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le weekend
Like most kids, I used to look forward to the long summer holiday from about October. I always imagined that the next one would be the best ever and I would do something amazing every day. Of course they were never like that. Mostly it would be long patches of boredom and rain with my equally bored friends. We seemed to work so hard dreaming up new ways to entertain ourselves. Some days would be sunny and exciting and they would redeem the whole holiday.
The holiday feeling would start to fade by the end of August and the 'Back to School' signs appeared. I would refuse to go into any shop that displayed these signs, trying to persuade my Mum that they didn't deserve our custom for hurting my feelings so unnecessarily. I swear to God that I have seen these signs in shops in July this year, no wonder our nation's children want to grow up so quickly and leave this torture behind.
Anyway, weekends are a bit like the summer holiday for me. I look forward to them from Monday morning and always imagine that they'll be great. Instead they're just OK. Cleaning, gardening seeing friends, seeing family and before you know it, it's Sunday, the depressing 'Back to School' day.
mrs mcmuffin on 15 Aug 2004 @ 07:24 PM ✲ Permalink
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I couldn't have said it better myself Mrs. M.
I too would avoid the stores and the back to school aisles like the plague.
Sunday night's too, once 60 minutes is on at 7:00 it is the long slow descent into the next workweek. A slow pit of the stomach feeling, and inevitably very little Sunday night sleep.
Posted by: jo | 15 Aug 2004 21:45:31
Like most teachers, I begin to look forward to the long summer holiday from about the second week in September.
The holiday feeling usually starts to fade around now - with two weeks of holiday left and the 'Back to School' dreams have re-started. These are usually nightmare scenarios of children running wild around the classroom with me powerless to control them.
However, 'back to school' time also means that Christmas is going to be foisted upon us in the shops before you know it, which makes Husband very happy as he is partial to Tesco's Finest mince pies.
I agree with your sentiments on weekends too. Except it really is 'back to school' for me most Mondays.
Posted by: Kirsty | 16 Aug 2004 00:31:35
I know what you mean. However, at the risk of sounding presumptuous. When life seems too much and a bit boring I try to think of the words: "All those days that came and went, I didn't know that was life".
Suppose it's true.
Posted by: Ella | 16 Aug 2004 08:01:33
