Its a Monday thing...

Monday, Monday, Monday! Today is by far the black sheep of the calendar week. It is hated and complained about more than any other day I can think of, everybody hates Monday’s well except this guy! I spend the weekends doing what I please my wife pleases. I joke, but seriously, we watch movies, we clean, catch up on honey do’s, and occasionally we will just flat out be lazy. (although that is rarely the case, it does happen)

This particular weekend was one of those weekends that I have learned to take advantage of. My wife and her mother, met up with her aunt in Bolingbrook, IL (did everyone follow that) to do some shopping for our new home. This left me with an entire Saturday of “Man” time. I am pretty sure she wasn’t out the drive way at 9 AM and I was on the phone to my two buddies organizing the day. In true guy fashion although the planning started at 9 we didn’t get around until 12 and our day consisted of a trip to the bike shop, Taco Bell, Xbox, cycling movies, and various beverages from Gatorade to bottles of wines. Days like these call for only one type of wine, Two Buck Chuck! It is the quintessential party wine, good enough to taste early, and cheap enough to not taste late. It was glorious! As night grew closer the group slowly departed just in time for me to make a mad dash and accomplish a few chores to hide the fact I had wasted an entire day. The Mrs. Got home just before 9 PM and made it a point to congratulate me on the fact the house was not a “Cluster Bomb.”

I spent the remainder of the evening with the wife. We rose early the next day to get our lives together before the “big game.” We spent Sunday w/ her folks watching Da Bears lay a stinker and lose to the Pack. Due to the emotional strings attached this topic we are leaving it at that. The highlight was easily the get company we shared along with a surprisingly good bottle of Kendall Jackson Chardonnay. This particular wine surprised me with its quality, especially because it erased my preconceived correlations between the quality of a wine, and the fact it has a commercial. I have never been a fan of wine commercials, and I am guessing not many people are judging by the fact that there aren’t many playing, but none the less this one was worth it.

Back to my point, I love Mondays! It is usually my most productive day, and most enjoyable as I reflect on the fun and not so fun activities of the weekend, and start planning for the next making each day one step closer to time with family and friends.

Cheers- Brandon