Weekend rolls in and its ON, baby.  We kind of, sort of, almost watched our diet aaaaaaall week and now its ON!  Lets not waste any time, its Friday night, I mean it IS Friday, right? We’ve deemed it to be grander than the holiest of holidays.  And we celebrate it like so, each and every week.  Fuck cooking at home, we did that shit this week already, all week. Okay, maybe twice but it was a busy week.   I say we round up the family because we’re feasting tonight!  We have no bills, we have no worries, we have no care in the world because its the weekend!  Local pizzeria, Red lobster, TGIFs, and Applebee’s, thats for the common folk.  But for us, its nothing but the fanciest, latest yelp sensation, talk of the water cooler, some famous twat ate there, kind of joint. Besides, we worked hard all week.  Well, exceptMonday when we went in late, or Thursday when we worked from home and caught up on DVRed TMZ episodes.  Still we earned this, and the big boy brunch on Saturday that we’ve been planning all month.

     Rolling into Saturday afternoon, its BBQ TIME!  Its been a long winter; almost feels like we were in communist Siberia. Except for a few scattered sparse events to celebrate along the way, we barely did ANYTHING all winter.  Take away our Disney trip, a week and half long gorgathon for Christmas and New Years, a five day glutunous splurge starting with the Wednesday before Thanksgiving we did nothing near celebrating and letting ourselves enjoy some treats we randomly enjoy.  How can any sane person argue with overindulging on Christmas.   Christmas is  about Jesus, love, sharing, cards, extorted gifting and treating ourselves to tons of food, candy, dessert and drinks while in the company of our loved ones and our in-laws.  Just once a year.  Other one  day events and shakedown gimmicks like valentines day, mothers day, our anniversary, 4 snow days, 5 sick days, 14 birthday parties, 4 weddings, 3 christenings, a Halloween party, 2 state fairs, a karate school yellow belt ceremony, 3 recitals and 40 or so family get togethers, we really didnt over eat any other time, ever.   Easter doesnt count; its the one other time a year we treat ourselves all week long. Besides, we own a treatmill and have gym memberships, and those are always paid diligently, and on time, with the utmost discipline.

     We’re always so hyperconscious of what we eat, but this Saturday afternoon’s BBQ its no holds barred.  We rarely enjoy hot dogs, burgers, kilbasa and ribs.  Its even rarer that we have 3 servings of each.  So its ON.  Besides, there is softball practice Sunday  morning and there is something traditional about baseball and non athletic athletes.  The dozen donuts at the field that everyone brings are just a quick bite to eat, 6 of. Sunday afternoon we kind of had no choice but to grab a bite on the run as we spent the entire day at the mall (necessities: shoes of every style and in every color, for everyone), bounce U ( a rare treat for our deprived children), and then Carvel, because we had a coupon.

     I know i know, it might be over the top, but it was the first nice weekend in a while, and its not like all of June, July and August is coming up.  Doubt we’ll do this every weekend, on Fourth of July, on Labor Day or every sunny weekday in between.   Besides, Christmas seems so far away.