How do you spend the weekend?

And, by Monday, do your feel remotely refreshed and ready for the week ahead?

Generally hanging around house and yard, pottering around doing chores, reading, maybe out with friends on either Friday or Saturday night, sleeping in both days, maybe one or two major cooking projects (stock making, preparing something complicated for the week ahead). I feel pretty rested on Monday, until around 2 pm, when I'm ready for another weekend.

stay up really late on Friday because in my mind that's officially weekend.
usually sleep in Saturday, get lunch from the local market, go out and do grocery shopping for the week
naff about online, watch movies, etc, do some cooking
sunday get up early and clean the house if I am not too lazy to do so
go over to in-law's house for Sunday dinner most weekends, or every other weekend.
sometimes see a movie, or maybe go out, but I'm not crazy-social like that, kind of a hermit tbqh.

I tend to stay in denial that Monday is a thing so I end up staying up too late on Sunday night and wake up Monday morning feeling v tired and regretting my terrible childish choices lol

This last weekend was pretty typical: sleep until 4 on Saturday, make a meal, sit on the couch and re-watch Kolchak on Netflix after failing to work up the enthusiasm for a movie. Up at the crack of noon on Sunday, play video games in my pajamas until late evening, run for an hour, studiously avoid making eye contact or speaking with another human being while I'm outside of my apartment. Return to apartment, rip some new CDs (the Only Ones' Only Serpents Shine, the Videodrome soundtrack and Dopplereffekt's Calabi Yau Space) and almost listen to them. Go to sleep at ten; wake up exhausted and depressed and dreading the rest of the week.

BOOZE
HANGOVER
BOOZE BOOZE
HANGOVER

sleep in
go to somewhere close for brunch w/ gf
long walk all day w/ her somewhere in greater nyc, usually a park is involved
get home
watch a movie or talk about watching a movie but never decide on one
go to bed late

sleep in
homework
housework
yardwork
funky space reincarnation

when i had a job it was

activism
activism
booze
rock show
hangover
activism
activism

now its

ilx
job search
rock show
activism
ilx

there had to be at least half an ilx in the first example cmon

recording and drinking, recording and drinking

feel like i haven't had a day off working since christmas

BOOZE
HANGOVER
BOOZE BOOZE
HANGOVER

Yeah this, well sometimes. Often also interspersed with shopping/going to markets/gardening/housework if not so hungover. Live gigs if theyre on, party if I cbf if one's on. Otherwise lots of lying about interwebbing and watching Futurama and Mitchell and Webb DVDs or playing video games while drinking and eating pizza oh god, Im a 16 year old boy.

I neeed to do more painting/drawing/writing music/actually seeing my friends on my weekends tbh

HOOS, what does "activism" entail and why did you do such?

i get off thursdays, so i tend to hit up bars thurs/fri/sat nights. it mostly depends on whether my dope-fiend friends are up for it.... basketball season plays a huge detriment to whether i enjoy my weekends or, so a lot of the time i'll stop over at their place(s) and find them all in a total state of splurrg, unwilling to do much anything.

so a lot of times i hit up concerts alone, something i've been trying to ween away from as i'm starting to see the same people twice and twice again and getting uncomfortable with them knowing this is just something i "do". also would like to add these are people i have no desire to become friends with based off a purely aesthetic pov

HOOS, what does "activism" entail and why did you do such?

i was/am doing occupy stuff. i did a lot more when i had a paycheck because i could afford the transit. these last couple months, though, i can't afford to be shuttling into, around & out of the city all day, so i do a lot less.

on friday, i either go up to seattle and make music w friends, or i hang out in tacoma and do relationship-type things. like go shopping, or have dinner out, or watch a movie maybe.

on saturday, i sleep hell of late (or come home in the early afternoon, if i've been in seattle), and then potter variously. this is the best thing, imo, the pottering. it usually involves repeated trips to wherever, maybe some work with tools in the garage while listening to decade-based hits radio. rarely i stay out. mostly i stay in.

on sunday, i sleep not so late as you might think and do not shower religiously. some pottering, though minimal. a good deal of reading and watching black and white things on television. some bills paying and laundry doing, though minimal. i go to sleep early on sunday. so should you.

BOOZE
HANGOVER
BOOZE BOOZE
HANGOVER

i read this to the tune of BE! AGGRESSIVE! B-E AGGRESSIVE!

+1

BOOZE
HANGOVER
BOOZE BOOZE
HANGOVER

― emil.y, Tuesday, March 20, 2012 4:09 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not always though, i often end up doing a lot of WRITING at the weekend (wet weekends are the best for work), and also ART GALLERIES, and just POTTERING in or near home - the weekend is a time for keeping things local if i can. for daytime weekend socialising i like to be spontaneous, like wake up on saturday and only then decide what i want to do, which tends to mean doing whatever that is by myself because apparently everyone else plans their social life months in advance which i am unable to do. being a FLANEUR is often a good look.

things i don't do at the weekend - shopping, going into town for any reason at all

we spend most of the weekend discussing what we're going to do at the weekend. and then end up just watching televised sport, doing homework, ironing & washing up.

friday: try to exercise, try to go out to eat if we're not too tired
saturday: try to wake up early, try to exercise, do errands or take a walk or maybe do a day trip. try to see friends at night.
sunday: try to wake up early, try to exercise, make a big breakfast, go grocery shopping, hang out, figure out something for dinner, try to go to bed early.

I am a boring married 30-something.

Fridays after work I play 5-a-side from 5-6pm, then generally I go home, cook dinner, we watch How I Met Your Mother and New Girl and open a bottle of wine.

Saturdays I normally get up early (how early depends on the season; 6am in summer, 8-9 in winter) and go for a bike ride, anywhere between 26 and 50+ miles, which takes 2-4 hours. Then we'll grab lunch at the local deli, wander into town maybe. Bum around at home, go to the allotment, maybe visit parents or have a friend (or, more usually, a brother) pop round. Then I'll cook dinner, we'll open a bottle of wine and watch Casualty and CSI:NY, and I'll fall asleep during Match of the Day.

Sunday I get up early and ride again as per Saturday, and when I get back we do our weekly shop. Then we potter for the rest of the day, maybe go for a walk or a bikeride together in summer, maybe do some reading or writing, cook dinner, and in the evening open a bottle of wine.

idyllic imo

Lately:

Friday: read/study during the afternoon, head over to boyfriend's later, make dinner, watch movies
Saturday: eat breakfast with bf, watch movies and TV shows all day
Sunday: breakfast, watch a few TV episodes, head back home to read/study and finish any schoolwork for rest of the day

I do my damndest to avoid hangovers at all costs, and as I'm older and don't drink all that much anymore, they can come VERY easily; I never, ever, ever drink to 'excess' these days.

lately i've been spending weekends driving, but ideally they'd be spent cooking, meeting ppl to watch sports/movies, spending lazy time with gf.

Having said all that, I was in a casino in Stratford last Saturday night and many bottles of rioja were bought. I woke up with a clear head, though.

exercise
dinner
drinks

breakfast
30 rock
make hits
exercise
dinner
drinks/friends

breakfast
make hits
exercise
dinner

Most of my weekends are spent getting up far too early, either to go drawing around town with a meetup group I help run, or to go cycling, or to visit various friends scattered around town and country. The drawing usually ends with a beer or three but I often find myself back at home in the evenings, probably watching a crap movie with my flatmates.

hmm all these exercising ilxors are making me guilty

oh i forgot sports. tennis finals are always at the weekend so if there's a compelling match or big final and i can find a decent stream and if i don't have definite plans, i'll watch that.

i exercise during the week. exercising through weekend hangovers is massively hellish, and when you go for a run at the weekend you have to dodge/deal with so many more people (other runners etc). during the week it's so much more peaceful

of course if there's a slam final i make myself completely unavailable to the rest of the world for the duration it's likely to be on. "when have i EVER been available on wimbledon women's final day?" as i asked someone last year in flabbergasted horror

I like Jordan's daily "make hits"

love these productive ilxors

get to sleep an hour or 2 later than I am throughout the rest of the week.
read a book. Walk around town, meet people.
go buy veg at the market on Saturday.
Not spend about 4 hours a day on Mavis Beacon. Or is it more on weekdays these days anyway?
Watch some tv, hopefully a film or 2. Or Kim Possible on a Saturday morning.

Friday night - drink wine, watch telly.
Saturday - either go to the football or, if Celtic aren't playing at home, meet pals in pub for an afternoon of watching football, with occasional betting on horse-racing thrown in. Occasionally have dinner in town and stay out, usually home with a takeaway to watch a film or some no-brainer tv. If I've been at the football, we usually have a lazy dinner (pizza or similar) in front of the tv, crack open a bottle of wine and watch a film.
Sunday - watch sport until my eyes bleed while making a proper Sunday dinner. Pub quiz in the evening.
late Sunday night - regret not having done anything productive with my weekend. Vow to have more weekends away/spend time with my other friends/go to comedy shows or gigs/visit family. Know I'll probably not do this next weekend either.

Friday night is horror movie night.
Saturday I like to walk around the neighborhood with the dogs so we can see the neighbors. Sometimes see family.
Saturday night, music / reading / movies. Take out food.
Sunday - read papers, sometimes church, oldies night for music, occasionally roller skating.

it's funny, maybe i should be glad (and i don't mean this in a bad way) that nick's weekend terrifies me. i just mean for my own personal time of life at the moment.

i don't ever like to have anything planned at the weekend but the routines are there i guess.

Friday: I like to meet friends after work, sometimes around somewhere diff to where I live as I am commuting home anyway. Maybe go out for dinner or go to a bar that does good food. I don't tend to stay out too late on a Friday, though there are exceptions.

Saturday: Morning can vary a lot, sometimes go for a run with friends (I run alone during the week.) Other times I might have a lie in, though not that often, usually get up early at the weekends regardless of nights out etc, even if I regret it sometimes by Monday. Could also go shopping, and/or walk out somewhere for breakfast or lunch with friends.

Afternoon might involve watching sport if there's something on, in the pub or at home, depending on how much I care about it. Evening I would cook occasionally on a Saturday and then always go out somewhere, Saturday tends to be a bigger night out but I have not had many hardcore sessions of late.

Sunday is often my favourite day, I have taken it easy the last few but that was after a long stretch of going to the pub every Sunday. I think people's humour and manner is at its best by the time Sunday comes around and I love having Mondays off.

I often feel tired on a Monday and not properly rested, but I have chronic health problems which mean I never feel "okay" anyway, and half the time how I feel is about as predictable as rolling a dice, regardless of what I've done in the preceding days. So I tend to just fire through.

my midweek is pretty restful though, i should add. i seldom if ever drink wine/beer midweek with meals and only really go out if there's a specific reason like a date or a friend visiting for a night or something. occasionally go out thursdays but less and less.

It usually works out that I socialise more during the week and mostly spend the weekend hanging out with my girlfriend.

Friday: either work late, meet friends for drinks or catch a meal and a film with my gf.
Saturday: lie in, often do gardening, bit of a run, sometimes have friends over, sometimes go into town for a meal/film if we didn't do that on Friday.
Sunday: household stuff, either have a race or a long run (2-3 hours), usually spend the evening catching up on work.

Need to rethink weekends.

^ Still this.

Trying to make a pair of jeans and then finding out that it didn't line up properly since I'd started sewing before I had the front line under the waistband straight.
So having to totally unpick both legs.
Quite frustrating in that aspect.

Went downtown to buy an Indian takeaway which was good and normally is. The cook Kawal is worth visiting if you're in the middle of Galway on a Sunday, St Nicholas market on Sunday afternoon now Friday afternoon for something like the next 8 weeks too, hopefully permanently

Finished a jacket on Friday night too I think, maybe that was thursday.

I recently had the thought "I need a hobby".

Hmm.

Just ended my twelfth month of working a 9-to-5. back when i was in school, part-time or odd-hours employed, I used to go out every night, and there wasn't much distinction between the week and the weekend (most of my friends still live that life, and it can be hard to corral them into coordinating activities to fit my weekend-warrior lifestyle), and i would waste time freely; entire days spent on the couch, with a laptop or a book, drinking cup after cup of coffee, nibbling on whatever i had in the fridge, eventually smoke some weed and curl up. but yeah, with the job... now weekends are so precious to me now, yet i'm still struggling to shake off my habit of wasting them away. my ideal weekend is something like, going out dancing or for drinks at least one of friday or saturday, yoga one of saturday or sunday, one languorous morning of hungover reading drinking coffee and listening to music, dinner at my mom's sunday night, walk to the market and cook a nice meal with my gf.

i stilll like to go out on a weekend, but i can't manage more than a one (proper) night a week now. there's definitely something to be said for having a hangover-free weekend too, so more recently i'm embracing weekends where there is no wedding or stag do or birthday or mate's club night to attend.

played a gig on friday, slept until 1pm on saturday then went and rode bike across town to bars for a pal's bday. then went to bed at like 10 due to having been up until 3 the night before. woke up early and made a lazy/slow breakfast, got to read the paper. practied some music, caught up with my bro and sis at a brewery, played adult rec league kickball game with pals, made a big pot of chili. pretty much my ideal weekend

Went to a screening Saturday morning, lunched, met a bro for drinks + dinner. On Sunday, I wrote ,mopped, and visited my grandmother. I met J0rdan for lunch + beer and dined a few hours later with a friend, wife, and godson.

How will you be spending Bank Holiday Monday?