Fantastic weekend. How could it be anything but with three days off in a row.
I find myself again looking forward to and really enjoying my days off. They have once again become something special. From October through December when I wasn't working every day was an off day and I treated it accordingly. Nothing special about any day in that situation. In fact I had trouble keeping up with what day of the week it was. Every day ran into another.
Now on my off days I'm usually awakened by the sun around five thirty. I'll doze off and on until the light finally is too much. Usually that's around seven a.m. I get up then and make a pot of coffee, take a leisurely stroll to the mailbox for the morning newspaper and by the time I get back the coffee is almost done. I just had a visualization as I write this of me in a bathrobe walking to the mailbox looking just like Tony Soprano. Thankfully I don't own a bathrobe and neither do I run a garbage company. Or whack anybody. At least not on a regular basis.
Anyway I'll get my coffee and flip on CNN or Fox News and make a leisurely stroll through the local paper with national news playing on the tube in the background. Sometimes I'll turn the volume up if there's an interesting story but most of the time it's just white noise for me. Depending on Mrs. Medlock's day and whether she gets up or not I may sit there an hour or more drinking coffee and just vegetating. Nothing special on my mind and no hard thinking. Just relaxation. It's surprising to me how much that simple act of doing nothing energizes me. It's not the same high I feel after a gym workout and it's not any better or worse than that. It just feels good afterward.
I think keeping things simple is one of the keys to life. And I think it's true in every part of life from your career to your kids, to your love life, etc. I really tried hard to keep things simple when I worked in business. The business world analyzes and manages things ad nauseam. It's what managers do. And it wears everybody down.
It's just a fact that we all live a very complicated existence these days. Nobody has time to sit awhile but we all need to. I like my morning times on my off days. Coffee, the newspaper and me.
July 7, 2008 in
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