“if only you could see”

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It feels to have accomplished some kind of work. But it usually takes a lot before I even feel like getting up to do it. Woke up and went back to sleep several times this morning but finally got up at noon. I'd like to have one day where I'd (want to) wake up nice and early, and make some kind of great breakfast. Maybe chocolate chip pancakes, or blueberry pancakes. Cook some eggs, and some bacon. I rushed everyone out of bed, so they all have wild looking hair. Then we'd go to the park, on some nicely windy day. Fly some kites. Play some frisbee. Skate around the civic center, like on the concrete part of the board walk. And then it's lunch time. I've made several sandwiches, like peanut butter and jelly, or maybe something like turkey and miracle whip. We'd eat on the concrete stage, on a typical red checkered blanket. And we'd drink out of those plastic juice bottles with the weird twisty tops. We might drive around for a bit, I'm not sure where we'd go this time. For dinner we all help make some part of the meal, but I think if the day is slightly windy and cool outside, we could make chicken and sausage gumbo. Green onions and boiled eggs. For dessert I made some chocolate pudding in these fancy glasses we have, dark green and dark blue. After dinner we go to the park and play hide and seek while it's dark, because it's more exciting that way (plus a lot more dangerous, but we don't have to go into specifics). And then after a good day like this, everyone has to go home nice and tired because they did something so incredibly fun, but it doesn't happen everyday so it's something nice to enjoy and remember.

Or maybe we could go fishing. I like to go fishing. I don't necessarily catch many fish, but it happens. And we could go crabbing. Watch them crawl up to the turkey necks, wait for them to latch on, and slowly pull them up then catch them in the net, unsuspecting of their doom. Putting worms is fun. They wriggle around and feel slimy and I still freak out because I'm a girl, but...oh well. Then cast the line, hope for a bite, have trouble reeling it in, and then realize you caught something so small, you can only toss the poor guy back in. Or maybe you caught a boot. Either way, I still don't find it being too tasty.