Relax!

Friday has really become my day to let everything go.

Weekends are like the rest of my work week. I'd make Sunday my day of rest, but I am too busy gearing up for the coming week to do that. So I'm left with Friday.

And today has an added bonus: the kids have fall break. So we're off to a state park today, braving the overcast skies and potential rain. We might not get to do paddle boating, but we'll still have fun, I bet. I'll take some pictures and post them on my Travel Tuesday this week (hopefully).

We're also taking the kids to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat tonight. It'll be the first time they've seen it live, and I can't wait to see it again! If you don't know anything about it, it's by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the creator of The Phantom of the Opera and Jesus Christ Superstar (and a bunch of other musicals, too).

What are your fun plans for today--or for the weekend? Any relaxing on the schedule? No? Well, why not?

At least pull out a puzzle or something. Think through... what is it you really like to do that you haven't done in FAR TOO LONG?

The Calm at the End

Friday

No sound except

The soft clock ticking

Near the soft couch

With its soft burgundy pillows

Children off at school

Learning all they can

Forget in a weekend

Meeting friends they'll see again

In a few short days.

And I?

No tasks that must be done

No labors left remaining

Nothing necessary

Just myself

My cat

And a warm mug of tea to

Pull me out of panic

And unburden

My heavy mind.

It lightens

Even as I write

Until it is weightless

Drifting into a new adventure

A new world

For the taking

Where panic is invented

Suspense is extreme but unworldly

And the happy ending is all planned out.

The weekend awaits

Smiling

Its arms outstretched to embrace me.

Friday Meme

Friday is here, and I feel lazy (for once). I found this meme on AmyOops, and I thought it interesting enough to share. Feel free to answer the questions yourself, if you like. If you put them on your own blog, let me know so that I can check them out.

Odd Things about Me (What isn't odd about me?):

1 Do you like bleu cheese?

(Only in salad, in dressing, on toast, on fish, or anywhere else I put it.)
2. Do you own a gun?

(Never. I detest violence.)
3. What color Kool Aid is your favorite?

(Red flavored. Without poison, of course. Don't touch the stuff.)
4. Do you get nervous before doctor's appointments?

(Never. I like that hour I get to spend sans kids, talking about my problems. I especially like clinical massage therapy sessions. I think I could use one of those now.)
5. What do you think of hot dogs?

(Gross. I'm a vegetarian. I thought they were gross when I wasn't a vegetarian.)
6. Favorite Christmas movie?

(I have two: It's a Wonderful Life and Scrooged. Exactly the same movie... only different.)
7. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?

(International Coffee's Cafe Vienna. I've tried everything else.)
8. Can you do push ups?

(I do fifty every morning, fifty every evening. But I warn you, they don't work.)
9. What's your favorite piece of jewelry?

(My wedding ring, of course!)
10. Favorite hobby?

(Playing piano, singing, painting, reading, coloring, drawing, dancing. All in one day. I love to write, too, but that is my profession, not my hobby.)
11. Do you have A.D.D?

(No, but I'm a Pisces, and that's bad enough. ADD would put me over the edge.)
12 Do You wear glasses or contacts?

(Yup, but I want lasic so that I don't have to anymore.)
13. Middle name?

(Jean.)
14. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink?

(Water, diet orange Crush--yum!--and, um, Cafe Vienna)
15. Current Worry?

(I worry about absolutely everything. Just read my blog and you'll see.)
16. Current hate?

(Grammatical errors. Ask me tomorrow, and it will be something else.)
17. Favorite place to be?

(In my wingback chair, writing.)
18. Where would you like to go?

(Great Britain.)
19. Name three people who will complete this?

(I never said I was psychic. What kind of question is that?)
20. Do you own slippers?

(Nope.)
21. What color shirt are you wearing?

(None of your business, snoopy.)
22. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets?

(Gross. No.)
23. Can you whistle?

(Yes. My favorite song to whistle is the Star Wars theme.)
24. Where are you now?

(In my wingback chair!)
25. Would you be a pirate?

(No. Vegetarian pacifists don't make good pirates.)
26. What songs do you sing in the shower?

(Anything loud and operatic.)
27. Favorite Girl's Name?

(Rachel.)
28. Favorite boy's name ?

(Orlando. Yeah, I know, neither of these made it to my kids.)
29. What's in your pocket right now?

(No pockets.)
30. Who last made you laugh?

(My husband, and, no, the details are none of your business.)
31. What vehicle do you drive?

(Ford Mother-With-Kids Windstar Minivan. Sexy!)
32. Worst injury you've ever had?

(Cesarean section. Never really been injured. I did cut my legs up a few times, throwing myself into thorns, etc., but I don't really count any of that. My two C-sections were the hardest.)
33. Do you love where you live?

(Yup, allergies and all. Summers here are spectacular, and I love rain, too.)
34. How many TVs do you have in your house?

(Two, and I rarely watch either.)