Sweet sweat

I lurve Wednesdays! Wednesday is my day off. I work a 4 day week which is somewhat limiting on the pocket but vastly liberating on my life.

Wednesday is like an extra day added to my life. On Wednesdays I can do whatever I like, whenever I like. Wherever possible I just don't plan anything. This means I can do exactly what I feel like doing at any given moment. If I'm feeling a bit off, I sometimes just stay home and read a book, look at the sky, maybe do a load of washing, maybe fiddle around in blog-land.

If I need to make an appointment of the doctor, dentist variety, then I can make one for a time that suits me - usually late morning- rather than taking whatever is available on an appointment-rich weekend day.

It's good for shopping too. Instead of knowing I absolutely must get to the grocery store before I succumb to starvation or must rush out to three stores to buy birthday gifts, replace broken items of household paraphernalia etc I can choose to do or not to do some of these things on my 'extra' day.

I can take my time paying the bills and not rush on and off the internet and the phone, all the time grabbing for the information I've left in another room - take it slowly, be methodical.

And at the end of the day, when I'm feeling too guilty and sluggish for words, because I've 'wasted' the day, I still have the energy to go for a brisk walk across the tidal flats or along the foreshore without dragging my work-weary bones to do it because I should!