This morning I got thinking about what a weekend warrior really is, and I determined that it mean different thinks to different people

For instance, if you are from a place where the military is prevalent, you would consider a weekend warrior to be one who is a soldier and leaves his family for the the weekends in order to have drills and exercises.

 

But if you live in the suburbs where you work during the week and only have the weekends to do certain projects around the house, you image of a weekend warrior might look a little like this:

 

For me, persoanlly, I don't have a weekend to get projects done.  My days off fall on days where most people are working, and there is nothing wrong with that, but at the same time I feel like my image of being a weekend warrior might look a little like this:

Well, I WISH!!!!  But my point is, I feel like I have to accomplish EVERYTHING in one day because if I don't, it will just pile up and will never get done until I get sick and HAVE TO take a day off....just to be sick....because when I'm sick I refuse to lift a finger because it would be too strenuous. Anyway, I digress. My  point is that inevitably my picture of a weekend warrior ends up looking like this:

I am sure many of you have that same feeling, don't you?  So the question arises, how do we avoid getting to the point where we WANT to go back to work so we can relax? Of course the obvious answer is that we must do a little every day and not let things get piled up. Easier said than done, though, right?

So what works for you? Anything? How do you balance all the demands of life, family, home, and work? Seriously, I would really like to know.  Because I have been scouring Pinterest for ideas and it seems like nothing will fit "me."

The other day I found myself doing some heavy lifting when I need to rearrange furniture and I hurt my legs so badly that it hurts to do anything.  So now I honestly can't do much working around the house that requires stooping, squatting, standing, or basically just using my legs. Ok, that might have been a silly story, but my point is that I am NOT Wonder Woman and I cannot possibly do things by myself, but I continue to try. Why? Because there is some strange, mysterious voice in the back of my brain, sounding much like my mother, nagging - uhm, reminding - me that my house is not up to par and I have so much to do!

UGH!  What is a grown woman to do? Well, I will tell you. The same thing a teenager would do - REBEL!  That's right!  From here on out I am on a mission to never be a typical weekend warrior again.  I will garden when and if I want to. I will wash my windows when I can no longer see the outside. My floors will be washed when my feet start sticking to the linoleum. My clothes will be washed when I run out of clean things to wear. And my winter clothes can just lay in the corner of my room gathering dust all summer, for all I care, until I can find the time to pack them up for a few weeks only to get them out again.

From now on my "weekends" will be spent enjoying life so that I will dread going back to work and not look forward to it. I will catch up on my favorite shows. I will visit with friends. I will write silly blogs and stories to my heart's content.  I am taking my weekends back!  I am a weekend warrior! Hear me roar!

Just please don't tell my mom on me.  She scares me.

Until tomorrow,

Petra