Lazy

We have fallen into the habit of working just about every single day, including weekends. I don't think it's a particularly satisfying wany to live our life, but it's hard to break bad habits. And a lot of the things we do for work are done because we like to do them, so at some level I can't complain. The truth is, I often don't enjoy just doing nothing, because it feels so pointless. Most of the time I am doing nothing I find myself fretting about the constructive things I should be doing, or the fun I am not having. Guilt ensues, and I get trapped in the mad circle that just results in my being miserable.

Only on major holidays do we indulge ourselves and take some days off. And this year we actually did find a little time to relax. We managed to fit in a few movies. Syriana, exciting, timely and excellent. Casanova, cute but dumb. And Brokeback Mountain, sad but excellent. We saw some friends. And we had the grand daughters over for a sleep over and goofed around with them doing a silly art project.

We must have really needed to relax, though, because today was one of the laziest days we have had around here in a very long time.

We got up and went to coffee.Then we drove out to my son's to drop something off for my granddaughters. We got back home and we never left the house after that. In fact, we hardly left our chairs.

We farted around on the computers for a while, and then we put on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (My, is that a dark and slightly scary movie. But Roald Dahl would probably have liked this version much more than the original Willy Wonka.) We had some leftover duck and rice from the Chinese restaurant last night while we watched the movie, and I fell sound asleep with the cat on my lap. When I woke up, I felt like I had been drugged, and even the cat was so zonked out I could hardly get her to move.

Then I got up, wasted time doing some completely useless computer stuff again, and we ate leftover chicken teryaki while some mindless TV shows droned in the background.

There was absolutely nothing redeeming about this day. I hope it is not predictive of the coming year. But I do think, with a little more practice, I could learn to enjoy laziness.

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