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! :)

i am rubbish about making arrangements.
last night i had plans for laundry sorting and gardening but today, nope

had two dog walks
fruitless drive to train station as there was no ticket officer on duty today
supermarket shop
dh glued to tv

Same here.

i remember working somewhere 20 years ago with these women who were counting down the years until retirement, so could have been roughly the age I am now
i had 3 small children and managed to work part time
one of the women said she had spent the whole bank holiday weekend doing housework, as if that was good!

I had originally planned to cut grass/hedges/paint fence but thunderstorms put paid to that.

I have walked dog now though.

I'm at home with 2 kids and a husband recovering from major surgery. He's grumpy & miserable. Kids are bored. It feels like March 2020 again!

@boomtickhouse can't you take your bored kids out?

Bank holidays are rubbish, the fact that they also come out of my holiday entitlement makes me mad.
I don't want all these useless days forced on me.

Yep, when you only get the legal minimum anyway. 😡

Not for long, DH needs care

I have hurt my back 3 days ago so my bank holiday plans have been ruined. I'm in pain constantly. It's my birthday tomorrow and now can't celebrate the little plans I had. I'm also constipated from the pain killers I've been taken and when I do poop I can't wipe properly because it's too pain to reach around. I cried yesterday out of self pity and may well cry again today. 😩 I know it will pass but still the timing is rotten.

I'm freelance, so I tend to work bank hols as obviously if I'm not working I'm not making any money.
It suits me fine. Especially this one; I'm house-sitting away from home, so it's just me and the cat here. No one around me having a nice lazy day and making me feel resentful
I may go out and treat myself to a nice takeaway deli lunch later. That's if anywhere is open... which is the thing I really hate about bank hols, everything being closed! It's like boring Sundays when I was a kid and you were just hanging about waiting until it was time to go back to school.

I hope you got out and did something OP.

We had planned to do something yesterday as Mr Monkey wasn't working, but he has a horrible cold so we just pottered locally.

So today when he was at work I took myself off to Leigh on Sea (I live in South London) and had a great day. I mooched around some vintage shops, walked along the sea front to Southend, ate fish and chips, paddled in the sea, got an ice cream and went for a long walk on a nature reserve and saw a lizard and an adder, came back to the town and had a couple of pints in the sun at a bar in a former boatyard overlooking the sea.

I am now on the train back to London with some mackeral and baby octopus purchased from seafood stall on the way to the station. Life is too short to be stuck grumpily at home.

good for you Ginmonkey!

I'm very pleased with myself! Mr Monkey works odd hours and often on bank holidays and after covid I told myself no more lingering at home with FOMO if there is no one to go out with. I can have just as much fun by myself - sometimes more!

I hate bank holidays. I have this image of everyone else doing lovely things like lunches out, day trips…

Without fail. Every bank holiday DH sees it as a ‘day to have a house sort out’. But I spend every bloody day cooking and cleaning so that’s the last thing I want to do - add more chores on to my usual list. Today he wanted to defrost the freezer - he suggested in a passive aggressive way ‘why hasn’t it been done in the last 6 months.’ So we had a huge row.

I think I’ll take myself away somewhere next bank holiday to escape him inflicting something like a garage clean up on me.

If I were you OP I’d read a book, go for a short walk, have a bath. Feel happy you can do this without judgement!