On Mondays...

The more I work for a living the more I can say with all honesty that I hate Mondays. More and more that Boomtown Rats songs goes through my head. "Tell me why! I don't like Mondays, I want to shooot...ooo...ooo...oot the whole day down." I get it now. I really do.

This Monday, today, is particularly heinous because 1. I am slightly hungover from an all day engagement party yesterday and 2. the temps have swung into the uppers 80s with humidity to match. It was a chore getting dressed this morning.

Last night when we got home from the party, Alex and I struggled to get the window AC in before this heat wave took full affect. Getting the AC in at our house is an adventure in duct tape. A few years ago, my old AC unit up and died on me right in the middle of a summer heat/humidity wave. There were no regular window AC's to be found within 500 miles so what I ended up with was a vertical AC unit. I don't have vertical windows. But with a little effort, some carefully crafted cardboard to block in the open areas, and enough duct tape to make my daddy proud - we manage to get it in, get it secure and get it running. Though I think this year it may be it's last. The old beast doesn't look so good anymore. And, surprisingly, from the street this set up doesn't look as trailer park as it sounds. I manage to make it look like it's supposed to be there!

So, also yesterday, the all day engagement party. This was for my niece Megan and her hubs to be, Don. My sister threw an all day outdoor bash so's the both (read many) sides of the family could get together before the big day. Megan and Don are both the children of divorced parents so there were people in attendance who hadn't spoken civilly to each other for years. Still, it all went very well and, truth be told, they all got along famously and had fun. It may have had something to do with the Margaritas or the Lienie's Summer Shandy Beer. All I know is at some point we decided to play some volleyball (after many drinks and in the heat/humidity). We were svetzing like piglets. I almost took a header when I stepped into a hole and started side stepping down a hill. Luckily, I righted myself before I biffed the ground but it would have been a sight, lemme tell ya!

We stayed all day...hot...drinking...more hot. Then the AC thing at night. I slept like a rock. But here we are... MONDAY!

As I'm sitting here typing I can honestly say there isn't one single part of my body that doesn't hurt this morning. Even my fingers are sore. And I have a blue bruise on my wrist. Most likely from the volleyball. My head is a wee bit cloudy today. I have internal fog. Most likely from the Margaritas. So, as much as I don't like Mondays on a regular basis I am really hating on it today.

"I want to shoot...ooo...ooo...oot the...whole...day...down."