I took the day off work today – a vacation day. The day began as usual, with the cats going into their early morning circus act, running and jumping and chasing and pouncing. All this to make sure we get up on time for feline breakfast. After looking after their needs and downing a piece of toast and a coffee I considered my options for the day and settled down on the sofa for a nap. It was a beautiful thing.

This set the tone for the day. I managed to get a haircut and treat myself to lunch at California Sandwiches but mostly I just goofed around for the day. I meant to finish off a couple paintings down in the studio but I didn’t even go in there. I meant to write a chapter or two of the Great Canadian Novel, that has been screaming at me for more attention lately. I didn’t do any of that. Instead I spent a good deal of time learning to play The Can and then stepped away from that and practiced the Mrs. Ronald MacDonald’s Reel on button accordion. Unconfirmed: there may have been another short nap involved.

Meanwhile, the blog template I changed to the other day just wasn’t doing it for me. In some ways it isn’t a big deal. These days I haven’t been getting all that many visitors in any case (I don’t have expectations on that front…I’m sometimes surprised that anyone pops in). On the other hand, some of the visitors I do get have stuck with me for years and have become friends and I like to keep the joint looking good for when they come by.  I tried on a bunch more templates and messed with each one, changing around colours and fonts. Of course if I knew what I was looking for it would be easier to find it. For now I’ve settled on a variation of a template I’ve used before on this blog and it’s going to have to do until I stumble across one that screams, ”this is it, this is the one I’ve been looking for”.

So that was my day off. The day went by in a blink of an eye yet I felt like I was going in slow motion. Maybe that’s how you know you needed a day to simply hang out.