(Kinda) The Perfect Saturday

Almost 4pm now...and I continue to sit in the living room, windows wide open on this sunny day, birds chirping, while reading the past 2 days' Star-Ledgers. I've also cleaned a bit and enjoyed a most leisurely late breakfast...that morphed into inhaling yet another strawberry shortcake Good Humor bar -- which, btw, were on sale this week at ShopRite for, ARE YOU READY, 89 fucking cents (!!) when they normally go for $3.99!!?!??!?! I've acquired 3 boxes of the strawberry...and sampled the almond ones, which, as I feared, are NOT that good. But you live, you learn, right? Of course, I'll still manage to ingest the other 5 remaining almond bars. I DID pay for them. So i've read a lot, i've cleaned a lot, i've eaten a lot, i've RELAXED a lot. Dipshit is away...since Wed...and it's just been fantastic. "Perfect" Saturdays take many forms. Today has been one...though there's still hours to go. Another version would be the one that unfolded this VERY day 11 years ago...Saturday, May 13, 1995. That is when, shortly after 3pm, 5 of us hopped in a car for Mrytle Beach, SC -- Senior Week!! Five days of nonstop drinking and other shenanigans ensued. I've just popped open a can of Miller Lite in honor of this anniversary. It's ALSO the 13th anniversary of 1) the KNOTS LANDING series finale and 2) my evening random chat on a bench with the lovely and talented Rae Lynn under a bunch of blooming trees, the smell of honeysuckle permeating the air. Yes, I recall all that. Yes, that may be a little odd. No, I'm not a weirdo, though. So i've been also poring through old diary entries...reflecting. Are you sensing i'm having a fun day? Cause I AM.