A House in Order
Posted on Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 at 4:56 pm
photo credit: Peter E. Lee
January 3, 2010. AKA, Day of Great Domesticity. All around the Internets it seems people are cooking and baking and huddling in their tiny and abnormally chilly apartments because it’s 20 degrees and snowing here in New York City.
I, for one, am cooking a lentil stew, with liberal use of red wine vinegar. I have watered the plants and checked to make sure they’re not freezing on my window ledges; I have dressed in ski socks, a flannel shirt, and am trying out the American Apparel shiny leggings. I think I might even like them.
I took my recyclables downstairs, semi-cleaned the bathroom (ignoring the tub, as is my perogative), and put away my laundry. I did not clean out and reorganize my drawers. I am saving that for another day. After the gym, I even bought coffee and mailed some letters.
The payoff of having not worked in an office since Wednesday of last year and at all, really, since Thursday is a sense of deep, decadent relaxation. Home and hearth fires are burning, although the heater could really be pumping it out just a little more, if you’re reading this, dear landlord. I mean, normally it’s hot in here!
Tomorrow I have phone calls starting in the early morning, and then I go into Food Magazine TK to copy edit for the week during the extra-pleasant hours of 11-5 pm. So civilized. And now, although the urge to curl up in front of the TV and/or with a book or two is compelling, I’m going to put in some time to get a jump on my AOL stuff.
God, sometimes the productivity and sense of well-being, physical and spiritual, that occurs after a good night’s sleep and no booze is enough to make me consider taking a whole month off of drinking altogether!
I did say “consider.”
