Today is the official start of my six week sabbatical. One of the things I'm committing to do is to journal everyday via my blog.
Actually slept until 9 this morning (thanks Tricia :)) and had something for breakfast I had not had for years -- a bowl of cereal. Typically on a weekday, I will eat my breakfast (usually a banana or a granola bar or whatever I decide to get at Starbucks) on the way to work or scarf down some yogurt before I head out the door. I remembered today that I really like cereal. Thirty minutes into my journey of self-discovery on my sabbatical and I've already learned something. Productive day so far.
I did manage to tie off on my one outstanding work item -- submitting my expense report from last week's trip to the Bay Area.
Overall, it was kind of a rough day with the kids, they were wound up all day and were either in bounce off the wall mode or busy trying to get under the other one's skin. Lunch was at Chik-fil-a and then off to Barnes and Noble. Of all the books I've read, I've never read a Stephen King novel. Figured sabbatical was best time for some 'firsts'. Going with "Salem's Lot" for this first go around.
Got home from bookstore around 2ish and figured it was time to get nutty and mow the lawn in the middle of the afternoon. Considering there was a little cloud cover today, it wasn't completely unbearable but the humidity was pretty intense. After the lawn, decided to take the kids for a dip in the bathwater, errrrr neighborhood pool. Hardly anyone was there and Tricia chalked that up to the water being too warm. Hard to argue with that one. The water has to be about 85-90 degrees given the weather here of late. Our trip to the pool was short-lived however because I had limited tolerance for the usual sibling drama that happens with my kids when they're at the pool. I don't think we lasted 45 minutes.
Overall, a pretty low-key day. Did some road trip planning for Colorado, grilled some flank steak for dinner, watched the Astros notch a rare NL Central win against the Pirates to widen that gap between 5th and 6th place teams and played Rainbow Six on PSP.
Day one of the sabbatical in the books and it was great. I can get used to this.
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