I just watched a BYU men's volleyball game.  Last night they swept Hawaii 3-0, but tonight it was a whole 'nuther ball game.  In fact, it ended 15-13 in the fifth set with BYU squeaking out the win. I let myself get drawn into the emotion of the match and it made it fun.  I really wanted 'my' team to win, but there were several times when I gave up hop0 and accepted that they might lose.  For me it was a relaxing way to spend my Friday night but I wonder if I would write that if they had lost.  Earlier we had gone out to dinner and it was delightful.  I really enjoyed the4 food and probably ate too much.  I tend to do that on the date night when we go out to eat.
It is about the only thing that we do for fun other then just hanging out in normal life together as friends, And as boring as our simple dinners out may seem to others we do enjoy that time together.

As I have written before Friday nights are special just because they are Friday nights.  I feel different because I don't have to get up for work and get busy in the office.  Having a Saturday without pressure of work is something that I really enjoy as well.  And since its really the only day in the week that I can do that it makes it even more special.  I look forward to spending time exercising my 'little gray cells' as POIROT would say.  And having a priesthood lesson to give on Sunday adds to that.  It is also a bit of a challenge because I am keen on not wasting my Saturday, so I have to find some place in between being productive and doing nothing.  (I believe that it is impossible to do nothing, so my nothing is doing something that looks like nothing.)  (No, I'm not exactly sure what that means either!)

There is so much out there in the way of pressure that one could really go crazy if it is left to itself.  You really have to manage it one way or another.  I'm not sure that the way that I manage it is the best, but I am still here trying to make it from one day to the next, so I must manage it some.  Either that or I am already crazy and just pretending to know what I am doing.  But I do have 3 things in my favor and they show that I am either just plain dumb lucky or that I have done something right along the way:  my Sheila, our family and the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.