This is beginning to become like Lopez Tonight on TBS. I am starting to do this 11 blogs for the last 11 days before 2011 only at 11 PM. I should really say Conan, but honestly I have seen a lot of Lopez tonight this year when it played at 11 PM but I have not seen even one episode of Conan since it started. This behaviior is also in line with the fact that I stayed up late a lot more thins year in the first 9 months when I was still at school and managing the job and the MBA, but not really so in the last couple of months, post my graduation on 9/11. Sorry, wrong timing Conan!
To be honest, I wouldn't have written this today. I am feeling lazy and it's Sunday night anyway. I'd rather go to bed and have an early start tomorrow because I have meetings starting 730 AM. It was my son who encouraged me to stay up and write. He has been very excited by the whole 11 days to 2011 concept and he felt I must not break the deal I made to myself. So thank you dear little fella. Now don't start asking me for money...
Well. I can certainly get away from that today, but not tomorrow. Today was a snow day and that was part of the reason I am lazy. I woke up to a dry, cloudy morning and after a couple of quick chores, decided to go do some shopping. I quickly showered, got all dressed up and looked out the window only to find that the flurries had begun. In a matter of minutes, it became quite thick and by the time my son and I had played a negotiation game on why we should not go to the toy store, the roads had started to get white. Incidentally, my son won the negotiation with me conceding a large cheese pizza with extra cheese from Papa John's for launch. It was the perfect setting for laziness.
I changed back into a pair of PJs, slumped into my couch with my laptop and started doign random stuff. I didn't even get up when the Pizza arrived. I asked my little fella to get it and my wife obliged by passing him the cash. He was hungry and excited by the responsibility and he carried it out proudly. He even brought be a plate, placed the pizza slices on it as I finished one after another, while my wife helped with the chilli flakes and the ketchup. From 1 PM to 6 PM, my laptop did not leave my lap and I did not leave my couch for a minute. I was only empowered by the fact that my wife decided to take an afternoon nap and my son decided to conquer his new Wii at everything it had to offer.
Two films followed. One 80s film on football called Little Giants and the other, an Indian film on Hockey (not the one played on ice) called Chak De. Both are inspirational films with the sport themes creating a perfect setting for strategies, planning and sheer adrenaline. This was interwoven with a dinner of Indian rice cakes (Idli) and dessert that combined Red Velvet Cheesecake and fine Indian Rosogollas. Then came the tough part. My wife called in sick and I had to spend 30 minutes away from the couch cleaning up dishes. But I did return in time for the end of the second film and that is when my son played persistent that I should write this piece.
I am not unhappy either. I didn't believe I could write so much when I started writing but this is turning out to be a good one. Talking about lazy days reminds of me what a friend was saying today. She was starting to get surprised by how she could spend entire days watching TV or browsing and I had little ground to disagree with her. I totally love lazy days and could go on and on about the various ways I could spend a day doing nothing! However, the one that tops the list for me is sitting at an airport and watching planes land and take off. Seriously, I could do that all day.
Add to that my laptop with access to a power source and plenty of Starbucks coffee and it would be the story of how I started of how I started writing like this in the first place. But I guess that's a story for another day. It's well past the 11 PM mark and soon it will be time for Lopez tonight on TBS (remember, it got moved to midnight since Conan came it at 11!). Oh! wait. Today is Sunday and Lopez tonight is only on week nights. I guess, it's Lopez's lazy day too!
"Can someone carry me to my bed please", my son is saying. "I got to wake up early tomorrow and clean the snow off our car. And that will be $5 please, thank you."
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