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Thoughts That You Have On A Long Weekend

The thought of a long weekend before it happens is much different than the thought as it's happening.

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Thoughts That You Have On A Long Weekend

The thought of a long weekend before it happens is much different than the thought process that you have as one is happening. The day before a long weekend begins, everyone has lofty plans to go take adventures, try new things, party as much as possible, and make those days off into the best days ever. Then those weekend days happen and it's a totally different story.

First thing's first, you wake up, but it's a long weekend! You don't need to cram in as many fun weekend activities as you normally do. You think, why not, I'll just sleep in a little extra.

Then 12:30 p.m. rolls around and you're still in bed. Well, you're already comfortable, so why get up now? TV is always a good option. You've got some shows that you need to catch up on on Netflix and that's not something that you can normally do during the week, right?

After a while, you realize that you've slept in so long that you haven't done the daily ritual of checking social media. So, with Netflix on in the background, you go through your phone and start looking through everything.

Before you know it, you're on your phone on a Wikipedia page for the Loch Ness Monster (you'll never really know how you get to that article in the first place) and Netflix has come up with the "Continue?" page (aka, the "Are you sure you don't want to live your life and stop being a loser?" page) three or four times. You've been so caught up in the mixture of what's going on in your phone and what's going on in your show that it's now dark out.

Now it's time to eat. You leave your room for the first time. The lights burn your delicate skin. Your back aches from having to stand. It's too dangerous for you to cook, considering how relaxed you are. You also don't want to risk driving to get anything. It's better to just order in.

After searching for at least an hour for the perfect long weekend delivery food, you're stuck waiting another hour or so for your food to actually arrive. What can you really do in an hour? You guess that a couple more episodes wouldn't hurt.

Then your food arrives. You sit. You get ready to eat. Then you realize that eating is sort of boring. It's just using your fork, putting your food in your mouth, chewing, and swallowing. There's not enough drama in that. You'd better squeeze in more show time while you're eating.

By now it's just past dinner time. You think to yourself, "Alright, it's time to go do something." But what should you do? It's too late to go do any sort of outside activity, but it's not quite late enough to go out to party. I don't know a better way to kill a specific window of time than to just keep watching shows.

Eventually, it's about that time when the bars are open and people are heading out to leave. Better yet, you've just finished a full season. What a great place to stop and go start your day, right? You shower and you get dressed, but you can't stop thinking about that cliffhanger ending. Something crazy is going to happen in the next season, something ridiculous. It wouldn't kill you to just watch one more episode to see what happens before heading out. A two hour season opener is completely fine.

Four hours later, you're exhausted. The emotional roller coaster that has been your day of playing on your phone and watching Netflix has left you well-deserving of a good nights' rest. With as late as you're going to bed, you may also sleep well into the afternoon the next day.

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