A Week’s End

Whenever I think of the much-needed respite that only a weekend can bring, I think of that Loverboy song that proclaims what everybody with a 9-to-5 life is thinking:  Everybody’s working for the weekend.  And that’s all there is to it:

Before you go questioning my loyalty to my work, my co-workers and my job, I don’t spend my workweek counting down until Friday at 5.  I love what I do.  I love coming to work, I love working with some of my best friends, and I love that I have more fun in my office than I have stress.  However, I am not unlike any other happy employee out there who looks forward to a 24-hour period when I can do whatever I want, however I want, with whomever I want.  Come on...it’s the weekend!  It’s “you” (or “me") time, when you can do all of those little mundane tasks like cleaning underneath your toilet to getting groceries to doing laundry and everything in between; or, if you’re like a lot of people—more than would admit to it, I would say—you can do absolutely nothing at all.  Sleep until it’s too late for breakfast, until the thought of doing any chores sounds too laborious to consider.  This is what’s called “being a slob.”

This weekend I spent too much time doing nothing.  Friday night I spent with my friends watching the first Presidential debate, eating a delicious meal and drinking good wine with good friends.  Saturday I did not much, except some laundry and going to a play with some other friends.  Stop by the New Phoenix on the Park theater and catch “Dusty Springfield...With You” until October 11.  Two of Buffalo’s best—Lorraine O’Donnell and Eric Rawski—serve up a 60-minute biographical tale of the latter days of the British blonde bombshell’s husky-voiced career.  Both O’Donnell and Rawski are wonderful, and the music (with Lorraine’s superb live singing, which in any show, on any stage, is a treat) is nostalgic and eye-opening at the same time.

Yesterday I volunteered as a house guide at the Elmwood Village Association’s annual Tour of Kitchens.  This is when the Elmwood district opens up 15 or so kitchens for visitors to take a tour through.  Participating homeowners this year included kitchens made with elements of green design, which ranges from energy-efficient appliances to recycled glass tiles to much more.  It was fun to see how other people decorate their homes, especially in their kitchens which are the central meeting places for so many families.  It was also nice to see so many people out and about in our neighborhoods, walking and enjoying the season with each other.  After a nice meal at Globe with a friend, I came home and did even more laundry, catching up on my favorite weekend pleasure, CBS News Sunday Morning.  Did anyone else see the story about Dewey the Library Cat in Iowa?

Ahh....I love weekends.

Posted by on 09/29 at 09:53 AM