Sundays are always a very centering day for me. I think he got it right when the Lord declared the seventh day to rest. I may not practice any religion, but Sundays are the day that I push aside the outside world, any duties, and all that other guck, and I just do what it is I deem important at the time. I am fiercely protective of my Sundays off, because I really need them. They made a proclamation at work that nobody would be getting anymore weekend days off on regular basis. I almost gave my notice right then and there. Not that that’s too far off, anyway. However, like most things in the restaurant business big proclamations are made, small changes are instituted and things go on not to far different then they were before. I’m thankful that my managers general respect this as my day off.
Of course, this Sunday, my husband, Lyn, is on call for work; he’s an appliance repairman and has one Sunday on a month. So far he’s only had one short job to do, but it allowed us to putter around the house together and talk at each other a bit. He’s also been busy working on his next airplane; a Wildcat this time. This one he’s doing entirely from plans, so he’s cutting out each individual piece of wood himself. Unfortunately, the plans he purchased have some “flaws” to them, so he’s had to readapt them quite a bit. He’ll spend hours just looking at them. I find this to be quite amusing. I just don’t get it, but he finds vehicles just as fascinating as I do a do people.
Old Dutch Church was the first
Dutch church in the New
Netherlands, built in 1661.
Photo found via Andrew Cusack.
I also have my in-laws coming over for dinner tonight. They are bringing some Japanese anima movie, not a genre I’m very familiar with, but they seem to think I’ll really enjoy it; it sounds like Lyn may be the odd one out on this movie selection, which is okay; he has no problems finding other ways to entertain himself. I on the other had will sit through all but the most horrible of movies, just to be polite. Not a good thing I know, but the truth.
All in all it’s a very simple relaxing day for me. I think I have just enough time to read a few pages of my book and make a couple calls before I need to start getting dinner together. I hope your Sunday has been as restorative as mine.
6 comments:
Sounds like a great, relaxing day. :)
Relaxing day, indeed! What are you making for dinner?
My daughter and husband really enjoy Japanese anime. They have a few Miyazaki films that they think are cool. I can't get into them. Wondering how you fare with tonight's selection, Lora!
Welcome back. Good to know that you have had a restorative Sunday.
They brought over Nausicaa, one of Miyazaki's. It's not something that would ever seek to watch again. Lyn managed to sit through it, but that's only because he missed half of it because he was called out for a couple late repairs.
Dinner, I kept it simple. I made chicken picatta and served that with a side of mashed sweet potaoes and some zucchini sauteed in with sun-dried tomatoes, fresh basil and garlic all served with Pepi Sauvignon Blanc. I got to use both basil and parsley from my herb garden. For desert, we had some fresh strawberries with a light orange glaze and topped with some homemade whip cream. I just now thought that I should have served that with a sprig of mint; oh weel, next time.
Sounds like a lovely day of rest. A good part of our Sunday was spent at Safeco Field watching the Mariners shut out the Padres. Fabulous game, though it would have bee fabulouser had they opened the roof and let the sunshine in (the weather threatened rain all afternoon, though it never materialized during the course of the game).
Your dinner sounds so tasty! My daughter loves the Nausicaa movie- it makes her cry!
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