Lazy Sunday

This is it, isn't it? You have to start all your new years resolutions tomorrow. No more excuses. Eat right, quit drinking/smoking/watching porno on the work computer. What ever you promised yourself and your God, Monday morning, you have to live with it. The last weekend of the holiday season is over.

Well, I'll tell you how I spent mine. I slept until 10, just because I thought it was the right thing to do. Then I got up, ate some cereal so I could take my pills that make me sleepy but are clearing up the mess that is my lungs right now and read the paper. Then having taken said pills, went back to bed for two hours. And there wasn't much interesting in the paper anyway.

The dog it appears felt much like I did today, and she joined me on the bed for the two hours. But she's 10. And now after a life time spent being described as a, "Meth Lab" instead of a, "Black Lab" because she was so hyper, she's mellowed a lot.

I had the radio on, listening to KRCL. I love the, "Sunday Sage Brush Serenade", have since I was in college. It's where I hear the stuff I love. If it weren't for this show, I wouldn't have gotten to meet, Jerry Jeff Walker, and, Robert Earl Keen (literally meet them, not just get to know their music) but today, who ever was filling in for, Phil was playing some pretty, "angsty" shit. I think it was a 15 year old girl. So it was easy to drift off to sleep to.

I only left the house twice. Once to throw the paper in the recycle bin, and once to get the satellite radio out of the garage and bring it into the house at 2 o'clock.

I woke up about one, took a LONG, HOT shower, didn't bother to shave today, put on some pajama pants, a t shirt and spent the next several hours reading the Trib, City Weekly, The Week and Wendell Potter's book, "Deadly Spin" while listening to music. If you don't know who Wendell Potter is, or what his book is about, and you don't have health insurance, you should find out.

My wife fixed us a wonderful pot roast for dinner and it was great to have dinner with the family.

She went to our bedroom to listen to books on tape, my son to the basement to play video games with his buddies on line, my daughter to her room and her computer, and I watched, Top Gear in the living room with my neighbor while enjoying a bourbon or two. That's a pretty good way to spend the last day before you have to quit eating/drinking garbage, start running every morning and give up cigars, fast cars and handguns.

Yeah. Like that's gonna happen! Good luck with your resolutions. I have a pretty good idea how I'm going to do with mine, since there is still whiskey in the house, and it's too freakin' cold to go for a walk and there are still Bowl Games on TV all week!