Every Day is Friday
For awhile Fridays
meant something to me:
–school week’s end
–date night
–party night
–work week end;
Then things changed to:
–graduated
–married
–divorced
–four-day work weeks;
Now:
–retired
–every day is Friday.
De Jackson aka WhimsyGizmo is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De would like us to write a quadrille (44 words total, not counting title) using the word Friday.
Tao Talk 
I think I would need a difference between fridays and the rest anyway…
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Once you’re retired, let me know if you feel any different ;)
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Your poem resonates with me, Lisa, and, if my husband wasn’t still working part time and my daughter wasn’t available at weekends, every day would feel like Friday.
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Kim, glad you resonate. You’re almost there :)
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😊
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I was just remembering during the shutdown during the pandemic, thinking, What day is it? Whatsday, Blurrsday, Friday? ;)
I do envy your retirement, but since I work from home and make my own schedule, I can’t envy it too much.
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Yes, Covid was good for taking the gloves off, wasn’t it.
My son works from home, which has allowed him to fully co-parent his daughter from conception to now, which is a priceless perk. At the same time, the lines begin to blur between home and work environments, and he ends up working way more than he should for a faceless corporation. Not sure what your home-based job is, but it sounds like you find a way to keep them separate.
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I’m a freelance copywriter (mostly for advertising agencies), so it’s. my own business and I’m paid by the hour, usually. So it works out well. If I’m writing at midnight, it’s usually worth it!
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Awesome, De!
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Another definition of ‘retired’ = tired again!
I do think it we have earned our retirement!! :D
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lol on tired again! What most don’t realize is that retirees often work harder and are busier than they were when they were “working.” Can I get an amen?! :)
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I know many folks even older than me who love to ‘work’ – Don’t know if they have to or want to. Me… I’m very happy doing what I want when. I saw a guy at an welcome station at the Doc’s office – he was talking to another woman – said he was 92 and had several ‘jobs’. I do know that when some folks stop… and they can’t figure out what to do… their days …as they say …are numbered.
Amen! Heck I do cardio a few times a week, was bowling in a senior leauge once a week, and am trying to keep up with my blog (not including making dinner 4-5 times a week, and house stuff. ;)
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<3 So often people think if you aren't being given the green devil it isn't work. Bowling, now that's work! ;)
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Oh, yeah. Sometimes after the second game of three… I’m ready to go home!! :D
Some of us are getting ‘paid’ back what we’ve earned. Helps to pay the bills ;)
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<3
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Did I mention that some of the celery I put out last year from a ‘cutting’ that rooted from the bottom came up on its own. I added another I started about a month ago along with some romanine and bib outside…
Might not get to work outside the next two days… more rain.
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I think you may have mentioned it, Jules. Repurposing plants, ain’t nothing wrong with that. Did I tell you I went to a seed saver presentation at the library last week? Very useful information!
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Cool – I just put my seeds in the freezer… If cool or ‘frozen’ is good for that ‘world bank of seeds…?
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The facilitator didn’t mention frozen, but she def mentioned a cool, dark place. I would love to visit that world bank of seeds, wouldn’t you? :)
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I think it off limits to mere mortals ;)
I think I read somewhere that they also have quite a bit of ‘heritage’ seeds.
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I can see why it would be, but still! Maybe a video exists of one of the immortals walking through there ;) I would think it would be only heritage seeds?
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Why not some modern seeds? Some of those heritage seeds might not be as resistant… just a thought.
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Jules, per the seed saving seminar I recently took, hybrids don’t breed true. That said heritage seeds don’t have to be old, you can start your own heritage seeds, but not from hybrids. Each season pick the most vigorous plants and best tasting produce and save those seeds.
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Ah… If I only had space enough… would I really want a big garden. I think I’d like a green house – then I could grow all year long. We were driving through some streets we don’t normally travel near the city… I spied a huge glass house – could have been a green house or maybe a pool house? Yes it was an old large home…. I’m surprised there wasn’t more privacy fencing! :D
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Well, looky here:
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….Cool… Thanks.
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Oh look, did you know about *this* place?:
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I like that – bio diversity
~Thank you!
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You’re welcome :)
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Haha! Friday or Sunday or Wednesday…it doesn’t really matter. That happens when my kids and husband have vacations. 🙂
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:)
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Hope you are enjoying every moment of retirement.
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I am, Willy, thanks so much for the well-wishing.
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Oh, I fully feel the heart of this progression, Lisa. Time flies and changes everything. I have one more year before I retire and I am so looking forward to everyday being Friday.
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Raivenne, glad it resonates for you. That last year can seem like forever, but you’ll get there.
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I do think it would not be healthy for my mind to stop when I retire. hopefully I will still have poetry.
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Rog, poetry is in your DNA. Of course you will :)
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Thanks
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I like that you made a list. I love The Cure. Being a stay-at-home mother, every day feels like Groundhog’s Day. Just not sure which day of the week.😂
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LOL I think with that is do you see a shadow or not on the day ;)
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I love the list…I can’t wait to be at the last one…love that song! I like when bands do songs with acoustic…although I like the studio version as well.
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Max, do you have a target date set for retirement or still playing it by ear?
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Playing it back ear right now…after we sell our house and move.
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What??? You’re selling your house and moving?? Don’t you love it there?
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Oh yes…but our house has tripled in price because of the California people moving here…the cost of living out there is crazy…and we can buy the same size of house in KY for a third of the price of ours…it’s a win win…plus cash.
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I guess it makes sense if you want to live in KY.
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Yea it’s a place called Russellville…that is where we go grocery shopping. It’s nice and quiet…that is the way it was here…but now its really crowded.
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Oh ok, I remember you talking about that grocery store, and if it is quiet like you want it, then sounds like a good place to go.
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Yea we like it…it’s getting so expensive where we live. This once was a sleepy little country town with some country stars…now it’s grown into something I would have never believed before.
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So you’re always in love. 😍
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Thanks for “getting it,” Maria :)
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Transitions in life, no matter where you are they are the same…although Aussies don’t like the four day week…not sure why? A good excuse to listen to the Cure again though!
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I agree with you about the transitions, Di. I had to “pay” for that one day a week with accrued vacation time, so it wasn’t free. Our workplace also had a standard 4-day work week people could choose, but it meant working 10 hours each of those days. I tried it and it was too difficult to do so I went the other way. Yes on the Cure!!!!
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Ha! Enjoy! You’ve earned it!
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Thank you, and I agree ;)
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I’m nowhere near retirement. Enjoy.
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<3
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I just said almost the same thing to Punam. I never know what day it is. (K)
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Isn’t it wonderful.
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When I was freelancing I worked seven days a week, but my children’s schedules kept me on the calendar. I still do basically the same work–just for me, not to someone else’s specs–except I don’t get paid. I like having that freedom.
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Freedom to choose is what it’s all about. Busier times for sure when the kids were young, when I was going to school at night, and working a full time job, there was a lot of schedule juggling.
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Freedom to choose–that’s exactly it.
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Enjoy your Fridays!
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Thanks much, Randy :)
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I think life might be good with everyday, a Friday. Think of all the adventures one could have.
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Truedessa, so true. That phase of retirement is just ahead, I can feel it.
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Now retired myself, I have to constantly check which day it is. lol
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Isn’t it wonderful :)
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Ah Yes!!! Shout it loud, shout it long ~~~~ retirement means mellow living. Well done.
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:) <3
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I agree, this is the life for sure! 😀
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<3 :)
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Such tender sharings, both in the quadrille and in the Postscript. I wish you lived near enough to come to “embodied dance” sessions with me on Friday nights … which are morphing into date nights … at 70 … wheeeee!
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<3 Embodied dance is the perfect place to meet a dance partner to embody romance with. So very happy for you!
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P S Thank you for the link to The Cure – I’m loving being Cured…. <3
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My pleasure, Kathy <3
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‘Everyday is Friday’ is a pretty darned good way of life. A little simpler. Great song by The Cure.
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No arguments from me on that, for both.
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Yep. It can get confusing, but that’s okay. It is so freeing to not be tied to a school calendar! (Retired teacher here)
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Teaching probably has more calendars to contend with than most professions, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg of their duties. Glad you broke free of those calendar chains, D.
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A very positive attitude.
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Sadje, the sun brings positivity with it, thanks :)
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Yes indeed.
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Having not read yours first, I am, sad to say, un-original as I say pretty much the same thing!!! Nicely done, you :)
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Dale, please don’t put yourself down. There were several poems saying the same thing in different ways. Poet is the vital completion of the circuit of a poem. Thank you for your kind words <3
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Right! I take it back. I love your take!
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<3
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💞
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Good job! I ran with a similar idea. Age and experience does that I guess.
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Thanks, Tenzenmen (Is that Ten Zen Men)?
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It is, indeed. 🙏
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Those are the Fridays I know too so evocative of my experiences.
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:)
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