“Well, how did I get here?” Life is something; each day, week, month, year brings a new set of challenges. Sometimes they’re no big deal; others may bring you down a bit. Although I love them, there aren’t a whole lot of dull moments around here. I like boring; boring is fun to me. Where am I going with this? I love that Talking Heads song “Once in a Lifetime”…
Honestly, I should just go to bed; supposed to get up at 6am and grab a Black Friday Christmas Tree from Home Depot. Starting with Tuesday, there have been some early days. 4am for the World Cup that day, 430am for the same on Wednesday; I was happy to almost get to 6am this morning. Probably be in the 5 something range tomorrow morning as well; told my son whatever time he wants to get up, to let me know. My luck he’ll pop up at 330…
I’m tired; I can’t hang. I always wondered about that; I remember being told I wouldn’t be able to do it when I got older… staying up late, getting up early, repeatedly… We told my son last night during the Bulls game, as we clinked our wine glasses, that this is the biggest party night of the year; he was like, huh? Yeah, our party nights nowadays are just what we were doing; all 3 of us were sitting down watching the Bulls Bucks game. And you know what? It’s all good…
Besides turkey, football, and dinner with the family, Thanksgiving used to have some other traditions, including getting F’d up, going out partying, staying up all night, and of course, the Madden Bowl. I always talk to some of the boys every year about this time, remembering those days; those were some good times… memories I will never forget. I have a lot of those; sometimes I think I should write them all down, because, well, you know… the getting older part; I don’t want to forget all that shit…
Another reason I should get to bed is because I actually work tomorrow. Yeah, I’ve worked this day for a number of years, allowing my managers to take the day; it’s not a blow off day either, although part of me “running the floor” that day, means free lunch for everybody; great, just what I need… more food. I started back on the treadmill about a week or so ago just to prepare for the feasting I did today. Lots of good food…
When we all get together, I really enjoy it; I enjoy all family time… you know, the boring stuff. It’s that “boring stuff” that I will miss one day; I think about my parents a lot… I’m going to miss the hell out of them when they’re gone; I like to hang with them as much as I can on these days. Told my brother and Dad I should have brought cigars for after dinner…
The memories… across my lifetime, from A to, I don’t know, wherever I’m at right now… let’s just call it M… halfway home maybe? I’ve been blessed, and I think about that, especially on days like today. I wish everyone blessings on this days of thanks; the day that gets skipped over nowadays, as we hop directly from Halloween to Christmas. Well, I guess that it’s over now, we can turn on the Christmas music, right???
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