I'm Bidin' My Time

Having spent one week of the four week layoff in New York, that left me with just three more to make it through. Unfortunately I do not deal with free time very well. For all of those years when I worked at the Woodwind full time and played 6 (or up to 9) shows at Amish Acres, it was as much to give me something to do as any other reason. I am not one for sitting and watching TV. Reading is something that I do in the pit. I do not knit or crochet. In other words, I do not handle free time very well. Mostly what I like to do in my free time is to go shopping or go see shows, and therein lies my problem. I was limited in both of those endeavours due to my lack of a paycheck. So I did my best to actually find productive uses of my time on break.

First and foremost, I still had the wreckage of my life cluttering up my parent's and brother's homes. So I spent quite a bit of time trying to organize and downsize all of my clutter into a manageable amount. I can honestly say that I made some progress towards this end, but I still have a long way to go.

I did meet up with some friends, but I tried to make those meetings productive though. I drove out to Elkhart to get my taxes done, and then I meet up with Sherry, Vickie, and Jon for dinner. I took a quick trip to Indianapolis to see Roger, a good friend from college, and to see Cirque du Soleil's Saltimbanco. (Okay maybe that was not very productive, but I would really like to get into a Cirque show some day!) On Valentine's Day, I meet up with Heather the Groovy and her cousin Jason for drinks and Mexican food. (This I feel was a very good use of my time. Making fun of couples on Valentine's Day is one of my favorite pastimes!)

I did take a couple of road trips to see other NETworks tours, but otherwise I really just tried to hang out, practice, and not spend too much money. In fact I did not even make it into Chicago. And I was really hoping to see Xanadu again. Alas!