"If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time." According to Google, the quote was made popular by John Lennon but attributed to a mathematician named Bertrand Russell. Regardless, I make the most of my wasted time. I make sure I'm up early enough in the day to waste as much of it as I can.
You see, between having two jobs, and sometimes a third when I really need the extra money, I only get one day off a week. Saturday. That's my one day off. It's the only day I have free to do my household gotta-dos, run errands, or just sit around doing absolutely nothing at all. And when I choose to use my day off doing nothing but watching movies and coloring on an app on my phone, I do what I can not to lose any of the day.
No, I don't wake up at the crack of dawn but I do make sure I'm up no later than 9:00am. I put ear plugs in when I go to bed on Friday night and also use a sleep mask. I don't want anything to disturb my sleep. I want to sleep the whole night through, undisturbed. Since I'm up at 4:00am during the week I want as many hours of sleep as I can get on Friday. That's why my kids laugh at me when I ask them to wake me on Saturday.
I have someone wake me at 9:00am and they always ask why when I have the opportunity to sleep in for once. My answer is standard. I don't want to sleep so long that I miss time during the day that I can be wasting doing nothing. If I were to just sleep without being woken I'd probably wake up at 10:00 or 11:00, or possibly later, although, I've yet to test the theory. But if I woke up later than 9:00 I'd be upset that I missed time I could have been awake to waste.
I get up when they wake me, take a shower, and get dressed in my Saturday relaxing garb. Then I make a breakfast drink and sit my happy ass on the sofa, where I remain for the duration. I scroll my phone for a bit to see what's interesting and then put on the TV. I also open my coloring app - paint-by-number stuff. And I spend my day watching movie after movie, because I can.
Sometimes it's movies that I've already seen simply because I really don't want to have to concentrate or pay attention. Other times it movies I haven't seen or even heard of; and I've ended up seeing some really great ones. I can watch six or seven movies in the entire day if I time them right. While the movies play, I color and let my mind relax and wander and avoid my reality. I get up for food and bathroom breaks but otherwise I don't move. And it's AWESOME!
I will quite literally spend the day doing absolutely nothing but what I want to do and I can't do that if I'm sleeping the day away. So there is a reason I wake up to waste time, and since I enjoy wasting it, it's not really wasted now, is it? 😉
Until next time...peace to all.
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