Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s Valentine’s Day 2022.
If you are in
love and giddy with excitement this February 14th, I am happy for
you. Really I am.
It’s an amazing
thing to have that special someone to celebrate with. I loved getting showered
with flowers and jewelry and dinners at fancy restaurants (or dinners at home
where I didn’t have to lift a finger).
But this year I
am choosing to ignore the hearts and flowers and chocolate holiday. You understand.
I know there are
single women who schedule “Galentine” gatherings, which is a great idea. But
the name really just makes me think of my friend Peni since that was her birth
surname.
Besides, when I
was happily ensconced in my little red-hearted romance with Vince, I didn’t try
to make plans with my girlfriends who were single or divorced or widowed.
Hey, I’d spent
many a Valentine’s Day on my own as a single woman. And I certainly managed to
get through the day.
So I figure I can
get through this one just fine.
But to make sure
I stay busy and keep myself from buying and eating an entire heart-shaped box
of chocolates, I made a “To Do” list of tasks I can accomplish. Wanna hear ‘em?
(Why, thank you for saying “Absolutely, Jane’s Domain! What’s on your list?”)
Alphabetize my
Spices. Sure, I’ve done
this before. Even put little labels on each of the jars and lined them up precisely
equidistant from one another in the cabinet expressly dedicated to spices. Only
to have Vince annihilate my beautifully organized spice cabinet with the preparation
of a single pot roast.
Besides, I’ve
moved. And I use maybe 1/10th of the spices we had. So I have an
entire box of spices that I haven’t even unpacked. Perhaps I should just chuck
the whole thing without opening it? Yeah, there’s an idea. Let’s move on to the
next item.
Color code my
sock drawer. This will be
simple. All my socks are black. Some are shorter, thinner socks for warmer
weather and some are longer, thicker winter socks. But they’re all black. Come
to think of it, I can pretty much cross this item off my list now. Maybe I
should move to my underwear drawer…but, no…they’re mostly black, too. What can I say? Life is much simpler when you
stick to a single palette.
Donate all my
unused, mis-matched Tupperware-wannabe containers. But that’s silly – because I did a lot of
that purging before I moved. Bowls with no matching lids? Gone. Pre-21st
century plastic containers that looked gross (that Vince wouldn’t let me toss
unless I did it “by accident” wink-wink?) Gone. I even donated perfectly good
containers with matching lids because I used to have two kitchens. And ain’t
nobody be needing fifty-three containers for leftovers.
Weedwack the
hair on my legs. This has
not been done since Labor Day and I am heading to Florida soon. I
wouldn’t want the Sunshine State to mistake me for Bigfoot and haul me to a
secret government lab to study me before I’ve soaked up at least a little
Vitamin D.
Schedule my
2021 tax preparation and my 2022 oil change/tire rotation. Neither thing is remotely interesting to
me and I can easily tack on an extra hour to this chore when a nap is required
to recover from the tediousness of it all.
Delete most of
the 5,197 emails in my Gmail account that I’ve been ignoring for the better
part of two years. Sure,
I could just do a global delete and be done with it, but you know the second
that happens, I’ll need that one email from 2020 that will inexplicably become critical
to life as we know it. I don’t have a clue what that could possibly be – but it
will rear its ugly head the second I hit “delete.”
Hmmm. Upon
further consideration, I should probably work on this list some more as it took only the morning to complete. Maggie’s six or seven walks will take up
another coupla hours. Which leaves me with plenty of time to purchase and
devour an entire heart-shaped box of chocolates.
Guess I’d better
hope the weedwacking chore takes more time than I anticipate. The hair on my
legs is very light and hard to see and it could very well be braid-able by now.
Who knew this task could be the highlight of my Valentine’s Day??
But whatever.
And, on that
note, wherever you are and whatever you do, I wish you all lots of love. And a
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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