My Day Off!

Today was Veteran's Day, and even though it is a Wednesday, we still had the day off of school. A little weird being in the middle of the week like that. . . but none the less- great! I slept in, and went out to breakfast. . . two fantastic "day off" things to do. I was at my friend Nephi's work later in the day when I heard a lovely sound that I feel like I haven't heard in ages- the ice cream man! Nephi let out an impressively loud whistle and here he came pulling right on up in the driveway. But this icecream man was different than our home ice cream man-- this icecream man served a variety of soft serve ice cream treats: dipcones, sprinkled dip cones, banana splits, and milk shakes. Instead of driving around with a cooler full of popsicles he was driving around with just an ice cream machine and a bunch of toppings! So we got some sprinkled dip cones to enjoy on this lovely fall day.

In Nephi's giant warehouse he has this long robe that hangs from the ceiling to almost the ground... I have no idea what it's original use was, but right now it basically just sits there. After trying to unsuccessfully climb it a few times, I decided that this rope would make an awesome indoor swing. . . just a thought of course!
So then we went out and did some stuff basically all day then went back to his office hours later. I went in the office and chatted on the phone with my sister for a few minutes, and after a while when Nephi did not join me inside, I went out to the warehouse to see what he was up to. . . and there I found that he had just finished making me my new swing!


We hit the store after that where I had a fun Shawna freak out moment when I realized that it was the end of the day, and I had done NOTHING productive. Didn't get my shopping done, nor did I touch a thing to grade. But I cooled off some (after being fed dinner of course) because I think it was a most excellent day and the fact that I did no work whatsoever, didn't even think about it, was probably one of the main reasons it was such a good day. Though my last few weekends have been fantastic (Indiana one weekend, home to Cali the following), I still feel like I was going, going, going. . . I even had two days off last week when I came down with strep throat but still did not do a ton of sitting around -- so even though sitting around was far from what I did today. . . it was still a well earned non stressful, non accomplishing day either, which frankly is good every once in a while. And now. . . I only have two days of work til the real weekend!