ran out of merlot
To tell the truth I never started on it. Fell asleep until the boys got home from church, and then back asleep until about 1:30 when DS2 came in and asked to go to a friend’s house. It was a nice day and he could have walked but I was feeling guilty, and I knew that if I didn’t get groceries today the rest of the week would just be that much more difficult.
Sadly, in Minnesota, one cannot buy wine at the grocery store. In fact, liquor stores are required to be closed on Sundays. So, since I didn’t plan ahead and shop yesterday all I had in the house is really old holiday gift wines. The kind business associates give you because it has Santa on the bottle. Crappy wine to begin with; scary wine after it has sat around for five or six years.
Don’t even ask why I still am hanging on to it. It’s a mystery.
The rest of the afternoon, after the groceries, was spent on one of the 4 writing deadlines I have this week. I got a pretty good start on the Epiphany Vespers plan and bulletin. Still looking for a reading with themes about paradox, incarnation, or light-in-the-darkness.
After supper I worked a bit more on it and watched some mindless TV. Everything still aches but I don’t actually think I’m getting sick. I do actually think I’m exhausted and I think if I push much harder it could be dangerous. Since I don’t really have time for pneumonia again this winter, or a nervous breakdown, I think I’ll try letting up on myself a bit. Wish me luck with that, as I’ve never been a natural in that department.
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A year ago (or longer) on This Journey…
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A year ago (or longer) on This Journey…
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December 31st, 2006 at 6:59 pm
Sunday is a wine desert in Indiana, too. Fortunately, supermarkets and drugstores are allowed to sell wine, but NOBODY sells wine on Sunday. Truly an archaic law, since slow Sunday afternoons are the ideal time to spend wine browsing.
The fear of running out unexpectedly is a good reason to try some better box wines. With one box open and one on the shelf, you are unlikely to ever run short of wine, even on long dry Sundays!
Sun Dec 10, 10:10:00 PM 2006
December 31st, 2006 at 7:00 pm
interesting….
no sooner have I registered and embedded a Technorati thingy when I get a commercialized comment.
On the other-hand, I checked out his site and might just bookmark it for wine ideas.
Sun Dec 10, 10:19:00 PM 2006