The Boomtown rats were right. I don’t like Mondays.
while this is – by my definition – a recycled prompt this is annuausual one in that it can garner a fresh response, literally every day.
My number one priority for tomorrow is seeing kid two for dinner. He’s been a little bit under the weather this weekend; which is no surprise, considering that I had Covid about two weeks ago. I figured he would’ve gotten it by now. but as long as he’s feeling up to it, by more priority is getting dinner with him tomorrow.
Along the way, I would like to talk to kid one as well. We’ve texted a few times in the last week, but I haven’t actually spoke to him since he was in town last weekend. I’m always trying to keep better contact with him, but as he’s getting older, it’s a little little bit more difficult, considering that he has a life and all himself.
Also, the expectation is at mother will be leaving the hospital tomorrow, presumably to go to one of those short state rehab facilities. Last week, when the kids weren’t home, her heart rate shot up and we ended up taking her to the hospital. Hopefully the hospital will get everything squared away tomorrow so that she can be released.
By this time tomorrow, the 2024 regular baseball season will be over, with the exception of a doubleheader that needs to be made up between the Braves and the Mets. Detroit Tigers clinch the playoff spot for themselves Friday night – for the first time in 10 years. This has been a remarkable turnaround for the course of the last two months. In fact, baseball hasn’t seen a team come from eight or more games under 500 to make the playoffs since 1973 months. It is historic indeed. I’m hoping to get downtown this week to watch at least a game or two on the big screen at Comerica Park.
The other regular baseball season is always a bittersweet time for me. It means the end of summer. And it means we’re no Eileen evitable March toward winter. As a kid, I used to think that I dated this time of you just because I hated school. I was partially right. The truth is I love summer. I love the warm days, the summer sun, Relatively summertime in America.
I think my emotions around this time of year are exacerbated by the fact that I became a teacher. As such, I still mark the passage of time based on the academic calendar. en
Entering this time of year is a little bit of a struggle for me. I have to remains hyper vigilant to keep my anxiety and turn my depression, under control. I plan to keep doing what I’m doing. Plan to keep reading, keep writing, keep thinking about baseball in the off-season. keep going to the gym, keep exercising. Maybe I will from time to time set underneath my UV light in the hopes of simulating sunlight.
I’m really not trying to sound all Donnie Downer-ish: but I am trying to prepare myself for the worst I guess.
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