Time is on Our Side

It's the Thursday already and the month is almost over too. Where has the time gone? I never thought I'd say that but there you have it. It's what being forty- seven years old will do to you. I think it has a lot to do with becoming more responsible as you mature. When your younger you sleep in till noon then go to your job as an usher at the cineplex or don your greasy duds for a meaningless eight hours at the Church's Fried Chicken. Time has no significant impact on a post pubescent person whose most pressing matter is hanging out with friends watching and memorizing, line per line, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That's also the blissful time in one's life when pizza was a breakfast food. Time rolls on.





Now there's never enough time in the day. Why?! But today was definitely a flashback to those fun filled days of yesteryear. Pammy and I went for a walk in the park then had breakfast at the westside's best kept secret: Natalie's or as we like to call it: the Pink House. No pizza there but they do have some really good Mexican food. We had our favorite: an egg, cactus (nopalitos), bean and cheese burrito. We sat there to plan out our future puppet variety stage show. After that we went to the Texas Thrift Store around the corner from Our Lady of the Lake University to shop around for props, costumes and any other thing that might catch our eye.

We finished off our leisurely morning by stopping by at the Edwards Aquifer Authority to pick up the giveaways for tomorrow's Doc Ed show at Coker Elementary. Oh and then we had a little extra time at home to watch a bit of Dana Carvey on an old video that is older than our kids. Now I'm blogging. The kids will be home soon and I'll have to head out to pay a bill at the H.E.B. Then it's back home to help get dinner on the table, make sure homework gets done, do a few dishes, bathe the kids, read to them then get them to bed by 7:30.

Thursdays are good t.v. nights at Rancho Ramirez. To most it might not seem like a very exciting way to spend the night but it's the one night of the week we just sit and totally do nothing productive except chill out. We like that. We'll watch Big Bang Theory, !@!#* My Dad Says (Love that William Shatner who turned eighty this week!), C.S.I. ( the Las Vegas one) and finally The Mentalist. Totally chilling out is a good thing for us and a great way to wrap up what turned out to be a fun day. It's like being twenty again.