Vanilla or Chocolate?

Isn't it interesting how each day of the week holds their own..."flavor?"

I suppose we could put the days into several categories.

Ice cream flavors, obviously.

Colors, perhaps?

Or a symbol that represented how we felt about that day.

I guess a combination might be the best way to go about it...so you weren't limited, because I don't deal with limits very well.

(Have you ever gone on a car ride with me at the wheel?)

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For some reason, Wednesday has always been my least favorite day of the week.

It is the maple nut, yellow brown, caution tape of my week.

I have to wonder if had anything to do with the fact that during my entire childhood, I spent Wednesday nights at church.

Only I didn't just have the pleasure of attending hour long, riveting CCD classes, I also got to stay for an extra hour while my parents went to choir practice.

When you are a kid, there is nothing more exciting than that.

Especially in the winter, when it's dark, and cold, and you can do nothing but just. sit. there.

Perhaps, it also has something to do with the fact that is just 

falls in the middle of the week...so it doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose,

other than to provide the hump in which to get over.

Okay.  I just thought about it.

It's the church night thing.

It scarred me for life.

Which is a bit ironic, considering I have worked in churches for the past

25+ years.

It might have something to do with that awkward time when I was a teenager, and had to play at the CCD Masses.

Obviously, I had no idea what I was doing.  I didn't go to Catholic school.  

I didn't pay attention to the specifics, regarding organ playing, on Sunday.

I did NOT go to daily Mass, so how on earth was I to know that there was only ONE reading before the gospel on weekdays?

Well, here is how I learned.

After the first reading, the reader read the psalm, and I waited for the 2nd reader to come up.  (No one did.)

So, in his oh-so-tactful manner, the priest yells up to me (in front of the church filled with high school students) 

"YOU CAN PLAY THE ALLELUIA ANY TIME NOW, BETH!!!"

(and yes, it was in a horribly sarcastic tone.)

This is only one example of my Wednesday night fun.

How I went on to become a church lady, I will never know.

Weird.

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Now Mondays.....Mondays are the pralines and cream of my week.

(My favorite flavor!)

Monday is the warm, cozy earth tones, complete with lots of texture.

Knits and fur (faux, of course!!) and velvet.

It's the one day that I try to keep completely commitment free.

There is something quite heavenly about knowing that when the traditional "work week" is starting, I am enjoying my "week end."

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Fridays fill the #2 spot for me.

They are the mint chocolate chip....or my latest obsession....plain old vanilla, piled high with mini chocolate chips.

Fridays are a fresh, leafy green.  A breath of fresh air.

Even though I know they are leading to my typically busy weekend, it also means I might actually get to spend some time with my beloved, since he will (hopefully) have the next two days off.

~

Tuesdays and Thursdays are the cookies and cream....or perhaps chocolate. (Depending on my mood, of course.)

I suppose a soft blue would sum them up.

They are just.....nice days.

Although Scandal is on Thursdays....so that spices things up a bit.

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And the weekend.....

I often wonder what it would be like to be one of those families who often heads out on mini adventures over the weekend.

Or maybe....just leaves town for the day.

Or maybe....does anything.

However, when you work every weekend, you lose that freedom.

So.....my weekends become rainbow sherbet.

I try to keep them light and fresh.

Saturday is always up in the air.  Sometimes it's filled with activity.

Sometimes it's completely lazy.

However, whatever I'm doing always has to end by 4...so I can go to church.

And I have a strict rule on Saturday night.  I never go out.

In bed by ten.

I think people think I am a loser...or an 80 year old.

However, if I'm not on top of my game the whole time I am playing (or if I'm not paying attention...which is easy to do when you are dozing off.) it's pretty obvious to the 300+ people sitting in front of you.

And the color?  White.

White and fluffy....because Sunday afternoons for me mean one thing:

Nap time.

And my best friends NEVER complain.

And honestly...any day with these two fluff balls is

a turtle sundae (from Culvers!) 

and sunny yellow.

It's pretty amazing how some unconditional love can do that for a person.

:)

Happy Thursday!