Every weekend is a new opportunity. That invigorating taste of freedom, indoctrinated by years and years of publicity, school and work based on 5 day schedules. "It's Friday and the body knows it!" It still works. There is that sense of having survived another week of over-boarding humanity, another week of controlling ones' instincts, complying with norms, living the life in the frame that society has established over many years. More or less.
And then the weekend. So pure. So beautiful. So free. Well, almost.
Q4: It's a great time to do the laundry, as it's easy to turn on the machine and taking some of the leisure time to hang the clothes to dry. And Lily has time to arrange her room and select her dirty clothes to be washed.
Also, it's the end of the week, so it makes sense to do the inventory on Sundays, as the shop isn't open and nobody takes things out and screws up my Excel calculations by impromptu sales. It's also the best time to pursue hobbies and see friends. And Friday night is booked for the Jamsession. And why not check the list of not-urgent, but good-to-check-off tasks? Right, that's what I wanted to do!
Q3: I love that. Having the possibility to choose between tasks (work and private, they're very intertwined in my life), staying busy, which I mostly do on weekends. Also, working on weekends is like working during the night - less humans around to bother me. These days, though, I practice balance. Once in a while, we meet with friends for a BBQ, or Ellie comes over and we chill while day-drinking and watching movies and such. My perfect weekend would be getting up early, after a great night sleep, getting a lot of stuff done quickly, and then start relaxing at noon, with the great feeling if having been productive already.
Suddenly, it's Sunday afternoon again. In the worst case, Friday did go well too well, and Saturday is lost. I hate it when that happens. The alcohol is okay, I can handle that and have it under control by now, but sleep deprivation? With a 7 year old at home? That's hard. On me and her, and that feels even worse. I had fun, she did, too, but me being grumpy doesn't seem fair. I know, as a parent, I'm allowed to have fun, too, I put up with her moods and ... let's call it creativity... all the time. Still. It feels like I'm not being my best version for her (yes, I create my own pressure).
Also, when I'm in that mood, I'm not productive. I'm not taking advantage of the rest of my weekend, because I'm tired. I can't rest, because, child. Sometimes I can sneak in a power-nap, but that's it. And I don't like being unproductive, knowing that there is so much I could do if I just hadn't been up so long. And the worst part? It's not even due to a long time. It's because my half-drunk-idiot-mind opens the laptop before going to bed, wasting time there.
Q5: 1. Hangovers. They're a waste of time and a sign of lacking self control. Completely unnecessary. 2. Doom-scrolling. Having time on my hands doesn't mean I really relax or do good things with it. I've wasted way too much weekend time on that. 3. Not being my best self for Lily. I don't know how much time I'll really have with her, so I better take advantage. Not spending quality time with her is a waste of weekend.
I'll do better tonight. I will. Hive is my witness. Tomorrow is the final day, I want to be fit and wide awake as we're going to make Brezeln for the Oktoberfest at the local brewery - yes, we're amidst a massive strike, roads to the town are blocked and it's really hard to find certain products. But we're going to have a Mini-Oktoberfest. With Brezeln. Because we're all tired of the abomination that those in power on both sides have turned this situation into. It has become nonsensical.
So, we're taking back our weekends. Striking the strikes.
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This is my response to:
Q3: Leisure or work - Is it ok to work on the weekends or not? Explain your thoughts.
Q4: What household chore do you leave to the weekends and why?
Q5: Name three ways you've previously wasted your weekends and why.
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