Livin The Dream!
Today is gonna be one of those days....one of those wonderful days when I get to choose whatever I want to do. Outside my office window I watch the thick black clouds coming in from the west. Some would say there is a threat of rain in those beautiful nebulactic clusters of smaze and brume. I say there is a promise of rain. The only threat I see is a threat of blue skies, but that's not gonna happen for a while. Bring on the rain, make my day!
Today my choices are endless. I have two dogs anxious to go somewhere, anywhere. I've got a few bucks in my pocket, a tank of gas, a healthy body, and an unlimited imagination. I'll probably start out at Bidwell Perk where I'll get jacked up on a soy cap-of-chino. From there onto Target for laundry detergent and dog food. If I'm lucky, and I'm feeling very lucky, the parking lot will be full and I'll get to park far enough away to enjoy a little stroll in the rain. Target is just the beginning of my adventure. The pace is set. I'm feeling frisky! Onto Raileys!
Raileys is especially exciting because there I like to go back to the pharmacy and check my heart rate and blood pressure on that little machine you stick your arm into. It's free and the outcome is always so unpredictable. Will my resting heart rate be in the seventies, maybe eighties, or who knows....that's the joy of the whole experience, I might even be in the low nineties! As always, I will probably forget to take my cloth grocery bags in from my car and then I face the dilemma of using paper or plastic. Why do they have to give you so damn many choices? But that's ok because the day will still be young....many more adventures ahead.
By late morning I think I will come back home and fold laundry. Laundry is always fun because there is so much of it and I'm never sure where everything goes. You know what? I'm gonna skip laundry today. It's been piled on my couch for three days now and the dogs really enjoy laying on it. Laundry folding will be tomorrow. I'll let you know how it goes. That leaves the option of playing my guitar, walking the dogs, jumping the dead battery in my truck, or raking my front yard. I'll probably skip the raking because there isn't anything to rake up.
These activities should just about take me up to lunch time. Maybe today I'll eat out. There's a new restaurant, Italian I believe, at the corner of Floral and East Ave. that I've been meaning to try. However, I probably won't go there because I don't like Italian food. Italian food is over rated. It's all just different combinations of meat and white flour. I think I'll go to Sin of Cortez and have the blue cheese walnut salad with a side of brown rice. The great thing about Sin of Cortez is that you never know who you might run into....and I run into lots of people. But there all strangers to me, like I said, I never know who I run into.
By now I should be into the early afternoon. Endless possibilities! I think I'll take a nap after I leave Sin of Cortez. Hopefully I'll wake up before I get to the stop lights at East Ave. At this point my dogs will be getting restless. Got to walk them somewhere. I like to go that little glen that runs along the Lindo Channel on the north side by the Mission Oaks neighborhood. There is a nice path with lots of things for them to piss on. I always run into some older person walking their dog. Their dogs are always on leashes because that's the law. They will say something to me about my dogs not being on a leash. I will apologize and act like I didn't know they were supposed to be and pretend I'm walking them back towards the car. Once the old person is out of sight, we continue walking again along the channel. This has worked for me for years.
By now it will be time to get my son from school. He goes to Chico High. This is always a high part of my day because of the challenge of getting in and out of the high school area without a fender bender or seriously injuring any students. I usually do pretty good. We'll probably stop at Big Al's for an afternoon snack. Did you know that Big Al's has a bench in the outside eating area that has been there for over 50 years? It's truly a work of art. There are names and initials carved into that bench that go all the way back to my childhood. That's why the bench gets smaller every year. I always enjoy looking for my initials carved into that bench from high school, until I remember I didn't go to high school here. But still, what a bench indeed.
Today I think I have to take Brady to the mall for a new pair of shoes. He's already outgrown his 11 and 1/2, ready for a pair of size 12's. The kids got my feet. I wear a size 15. When you wear a size 15 you don't get to choose your style or color of shoes. What I do is to walk thru the mall, stopping at every shoe outlet, and asking if they have anything in a fifteen. If I'm lucky, one place will have one pair, and no matter what they look like, I buy them. You should see my shoe collection, you'd puke.
My day will probably end up with Brady doing homework as I watch the debate tonight between Hillary and Obama. Maybe Obama will say something besides "Yes we can" or "Change!". At any rate, by the second glass of ruby red, I won't care.
So now that I've wasted half of my morning typing out this ridiculous dissertation about nothing, I think I better get started. The rain has begun to fall, the coffee shop is calling, and the adventure of life awaits me. Yes folks, I'm livin the dream!