Just Friday

Friday was finally here, and the only thing that could’ve made it better would not being on-call for the weekend. But things are as they are. I chose to deal with it. I was up and out of bed a little later than desired. It was already 5:50am by the time I made it downstairs and began exercising. I felt pretty good after a restful night’s sleep, not to mention the numerous naps I snuck in prior to heading to bed. My exercises were in the bag in short order, and so was my walk with Ykraps. Even still, I was behind schedule. It was already 6:18am. I spent relatively little time enjoying coffee and meditating. I didn’t want to set out for a run too late. I must’ve hit the door by 6:40am. Because of my somewhat late start I cut my run to three miles. That did the trick. I was back home by 7:10am and ready to prep food. Finally, I was caught up time-wise. I packed nuts, veggies, meat & cheese for lunch. I fried two eggs for breakfast. I was headed to the shower by 7:40am, but not before delivering Mindy’s coffee. She appreciated, as always. Mindy and the kids were having a friend over for a play date, Noah, I think. If all went well, they were planning on heading to the fair, too. Lucky them! I drove the BM’er to work. It was a gorgeous day for it. Things were busy at the office. I didn’t see the light of day again until end of day. I could’ve left for a lunch but simply chose not to. Inside, I was feeling stressed over the entire vacation planning thing – coordinating a plan – where, what, when, etc. I realized this once I let go and decided that I’d just let it be. I felt better for it. The end of the day finally arrived. I left for home come 5:20pm. This pleased me much. Jimaken made arrangements to pick-up the kids for dinner. In fact, he was already there when I arrived. As I later learned, they had just gotten home from the fair minutes earlier. Meanwhile, Mindy & I didn’t have any plans, although we briefly talked about the possibility of going to Barley’s for dinner and having Jimaken drop the kids to us there. But since I was on-call and tired, I nixed that in a hurry. At the time, I wanted only a nap. So, take a nap, I did. I woke after about twenty minutes. I was still uncharacteristically tired … and hungry. To satisfy this hunger, I snacked on potato chips – a new habit I’ve developed. Inside, I kept tossing around the idea of heading to Barley’s after all but never shared as much with Mindy. She was busy playing with her expensive solitaire machine (laptop). Jim called to bring the kids home a little early. He said that Bella was being a pill. No doubt about it! That pretty much nixed any thought of Barley’s, but just as well. I was still really tired. Hmm? So, what did I do? I took another nap! I woke while Mindy was bathing the kids. She got them to bed by 9pm. By then I was awake and logged into work. I was resigned to a non-eventful evening at home. I poured myself a Jack & Coke. It wasn’t long before Mindy called it a night. She was in bed by 10pm. I stayed up until 10:50pm working and playing on the PC. I had a second Jack & Coke, too.