It has been yet another heads-down and burrow ahead sort of a week. The entire week has been go, go, and go. This coming weekend promises the same level of activities so I’m not really looking forward to it. Friday night sees the usual home group meeting of the church. On Saturday I need to get the usual vacuuming and cleaning done by 10 because we have a training session to work with disable young adults. That goes on till 3, then I have to return to mow the lawn before cooking for a dinner over in a mate’s house. Half the weekend’s gone and Sunday afternoon looks like the only available time left for some R&R but there is work to be turned around by Monday so I’d probably have to spend some time on work on Sunday afternoon.
I wonder why our weekly activities have become such a blurred and rushed cycle. I have not had a good and relaxing weekend for so long now. I want to be able to sleep in, do housework, then spend Saturday afternoon cooking leisurely, preparing a nice dinner Tress and kiddo can sit down to, with a very nice glass of red of course and watching a delectable movie on television. I want to drift away to slumberland after the movie, with Stacy Kent or Diana Krall in the background and the red refilling my glass constantly.
There’s a lot to be said about relaxing at home. I find that to be eminently more restful than being somewhere else, even if the activities are the same. I like spending time with friends, chatting over some food and wine but that’s different to unwinding at home. I want to do that regularly and spend time with friends once in a while, more than the other way around. Or maybe I just want that once in a while, with time spent with friends being more regular. I don’t know. It is just that at this point in time I really do want some chill out time. I miss a good movie. And a quiet evening before a day off.
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