Hi, friends!
How do you like to spend your days off?
Assuming you aren’t taking off work for things like doctor appointments or other adult stuff.
Sometimes I like to just get ahead on weekend chores. Other times I will go to the zoo or a state park.
i always make lofty fucking plans for my days off
but i spend them not dying
beats dying i guess……but fuck me
i need to be smarter
Stay away from wild moose and deep sea submarines and you’re halfway there.
stay away from deep sea moose and wild submarines….got it
Also, stay away from 3 and 4-year olds!!!
I swear, ALL I end up doing on *my* days off, is being SICK, because between fingers up *noses* (which THEN go into the mouth *below* that nose!🤢🤢🤢), and being sneezed on or coughed on, I’ve been SICK, almost every weekend, for the last couple MONTHS.
I was *almost* better last week…
And THEN I had a few different 4 year olds cough *directly* on me last week…. and now I have “the crud” and crackly lungs AGAIN.
So SERIOUSLY, stay away from the 4 year olds, as AWESOME and funny as they may be–they are walking biohazards this winter!😉😄💖
How good are they at the Dracula cough at that age? I seem to recall by five or so they were pretty reliable, but I can’t remember about the younger ones.
It VERY much depends on the culture within the kiddos’ individual families, imo!
From what I’ve seen over the last few years (even PRE-Covid, tbh!), kids who are from multi-generational households, or whose grandparents pitch in a lot care-wise, tend to do it more often, and sometimes just *automatically* do it.
Same, too, for the children whose parents are teachers!😉😄🤣💖
I’m NOT sure at all, if it’s a chicken-or-egg thing in those situations though!
Is it that the *families* are multi-generational, therefore *protection of ALL the family members* is important and thusly, “cough into your elbow” is taught extra early?
OR, is it that there’s the extra *HELP* around on a daily basis… so that those “fine-tuning skills” are *able* to be taught earlier, because the weight *isn’t* just on the child’s parents, regarding skills-teaching?
I HAVE noticed that *often,* (unless the parent is in a medical field!), the little ones whose parents are leading single-parent households *without* much outside help, tend to have *excellent* manners, but may be slower at that sort of skill (makes SENSE, because there are only SO many things you can get to, in a day!😉💖)…
But I’d say, overall, in a GREAT class of “Elbow-coughers” & “Elbow-Sneezers” we’re maybe talking 50% of the kids doing it unprompted🥴
I think there is no greater joy than waking up before you’re supposed to, and then realizing instead of getting only another 40 minutes of sleep you’ve got the day off and you can get up when you feel like it.
Yes!!!
That’s such a universally good feeling that there’s got to be a word for it (in a language other than English).
I try to do as little as possible on my days off. But I have way too much shit to take care of so it rarely works out that way.
I’m like farscythe. I make plans and then spend the day doing not much or trying not to die (in my case, from laziness.)
I try to get outside as much as possible. I usually run with my wife or a friend, so that I have to show up and do the run. State parks here are awesome, despite being woefully underfunded — the red menace here is far more worried about trans kids playing sports or abortions than positively affecting something that can be used by all Idahoans.