dill, AKA The Others.
--Lowe's run number two: need more containers.
--Transfer heather to containers.
--Ask heather not to die.
--Wash patio, dog, feet.
--Make strawberry jam.
--Make tomato sauce.
--Admire containers.
--Ask container plants not to die during upcoming North Road Trip, AKA Build Your Own Writing Residency 2012.
--Mourn coming Monday and collection of ninety-six process explanation essays, but cheer three weeks left in semester.

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Man, I can't tell if this list is really awesome or super-sad. Let's ... let's say awesome.