Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Ten on Tuesday: 10 things to do indoors when it's too miserable to go out

Until about 2 years ago, for many long years, cold hurt me. Now I can go out and take a brisk walk, or even slide down a hill. But for a long time, I was an indoor winter girl. Winter and snow was lovely, when viewed through the frame of a window.

1. Blog. Can you tell the weather's been nice in St. Louis? No time to blog here...

2. Write trivia questions. I contribute to a couple of different trivia nights nowadays. I'm always thinking of a category.

3. Sew. Quilt on the sewing machine right now, one I owe Fiona's classroom.

4. Cook a big pot of stew.

5. Drink coffee and chat. This is one of my favorites of course. Annie's predicting we'll spend the next few weeks at her house doing this on more than a few occasions.

6. Clean something thoroughly. Like the guest room. Or the drawers in the dresser in the bathroom.

7. Plan a garden. Mine is going well in my head.

8. Plan a trip. No trips for us this year on the horizon (Disney and Portland last year was plenty) but I love spending quiet winter days looking for things to do in the fantastic places I'm going to visit soon. And there's the girl scout camping trip, after all.

9. Sleep in. Best part of snow days.

10. Art. I have three projects going right now besides prep for teaching. One is stained glass for the cabinet in my dining room (I need more lead). The other two have to do with Jake's birthday so that's all for now.

4 comments:

Indigo Bunting said...

Miserable here too. I wish I didn't have to work. I suddenly want to have coffee with the neighbors.

Helen said...

I always feel like such a lazy schlump when I read your posts. (To add to my inferiority complex, my word verification is "smalsy".)

Bridgett said...

Quantity vs. quality...

Mali said...

Ditto Helen. I'm exhausted reading this. Though I'm glad that "blog" was #1.