Simple Saturday Pleasures

Saturdays for me are about getting back at all the militaristic days between (& including) Mondays and Fridays. You sneer at those painful early mornings by rising slowly, letting the afternoon sun warm your sheets and meet your restful eyes. You pull faces at efficiency & productivity by sitting up on your bed and watching through the window, the world already spinning a few extra hours for those down below - rowing, jogging & soaking in the most welcoming of weekend weathers - and realise...my my, something's missing today. Ahh..that presence of guilt.

(today's picture-perfect view from the window)

Payback for weekday half-hour lunchbreaks at 12.30pm sharp in the cafeteria, is a time-stopping Saturday afternoon alfresco-style Sashimi Don and Salad Platter in South Melbourne at our favourite Japanese restaurant, then taking it back to homebase with a truly unremorseful serving of Christine (brownie biscuit, valrhona milk chocolat mousse, crème brulee) and soy hot chocolate at Laurent. Whilst reading The Good Weekend. Whilst adoring the excitable pooches as they greet each other at each passing by.

There is no day like Saturday to send the work week to another mode of existence, and seeing it only comes but once every seven days, use it oh so wisely...^_^