Tired, Blazing Saddles & a poor woman's Med cruise

Today is Thursday, but it’s like a Friday for me because I’m off tomorrow. Of course I will be working; it just won’t be the kind of work I get paid for. My list of errands is getting longer and longer.

This has been a quick and busy week, so much going on at work and at home. I had Walking Buddies Monday after work, a recital to attend Tuesday night, Wednesday evening I helped my son make a flyer for an event he is organizing, and tonight is the neighborhood meeting. The days and evenings have been full this week!

I felt so bad about not getting a box together for my adopted soldier that I went online and order him a cooling scarf and a sand scarf from the Soldiers’ Angels Store, and a gift box from Hickory Farms. He’ll love it but I feel like I took the easy way out, which I did. There won’t be a personal touch to either box, other than the notes. Of course being so busy I’m not sure I could have put much personal touch into anything.

My three closest friends, My Peeps, have all had equally hard weeks. I know they’re tired as well. In honor of us needing a break to just relax, I sent them an email with a link to YouTube for Madeline Kane’s performance in Blazing Saddles, as Lily von Stuchpp singing “I’m Tired” and inviting them to my patio tomorrow evening. We can let the kids run wild in the field, let them roast hot dogs and marshmallows, while we sit and watch and sip our adult beverages. This is as close as we’re going to get to our ultimate goal of a Mediterranean cruise anytime soon.

Last weekend I bought a big wooden spool at a garage sale to make a yard table. I decide to leave it as is for awhile and let the kids play on it. I remember when we were kids we had two 55-gallon barrels. We had a lot of fun with those things. We taught ourselves to barrel walk, had races and barrel fights. We also used them as construction material to build our forts, and of course we used them for drums. I anticipate that my wooden spool will ignite similar ideas in the kids. When they get tired of it there will still be time to turn it into a yard table.