This morning I woke up convinced it was Friday. Fridays are a relaxed, kick-back kind of day. Fun things happen on Fridays. I think that kind of set the tone for the day so far.
As is my wont, I started my day by reading my RSS feeds. That is when I found out that yet another Portland classic restaurant was closing. Beaterville’s last day is Monday, and that being a holiday, it is as likely to be as mobbed as it will be this weekend. Obviously, that meant that today was an eating out kind of morning. By then I had already realized that it was Thursday because we can’t go out to breakfast this Friday because that is when the monsters (ok, the two that we can pack up) have their annual check-up at the vet.
So a sleepy David and I (guess which one of us is the morning person) headed out to N. Killingsworth for breakfast. Enroute to Beaterville, we passed The Naked Sheep and our post-breakfast plans were set. After all, who are we to pass up a visit to a yarn shop?
Breakfast was, unsurprisingly, delicious. And the yarn shop was a fun browse. I drooled over beautiful, soft, completely knittable yarn. But, remembering the size of our stash, I only bought a knitting book and I replaced my “I knit so I don’t kill people” sticker. Now it is late morning and I am heading out for a massage in about an hour and a half.
This does, of course, mean that I will have to work super efficiently tomorrow to make up for today’s lackadaisical work ethic. But I think it was an overdue break. My days off tend to mostly entail me catching up on my sleep. Which while necessary and enjoyable, are not anything that can be called adventurous.
We live in a wonderful city and sometimes I end up taking it for granted. I tend to avoid walking on Hawthorne or Belmont because of both the car and people traffic. The end result being that I often only know of a new restaurant/yarn store/donut shop opening because I have read about it somewhere. And not being much of a shopper (yarn and food being the two obvious exceptions), I don’t window shop. And being that I remain in a purge mode, I have no desire to purchase anything that isn’t consumable.
Days like today will continue to be the exception, rather than the rule, of how I spend my leisure time. But it is still nice to take an atypical day off from time to time. It keeps life interesting.