It doesn’t matter what religion you follow, what your culture is or even your geographical location, I think most of the world treats Sunday as the ‘day of rest’. Most businesses are closed, shops have reduced opening hours and so on. In England, Sunday is also very widely seen as the day when all the family sit down around the table and have a big roast dinner with all the trimmings.
For me, Sundays are my lazy day. I have no pressure to get up early, no work, no urgent chores that need seeing to. I often laze around half-dressed until well past midday, perhaps playing on my DS or eating crumpets. In the early afternoon, I sort out the weekly stuff for the q*bee (bees of the week and so on) and then it’s back to lounging. Late afternoon Karl and I head out to see my Mum and then early evening we’re back to.. well, you can probably guess: more lounging. I think it’s probably one of my favourite days of the week.
What do you do on a Sunday? Do you think that your day is influenced by the idea that it’s a ‘day of rest’ or do you do something of religious/cultural significance? Now’s a good time to educate me on what goes on outside of my own front room!
04 Nov at 7:13 pm
hmm, the last few Sundays I think I’ve mainly been doing/avoiding doing work…
04 Nov at 7:14 pm
Sounds like most of my day. I don’t shower or get dressed unless I have to leave the house! Unlucky for me, I usually have to work most Sundays.
04 Nov at 7:22 pm
Not much is different – my work closes at 8pm instead of 10pm, but it does that on Saturday as well. And since I never have fixed shifts, sometimes I work Sundays, sometimes I don’t! So I don’t think I have any real feelings towards Sunday. It’s the same as every other day. Oh! Except that I don’t like going out on Sundays because it’s a bitch waiting for the bus. They don’t run much. So I guess I tend to stay closer to home on Sunday?
04 Nov at 7:50 pm
For me, Sundays is my slow day at work, it’s my “hump day”. I can work on trouble tickets, and maybe sneak in an hour or two of working on my domain. Ordinarily if I didn’t have to work, I’d be lazy and watch movies all day, and just dive into working on my site.
04 Nov at 7:52 pm
I am like you Jem. I tend to try and wrap up loose ends for the week. Then once I have caught up, I just lounge around watching tv, DVDs, or whatever. I sleep in until about 11:30am or later depending on how bad my insomnia was night before. Sunday is my relax day. I don’t worry about my sites, or anything. I don’t handle QBee trades, I only answer emails that I chose to or they wait until Monday. Sunday is my day of rest no matter what. I have always tried to keep it that way since I was a child.
04 Nov at 7:56 pm
I work, sadly. I work Saturday afternoon/evening, and then Sunday morning/early afternoon. Sunday afternoon/evenings I lament my sore feet, and try and beg the internet connection from my sister.
04 Nov at 8:06 pm
A work day. Well, last-minute-work-for-Monday. Joys of still being in education. :p
04 Nov at 8:07 pm
I normally chill out, sleep late like most other days I’m off, then later on i do a few family rounds, have a nice meal. then at night, well today anyway i have been looking over my black Macbook (http://www.apple.com/macbook/) that i am getting for my Christmas, it is gorgeous so i have been looking up as much as i can about it. Its GORGEOUS. So that about raps up my day.
04 Nov at 8:16 pm
I work from 9:30 to 4:15. Yay. I miss my day of rest, but I think Saturday’s have become that. I cannot really complain though, I get paid time and a half for working Sunday’s. Glad to hear you make use of your extra time. :P
04 Nov at 8:25 pm
The reason I kind of hate Sunday: it’s the last day of the weekend and there’s school the next day.
04 Nov at 8:43 pm
i spend all Sunday dreading Monday.
04 Nov at 9:00 pm
I keep Saturday as the day of rest – I read, sleep, do “arty” things (take pictures, draw, etc.), play with my website, bake desserts with my brother, do community outreach, etc. I don’t do any work. It’s a lovely break from my busy week. Sunday is my “last day before the work week begins” day – So usually you’ll find me doing things like cleaning, last minute homework, office work, replying emails/calls, family outings, etc.
04 Nov at 9:26 pm
It is a day-of-rest for me. Although I let my homework interfere with that usually due to procrastination.
04 Nov at 9:35 pm
Sunday is a day of rest because, IMO, of religion. It’s the Sabbath day, and I reckon that as a lot of people were not doing a lot on this day, that everyone thought “Well, Joe’s shop is closed today, so I can’t go and buy my shovel to do my digging job today, so I’ll take Sunday’s off, too.”. Sundays are a day of work for me. I have Friday evenings, through until Sunday evenings at my boyfriends, where I do very little, but a lot of washing up. :( When I get home, I return to a lot of emails, invoices and account activations to be done. I don’t have to be in college until 10.50 on a Monday, so I stay up late to work on my websites. Fun! But tonight, I’ve finished early, so I’m off out to smoke cigarettes now. Hooray!
04 Nov at 9:37 pm
Sunday? Oh goodness, no, Sunday is completely a work day. I’ve got an excuse though… Saturday is my “day of rest” being Jewish and all. It just seemed to make more sense to me, especially when I was still in school. Work all week, take a deep, relaxing breath on Saturday, and then on Sunday, get everything done that I needed to before it was time for school again. Yay for being backwards!
04 Nov at 9:39 pm
Wow, I’m surprised so many of you work Sundays…
04 Nov at 9:43 pm
Sunday always seems to turn out to be my most hectic day of the week, but this is probably due to the fact that I do nothing during the week. So, I can’t really complain if I have to do a lot on Sundays!
04 Nov at 9:45 pm
oooh, i miss sundays. they used to exist in my life, before university started. now sunday is just a big long study day without a class.
04 Nov at 9:50 pm
Sundays are my second-favourite day of the week. I go to my piano lessons, the day is almost always sunny, and I get to watch Total Drama Island (a tv show) at 6:30pm! And since I love school (don’t ask xD) I get to go to sleep, knowing that there’s school the next day. *sighs* Sundays are awesome. :)
04 Nov at 10:08 pm
Two sundays a month (sometimes three) I’m holed up in a little shed doing timekeeping / lapscoring, and today I spent four hours on trains. So for me, Sundays are the busiest day of the week!
04 Nov at 10:10 pm
I’m from a Roman Catholic background, so in my head I always consider Sunday to be the day of rest. However, Eric works during the week and it exhausts him a lot, so we usually rest on Saturday and do housework on Sunday.
04 Nov at 10:17 pm
I usually sleep in, and sit behind my computer xD Occasionally I do my homework, but only if I haven’t done it already on Saturday :P
04 Nov at 10:43 pm
I sleep in, procrastinate on projects that are due the next, and play video games. =3
04 Nov at 10:47 pm
It’s always a little weird for me when I visit Egypt, since Friday is the main day of rest. Most people also get Saturday off, but Sunday is a regular work day – I’m pretty sure it’s like that in other Arab countries, too. But since I live in the Western world and all that, I just hang around lazily most of the day, and finish schoolwork at night.
04 Nov at 10:56 pm
I today, this ace Sunday didn’t get up untill 1pm. Once i arised from my bed, I watched t.v, and as you said once ‘relaxed in front of a page of code’. Although there was lots of fireworks going off outside, so I went for a walk, barely surviving from the sticks falling out of the sky. :\
04 Nov at 11:05 pm
Sex? Oh. Sundays are actually pretty busy for me. Usually I work, and clean. And shop. It can all be quite exhausting.
04 Nov at 11:07 pm
I used to work at a Nazi place where I’d work up to nine hours on a Sunday. I had no day of rest! Now that I recently quit, I take my Sundays for doing absolutely nothing! I wake up as late as I want, I don’t study, I don’t do chores, I don’t do anything. Heh. Viva Sundays!
04 Nov at 11:11 pm
Saturdays are my lazy day. It’s the day that I just laze around, maybe cook something. Probably some shopping, you never know. Sunday is busy. It’s when I do my homework and actually have to do other tasks that I could have easily done on Saturday.
04 Nov at 11:20 pm
On Sundays I sleep for 20 hours and read for the other 4.
04 Nov at 11:49 pm
For me Saturday is my chillout day. Sunday’s are our outing day-thats where we go to various shows/fetes/exhibitions etc. Last Sunday we went to two hot rod car shows, and Yesterday we went to a spring fair. Next Sunday we are going to an art exhibition.
04 Nov at 11:58 pm
I usually rest and be lazy on Sunday’s. Today is a perfect example. I haven’t really done anything constructive today.
05 Nov at 12:14 am
Sunday = bad TV. :(
05 Nov at 12:37 am
Considering I haven’t worn anything but my bathrobe all day long, I think the day of rest theory is spot on.
05 Nov at 2:42 am
Why not give wordpress credit?
05 Nov at 2:52 am
Because she doesn’t use wordpress :P
05 Nov at 3:10 am
I wish Sunday was a lazy day. Sundays are always busy for me. Saturdays used to be busier than Sunday, but the way my commitments are this year it’s turned out differently. I’m Jewish, and so I’m technically supposed to observe the sabbath on Friday night and Saturday, but not being very religious I don’t except for a family dinner on Friday night. I spend all of Friday night and Saturday on the computer procrastinating my homework, as well as doing things with my friends and going places, so on Sunday I have to do all of my homework. I also usually have a soccer game somewhere in the morning or afternoon (today it happened to be a four hour tournament thing from 12-4), then I have choir from 5-6, and then religous school from 6-7:30. I always look forward to weekends, but I’m such a busy person that I usually don’t get to do much anyway. And then comes Monday and school. The only times I can really relax are in the summer, school vacations, and on days when I’m sick (almost never). Sigh.
05 Nov at 7:17 am
Although i am not a religious person i also like to lounge around doing as little as possible on Sundays. I try to get a lie in, followed by plenty of pc game playing, then i cook sunday roast dinner, watch my daughter eat my crumpets (hehe) watch some television and then a nice snuggle in bed before i snooze my way back into the weekly grind on Mondays :o)
05 Nov at 9:34 am
Usually it’s me and Mark (boyfriend) sat at mine doing nothing, watching movies, whatever. Or it’s a day devoted to cinema, bowling and the like.
05 Nov at 9:47 am
Sunday is my day of rest, too. We laze around, I cook the roast. Basically it’s just a day of doing whatever.
05 Nov at 10:21 am
Sad to say, I’m also one of those who has to work on Sundays…It’s been good the last two Sundays however as I wasn’t set up a shift. About the not showering part…yeah! I’m like that too.
05 Nov at 11:39 am
I used to have to work Sundays, so now I take full advantage of being able to have a ‘day of rest’ like you. We usually take our time with dinner, get a bit of housework done, and go to church about one in every four but that’s about it. The rest of the time is spent playing video games, or visiting family and not doing anything there instead :)
05 Nov at 2:24 pm
I think I got dressed around 5 PM yesterday, yay for jammies! Speaking of the Q*Bee I just submitted my re-application! Wish me luck! :D
05 Nov at 8:51 pm
@Aisling great assumption of what they do on a Sunday afternoon!
07 Nov at 1:36 am
I think that Thursday/Friday are the weekend in the arab world; lots of people I know work in shops and so never have the weekend off; I saw a documentary about migrant workers in Thailand making clothes for the first world who get just one day a month off, so Sunday is more or less irrelevant to them. Makes you appreciate the weekend even more ;)
05 Dec at 9:07 am
I used to be like you earlier, But somehow I felt that I was never really enjoying the weekend. So, for the past few years, I wake up at the same time as I do on week days, get dressed and go for a jog. I then come back, take a shower and am ready to take on the world. I either go visiting friends or call them over, go for picnics with them or just lie down and relax, watching a movie or two. This routine makes me feel that I have a long weekend. Friends, dropping in unexpectedly,are amazed at my fresh and energetic look on a Sunday.