Ah, the joys of a Monday morning. I’ve been up for an hour and a half now, but have yet to reach the point in a Monday where I begin grunting. All in all, today closes a somewhat lackluster weekend, with a tedious and painful week on the horizon ahead.
Friday was good, that I’ll say. I bummed around most of the day, not quite doing anything, which is good for the first day off of a weekend (compressed schedules, in case you aren’t familiar, get you one extra day off every other week at the price of one hour more every workday). When I picked up the girls from school, we swung by the house for the obligatory post-school day potty break, then the three of us (two older girls + me) drove up to Springfield to visit Kennedy’s. This was my first visit to the Kennedy’s since I started the vanpool back in September, so it was both exciting and a little disappointing. He had a few new things to gander at, but after almost six months away I’d hoped to find more. Kennedy was his usual self, revealing his softie side with the girls, but I realized as I was going through boxes that I wasn’t really interested in buying a mixed lot. Yes, he prices them fairly, and yes, they usually contain at least a few pleasant surprises. But do I really want 500+ Scott #583’s (I think Kenmore is including the cost of shipping, because that’s more than its worth typically on places like stamps2go) like my last box? No, not really. (I stopped counting them after a while in fact – how am I going to offload that many copies of a single common stamp from 1923?) I did score two used albums that had some juicy bits, I’ll admit, but ultimately it was the social aspect that made the trip worth it.
Then there was Saturday. Not much to say there, actually. In-laws visited in the background, but I got up and was working (real work) remotely by 6am, and didn’t actually finish work until 730 that night. Yep, that sums up the day, and why the weekend was less than relaxing – splitting your days off around a grueling marathon (paid-)work session cheapens and demeans the rest of the time you spend off.
Sunday was spent in part at the doctor’s for our oldest, and the rest of the day was somewhat of a wash. Which is depressing, in a way, since the girls are home from school all week for winter break. I’d have liked to do something with them to get them out, since I know by Wednesday Kim is going to be pulling hair as the kids will have used up all of their good behavior and have resorted to fashioning weapons for one on one melee in the living room, using couch cushions to define their arena, to ultimately determine who touched who first, or who took what from who.
And so wraps up the weekend. I hope to get some writing done this week. I have a few ideas to play with for that short story, and I did manage to print out the work in progress novel and have already identified areas where I need to expand (in the first page alone), so I don’t lack for things to occupy my free time 🙂 Just in case its another week, hope your Monday goes well!