Another Perfect Day

What is your perfect day?

This may be just one question in a million that could be asked at any point in our busy lives, but it's one that I feel is worth asking myself, and of course, sharing my immediate thoughts with my readership.

A perfect day for me begins with a solid start. As cliché as that might sound, it's so true for me. My years at Meijer conditioned me into liking the morning hours, and this holds true today. While I'm not always up at two in the morning anymore, I do get up as earlier as I can on the weekends, usually 7:00am, an hour earlier if I can afford it. The morning is undoubtedly the most tranquil time of the day. Especially in the winter when animals and bugs are almost zilch outside, the morning can be absolutely silent. I've discovered my fondness for this setting at Sidecut Metropark in Maumee. I've been taking Elli out there early in the morning when I can, and the park is just beautiful. With a solid layer of snow and a bright morning sun, the park is still and calm, save for the occasional rustle of deer from time to time. This is a wonderful time for me to connect with nature... something I used to be all about until I hit college.

A perfect day continues into the late morning with time to organize at home. This might sound silly, but I do enjoy organizing myself on the weekends... it's just about the only time I get to do it, so I like to take an hour to organize everything that needs organizing: calendars, to go lists, my car, my desk, emails... I feel a lot better about the upcoming week once everything is in order.

Between my late morning and mid afternoon, I like to relax to the max: a light lunch - a sandwich or such - with lots of video games in between. My family is usually out and about of the house by midday, so I get to relax with all of my favorite video games, whether new or old, on my own time, with my own schedule. I don't mind burning the afternoon away in front of the television... this is what I've grown up doing, and it's uniquely me.

In fact, on some perfect days, I'll keep on play games all night long, usually on the console of my choice until well after the sun goes down, after which I prefer to move onto my computer for multiplayer action, either for a six hour World of Warcraft session or various rounds of Counter-Strike or Day of Defeat.

But most weekends I like to mix it up, and by dinner time I'll be making something delicious with my family. I prefer weekend dinners in the summer, when we almost always grill outside every day for dinner. Chicken, pork, or steak - either one will do, with a heaping of mashed potatoes and corn on the side.

My perfect day - if it doesn't resolve back into video games at this point - is best spent in the summer time around a small fire at night. Just as the sun hits the horizon I load up our clay fire pit with wood and start a solid fire, lighting up just enough for me to see what I need to see. The sky is clear and full of stars, the moon bright but not overwhelming. Sometime before midnight I put my fire out, climb into bed, and do it all over again.

This is just one scenario, full of moments that individually add up to my "perfect day" - a weekend, of course. I could never be content like this on the weekdays, like tonight, when I'm stressing with work and managing my time between my social life and personal life. It's stressful.

So what do all the moments of my perfect day have in common?

If you know me well enough, you'll know this answer without second guessing yourself.

B3 out.