Delicious
Is there anything more delicious than a day off in the middle of the week on a hot summer day? And it’s a mental health day, to boot. Not a vacation day, not a “sick” day, just a day to chill and regroup.
The day is full of possibilities—all those hours laid out before you. What will you do with them? Any self respecting anal retentive Myers Briggs “J” type like myself will have a schedule for all this down time. Let’s see…what to do…what to do. Here we go: let’s stain the deck, clean the garage, weed the flower beds and wash the car. By the time we’re finished with all that, it will probably be lunch time, so we’ll actually sit down for ten or even fifteen minutes to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on toast (hey what the heck—we’ll go out today) and watch the last ten minutes of “The Price is Right” because the showcase is the only part that really counts anyway, and see if we can mentally add up the cost of all the prizes and figure out what we would bid while we watch the first poor sap pass the first showcase to the other contestant because that one didn’t have the car in it, and we all know that the showcase with the car in it is the only one anybody ever wants and then we’ll scream at the TV when the person seriously overbids and then find out that we really don’t know what a new bedroom set costs anyway and that’s what threw us off.
We won’t watch the noon news because it’s always just a rehash of the morning news and nothing much ever happens between 6am and 12noon anyway except maybe a police chase so, we’ll clean the basement, straighten up the living room and attack that rat’s nest in the corner of the bedroom. But we’ll get stopped at every little momento we find and sit and reminisce about where we got it and what was going on at the time, and we won’t get very far at all with that chore.
But wait, how did the sun get all the way over there so fast? It can’t be going down, it can’t because this is my day and I don’t want it to end just yet. Oh, I know—
Ice cream! Let’s go get ice cream: the end of a perfect day.
posted by Career Guy @ 9:10 AM
5 comments
5 Comments:
Hey, your're right!
Nothing much happens on the news between those hours. I think the bombings today in London occured just after that!!!!!
I am right there with you and the pile that you stop to reminisce at every momento. It totally happens here.
that's my kind of day off.
I have one planned next week (was supposed to be this week...oh well).
Let's see, dust and vacuum (because I can't start a project without a clean house) couple loads of laundry while thats happening, then caulk the tub..hmm no actually, lets remove the old caulk - then clean while it dries, apply the new caulk, then I can install that new window in the garage....
you see where I am going with this.
Weese-way to plan your day! See, no downtime at all: every minute fits into a niche somewhere. I like having several things going at once: one wash load is running while the other is drying and I do the bathrooms. Sick, isn't it?
I do the laundry thing, but only because I have to. After all, I do like clean clothes. Any day off I have is usually wasted- er, spent- on the computer.
Post a Comment
<< Home