Going for the Perfect Saturday

(It's no "Summer of George," but it's not bad)

I am keeping a close eye on tomorrow's forecast as I aim for as near perfect day as I can have without my beautiful fiancee. Because Julie has a busy afternoon planned with girl stuff, I will be making the best of it. I will attempt four things that will make for a great Saturday after a very long, stressful work week. Here is the recipe for a great Saturday:

1. If the rest of the snow (that is not piled up in parking lots) can melt and we get temperatures into the mid-40's tomorrow, I would like to break out my new clubs and at least walk 9 holes. If anyone is interested, I could use some company on this "good walk spoiled."


2. After shooting my best 9 of the year, I would head home, catch a few scores and then read for awhile as I attempt to finish one of the several books I started months ago.


3. At 4pm, Kentucky takes on Georgia in Lexington. Georgia beat Kentucky in a disappointing game to open the SEC season. I think Kentucky will exact revenge and all will be right with the basketball world.


4. To complete this wonderful day of frivolity, my beautiful fiancee and I will head to the movies. I'm not sure what we will see, but going to the movies has always been one of my favorite things to do.
   

So what do you think, can I fit four of my favorite things into one Saturday?

Snow

A part of me still loves tracking snow storms and watching the snow fall, but once it's on the ground, I wish it would disappear. It's easy to like snow if you get a day off school or don't have to go into work and still get paid for it. Now, with my job, I sit up most of the night or get up extremely early in the morning to make decisions on closing or delaying the opening of the center. Then, usually with very little sleep, I trudge down to work and help get everything salted and cleared.

I think some of this bitterness is also due to my new golf clubs sitting in storage just waiting for action. With a "potential mega-storm" (according to one local meteorologist) possible on Monday-Tuesday followed by another potential storm Thursday-Friday, it may be awhile.

When Dreams and Reality Collide

A few days ago, in the early morning hours before I planned to get up, I had one of my strangest dreams in awhile (and that is saying something). I was in the shower, but suddenly had something pinching my feet. The shower curtain liner hung down only inches from my toes due to the weights in the bottom of the liner. However, the weights were not your typical little magnets...they were little turtles. This was made even stranger because I was fully aware turtles were being used as weights, but was agitated the liner had the wrong turtles in it. The manufacturer had mistakenly sewn in snapping turtles! They were craning their little necks trying to chomp on my little toes.

I then awoke to find our cat nipping at my toes sticking out from beneath the blankets. So I got up and fed her breakfast.