Glad It's Over

Thank God it's Monday. Now I bet that there very few of you out there that have ever prayed for the beginning of the work week but listen to this. Well for one thing I am under/unemployed so the kids headed off to school, the wife to work this morning and the peace and quiet have returned. But the last four days have been of hellacious in terms of the amount of Sheer Stuff that had to get done.

An Inventory and Timeline:
1) Took on a one week project last Monday, results due today. Reading, writing and, unfortunately, some arithmatic involved.
2) Coached three (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) of my daughter's softball games. We won the first round of the playoffs. Onward Pleasantville Cardinals!
3) Annual Pleasantville Community Day preparations/setup on Friday. This is the big annual event that the local Lions Club, of which I am a member, throw for the town. Lots of booths, games, pony rides etc., so the set up involves erecting a huge circus tent, collecting stuff from all over and just basically sweaty work for five hours.
4) Pleasantville Community Day opens Saturday morning in a light drizzle but we persevere. At high noon, the clouds open and thunder rumbles in the distance, there is a mad scramble for the cars and we officially bail out on Community Day. Missed you Kal.
5) The wife and I race home take showers and drive two hours to a wedding. Dance, drink, eat too much and drive home. Fall into bed at midnight.
6) Wake up Sunday at 6:00 and begin preparing for the PMC Kids Bike Ride/fundraiser we host for the Jimmy Fund.
7) Coach a portion of the aforementioned Softball Playoff game.
8) Come home, host 150 kids and their parents for our fundraiser. We raised over $10,000 for the Jimmy Fund. Missed your kids, Kal.
9) Had a couple of beers and headed off to a meeting on the Project from item one. Sat with a bunch of local activists to help them figure out how to save a huge piece of open space in their town.
10) Meeting gets out at 10:15. Drive home, drink another beer, realize that the reason I am buzzing if that I haven't eaten anything since breakfast. Heat up some frozen potstickers and some miso soup, snarf them and crash.

And then - Sweet Bliss, its Monday Morning. So I apologize to you working stiffs but Thank God It's Monday.