Good and Tired

When I got home I saw rain in the forecast for the next three days. I was already worn out from my bike ride, but I cut the grass anyway, my legs complaining each step of the way.

I was dog tired when I finished, but it was a good kind of tired. I thought of other good ones, and not so good ones. 

Good ones included:

•         The kids/grandkids are finally asleep. (I remembered being tired when mine were little and I was much younger, wondered how I’d keep up with grandchildren all day.)
•          Picked up extra work to buy something special tired.
•          Exercise tired.

·         Got caught up at work/school/home projects tired.

I remembered some not so good kinds of tired:

·          Tired of fighting with someone tired.

·         Tired of making excuses tired.

·         Hungover tired because alcohol makes you sleepy, but the sleep isn’t deep.

·         Sick and tired of being sick and tired because the hole you’ve dug is deep.

I went to sleep thinking I’d find a way to end tomorrow the good kind of tired.

I will end today the good kind of tired.

Summer with the Slug Rats © 2020 by Ken Montrose

Summer with the Slug Rats is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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