Saturdays are sunshine, cool sheets, hugging pillows, hugs and hiking, Mexican food and coffee, independence, exploring, movie-going days, going out nights, do-nothing afternoons, showers that last entirely too long.
When you have work to do over the weekend, it's a lot more relaxing to do it on a Saturday than a Sunday. Sunday has an air of impending (doom would be too strong a word, wouldn't it?)....well...more like an impending, heavy, grey cloud.
So if you do work on Saturday you can just relax and bask in the sunniness of everything (though, as a procrastinator I've also found that finishing stuff on Saturday is a bit less realistic as well, but you'll feel extra extra good about starting).
I've enjoyed my independence on many a Saturday since starting college, and so it will always kind of remind me of afternoons spent in coffee shops in Chattanooga or Oxford, writing papers, hiking and listening to music, or sitting in the window daydreaming while looking at the awesome view from Lookout Mountain.
*I miss Oxford and Chattanooga a whole lot, speaking of these things, and it occurs to me how supremely blessed I've been to live in such incredibly diverse, spark-igniting, beautiful (though in ways which could not be more different) places. I'd happily live in either place again, for a longer period of time. *
Now, Saturdays as a married person are also excellent...(dotdotdot)
By the way, excellent is an excellent word which I have apparently been rediscovering on this particular Saturday. This morning I looked at Dane and his sleepy-head hair and I announced to him: "Dane Michael Gustafson, you are excellent!". He seemed quite pleased with himself.
Both of us have grown up jobs now which have Saturday and Sunday off, so that makes weekends a lot more laid back.
Though I do have planning and stuff for students, it's not quite the same as being a full-time student at a challenging college. There will be more work once my teaching job starts, but for now, it's quite vacation-ey. Today we stayed in bed till 9ish, which felt kind of like a miracle. We made Pioneer Porridge with brown sugar and butter. Pioneer Porridge is AMAZING. Here's a link to the mill (not far from us) :http://www.noramill.com/store/history.php
Throw some brown sugar, butter and cinnamon on that stuff and you are in business. See, these are the kind of slow-cooked, nutritious breakfasts that needs to be enjoyed in the rocking-chair-on-the-porch type fashion of a Saturday or Sunday morning. You can't just hurriedly gulp that kind of goodness down.
We proceeded to watch a Broadway production of "Into the Woods" on Netflix. Great music, but now stuck in my head..............................................
Then Dane fixed my computer (YAY!)while I read the end of a book before we ventured out to one of the best kept secrets in town, a book exchange store that is so overflowing with books that it looks like some kind of Hogwarts librarian must manage it. I was thrilled to find a copy of the uncollected poems of R.M. Rilke, which I purchased for a mere 6.95.
Now Dane is at some friends' house, hooking up their TV, and I'm being far less helpful to society, blogging and eating frozen butterscotch pudding.Today is one of the hottest days in recent GA history, after all.
So today's Saturday...not even over, but great so far.
In a totally separate vein, we came up with a new game the other night. Easy to play, so if you're stuck inside on this freakishly hot Saturday and want to entertain yourself, you should try this out.
Select a movie trailer and a piece of music that would be hilarious together. Then, turn down the video volume and just watch it to the song. You can do this by yourself, or in teams as a kind of a competition, or pair up and come up with a surprise combination with a partner. Do points however you want, mostly it's just laughter inducing. :-)
Here were some of my favorites:
1. The Bourne Identity Trailer with Cuban Pete (as sung by Jim Carrey)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-uQreIwEk-movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJej6kCgxVM
2. Sweeney Todd Trailer with Mahna Mahna (by the Muppets)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_hgrfZVlJA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ
oh, and I just found this one!
3. Nanny McPhee soundtrack with the song "World Collapsing" by Danny Cocke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEYozuMFjyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fB5ZdyiKa8
Oh no....now I have a feeling I'm going to be on Youtube for a little while...
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