For once, it was a relatively low-key weekend; I’m feeling much better after decompressing a bit after being wound up so much around the spindle of depression the last week or two. The weekend’s activities, as I said, were pretty benign and relaxing. I took my wife out for a nice dinner and some Pokemon hunting on Friday night, which was nice, because I’d not seen much of her over the last week, thanks to dance classes and stuff.

Saturday I took care of some grocery shopping, rehearsed some tunes for the coming weekend, and spent the afternoon hanging out at the end-of-summer dance school pool party/whatever thing (which thankfully is only a couple of blocks from our house). While the girls hung out with their friends, I spent most of the afternoon chilling out on the deck with the dance dads, chatting and solving the world’s problems. It was nice, especially since the host (and the spouse of the owner of the dance school) is a great, gregarious fellow who enjoys holding court, which meant he was able to carry enough conversation for all of us; let me be clear, this isn’t a bad thing at all – Chris is exactly the kind of person to take the pressure off an introvert in this setting, and is becoming a pretty good friend. He got an appreciative audience, and the rest of us got to enjoy a nice relaxing afternoon of conversation without the pressure of carrying things ourselves – we all got what we needed out of the arrangement and felt refreshed afterwards.

Somewhere else in the weekend I managed to finish off the last of the kids’ school supply shopping and started putting together my packing plans for this coming long weekend. I’m only working two days this week, and two next – I’m due for a nice, well-deserved break playing music with my friends.

And if you’re curious about what that can feel like, this image below expresses it pretty well, at least some of the time: