Bloody Bank Holiday

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I'm bored! There, said it, bored, bored, bored! Its a Bank holiday weekend, Bank holidays come out holiday entitlement so it feels like wasted days.
I didn't know if I would have to work today so didn't book anywhere to go away. DH is just sat in his chair staring blankly at the TV same as every other fucking day To be fair to him he is not in best health but I'm pretty sure his failing memory is due to literally watching shit TV every day and lack of stimulation. He is older than me and is literally sliding head first into old age.
I would have taken the dog out for a few hours but its pissing down and thundering intermittently, she doesn't like thunder.

There is decorating to do but DH isnt interested in starting it and I refuse to do it on my own. its his room too I even did ironing I'm that bored!
No kids, all grown up and left home, this should be our time together but it feels like I've been cheated out of that! Due to his health, meals out, theatre etc arent possible unless I go on my own or with a friend. They are all busy/ill this weekend.
I know I'm being a grumpy cow but this isnt how it was supposed to be!

Ok, I've got that off my chest, tell me your Bank holiday shit so I feel grateful for being bored on a Bank Holday! :)

OP I feel very like you. DH doesn’t get up until 10.30 am every day as retired early due to ill health. Then sits and wastes the day watching daytime TV, before sinking a bottle of wine before bed. Adult kids grown up and moved on.
Life now is not what I’d thought it would be. I’m so bored today that I’ve started looking at Xmas shopping.
And I agree, bank holidays are the pits.

I've only got one toilet in the house which has now started to leak when flushed. I've got water dripping down through the ceiling and a bucket catching the water.
It was only fitted a few weeks ago and the plumber who did it is not answering his phone or reading his messages .
I'm also bored.

I agree. I find bank holidays really hard and long. Lots of pressure to have lots of plans and when you don't you feel you've failed. I love DP but he does well from routine and will happily stay in bed all day which makes bank holidays tiresome.

Sheldoncoopersspot Thats shit! Wet outside and in!

✊solidarity to you all!!

At this time of year we are in Edinburgh every weekend.

Ed Book Fest today and Scotland v Georgia at Murrayfield now.

We've done the Tattoo, the Fringe, Art Fest and the International Festival.

No Bank Holiday for us though - work on Monday!

That sounds tough! Do you get to go out much? Could you plan something for tomorrow or Monday?

I’m working Sunday and Monday. To be honest I prefer it that way. Bank Holidays have always spelt boredom to me, since childhood.

Don't you have any books in your house?

I wish I was off , I'm working the three days🙄

I've loved pottering so far. A moonlight walk with the dogs last night. A trip to the allotment to forage and made a dahl with allotment veg. Getting into alone USA on 4od. I have a night out tonight but I'd happily stay in!

That's really sad OP.
Could you go to the theatre or cinema? I love going to watch a film on my own.
Get a good takeaway or cook your favourite meal?
You need to find some interests of your own if your H won't do anything. He sounds very unhappy too.

I'd definitely look into a new hobbie!

Reading
Swimming
Exercise class
Baking
Cycling

Don't rely on your DH to go out and do things, do it on your own! Take yourself for a coffee, to the cinema, shopping etc.

I get you're bored. If your H isn't doing things with you and your friends are busy, go do something you want to do alone.

You can pick up great bargains for solos on twickets.

Get dressed up to the nines and go out for a delicious meal. People watching is great fun.

Or stay being a grumpy cow not doing anything you enjoy, wasting time on MN. Your call!

I do, but the menopause has also killed my concentration level. Used to devour books, I can manage a few pages at the moment.

Well sorting my shit out!
Tomorrow, going to do a sport with some acquaintances. Monday, told DH that we are going out either together or on my own with the dog. His choice!

To be fair I do get out to do hobbies and work FT. I almost feel guilty for buggering off on my own, but I have tried to involve him.

I'm just having a grumpy, frustrated day!

Yep..agree :)

That sounds great!

Had a lovely day browsing round the shops all on my own. Very peaceful. Treated myself to a new book from Waterstones which i started whilst treating myself also to a nice lunch. Took my old mum for some food shopping and had a cuppa with her too. Making the most of my last month before major surgery. Life needs to be made to happen.

I'm working tonight, tomorrow night and Monday.
wanna swap ?

Ah commiserations OP, you're allowed to be grumpy occasionally.

We started our bank holiday weekend with a trip to A&E with toddler that has resulted in having to cancel all our weekend plans. We're staring down the barrel of an extra long weekend (thanks to a nursery training day on Tuesday) with a very grumpy toddler and I've no idea quite how to handle it. Bah humbug!

I think we sometimes put pressure on ourselves to have an amazing Bank Holiday weekend, perhaps comparing ourselves to others or to people in glossy magazines. I have definitely been guilty of that. But this weekend I am trying to just go with the flow. No exciting plans.

We’re just about to go in to the last full week of the summer holidays. I’m skint until the end of the week, I’ve still got uniform to sort. Which I’m filling my baskets up with, ready. So we’ve got no plans, just trying to stay sane. The weather doesn’t look like it’s going to be great here either.

I love days like yours.

I work FT and have a child and life is just non-stop.

I love heavy rainy days where I can literally just stay in my PJs and do nothing all day.

I think it’s more the feeling guilty of not doing anything that’s the worst but once you’ve got past that then I find it’s really good for you to have a calm day.

If you are bored I would have a bath, moisture, paint my nails, read a book, download a brain game on my phone, watch a film, do some baking, declutter etc.
Also there’s no harm going for a walk in the rain I find it really fun if I can go home and get changed afterwards.

It's going to be our last day off work until Christmas.

So far, he woke up at 4.45am and I woke up (not his fault, he's incredibly quiet) at 5.04am. So earlier than we do for work - and this happens EVERY BLOODY DAY OFF, even when I'm still awake at 2.30/3am because I DON'T SLEEP.

As a result, we're both knackered all day and can't do anything substantive. It's rained about 17 times today since a reasonable time to be out there chopping stuff, although it was fine when it was too early for the unsuspecting neighbours, so the planned gardening (finding the house under the vegetation) was knocked on the head.

The trains are on strike again, which completely fucked our two weeks' off that couldn't be changed as it was literally the only two weeks we were able to take. As it has done every time we've had a couple of days off this year. And every Christmas since 2015. So no day trips.

This time it'll be 'what did you do for the Bank Holiday?' 'Oh, one load of washing before the rain started'. And that's it.

One thing you should get your employer to sort out in good time is who has to work over bank holiday weekends. You should have known weeks ago, unless somehow you might have to cover for someone who is sick (or claiming to be).

Oh yes, it was that one person who goes sick when its a shift she doesn't want that I suspected having to cover!

I have worked BH in the past, I actually dont mind working them as I then get those days when I want to take them. I changed jobs!