It's All Fun & Games

What to do with a dreary, blustery day?  Here we sit, Reuben & I, with another day before us.  The weather isn't terrible, but it's not what I'd call comfortable, either.  While he waits to go back to work, we find ourselves in this predicament quite often.  Too bad we don't enjoy the same types of shows or movies.  Oh, occasionally we find something we both enjoy watching, but more often, one of us isn't paying any attention to the TV.  This is why one or both spouses should work outside of the home.  There is something to be said for a little absence every now and then.  

I've done dishes and started the laundry.  The daily grind is underway.  We've played three games of Yahtzee already.  I enjoy it, but it gets old after a while.  I won twice.  He won once.  I've checked my facebook, nothing new there.  Lunch is in my near future.  There's something to look forward to. 

Where's the substance to the day, though?  Too often I find myself just trudging through one day after another.  There are no real high points to mark the day in my memory.  If I'm lucky, there will be no low points to mark it, either.  It will go down as just another day in my history.  I am quite confident that I'm not alone in this.  Countless people spend their days in a fog of just moving forward with the day.  What can we do to change this?  I am determined to find something more substantial to do with my days.  There's got to be some good that I could be doing for someone.  Any ideas? 

For today, I will try to convince my husband to humor me with a few card games.  Perhaps we'll try and refresh our memories of the game Canasta.  It's a game that holds many precious memories of my grandma for me.  Maybe we'll move on to another fun game, Phase 10.  Who knows?  Tomorrow I will hope to find a more meaningful use of my day.  Housework is only fulfilling for so long.