It Was Great to Have a Day Off!

Yesterday was our day off.  I slept in.  Well, really, I woke up at 6am (which equals 5 hours of sleep if you remember that I only got home at 1am the 'night' before - and it is sleeping in when you realize I have been getting up around 5:30am) and then dozed off and on until 7:30 or so.

I made chocolate chip pancakes for the girls - our usual Sunday tradition.  I tried to do some of my readings for the Execution and Implementation class that starts on Tuesday, but wasn't very successful.  I have since figured out that I picked the wrong reading to start with.  The document that came right after the course outline was "Updating the Project Management Bodies of Knowledge".  Who the hell cares about the history behind the documentation of best practices for PM?  Jeepers!  (Insert your own expletive of choice to replace "Jeepers!"!!)  It was so dry and tedious.  I was really wondering what I was getting myself into.  What happened to the whole premise of gaining practical knowledge for the workplace??

Just after lunch, Nicole was invited to go to her friend's house, so Jennifer and I went to return library books, look for clothes for me (I don't have much in the way of "business casual" as it seems to be defined by my class), and have ice cream at Dairy Queen.  I bought a pair of jeans and a grey dress.  The jury is still out on the dress, but I am wearing the jeans right now.

After a wonderful dinner (Alan made rotisserie chicken, steamed baby potatoes, asparagus and cauliflower), the girls and I went for a bike ride.  We passed a little party going on in the little park around the corner from our house.  As it turns out, it was an annual neighbourhood labour day weekend party.  They had a badminton net set up, lots of rackets and birdies, frisbees, balls, food (pot luck - good to know for next year) and a decent crowd.  At 8pm, they projected "Bedtime Stories" on the white house that is adjacent to the park.  I knew one of the mothers there and she offered to watch the kids while I headed home to read my case study on the MS Society of Canada.  Phew!  I read the case, made a few notes (full analysis is not complete yet) and then headed back to the park.  They must have been delayed in starting the movie because I managed to watch the last half of it.  (I saw it before, at the movie theatre with the girls.)  At the end of it all, the kids were thrilled to have been able to watch a movie under the open sky and I was thrilled to have some progress on my case study and let them watch the movie.  Good memories had by all.

Today, I slept in a bit longer.  Chelsea is not feeling well so I spent some time trying to figure out what it is.  Then I hung out with the kids.  I managed to get in a game of chess with each of them (they learned how to play at Camps Canada, so let me just give that camp the accolades they deserve!) before lunch.  After lunch, we went for another bike ride.  Then I headed to school.

We have a Finance & Accounting tutorial from 6-8pm - just in time for tomorrow morning's exam.  I thought I'd come in early and get some work done on my case study and maybe a wee bit of review before the tutorial. Imagine my surprise when I arrived and there were already 3 people here!  And another guy showed up about 15 minutes after me.

Well, the tutorial starts in an hour, so I better get cracking on my review!