Last week marked my first full week in this new work at home endeavor, which made this my first weekend off. As Sunday winds down and I prepare for another week of work, I started to realize that the concept of ‘weekend’ is now slightly skewed in my world.
Other than days on the calendar, what made yesterday and today a ‘weekend’?
I slept in, for one thing. I’m still having difficulty with my sleep schedule, and the weekends are a slippery slope towards a second shift schedule. Because of that, I don’t know that sleeping in on the weekend is going to be an option any more. Cross that one off the list.
I spent all of today in my pajamas. Believe it or not, I am still getting ‘dressed’ for work right now. No, nothing fancy, just the same jeans and a sweater I would normally wear. To tell the truth, though, I don’t remember the last time I spent an entire day in my pajamas, so that really shouldn’t even count as a qualifier for a weekend day. I mean, I got dressed yesterday and that was still part of the weekend.
Is it the fact that I spent more time with my husband? No, that’s not it: he spent yesterday freezing his unmetionables on a motorcycle ride, and today a car show and pool team meeting. I think I might have actually seen more of him on some of our slower ‘work days’.
So what made yesterday and today a weekend? Sadly, I think it might boil down to one thing: my Lotus Notes wasn’t open. My weekend was apparently defined by a single program.
This my friends is unacceptable. I don’t know what the answer is, but I can say with certainty: if I’m going to work from home I’m going to have to find something that makes the weekend different. Perhaps a Saturday library trip. Or pancakes for breakfast on Sunday. Whatever it is, I will not suffer from uni-day.
