Hold Everything; It’s a Holiday!
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
I love long holidays, especially when days off combine with weekends to create stretches of closed offices and suspension of life as usual. I always have a list of things I should be doing, calls I should be making and WW meetings I should be preparing for. So all of these things get put on hold with only a modicum of guilt. Never mind that I could and should have done them weeks ago. Now, at least for a little while, I am unable to do them and can decadently sleep in, eat junk and avoid all manner of constructive thinking or activities. To further aid in my indolence, I have a couple of kids around for a limited time, and want to spend as much time with them as possible. True, I do a bit more cookery and laundering than in my normal, to all intensive purposes, state of living alone , but we have finally reached an understanding wherein they will play pinochle, canasta and cribbage with me until one of us simply cannot take any more. Add to that a little TV and a few outings for shopping, dining and movies, and hopefully it is a nice break for all of us, and about as far removed from my normal routine as can be imagined.
Of course it would not be possible or even desirable to live this way all the time, but I think I could stand it for another, say month or two. Unfortunately for me, I get less than two more days.
Lazy and loving it,
UltraMom
Glad you are enjoying it, we are having fun too. Just a friendly note, I believe the expression is “all intents and purposes,” not “all intensive purposes.”
Wow. Can’t believe I did that! The funny thing is I recently read a book where one of the main characters said that phrase all the time, and everyone else kind of made fun of him behind his back in a good natured way.
I’m a little late in commenting because I was gone for a few days. I think that I could take a month or two of Jim’s company before I got sick of him.