Today I didn’t put on pants or a bra until after 6 pm and
pretended to Spencer’s mom that I had been dressed all day.
Am I proud of that? No. That’s why I put on pants when I thought she might be coming. Which she was. High five for excellent timing and maximizing no pants time.
Do I regret spending an entire day sans pants? Absolutely not.
See, folks, today was that day. The day after being sick where you’ve got one
foot left in the sick door, but everything from the ankle up is completely out
of the sick house. The day where you’re still a bit off from
being sick, but it’s no more than being a little more tired or achy than
normal. The day that, for every other
illness in my life, I had to go back.
Back to school, back to studying, back to vacation, back to work, back
to whatever it was that I had going on that day. But today I had nothing really to go back
to. That’s the glory of being done with
school and unemployed.
Did I have a million things that I should have been doing? Of course.
But none of those things really have a deadline.
So instead, I spent all day snuggling with my dogs and
watching terrible television at shockingly high volumes because I could. Call it the unemployment silver lining. It gives me an appreciation for what really
is a pretty amazing situation.
Right now, I can truly do whatever I want. I can write a book, build a deck, reshelve
the storage closet. I can create anything at all that I want. All of those honey-dos that I would love to
do? I have time to do them. All those recipes I’ve been dying to
try? I can now. All those books I’ve been meaning to
read? Read away. I even have time to return to the video game
list I’ve been compiling since junior high and obsessively hundred percent
them. That’s a goal I’ve had now for
more than half my life.
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