a day off is worth its time in gold

sitting here,

simply having the day off

is maybe the best thing that ever happened to me.

even last night, just relaxing with my take-out malai kofta, the evening breeze blowing through the front door, and me lounging in the evening light with my book and my computer...

and no thoughts about having to go to bed so that i could get up early the next day...

i could simply just sit there, until i was too tired, and then climb into bed whenever i wanted. which turned out to be 10:30pm (horribly wimpy) but still. it was just a natural choice, not a forced one.

it's nice.

and rolling out of bed at 8 this morning, instead of 5:45... simply heavenly. time to sit on the front porch with the cats and the paper, in the morning sun

and now at herkimer studying spanish...

later meeting laurie for lunch, and serena for a run.

could it get any better than this?

i think it is a gift from the universe that it happened to be 70 and sunny this week. this is what i needed to refresh.

and almost 2 more weeks of this ahead! with backpacking in between of course.

this is the life.