‘Weekend’, let’s examine the meaning of the word: the end of
the week, from Friday evening, or sometimes Saturday morning, until Sunday
evening; simple enough.
Than I ask how we came upon the term, ‘three day weekend’?
You see, logically it doesn’t fit, but we like it just the
same, hmm, perhaps even more, ha?
Now, if we really want to tear the concept of ‘week’ and
‘end’ apart we might go a bit further and ask, why not ‘weak’ and ‘end’?
‘Weak’, meaning feeble, frail, puny, scrawny, weedy,
pathetic, fragile, tired, faint, anemic, exhausted, drained, enervated, limp,
shaky, delicate, insubstantial, flimsy, fragile, brittle, inadequate,
vulnerable, defenseless, helpless, unprotected, unguarded, exposed,
ineffectual, powerless, ineffective, cowardly, spineless, fainthearted,
weak-willed, irresolute, easily led, corruptible, vacillating, faint, low, dim,
soft, imperceptible, pale, watery, diluted, unconvincing, uncertain,
halfhearted, implausible!
And that is why the other week worked.
Anyone interested in the meaning of ‘end’?
I can’t hear you! Oh well, I will take that as a yes...
‘End’, and what it truly does mean…Goal, objective, outcome,
result, aim, purpose, base, bottom, point, top, tip, side, edge, extremity,
finish, halt, close, finish off, terminate, stop, last part, closing
stages, conclusion, finish, last part!
So we have what we call our weekends, that not many share
unless they have jobs that are truly from Monday through Friday, but few are.
Some people have tried to make up their own weekends with calling any two days
off in a row ‘their weekend’, how dare they!
Is there a precedence for genuine ones, except those ‘three
day ones’, will we as speakers of the English language ever get to the point of
conformity?
And as we all know that our holiday of, Memorial Day, is
always the last Monday in the month of May, when we fly our flag, one of many
of the days we should.
We used to have a tall flag pole that we flew our flag daily
from, but the hurricane eventually took it down and it was just as well, since we
had a grouchy neighbor who insisted that the wind playing with the flag’s metal
attachment was too noisy for his ears, since he slept with his windows open. We
do not ever sleep with our windows open and rarely open our windows at all, due
to my inability to handle the heat or cold, or humidity, and so we never heard
it, and consequently we took the flag down to appease the neighbor who
eventually moved away, anyway… As many as fourteen different families have
lived next door with about five actual homeowners, the rest were all renters. And
since the other home blew away on our other side it is still an empty lot owned
by a family in Europe who claim that when they
retire will build there.
Moving on…
Today, I was back at the gym/rehab and completed my two
pieces of equipment with not too many problems… Although, oddly enough I had a
few back spasms in spite of just taking all my appropriate medications prior to
leaving home. And so when this happens I must stop and regroup in the fact of
taking a break and deep breaths with a bit of a rest. Hubby felt I might want
to call it quits, but I said no, I need this so bad; my lament through all
these last several weeks, not weaks.
I am strong willed if nothing else!
And so with a few sips of my club soda in my stainless water
bottle and a wee respite I did complete my fifty reps with a short break and
fifty more on the slant board. The arm cycle had been first again with my seven
and half minutes each in each direction totaling my fifteen!
We stopped by the Cultural Center again for a reasonable lunch,
I had their small salad and soup, today lobster bisque quite good and yes it
did have real lobster for would you believe $4.95 for both, and Hubby had
seafood salad and we drank our own brought along beverages his water and mine
club soda and all for $10.59 including tax!
Hubby pushed me through the complex to look for that item in
their Trash or Treasure shops that might ask to be taken home, but there were
none for us today…
On that note or a bit of this and that, allow me to be the
very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly
count all your blessings and share your overages with you know who and we will
too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!