10. Sleep in.
9. Ignore your rising frustration while trying to read the cell phone bill by going shopping.
8. Jump puddles on sidewalks and in parking lots while shopping on a sunny, 50 degree Saturday.
7. Take a shopping break to pick up some audiobooks at the library, including Some Luck by Jane Smiley, which you’ve been waiting for a long time.
6. Get teary-eyed in the card aisle while looking for the perfect Valentine’s card for your spouse.
5. Skip lunch because you’re tired of the winter muffin top developing around your middle, and order a cup of your favorite coffee at your favorite gourmet java place instead.
4. Wander around a furniture store looking for inspiration about how to replace the bed you just passed on to your kids and be taken aback because the latest living room furniture styles look just like what was in your parents’ house in the 1960s. Dub it the Mad Men effect.
3. Plan, write, and schedule a week’s worth of blog posts so you’ll be able to devote vast, interrupted spans of time to a book rewrite due at the end of the month.
2. Pretend to be interested in the basketball game your husband is watching, and then have your heart melted when he volunteers to go to Redbox for Boyhood, a movie you’ve been dying to see…and then he sits down to watch it with you.
1. While watching the movie, eat apple crisp and popcorn for supper…because it’s your day off and you can eat what you want to…besides, you skipped lunch!
