Holiday Guilt
2Jul2003 Filed under: CareerThe weird thing about working a full-time salaried job is that when you have a three-day weekend (like, say, this weekend) there’s this immense crushing pressure to DO SOMETHING — anything! You can’t let a free day off go to waste! You must go! Do! Travel! Hedonize!
I seriously considered driving up to the High Sierra Music Festival this weekend (Go! Do! Travel!), but 9 hours each way, plus $150 tickets, plus the inevitable holiday traffic coming home deterred me.
Yet now I’m left with the holiday guilt crushing down on me. The Rainier Beer jingle from 1988 runs through my mind…”we don’t waste a sunny day.” I start to panic. What will I DO? Are there parties? Picnics? Parades? WHAT WILL I DO!?
I hate feeling like my time is not my own.
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Erin
July 2nd, 2003 at 2:09 pm
I feel the same - however - I think I may just sit on my ass, drink wine, and watch the fireworks on tv!
donut
July 2nd, 2003 at 3:33 pm
hear, hear. Big part of why I quit.
sarah
July 2nd, 2003 at 6:11 pm
call me…..
Nicole
July 2nd, 2003 at 6:16 pm
I go through the same thing, even on a regular weekend. I feel like I should be out doing something out of the ordinary.
heidi
July 2nd, 2003 at 9:56 pm
well, there is a gaggle of people riding our bikes to the whaler to drink. then ride around the marina and watch the fireworks. you’re welcome to pedal along!
tlc
July 3rd, 2003 at 7:48 am
I’m taking the opportunity to go to Montreal, where they are having a jazz festival. It was a last-minute decision, but my Sunday work has cut into all other three-days recently, so it was now or never. 6 hours each way and 25 CD’s of Jim Dale reading Harry Potter will be some kind of heaven.
leblanc
July 3rd, 2003 at 9:28 am
you could drive up here and keep jay company while i’m in michigan. he’s cat sitting.
01
July 3rd, 2003 at 4:05 pm
Just got hired for a permanent job, and already I feel the way that you do. Must… not… flee… office…
[waiting impatiently for BM and my two weeks off.]
Heart you.
Emily
July 3rd, 2003 at 8:22 pm
My bf and I spent the WHOLE day snuggling, eating and watching “The Beatles Anthology” on DVD. Close to 13 hours…it was divine.