Hey You there Friday

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I don't know about you, but for me Friday is the best day of the weekend. Okay so it's not officially part of the weekend, but if you use it wisely it can be.

Think about it, so you have a typical week at work Monday to Friday, by midday Friday your fit to fall asleep on your feet. You struggle on to clicking off time, do the final rush hour commute for the week. You get home and as a treat to yourself you have a nice bubble bath followed by a takeaway and a glass or two of Red. You look back on the past week and congratulate yourself for making it through to Friday. You indulge yourself in some mindless TV and about midnight you paddle off to bed Exhausted. You get up Saturday morning do some chores, off to the supermarket to do your weekly shop, dash to the hairdressers for your 3pm appointment. Back home you put away the shopping, hang out your washing, spend half hour deciding what you are going to wear out tonight (it's your besties birthday/Aunties engagement/girls night out etc).
By 8.30pm your all preened and primed and ready to go! You have a great night out, rolling in at 2.30am.
On Sunday morning you wake at 9.15am with a stinker of a hangover, you plod around the house cursing yourself for drinking too much and wishing you could just curl up and sleep for a few more hours. But you can't because you've promised to meet your cousin at the shops to help her pick an outfit for her pending Engagement party and after that you have to be at your Mums for 3pm for a family Sunday lunch. You finally get home at 8pm and jump into bed exhausted, ready to start the week all over again.

Now imagine if you had moved you party night to Friday night, done your foodshop online during the week to be delivered at midday on Saturday.

So now imagine this scenario, at lunchtime on Friday you get a pang of excitement because you know you are going out tonight. You take half hour lunch so you can leave a bit earlier and avoid some if the rush hour traffic. You get home order a takeaway watch and eat it while watching your favourite soap. Then it's a nice relaxing soak before you don your glad rags and go out for a fun night. You roll in at 2.30am make sure your alarm click is switched off and get into bed . You wake headache free at 9.15am you make a coffee and some toast and take it back to bed where you read a magazine and then drift off for another hour. You wake again at 11.30am do your chores, put away you home deluvery and then get dressed ready to meet your cousin for Engagement party dress shopping. The shopping trip is successful so you treat yourself to a nice bottle of red and invite your cousin to join you for supper. You both watch a classic chick flick, drink wine and giggle like schoolgirls. Your cousin leaves at midnight and your in bed by half past.
You wake bright and refreshed on Sunday morning, spend an hour ironing your clothes for the week, and then take a walk to the Farmers market and treat yourself. On your way home you puck up the Sunday paper and take it home to read over brunch.
You go off to your mums for family lunch, have a great relaxing time. You get home at 8pm and curl up on the Setee with a cup of cocoa and reflect on your weekend. You realise that by just changing things around slightly, you managed to fit in a number of activities and obligations as well as rest and  prepare for the week to come.

Go on try it...add Friday to your weekend!