{"id":308,"date":"2008-10-20T08:22:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T13:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2008-10-20T08:58:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T13:58:45","slug":"mondays-are-just-swell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/mondays-are-just-swell\/","title":{"rendered":"Mondays Are Just Swell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boy do I like Mondays.\u00a0 A chance to start another week fresh, full of the promise of excitement and productivity.\u00a0 Every Monday I wake up and think, “THIS<\/strong> could be my week.\u00a0 To HECK<\/strong> with the last 2,210 of them, this week is gonna be different<\/strong>!!!”\u00a0 Ahhhh, yes, I do eagerly anticipate my Mondays.\u00a0 I was oncall last weekend, which contributed mightily to my extra-rosy outlook this morning.\u00a0 If there is one thing I enjoy more than a good phone conversation, it’s having one in the wee hours of the morning with somebody I don’t know.\u00a0 It just makes me feel…\u00a0 Needed<\/em>, I think.\u00a0 Yeah, yeah, that’s it.\u00a0 Like I’ve got all kinds of friends all over the country that just have to speak with me, and can’t wait until daybreak.\u00a0 It’s really a super-duper feeling.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t all fun and games all weekend though, I had to do some other stuff too.\u00a0 Friday evening after work we bought a pizza from Waldo<\/a> and barged in on our neighbors across the street.\u00a0 Last Friday we crashed their party, ate all their pizza and scared their guests, so this week we felt we should make up for our prior intrusion by banging on their door and having ourselves over for dinner.\u00a0 It made sense because their house is always cleaner than ours, they have a bigger TV, and their patio is a lot nicer.\u00a0 Don’t you wish we were your <\/em>neighbors?\u00a0 Hey, at least we brought our own food this time.<\/p>\n

Saturday we got up semi-early and walked up the street with Gabe to watch the KC Marathon<\/a>.\u00a0 It must have been pretty entertaining because we sat there and watched it for over two hours.\u00a0 Plus we couldn’t really do anything else if we wanted to;\u00a0 It effectively had the streets shut down every direction from our house.\u00a0 I took several pictures, which I suppose I’ll get posted some time or another.\u00a0 Not much to see though really…\u00a0 A bunch of people running down the middle of Wornall road, woo-hoo.\u00a0 After that we headed down to Sharp’s<\/a> for a little late breakfast.\u00a0 They were absolutely packed with people from the marathon, but luckily we walked right up and found two seats at the bar.\u00a0 (Yet another benefit of the smoking ban;\u00a0 No matter how busy a place is, two people can almost always find seats at the bar.)\u00a0 After that meal, we digested a while and then rode the motorcycle down to Chappell’s<\/a> to celebrate Josh’s 18th birthday.\u00a0 It was a fine afternoon for a ride, and we had a good lunch too.\u00a0 I can’t really remember if I’ve been there before or not, but it seemed like a solid enough place.\u00a0 Probably need to go back there and eat again;\u00a0 Since we’d just eaten a few hours before we didn’t really have much to eat for lunch.\u00a0 The ride back home was all good too, except I blundered right into the middle of that stupid Obama rally down at the Liberty Memorial.\u00a0 Good grief.\u00a0 Friggin’ morons.\u00a0 Seventy-five thousand people and not one of them knew how to properly cross a street.\u00a0 Actually, cross the street however you want, just don’t do it in front of me.\u00a0 After we finally navigated through that cluster, we spent the rest of the day watching disappointing college football games and intermittently napping.<\/p>\n

I worked all night Saturday, so I didn’t even get out of bed Sunday until around noon.\u00a0 Quite possibly the latest I’ve ever slept in my adult life.\u00a0 When I finally dragged myself out of bed, I decided to start off the day with a semi-masterpiece of an omelet.\u00a0 Sausage, tomato-pepper cheese, fresh basil, and jalapeno peppers.\u00a0 Top that off with a side of hash browns, and it was one delicious “late breakfast.”\u00a0 After that, I hunkered down in the living room to watch my Fantasy Football team take their weekly thrashing.\u00a0 As has become the trend, I was not disappointed in that regard.\u00a0 I really didn’t even have much intention of getting out of my pajamas since the day was 1\/2 over anyway, but later in the afternoon the neighbors got home from the Chief’s game all cranked up and rallied me a little bit.\u00a0 I don’t know how they could have still been wound up after watching that debacle of a game.\u00a0 Anyway, we headed down to Jalapeno’s and had a little dinner, and that was about it for the day.\u00a0 I stayed up and watched the late game, which managed to add a little insult to injury on my Fantasy team.\u00a0 This is my last year I’m throwing my money away on that silly game, and this time I’m SERIOUS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boy do I like Mondays.\u00a0 A chance to start another week fresh, full of the promise of excitement and productivity.\u00a0 Every Monday I wake up and think, “THIS could be my week.\u00a0 To HECK with the last 2,210 of them, this week is gonna be different!!!”\u00a0 Ahhhh, yes, I do eagerly anticipate my Mondays.\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}