Waiting for the Weekend

Today was the day that I had been waiting for, for the entire year. It was something that made me practice and play almost every day just preparing for this, and I knew that victory was within my reach. Quickly changing into my ironed clothes, and eating a soggy bowl of cereal, I raced out into the cold, desolate driveway, waiting for my ride as snowflakes flew around me. Breathing in the cold air nervously, I made sure to have everything on me, as to not forget a thing. Pulling the items out of…

The baseball field is where I spend most of my weekends and evenings with my family “cheering” on my brother. In reality, when I get there, I have parents waiting for me to watch over the younger siblings of the baseball players playing that day. One of my favorite memories from the field was when I handed the kid I was watching a package of gummy worms, and he looked up at me with his smile hidden under his chubby cheeks. When I was younger, I would always look up to teenagers because I felt…

This past weekend my family and I went to Carterville, Tennessee for my mom’s birthday. While growing up my mom loved nature so we went to Big South Fork park. Big south Fork encompasses 125,000 acers of the Cumberland Plateau which was a beautiful view. As we drove up to the entrance there was a young lady waiting for us ready to show us all about the park. Starting with the parks history. Before commercial logging and coal mining the park was called a 'No Business' which was a community.…

realize what truly matters in life, not the materialistic things, but family. This is what I learned after I went through the traumatic experience of fracturing my arm. That weekend that it happened was my mom 's weekend to have us kids, but I decided to stay with my dad because we had plans that weekend. On Saturday, our church was hosting a daddy daughter day, where we would…

In the past, customers Stude around the front door, waiting for up to two hours for a booth, as the smell of Greek seasonings made their way to the front door from the kitchen in the back. Today an upstairs lounge has been opened for customers when waiting for a table so you can enjoy a drink and relax. If you are looking for a variety of meats to eat for example there is a Prime Rib only served on the weekends. The Northwestern Steakhouse also serves kids meals for example like…

However, every single type of transportation is crowded and messy. For example, if you have to be at your job by 7 am, you’d have to wake up, at the latest, by 5. Then you’d have to be outside, in the cold, waiting for the bus to come pick you up. In spite of being the first one there waiting for…

My first act of chivalry is one that I do not do very often. Last weekend, I was taking the bus to my house. The bus was very populous and every seat was taken. So after 10 minutes an elderly woman stepped on the bus with a lot of bags. When I saw the woman I knew I had to do the right thing and give my seat up for her. I then signaled her and called her over so she would know that this seat was hers. The woman came over and I said, “ it’s all yours ma'am.” The woman thanked me very much and I…

Way back in February of 2008, I wrote Washing-Up Buddha, my first Weekend Meditation for The Kitchn. It's been years since I've revisited that post, so I took another look this morning just to see what I was up to back then. I had long forgotten what I wrote and I was a little worried. Would I find that I feel differently than I did then? Did I say something I wished I hadn't? Have I changed a lot or maybe not enough? From Weekend Meditation: Washing-Up Buddha: In the Zen vernacular, when you…

The article, “Buy Experiences Not Things” by James Hamblin illuminates that experiential purchases benefit an individual more than a materialistic investments in the ways of, happiness, socialization, and generosity. To start things off, Gilovich has done several studies that verify how an experience is better than a substantial purchase and how it can actually make a person happier. “Gilovich’s prior work has shown that experiences tend to make people happier because they are less likely to…

repaint certain sections of fence among her property line. Since Hayley often had to do the same task on her aunt’s farm, she went right to work and had finished in a decent time that Margaret had paid thirty dollars that afternoon. The following weekends after that Hayley had done various things like mowing someone’s lawn to wash and groom five dogs in one day. Over the course of the two years she managed to save over seven hundred…