Sunday Stuff
Today was the type of day that we prayed for all last week.
It was so beautiful and sunny. There was a clear blue sky and it was easy to breathe. Well, It was easy to breathe after I took an allergy pill.
I must have started to have an allergy attack in the middle of the night because I dreamt about golden rod. Golden rod is one of those weeds I am most allergic to, and it’s out in full force right now. I had a dream that I was in a car with a friend (I have no idea who) and we were driving along when suddenly the road ahead of us disappeared and was a field of golden rod. It was important to get to wherever we were going so I was going to have to gun the car to plow through the weeds and get to the other side. This wasn’t your run of the mill golden rod, either. This stuff was thick and at least six feet tall. There was no going around it, I was going to have to go through it.
Don’t ask me what happened, all of a sudden the dream shifted to a city and the golden rod was gone.
Guess I must have made it through.
I had forgotten all about the drawing that was being held at my favorite stamp store today when I ran across one of my entry slips. It was a one-minute shopping spree, but you had to be at the store at noon in order to win.
So I hustled around here this morning, and managed to make it with a few minutes to spare. The traffic was really heavy along 128, which surprised me for 11 a.m. on a Sunday.
I didn’t win.
I didn’t even get a door prize this year (last year I won a stamp). So that meant I had to do some shopping. I showed remarkable restraint, buying only three stamps, a bag of odds and ends for collages, and a magazine. Of course I think I bought the most expensive stamp in the store, it was a whopping $20! It’s a very cool one, that actually has three parts to it and you assemble it into a little picnic basket.
Of course, who knows when I’ll find time to do this?
I also got this huge stamp of a tree that has a knothole in it and a tiny door at the base of it. It has tons of potential for making shaker cards, especially for the fall. I love sending fallish cards to people, not just Halloween ones, although I do LOVE Halloween.
I even managed to get things done around here, like dusting, dishes, lunches for next week, ironing for tomorrow .I wasn’t ambitious enough to do the ironing for the whole week, partly because I need to hear a weather report for the week before I decide what to wear. Once we get into weather that remains more or less in the same temperature range, I’ll be able to do that. It’s so much easier than trying to get it done during the week, when I’m often too tired to stand up long enough to iron.
There must have been good Karma in the air for the local sports teams as well. The Red Sox beat the loathsome Yankees for the third straight game, and the Patriots beat the horrible New York Jets. The Patriots didn’t really deserve to win, but I’ll take it.
I do love sports. I used to have the biggest crushes on local sports figures. People like Tony Conigiliaro (God rest his soul), who played for the Red Sox, and the Hockey God, Bobby Orr. Of course I STILL have a crush on Bobby Orr. I have a framed autographed picture of him on my wall. And it’s autographed to me, personally.
I never liked the game of football very much, even though I went to all the football games when I was in high school, and many of them when I was at Boston College. But they were more like social events, so I never paid much attention to the game.
It wasn’t until I started teaching high school that I learned the rules and actually started to enjoy the action. There wasn’t much to do in Northampton on a Friday night, so everyone would go to the football games. The faculty was pretty much expected to attend, and I was young so it was fun. It was cold, but it was fun.
Now I love to watch the Patriots play. Of course it helps that they have a decent team and give us something to cheer for. When they stink I can’t be bothered. I look forward to the football season, although I don’t spend much time watching the college games that are on all day on Saturday.
Today was a day when I had to keep clicking back and forth between the Red Sox game and the Patriots game. It’s a good thing I live alone, it would have driven another person crazy.
I am also a bit…umm…vociferous when I watch sports on television. I holler at the television and cheer when they score. My friend Jack couldn’t get over what I was like the first time he came over to watch a football game with me. He was hysterical watching me.
But what’s the point of just watching?? This is how I participate!
I hate the fact that it is now Sunday night and that I have a full week of god-knows-what ahead of me. I’ve done what schoolwork I can, but I know that I left my desk in a state of disarray and that I have to face getting that settled. We also have open house this Wednesday, and I’m going to have to be there till after eight that night.
Nothing I can do about it, though.
Onward.
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