As much as I love hanging out with Mark on the weekends, traveling to new wineries and such, getting a snack at Sonic (or just eating out in general), laying in the sun at Highlands with a cold drink, grilling on our hill...I sure miss those days of hanging out at my house. I used to spend my days off getting a multitude of things done AND still having time to be creative. I look around the house and while it is clean and such, there are projects - creative projects - I want to work on.
Doing a little decorating/spiffing, sewing, painting, reading, gardening - I don't seem to have a lot of time for nowadays. The issue is: he's off the same days I am now, so I don't fill my free time with those things anymore. And I miss all that. Everyone needs a little unstructured time to putsey and do what they need or want to do around the house. At least I do. So, I am a little grateful for on-call weekends since I get to be a homebody, chained to my pager or home phone until 7 p.m. Plus I earn a little extra, especially if I get called in.
Not that I don't love to have weekends free to go and do. I just relish the homebody time, too. And theres one coming up so I'm getting my mental list all ready...
Hi, Gina...oh, yes...we do love our ME time...however, since I've lost my sweetheart of 57 years last summer, I find I have too MUCH free time...I still understand what you are saying, tho. Have fun creating....
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