Weekend Eve is Upon Us!

Today -- in addition to being the first day of February -- is Bubblegum Day, National Wear Red Day, and (my fave) Friday, or what I like to call Weekend Eve. So today's blogsketch is covering all her bases by doing the Friday happydance! :)

To me, Fridays and Weekends will always be magickal and full of possibilities. Even in my head I see them with sparkles! (Although Friday's sparkles don't appear until around 5 p.m., understandably.) They're white squares on my inner calendar, as if the hours are waiting for me to fill them with color. Or maybe they're hidden, waiting for me to uncover them to reveal their surprises....

I assumed that when I became self-employed, my head would see the entire week as a sort of magickal weekend. And when that didn't happen, I tried to imagine them backwards -- especially during Fest time, when my weekends become my work days. But I just couldn't wrap my head around it.

Perhaps all those years of school and the looking forward to of the golden weekends left their mark. It's ok. My weekends are still full of magick but now my weekdays are, too. I love what I do and it's work. But I prefer to call it my Play instead of my Job.

And when my Fridays tick along to 5 p.m., I still feel the happydance sneaking up on me! (*wiggle* See? Already it's starting!)

So here's my wish for YOU: may your Today be full of dance moves and your Weekend full of golden moments. And when Sunday dawns, may it stall (and stall... and stall....) until you've played to your heart's content.

Now get ready!
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A Pleasant Weekbeginning

My Post-Academy-Awards-Related Things To Be Happy About:

1. An Oscar ballot upon which nearly all of the nominees have been marked as 'seen and enjoyed.'
2. Diet Ginger Ale made rosy with a splish of Grenadine = faux pink champagne.
3. Lounging jammies, monkey slippers, and costume jewelry bling.
4. Playing Fashion Police during the Red Carpet parade.
5. Champagne flutes, wooden caviar spoons, and TV trays. 
6. Crab legs cooked to perfection.
7. Getting all teary-eyed during the In Memoriam segment....
8. Oscar Bingo.
9. My favorite film goin' home with the gold!
10. A best friend who loves movies as much as I do, sees them all with me, doesn't mind spending long happy hours afterwards critiquing them to within an inch of their lives, and on Oscar Day brings me eyelash glue and a bouquet of roses for my pajama-clad Red Carpet look. (Love you, James!)
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A Cupful of Fabulous

My weekend was wonderful! Full of movies, mostly. Every year James and I try to see as many Oscar nominees as possible before the Academy Awards Ceremony is broadcast, and we were able to pack four of the Best Picture films into this weekend. With yesterday's viewing of '127 Hours' (intense!) we're now cotched up; all ten nominees for Best Pic have been seen. My fave is still 'The King's Speech.' But films like 'The Fighter' and 'The Kids Are All Right' completely surprised me. I doubt I would have gone out of my way to see them if they weren't Oscar material.

Between movies there were trips to the book store and laps around the mall, creative conversation over cups of steaming chai (chai: liquid pumpkin pie for the senses!), brief moments of sun and the delight of watching feathery clumps of snowflakes alight on my jacket sleeve (stellar dendrites? The only 'snow' word I know....). I scored a free audio book (The Talisman by King/Straub) for this winter's studio listening pleasure. I found two lucky pennies, one quarter, and a dime! I ate popcorn and covered my eyes and had my mind opened a little bit. I knitted a pair of slippers for the Grandbug, logged a bunch of miles on the pedometer, made a friend on Twitter, and did some Mystery Mentoring. I curled up in front of 'Downton Abbey' and stirred rich droplets of melted butter floating on the surface of my supper of oyster stew.

And now it's Monday and time for me to get back in the studio.

As it always does, the weekend went by so fast! But as it almost always is, it was a cup full of fabulous. I hope yours was, too. :)
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