A long weekend here that doesn’t feel that way, with lots of golf, some music and pretty skies…
…that are pictured above and below. Still getting incandescently irritated with myself when I do something wrong, forget something and/or do nothing (ie procrastinate a day away).
Our Perth Festival attendance ended (probably) this week with PJ Harvey outdoors in Kings Park. I regretted missing her last trip to Perth, so was glad to make it this time around. The music is an eclectic mix, the presentation sometimes theatrical, and it all worked very well for this venue. We lucked out with parking close to the gate, had comfortable seats and only messed up when we left our seat cushions behind (but they weren’t loved enough to warrant going back).
Reading:
I’ve been reading more than usual, but feel that I’m hurrying through my last couple of choices. Maybe I do think of T KingFisher’s fantasy fiction as easy reading (and there’s nothing wrong with that, just like easy listening, easy reading can be a great). I hadn’t realised that T Kingfisher was a pen name used by Ursula Vernon.
I’ve got some notes for a post/posts about science fiction writing that I think helps expand thinking about AI and robots (see my last weeknote), but I want to think carefully about how to give a sense of the narratives without direct spoilers. (Is that even possible?)
Golf:
Played a practice 9 holes with D on Monday where I hit the ball really well. This was gratifying, because normally when I’m with D I play dreadful golf. Then I played pretty badly in the competition on Wednesday, followed by an awful front 9 and then very good back 9 on Friday. The howling easterly and very difficult course setup was a contributing factor in the Wednesday awfulness.
I had already booked a lesson with my coach because I want to improve and feel a bit lost, so went to that on Friday afternoon with the result that I’m making some (big?) changes… (see last post). This could spell disaster in the short term, although it might not. I’ll just have to see how it goes.
My practice session on Sunday followed by a quick 6 holes with some friends indicates that if I can just relax about the changes across the whole of my game then… it might be ok (better than ok, actually). Wednesday will be the real test (and then another lesson Thursday).
Exercise:
No physio session this week because of the long weekend. I managed a proper home weights session on Tuesday, which I could definitely feel on Wednesday (and that may not have helped my golf). After that though I failed to do more (in part because I was on the golf course the whole of Friday and not motivated on Saturday. I think I need to go back to booking slots into my calendar to try to ensure I do more of this.
No time for running, but did do quite a bit of walking (not all on the course).
Food:
Very unmotivated to cook at the moment. Very grumpy about having to adult at all tbh!
Garden:
D did the garden work! Yay! I did nothing.
Adventure:
Is a new golf swing an adventure? I don’t know shrugs. It could be exciting I guess.
Sewing:
I continue to procrastinate with many choices on my mind and some of them now laid out on the floor of my office/sewing/art room. I have not cut any pattern pieces yet, let alone sewed anything!
Three ideas:
Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhhh!
- Plant the small piece of garden
- Make a skirt
- Practice golf and make the next lesson good
(Just do something is the message here really, even if it is something other than listed here!)
I have to make a decision about whether I will review a journal article for a publisher… they’ve been asking me about this one since November 2024, so I hope they did find some other reviewers at that point (when I turned it down immediately), but I’m a bit concerned it has made it back to me now.
