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" My first kid-free weekend in three weeks - finally! I&amp;#039;m going to sleep late, watch some movies (including my St. Patrick&amp;#039;s Day favorite - Disney&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Darby O&amp;#039;Gill and the Little People&amp;quot;), and work my way through the Mt. Everest of laundry piles. The weather has been just plain beautiful, so I may end up going for a hike or a bike ride or both. My time is my own, and that is a heady thing. I&amp;#039;m starting to think that I need to schedule myself a bit more on my kid-free weekends. I&amp;#039;m usually so relaxed that I end up meandering around and cleaning here and there but not getting a whole lot of anything truly done. I have numerous projects that need doing (including that book I&amp;#039;m supposed to be writing...ugh!) and if I don&amp;#039;t set myself some kind of timeline, I&amp;#039;ll be smacking my head in the middle of the week thinking &amp;quot;Why didn&amp;#039;t I do that when I had the time?&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m notoriously awful with writing stuff down in planners, so I&amp;#039;m going to go high-tech. I won a door prize last week at a company event (which never happens, believe me) and I am now the proud owner of an iPod touch. It has a calendar and alarm feature, so I&amp;#039;ll be playing with it tonight and plugging in a schedule with alarms to alert me that I should be doing stuff that needs doing. It&amp;#039;s a grand experiment - let&amp;#039;s hope it works! Did you find yourself puttering aimlessly on your kid-free weekends, or were you much more organized than me? What helped you get things done? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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