The daily grind

S and I tend to get in these ruts where every night goes something like this:

5:20 I get home from work, let dog out, change clothes, open mail.

6:00 I start making dinner.

7:00-8:00 S arrives home. We eat dinner while watching tv.

8:00-10:00 We continue watching tv.

10:00 Get ready for bed, fall asleep while watching tv in bed.

During the summer months this schedule isn't quite so routine and I'll usually stay outside working in the garden, reading a book, or take the dog for a walk. But as soon as the days start getting shorter, weather colder this is pretty much how it goes. And when it gets dark by the time I get home from work I go straight from work clothes into pajamas. Why change twice? People rarely stop over and I don't plan on going anywhere.

Last night we broke the mid week routine and went out for dinner at the Victory Club. Used my free meal coupon, had a few beers and played Big Buck Hunter. Don't get me wrong it was nothing crazy we were still home by 9:30.

Just in time to hear some girl nail the curb doing a u-turn across from our driveway. She hit it so hard that both her air bags went off! She was fine, she got right out and was on her cell phone. A neighbor went outside to talk to her and we heard her say that her parents were coming, they live around the corner but she needed to know what street she was on. The whole thing was a little suspicious but a couple did come and "rescue" her and they looked about old enough to be her parents.

I have the day off today and want nothing better then to crawl back into bed and watch tv. But then I feel like I wasted the day and got nothing accomplished. What I should do is clean. There is enough dust in the living room to enter my own ArtPrize, I still have gardens that need to be cleaned out and planters that need emptying. Actually there are hundreds of things I could get done around here.

I wish I was one of those people that could jump out of bed and without a single ounce of caffeine get right to work getting things done. But I never have been and probably never will be. I don't start to feel remotely productive until usually around 10:00.