Do you look forward to weekends, holidays or vacations?

I like weekends and holidays because I don’t have to fight with my son to get him out of bed and off to school. We no longer take vacations because my husband cannot travel.

And Sundays are good because I get to drink coffee at church.

OTOH, because I am retired, weekends are simply the days I am least likely to have to take my husband to doctor’s appointments. However, the orthodontist insists on seeing the kids on Saturdays.

I’ve grown tired of summer break for college. Having 24/7 free time, I run out of things to do too quickly (What a luxurious problem to have).

I greet the weekends with open arms though. I like to have the break from dealing with my school’s awful parking situation (15 minutes to go from my house to my school. 25+ minutes to find a parking place).

I like weekends. After a five day stretch, there’s nothin’ like not having to go into work. Plus, the time is needed to attend to all the things I can’t find the time to do during the work week, like grocery shopping, laundry, and studies.

Holidays, I like less. Nothing is open, so I can’t even get those things done that I need to do. There’s usually some obligatory “cheerfulness” that I can’t buy into. Plus, family. Ugh. If holidays were just like long normal weekends, they’d be much more tolerable (and less fattening).

Yes, I need to sleep in on Saturday’s and Sunday’s so I won’t act as a grinch the rest of the week. The rest of the day drives me crazy, nothing to do on a Sunday and everything is too crowded for my taste on Saturday.
Zen you’re not the grinch, I always figured you as more for a scrooge.

oh god yes. weekends=football.

Hell yea I’m on vacation now and I’m gonna do absolutely nothing. I been lookin forward to vacation all last week. No wal mart for 11 days that’s Like heaven

I wish I could sleep in on weekends, but my husband has dialysis at 6 am on Saturday mornings, and I need to be at church by 8:30 am on Sunday mornings.

Weekends allow me to catch up on the things I couldn’t get done during the week and I can sometimes squeeze in a fun activity. I also get to catch up on sleep. I look forward to having off, but at the same time don’t like them…in the middle I guess

Holidays are nice to meet up with family members, but it is also stressful to arrange event plans and get everyone together so I don’t ever feel like this is time off. Also I love my family, but feel it’s like fish…it goes bad in three days. All family should leave the premises in three days or someone is at the others throat in a agruement.

Vacation is the best because this is my “me” time. I usually pick somewhere I want to go and let loose whether is laying on the beach or reading a book in the mountains. Overall just making this time about me makes it enjoyable and a worthwhile time off.

vacations often = travel
so vacations… yeah

@markyy Scrooge = jewish – tight with money – why @markyy you anti-semite bastard!!! ;-)

Maybe it’s because I don’t have a typical nine to five – the weekend just doesn’t do it for me. I prefer a quiet midweek morning, when everyone is at work and I can go shopping for groceries with the aisles empty, e.g. Holidays, feh, don’t get me started. Except for Halloweenmaybe, cuz I get to dress up. Guess my costume?

Since when was Scrooge Jewish? He used to celebrate Christmas just fine, and never celebrated Hanukkah or Rosh Hashanah.

Oh, heck yes. As a college student, I live for weekends, holidays, and vacations. Of course, with the exception of winter break I usually end up spending my weekends and holiday breaks studying anyway. Damn school.

I hate weekends and holidays, both of which infringe on my already non-existent personal space. That will change once I move out.

Definitely. It’s the time to have fun between class and college. Hence why I I’m with a few friends at Berkeley today. :)

@NewZen Yup, you’re the grinch.

During football season I love week ends, otherwise I don’t really care.

I prefer the weekends. I get to go and hang out with friends. I don’t like vacations, cause I like to spend money.

I rarely go on vacations; the days off are usually used on extended house projects or doing something for one of the kids. My husband rarely saw the point in going anywhere as a family, as he traveled all the time for work. Now, he usually goes to Florida with a friend and plays tennis.

I used to spend the entire weekend cleaning house, grocery shopping, clothes shopping, running errands, doing car maintenance, etc. for the whole family. Now I mostly loaf. The house is a mess, but I cannot muster up “house proud” any more.

I wish I could get back to entertaining friends on the weekend. I miss cooking for them.