Tuna Bus

Sean asked me if I had any plans for the weekend.
I thought about it, but I couldn't think of a single thing I had planned for the weekend.
I realized that I don't really make plans for the weekend.
Even though it's only two days away, or one, if you count Friday, I like to think of it as a completely unscheduled piece of calendar.
Every weekend is left wide open so that I can actually look forward to it.
The best weekends, I've found, are when I can just chill at home and I don't have to go anywhere except maybe pick up a pizza - but only if I want to.

I now realize that this is totally different from the way that a lot of people go out and do things on the weekend.
People make "homebody" seem like such a dirty word.
But not having plans is complete freedom. You can be up for anything!
It's like a Bud Light commercial but without the alcohol and alpha males.

Some weekends I'm super productive and do a lot of my hobbies.
I'll sew and cook and clean and plant stuff and learn a song or maybe two and go running.
These are the weekends I am proud of.
Other weekends, I just don't feel like moving at all and so I don't.
Instead, I'll read a book and watch Gossip Girl and research investments and nap a lot.
Maybe cut out a pattern or my hair if I'm feeling ambitious.
These are weekends I am less proud of.

But they're just as fun- I promise!

Never have I spent a weekend at home and thought, "Man, I really wish I would've gone out."
Because let's be real:
Go? That means I have to drive somewhere. And probably pay for something I don't need.
Out? That means I have to dress and act like a person.

However, just because I like to be at home doesn't mean I hate people. Part of what makes home home is the people (and kitty) that are there.

So it also baffles me is when people say something along the lines of, "I love getting the house to myself without the wife and kids."
First off, why have kids if you're not going to spend time with them?
Secondly, I freaking love spending time with my spouse. Even if we're just both in the living room doing our own things, we can still share snacks, jokes, and exchange interesting conversations like the following:

Me: I've got a hypothetical question for you.
Mike: Ok.
Me: Alright- so let's go back four years. Let's say that you had your college degree, but you didn't get the job offer from Mitsubishi and you had just gotten fired from Arby's for sexually harassing someone in drive thru. What would you do?
Mike: Am I an astronaut?
Me: What?
Mike: This is very important. Am I an astronaut?
Me: No...?
Mike: Oh. Well, you were throwing out so many hypotheticals, I thought I may get to be an astronaut.

It's so fun to be married someone who is so on the same page as me.

This is my idea of fun,
TWS

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