Day 274
I’m having deja vu …
Or maybe it’s just being a creature of habit that I feel like I’ve been here, done this before. As in, time after time after time- before.
This being what I normally do on Sunday nights. And that is …
NOTHING.
I love Sunday nights. It is really the one night of the week that I don’t work through 8pm or eat dinner at 10pm because I’ve lost track of time doing something around the house or with work.
I eat at 8pm or 10pm because I want to!
Tonight’s appetizer is a small glass of very sweet wine. It is simply lovely and I’ve been nursing it now for about half an hour, drinking one thimbleful at a time. Maybe the slow seepage into my system will allow the allergens to be diluted before they render breathing difficult! We shall see.
In any case … Sunday evenings. A time of relaxation and anticipation of what the week brings. They have always been my own little private New Year’s Eve of sorts … every week I get a new beginning … a fresh start. And Sunday evenings are the springboard to that clean slate.
When I was little Sunday evenings meant watching Lassie in the living room. The three of us kids were piled around the emerald green folding table (damn, it was ugly) eating Chef Boyardee boxed pizza. We never had take-out pizza and (not knowing any better) we thought this cardboard version of pizza was fabulous!
In any case … we’d eat our flat, tasteless pizza and watch Lassie rescue Timmy from a well or Doc Weaver saving someone who fell off a fence or something. It was wonderful. And then after Lassie saved the day, once again, we’d settle down and watch The Ed Sullivan Show. If Topo Gigio was on (that cute little French mouse) … my night was extra fantastic because I was in love with him. Granted I was about 7, but hey, he was cute!
In any case, I don’t have to have cardboard pizza or cute mousies to make my Sunday nights special. Over the past few years I’ve come to think of them as “my” night. I don’t schedule anything … I don’t start any projects late in the afternoon … I just look forward to lolling around and doing whatever. Tonight I’m watching some TV, going through today’s paper, catching up on some correspondence, making a “clean out the fridge” dinner and then later I’ll go through my planner and figure out my week’s activities and put my plans onto paper. My night of leisure. I might finish up a project or two – but only if I really want to (like changing out a curtain rod or organizing a closet) … or whatever. We’ll see.
In any case … the end of Daylight Saving Time brought darkness early today and so my evening feels a bit longer tonight. Lucky me … another hour or so of Sunday evening!