Contentment

One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of "happiness:" one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.
~ Sigmund Freud, via David Knopfler

I love Friday nights.

We get Chinese food (although last night it was just me getting Chinese food, because Bob had already eaten when I got home, and the KU basketball game was coming on), and then I get to watch about three hours of cop shows and knit.

My pleasures are simple.

I got chow mein noodles, orange-sesame chicken, and crab rangoon, and read Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings, by Christopher Moore, while I ate, then I watched two episodes of Law & Order: SVU, and Touching Evil. Pretty much a perfect evening for me.

And we slept in this morning! It was wonderful. The past few weeks Bob's been waking up early, and when he wakes up, it's time for everyone to get up! Or so he thinks. I told him last weekend that I look forward all week to getting to sleep in a little bit on the weekends. I don't always manage it, sometimes I wake up early and can't go back to sleep, but I like to try.

So I asked him, please, if he wakes up early and wants to get up, that's fine, but do it as quietly as possible, and don't assume that just because he wants to get up, the rest of us do as well.

We sort of woke up briefly, early, but went back to sleep, and ended up sleeping until almost ten. I woke up and all of us were there--Bob, then Pyewacket (on her back with all her feet in the air), then me, then Dinah. The whole crew, sleeping decadently late. It was heaven.

We got up, and by the time I got downstairs, Bob had made tea for me. We paid bills, answered email, and now I'm going to go to the health club and work out, and Bob's going to go to the post office, and go check on the houses he's building. It's just started raining, which is sort of annoying, but I can deal with it. I'm so glad it's Spring, finally. This winter, while the weather wasn't really particularly bad, seemed to last forever, and for the first time in a long time, it seemed to me like Spring might never come.

I suppose dealing with all the stress that I've had going on was part of it. But things seem to be looking up at last, and as long as I can look forward to Friday nights, I'm content.