It’s Super Bowl weekend! I’m looking forward to the game on Sunday with mixed feelings. I’ll enjoy watching two teams I don’t really care about playing at the highest level trying to become the champion. As a fan I enjoy watching a good game but I’m also bummed that it marks the end of football season and the beginning of another boring off-season.
What am I going to do with my weekends now that college and professional football is over? Usually my wife has a list of things that need to be done that I’ve been ignoring for the last several months, but she’s out of town and, for the life of me, I can’t think of a thing that needs to be done.
I supposed I could fix that broken line on the hot tub that I busted in November. I could fix it but it seems like a bad idea since she’s gone and I never use the thing anyway. I’m saving money and energy by leaving it off this year; when you think about the electricity I’m saving, it would be a crime against the environment for me to fix that thing.
I could always spend my weekends clearing out our storage unit and setting up the guest bedroom. I know that Sandra would like it if she came home and I had that done. On the other hand, what if she doesn’t like the way I set it up? She would be forced to redecorate when she gets home and she’d just be irritated by all that old stuff in her way.
Think of the impact on the local economy if we all cleared out our storage units! Those places could go out of business and I don’t want to be responsible for increased unemployment. It would be almost un-American to do something like that at a time like this! I won’t be a part of something like that!
If it’s not too windy I can always go explore some new trails on my mountain bike. There re few things I enjoy more than a good bike ride on a nice day, but make no mistake about it, I’ve become a fair weather bike rider. My days of bundling up and battling the elements as well as gravity in my leisure time are well behind me.
Maybe I’ll do some traveling this year. Any time is a good time to go see the grandkids but the truth is that I’ve become a fair weather traveler as well. If I’ve put the last chains on my tires, I could live with that.
I’ll spend as many weekends as I can bothering my kids and spoiling my grandkids but they’ll throw me out sooner or later so I’ll need a back-up plan.
I promised myself that I would not spend a lot of money entertaining myself while Sandra was gone. That rules out another trip to the Bahamas or Tahiti, besides I’m pretty sure she’d be pretty steamed if she found out I went to a tropical paradise without her. She’s narrow minded that way.
I suppose I could always do some writing on weekends; work on that novel I’ve been messing with or get a few columns ahead so I’m not always up against the deadline. Who am I kidding; I’m not going to do that! Do carpenters build on their weekends? Does the FedEx guy bring you stuff on Saturday? Do lawyers lie on weekends? I’m a writer, why should I work on my day s off?
I really love sitting in my recliner and watching college football on Saturdays and the NFL on Sunday and I really hate it when that’s not an option. I have been methodically trained for 25 years that I can enjoy mindless weekends in the fall and winter watching football and then be told what to do after that.
A week from Sunday I’m going to have to wake up and decide how to spend a February weekend for the first time since 1986 and I am truly lost.
There are eleven weekends between the Super Bowl and when Sandra comes home. Take away a few for visiting grandkids, a few watching old movies, a mountain bike trip or two and that should leave me just enough time to get the place cleaned up before she gets home.
That starts next week; this week it’s a hundred funny commercials with some football in between them.
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