One in which I don't have to pack.

My perfect weekend is hard. It has to have lazy late mornings with a beach view, Blue Mountain coffee, mellow music, and mimosas made with freshly squeezed orange juice.

There will be hammocks, light breeze, light reading and lots of laughing.

There needs to be krav, and maybe kettlebell, and working out until I can barely see straight and rehydrating with more freshly squeezed juices and some Ting.

The food is fresh, with just-caught fish. Cold pineapple is unlimited.

When it becomes evening, although there's a widescreen TV with every station under the sun, we also have HD TiVo, so no rush. There's no light pollution, and everything is very quiet except for crickets and the odd faraway dog and birds.

We can see fireflies from the veranda, and smell night jasmine.

By now we're drinking rum punch and are all very silly but pretending to be serious as we play Scrabble and cards. The night's warm, but not too hot for sheets when we finally pack it in.

On Sunday we do it again.

Or just pack it in and go sailing.

Here's a scan of the EW thing:

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My perfect weekend is ita's, only with more books and less exercise. I can taste that weekend. Would like it so much.

So freaking cool.

I can't pin down a single perfect weekend idea. It's all about location to suit my mood, good weather and very few people, except of my choosing. I tend to just roll with nothing planned. Which is great when I have no obligations, but frequently leads to actual weekends regimented by chores so I don't sink into squalor.

Which isn't my ideal. If that needs to be said.

Great blurb, pd. How cool that you share a Harry Potter edition! That can't hurt your sales...

And seriously, it's so much better than a review. No need for blah-blah-blah pros and cons or whatever, it's just about how the book is awesome!!

My perfect weekend would definitely not include the 12-hour shift I'm scheduled to work tomorrow.

I wish I could show Aimee and MM to my boss and coworkers as an effective example of medium-distance communication. Instead of the yelling from office to office and down the hall that they currently do.

My DH hates it when I call to him from elsewhere in the house. That's the way we did it when I was growing up--In my family, we can project. So now I use my cell to call him on his cell or the landline when we're on different floors.

We sometimes IM each other from the next seat over.

My perfect weekend would involve being somewhere fabulous with friends....a beach might not be it, unless it weren't beach weather. But there would be hammocks, lots of books, some internet, some movies/tv dvds, and lots and lots of food. And some board or card games.