"Sundays are usually my go-with-the-flow days. I'd rather get all the work done on Saturday and then have a whole day free of responsibility. My life won't win awards for thrills and chills, but it suits me."
It had suited him much better with Julia, but that was impossible, in the past. Now was the time for living in the present, the time to begin reclaiming the things he'd once enjoyed but that he'd dropped in grief. Taking back what had once been his. It had been a slow process, but things were turning his way again. At some point in the past six months, he'd begun to actually look forward to his days instead of waking up with a sense of dread that he had to face another one alone.
He just hoped he'd maintain his hard-won equanimity when his name popped up on the lottery with another name paired to it.