In Spain, when they have a random day off in the middle of the week, they unofficially take the days off between the official day off the and weekend. They call this a puente (which means bridge). I think they actually take more days off mid-week because of this and I also think it’s awesome. I wish we could embrace puentes in the States.
Yesterday was very disorienting. It kept having to remind myself that it wasn’t the weekend, that I still had work the next day, that it was Thursday! It wasn’t until I changed my mindset from “this is a day off” to “this is a day I took to get caught up” that I could manage myself. Luckily, I HATE Thursdays, so it makes some sense to my brain that I would take off a Thursday and also I’m going away tonight, so I had a TON of stuff to get done. Once I convinced myself that I was just taking the day, I wasn’t so confused.
But truly, I think I’d rather save mid-week days off for some other time because they are very disorienting.
Having said that, I got almost all of what I needed to do done, and for that I’m very thankful. Going away with my girl friends is a much needed reprieve, but the amount of work required to make it possible is intense. I’m really glad we did have Thursday off so I could get most of what I usually do on the weekends done. I will be able to relax more knowing that the laundry (and everything else) is not piled up at home.
How do you feel about days off in the middle of the week?
Glad yesterday made your trip this weekend easier to manage. It certainly isn’t like the fairies will do the weekend chores when people take short trips, so glad you had some extra time.
Looks like you will have nice weather for your trip and being able to be outdoors will be for those in the city.
Hurrah for you!
Definitely disorienting. I rely on patterns to get through the week and a day off for someone, not me though, midweek, makes me have to think extra hard about what we’re doing during that day and after. I have to embrace any time off anyone has though, because just one fewer schedule to worry about makes a huge difference in mental load. It’s not all negated by the disorientation.
Have a good trip!
I don’t think I’ve ever had one. I’ve worked a lot of places where I don’t get any holidays off paid, so I never took a random holiday off because it meant using PTO. So, I have no idea how I’d deal with it. In fact, for 10 years I had to take PTO to get Christmas off, so to me it’s just nice to have a day off.
Days off mid-week always end up being catch-up non-relaxing days for me (whereas a Friday or Monday seems more like weekend and I don’t work as hard).