To think this is not a "busy day"

[emkana]

taking your child to school, then to the gym for a class and a workout, then having a relative come round

That's a leisure day surely?

sounds busy to me

anything requiring moving of the sofa is busy to me though

I think it depends on the context and the person.... I got up at 5am with 2mo DS and spent most of the day grinning at him saying 'Can you grab the parrot? Can you? What about the monkey? Have you got that monkey? Oooh clever boy! Oh, we've lost your sock' with some feeding, washing up and bum wiping in between, up until about 7pm when he went to bed and I sat lurking about on here. So I didn't go anywhere and I didn't really do anything. But it felt very busy and I am knackered!

Sounds like a quiet, slow, relaxing day to me. But obviously depends on the detail.

YANBU. However I have also judged work colleagues who have complained at 2:30 when they are going home that they have had a busy day when they have sat at their desks not looking particularly stressed and are going home to no DCs

A busy day is relative. I like to sit a lot and do nothing, be it at home or at work, so anything which requires more movement and brain power than usual is a busy day.

Sounds like a piece of piss.

Well, I've sorted a load of washing, emptied the dishwasher, fed the cat, dealt with the bins (bin day) including sweeping the drive because a bag had burst and dealt with the mail that has arrived since Monday and made sure that all the DH's papers are ready for him when he comes home tonight. Getting DD up at 6.30 for a shower and to rehearse some lines. Then usual get us all out by 8.10 and go to work. Please note time of post.

Why are you asking?

Sounds like a lovely day to me but I'm an embittered old single mother who has to work full time to keep a roof over our heads (and I don't get any benefits before anyone starts that particular train of thought).

Just a facebook update that riled me. I just don't think you can class an activity like the gym, which is entirely optional, as being busy.

em, I agree!

Hmm, so 'busy' only applies if it's compulsory?!

I think you're reading too much into the status. It is possible to be busy in a fun way as well as tired busy. She might have even been implying that because it was busier than normal it was a really nice day.

I consider a busy week when there's lots of blobs on the calendar out of the normal routine. I don't necessarily equate busy with bad (unless it's due to said relative ).

Oh, leave the poor woman alone, she probably only told you she was busy to avoid having to stand and be judged by you any longer!

I can do competitive laziness if anyone's interested - I got up about half an hour ago, made porridge (very taxing, sprinkling on raspberries), and now I'm curled up on the sofa and don't plan to move far until about 10pm tonight, and which point DH will arrive home with a pizza.

It's a nice life ... I will probably write about 8,000 words, too, but still nice ...

If I had my mother come round for ten minutes, that would be classed on stress levels alone as a Very Busy Day.

That busy day sounds like my holidays

Ha had to laugh when my MIL told me about her "busy day"
took the dog for a walk, then had to go to the post office.
She doesnt get up till 10am!

OP sound like a leisure day to me too.

I just completed 2 double shifts at work,
day 1 got half a cup of coffee, nothing to eat (7am-8pm)
day 2 i got a whole cup of coffee again 7am-8pm.
I literally did not sit my arse on a chair for more than about 5 minutes in 2 days.
Now THAT was busy days

yes I agree with floweryblue. Depends on the relative. I have a 6 week old though, so everyday seems busy.Trying to balance looking after my baby DS and run my business from home, feel like a mad woman sometimes!

If you are BU, I am even more U. My MIL once spent a whole day taking back a library book. I was 8.5 months pregnant and trying desperately to finish my first book; up at dawn in summer, working with bloated fingers till after dinner. I've never forgiven her and that was 16 years ago.

Exercise is not 'entirely optional'. Everyone needs to exercise to maintain a healthy mind and body. It's as essential as food. True, you don't always need to do an exercise class or eat out, but it is not a frivolous activity.

There are plenty of ways to make even staying at home all day with no-one to care for into a busy day. You could spring clean, renovate, study, work from home, have a home birth. You've stayed at home all day! What can you possibly have done that was busy!

It's as you make it. Leisurely, or busy - depends entirely on context, perception and peripherals. Not whether it is compulsory

YABU, BTW.

That sounds like my life... Except that 'school' would be playgroup, and 'gym' would be lunch :)

And to be honest that would be busy, as opposed to doing nothing.

Why does it bother you so much?

I had no idea there was a competition to see who had the busiest day!

Dunno about the Op, but my MIL bothered me by SAYING it was busy. If she hadn't SAID she was busy, it wouldn't have bothered me that she wasn't. It's kinda a Trades Description Act thang.

All relative.

If I had to do that with all 4 (baring in mind they are all classed as having SN, from mild to severe) then that's busy and damned complicated.

Just me and would seem like a lovely treat.

Maybe she usually spends all day on mn?

there?s nothing at all wrong with a day/ life like this but don't describe yourself as busy. Do people have no understanding of the word? that?s like reading a MrMan book and describing yourself as really intellectual.