Enough Garlic Fries

It’s like a punch in the gut.  It’s Thursday, nearing the end of another work week.  Everybody is thinking, it’s almost Friday!  Then it’s the weekend!  And then I get the email.  This Saturday is another “normal work day”, as the email put it, for my team.  There’s nothing normal about it, losing 50% of my rest and relaxation period.  This makes three working weekends out of four, and I don’t see the end of these in sight.  I already feel like I get to spend so little time with the kids during the week.  When I lose a weekend day with them, it really hurts.  Of course, as always, I like to remind myself it’s better to have too much work to do than none at all.  At least Colin has two birthday parties to attend this weekend, so I’ll only be missing one of them.  And hopefully, I’ll still make it to the evening plans I had with Colin on Saturday – the Stanford football home opener.  It’ll be Colin’s first Stanford football game.  If he’s still awake, at the end if this particular game, all the kids in attendance are allowed to run across the football field, so that should be fun.  Unfortunately, game time is a little late at 6pm, so at game’s end, it will be past Colin’s bedtime.  Then again, if game time were earlier, we might not have been able to attend the game at all.  After going to a Giants’ game this Monday and eating again, of course, garlic fries, I think I’ll be laying off the garlic fries this Saturday.  Garlic fries are usually an automatic for me, but this year, since I’ve attended so many more sporting events than I used to, I’ve overdone it on the garlic fries a little bit.  I think I’ve had enough to last me for a little while.  Hot dogs, however, I can never get enough of.  (Despite knowing, or not wanting to know, what goes into making a hot dog.)