Do you look forward to the weekends?

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When I was a frisky 20+ year old, I hated routines. OMG!!! the idea of doing the same thing, everyday!!!!!! NO WAY. Well , that was 60 years ago. Now, I get up do the same things, eat the same breakfast, watch the same TV shows, etc., etc., etc.,etc. I used to look forward to the weekends, but now, they mess up my routines. Do you look forward to the weekends?
 

Weekends, holidays, come and go. I'm more inclined not to hike on the trails on the weekends when others are out. I still go, but I'm aware that I may meet someone on the trail. I'll stop and talk of course. I don't hate people, but when I'm looking for solitude, I don't really want them around. And 99% of hikers and mountain bikers are nice people. "Trail rage" is not typical in the woods.
 
I’m the same as others. Weekends are just days. However, I like it when people are out fixing their houses or painting. I am always willing to help. People think I’m nuts for not charging, but I like working with my hands. I didn’t know my dad very well, but my grandparents always tokd me he was good with his hands and like to build too, so maybe I inherited my skills from him. I also enjoy working on cars.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
When I was a frisky 20+ year old, I hated routines. OMG!!! the idea of doing the same thing, everyday!!!!!! NO WAY. Well , that was 60 years ago. Now, I get up do the same things, eat the same breakfast, watch the same TV shows, etc., etc., etc.,etc. I used to look forward to the weekends, but now, they mess up my routines. Do you look forward to the weekends?
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Always looking forwards to weekends... until both our son and husband both died on Saturdays.

Still hate Mondays to this day. Absolutely enjoys Wednesdays and Fridays. The others are kind of chilling out days.

This time around, been super busy dismantling old furniture getting replaced Monday, so not to bad now. It's been 6 years for son and over a year now for hubby. Getting there slowly but surely 👍
 
The weekend feeling is still there for me but only on a Sunday morning.

You know when you're single and off partying/clubbing, getting in just before dawn, collapsing into bed a getting up just before midday on a Sunday? It's that sort of feeling.

I'm allowed to get up later on a Sunday and no-one will judge me as idle cos Sundays are for sleeping it off. Sundays were designated for long lie-ins which you'd earned the right to have for slogging your guts out at work every day. ;) :LOL:

It's what one did/does, unless you got up early to go to church.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
When I was a frisky 20+ year old, I hated routines. OMG!!! the idea of doing the same thing, everyday!!!!!! NO WAY. Well , that was 60 years ago. Now, I get up do the same things, eat the same breakfast, watch the same TV shows, etc., etc., etc.,etc. I used to look forward to the weekends, but now, they mess up my routines. Do you look forward to the weekends?
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No, I don't. Every day is the same (almost). It could be Saturday, Thursday, whatever. Who cares?

There's an exception, one that has haunted me my entire life - SUNDAYS. If I fully expressed how much I hate Sundays, I'd pick up a forum ban. I dread them. The root is in my childhood (isn't everything?!?!). When I was a child, Sundays were the worst. All the good TV was taken over by Songs of Praise and other religious content. Shops (stores) either didn't open, or closed at midday (usually paper shops so they could sell newspapers). Sunday was always the "get ready for Monday" day. So it wasn't really my own, it was a preamble to work. Even the pubs opened late and closed early.

I'm told Thursday is the new Friday. I've no idea. Generally, each day is there for me to do whatever I please these days (I do all my shopping online). But I admit, the ghost of that Sunday haunts me still.
 
Supernatural said:
Always looking forwards to weekends... until both our son and husband both died on Saturdays.

Still hate Mondays to this day. Absolutely enjoys Wednesdays and Fridays. The others are kind of chilling out days.

This time around, been super busy dismantling old furniture getting replaced Monday, so not to bad now. It's been 6 years for son and over a year now for hubby. Getting there slowly but surely 👍
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Sorry you are going through this, @Supernatural ! Losing a child AND a spouse are quite stressful! Glad you "are getting there slowly but surely." That has been my pace, too. 🤗
 
VaughanJB said:
No, I don't. Every day is the same (almost). It could be Saturday, Thursday, whatever. Who cares?

There's an exception, one that has haunted me my entire life - SUNDAYS. If I fully expressed how much I hate Sundays, I'd pick up a forum ban. I dread them. The root is in my childhood (isn't everything?!?!). When I was a child, Sundays were the worst. All the good TV was taken over by Songs of Praise and other religious content. Shops (stores) either didn't open, or closed at midday (usually paper shops so they could sell newspapers). Sunday was always the "get ready for Monday" day. So it wasn't really my own, it was a preamble to work. Even the pubs opened late and closed early.
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LOL..Ditto
 
In retirement everyday ends in Y so there is no difference between weekdays or weekends. The bottom right of my monitor has the date & time then I look at my calendar to see if we have anything scheduled. So the answer is
No.
 
VaughanJB said:
No, I don't. Every day is the same (almost). It could be Saturday, Thursday, whatever. Who cares?

There's an exception, one that has haunted me my entire life - SUNDAYS. If I fully expressed how much I hate Sundays, I'd pick up a forum ban. I dread them. The root is in my childhood (isn't everything?!?!). When I was a child, Sundays were the worst. All the good TV was taken over by Songs of Praise and other religious content. Shops (stores) either didn't open, or closed at midday (usually paper shops so they could sell newspapers). Sunday was always the "get ready for Monday" day. So it wasn't really my own, it was a preamble to work. Even the pubs opened late and closed early.

I'm told Thursday is the new Friday. I've no idea. Generally, each day is there for me to do whatever I please these days (I do all my shopping online). But I admit, the ghost of that Sunday haunts me still.
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I didn't know that there were others who did not like Sundays, for years and a lot of my married life I had problems with Sundays. When I was young I had to go to Sunday school in the afternoon with the nuns. Thinking back I must have been younger than 11 because I went to a catholic high school, it made me cross because I was missing out on playing with my friends.
Now every day of the week is the same but I do not mind routine, every day when I walk my dog I do go a different route but apart from that it is routine. Though not always a good thing, with routine we do not always have to think as much.
 
Nathan said:
I go to the gym Monday through Friday so weekends are my "off days", to do yardwork and hobby stuff.
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When you go to the gym, do you work on different parts of your body on specified days, or are you what's referred to as a "gym rat" that goes to the gym and do whatever you feel like doing that day? I go 4 days a week. Monday and Tuesday, I do the lower parts and Thursday and Friday, I do the upper parts, especially with the free weights and work on my lats. I run a few times for cardio, but that has tapered off some. I can't run as far as I used to be able to run.

2 miles is about as far as I can run comfortably now. I can push 3 miles, but feel really tired and need a lot more time to decompress afterwards. I have long distance runners telling me to drink more chocolate milk after running. It helps to regain a speedier recovery after running. Have you ever heard of that?
 
As with others here, I lived for weekends when I was working as then you had options and freedom. Now, they are just like another day. I’ll avoid shopping on weekends as I know that the stores will be more crowded with working folks who have to go to the stores then. Sundays in particular are dead days when life seems more scaled back, and banks and the post office are closed as are most offices. When growing up in NJ, they had “Blue Laws” on Sunday, and you couldn’t even buy clothing then!
 
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