Thanksgiving Weekend

"....Foooor the first time in forever, I'll have more than one day oooooofff...." -Frozen

My problem with writing is this, I have great, complete, ideas as to what I want to write about, I navigate to blogger, open a new post and BOOM. The idea, the thesis if you will, is gone. 

And I'm stuck with one sentence and no content. (This is probably why I excel at Twitter) 

So I had this long post written about this weekend, the fact that I had FOUR days off for the holiday and what I planned to do with those days, but I was almost bored to tears reading it. 

At the beginning of the month, my plan for thanksgiving was to spend it with friends in North Carolina, but after a $300+ trip to the vet for my old girl (who has a very jacked up back), I decided that I needed to save my money, and stick around the home front to care for my kid. 

Once I'd made peace with that decision, I suddenly realized that I'd have four days instead of ONE to relax and actually get stuff done! (#GSD). It dawned on me that I'd actually be able to get some sleep, to thoroughly clean my house, organize and de-clutter.... reaad???

Aaaaaah 

And  no. I will not be diving into the black friday madness. At least these are the things I tell myself. 

What does your weekend look like? 

A Day Off

"Off Days" have taken on a whole new meaning since starting my full time job.
Instead of meaning: Another day to sleep in, and clean my house.

It suddenly turns into: You-now-have-24-hours-to-try-and-complete-a-weeks-worth-errands-cleaning-and-fun. It turns into the day to clean the house, catch up on laundry, haul trash to the dump, practice your piano, change all the linen, wash the dishes, groom the dogs, pick up the yard, clean out the car, grocery shop, run errands and OH! read that book you've been getting bits and pieces of, work on that crochet project you started months ago, take David to the dog park, finally schedule blog posts for the next week .... I think you're getting the picture.

I want to be lazy and sleep in, but I realize that this is my only day until Sunday to get things done, during normal people hours.

Suddenly it becomes a stressful day ON.

Wednesday's are my "Off" day every other week. And every week its the same, I plan everything I need to do out of the house on Wednesday, and by the time I get home Tuesday night I'm already overwhelmed and re-prioritizing.

I know what you're thinking. You wondering why I can't do this stuff during the week after work.
The thing is, when you work until 7PM or later, the LAST thing you want to do after an exhausting day on feet, dealing with work-place drama and irate customers is to do ANY of the above.

(Not to mention sometimes you can't do any of the above due to the time places close)

Even reading is tiresome at times.

So what exactly did I do on my day off you're wondering?

Absolutely. Nothing.

How do you like to spend your days off?