During this most chaotic of weeks, I am taking a day off to make life a little less hectic.
Little Squid's Winter Solstice concert is this morning, followed by a holiday/publishing party. Rather then worry about work and having to get to work, I am taking a personal day. I am not hiding where I am or what I am doing. I'll worry about work tomorrow -- when I'm there. Today, I can stay at the party as long as I like. Today, I can shmooze with the other parents and I can kvell in how talented my progeny is as he plays his flute with the band and his violin with the chorus. Today, I can take the time to really read his writing, and that of his classmates. My comments can be thoughtful instead of peremptory. My thoughts can be of fifth grade instead of high school.
And afterward? I can take myself to lunch. Or not. I can go for a manicure. Or not. I can snag a couch at the 85th Street Starbucks and listen to my book and knit. Or snag a couch and take a badly needed nap. I can take a long walk to Knitty City and Zabars. I can shop for a new suit (for work). I can just wander the streets of the city and look at the winter finery. My only constraint is that I wind up back on the Upper East Side by 4:00 or so -- so I will probably not go home.
The video camera is charged, a fresh battery is in my digital camera, I have my knitting and I have enough cash for my fairly modest needs. My son is relaxed despite his need to wear blue and black for the chorus and white and blue for the band. His violin is tuned and his hair is in desperate need of a trim. He is wearing a single watch on each arm, one around his neck and one in his pocket.
So, if you see me wandering the streets of the Upper East or West side today (in a bright pink parka with a pale purple hat and grey mittens), stop me. Say hi, feel free to schooze. I've got nothing but time.
9 comments:
There is nothing like a good day off. Have a wonderful time!
Have a wonderful day!
Heck, if I saw ya, I'd drag you somewhere warm, have some coffee, knit and chat for a few hours. Enjoy YOUR time.
Sounds like a wonderful day.
Have a peppermint mocha at the Starbucks and knit away the day!
I wish him all the best. I know he won't be late ;-)
Oh I'm so glad..it sounds like a very good day for both you and the Little Squid.
I'm so glad you took today off. I think both you and the Little Squid will be happier this way.
I hope you had a wonderful day!
I am reading this at night, so I hope you had a wonderful day with Little Squid, and his concert was successful! I was wondering when I read your watch post, was the binary watch the present you had posted about a while back, that you were searching for? I am also wondering if one of the Grandfather Squids has or left a watch for Little Squid? I think it would be so neat for him to have one that belonged to his grandparents.
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