Friday, September 2, 2011

GET YOUR DANCING SHOES ON.... IT'S FRIDAY!!!!!!!

It’s Friday and I want to do a happy dance!  Yes, an all out jig around my office, except that I am worried that some of my wiggly parts may take out a few objects here and there, but what the hell, I am going to jiggle and wiggle around this office until I am out of breath, sweating profusely, laying on the floor and panting like I just had the best night of my life.  Just wait there... I will be back in five!

Okay, I am back and it felt good. Really good, even those wiggly parts that may have been bruised from slamming into a couple of walls still feel good too.

What is it about Fridays that just brings out the best of the best in energy and emotions?  For most of us working slobs, nine to five, five days a week can seem somewhat tedious and mundane.  And while I am not knocking my job, sometimes I think it would be just spectacular if my job was shift work because it would certainly help break up what has become an unfortunate monotonous routine.

I suppose it is all about attitude.  I have always been grateful to have a job even jobs in the past that I absolutely abhorred. Even with the worst employers, I was still grateful to be able to put a roof over my head, food on my plate and have a social life outside of my work environment.

As I get older however and closer to the possibility of retirement, I find that Monday thru Friday seems to drag on and on and I relish in the idea of more time off.  Is this the fault of my job, absolutely not.  But it is my fault for not working as hard on my personal life as I do in my professional life. In my 20's, I was a social butterfly and it seemed that every night after work I was going somewhere and doing something and it made my career choice bearable and my life enjoyable.  But as I have gotten older, I seem to have lost some of my twenty something "umpf" and replaced it with my forty something "ugh". And I now tend to leave my social gatherings, if I socialize at all, till the weekends making my work week seem very long indeed.

You see the biggest problem is that my better half and I have fallen into this “homebody” routine.  We go to work, come home, play with our pooch, make dinner, clean up, play on the computer, watch some tv and go to bed.  It’s like a bad repeat of a terrible TV show that’s gone into syndication when it should have been canceled years ago.  Complacency people.  I have spoken about this before.  Complacency is the culprit that breeds disinterest and lack of enthusiasm.  It’s there like a weed growing around your brain that seriously needs to be plucked and I need to pluck our complacency before it becomes a permanent fixture in our everyday life.

Last night we started. We invited some really nice friends out for dinner and with them just accepting the invitiation, they unknowingly assisted us by helping us to throw out our usual routine. Albeit, it was one day before the weekend, but the fact remains it wasn't on a weekend and it broke up our tiresome  repetitiousness.  And you know, I enjoyed going out, and what's more, I had forgotten what it was like to socialize beyond the confines of the constraints I had self imposed upon myself and my better half. And even better, I just checked my whining, my pain, my fatigue and my complacency at the door and enjoyed the evening out with our great friends.

It's a small step, but small steps lead to big steps and before you know it, I will be donning those dancing shoes and wiggling and jiggling any time I want too! And that people, is what I am aiming for.

Until Next Time.

Tracy

20 comments:

  1. Yay:)I hope you have many more enjoyable evenings like that:)

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  2. This makes me want to get out tonight and dance a little! I so get losing your umph in your 40's.
    I hope you have more evenings like that as well.
    And have a wonderful weekend!

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  3. I have thoughts like that as well. I try to beat them down before they actually make me do something.

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  4. Exactly! And very well written. I adored the first two paragraphs. Just made me smile at the thought. Verif.is BELLY - HA!

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  5. It is so nice to get out of the house. Glad you had a good time.

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  6. Yes, I hear you! Bud and I get into a routine--when he comes over--of me making supper, catching up on our tv shows, and falling asleep on the couch. It's really bad in the winter, cause I just don't want to leave the house once I get home. Bud tried last year to get me to go places, but I just didn't want to. This year, I will be more conscious of it and try to get out more.

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  7. Aww good for you! It's nice to get out once and a while :)

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  8. it's funny how dinner out with friends used to be run of the mill, par for the course & then somehow along the way it becomes a special, delightful rarity. i wonder why that happens? probably happens when most people have kids & become less available for going out any old time anymore. or when we realize how tired we are the next day after we go out on a week night & have do drag through the next day at work.
    i'm glad you guys went & had fun. and that you did a happy dance through work, even if only in your mind, while writing about your happy feelings. you rock, dude.

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  9. oh yeah, it is good to change things up a little.
    Now that I am about to turn 60 (in 9 days, groan) and am retired.
    the routine can become even more "settled"
    but that's ok, as you get older, sometimes "settled is good enough"
    but EVERY NOW and then I like to get jiggy with it.

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  10. Congratulations for finding your cure for complacency. Make sure you keep taking the booster shots, if you stop you're going to find it coming back bigger than ever.

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