Saturday mornings

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:56 am

When I was 4 I spent Saturday mornings watching cartoons (Bugs Bunny, anyone?).

When I was 14 I spent Saturday mornings sleeping in.

Now I'm 24 and I spend Saturday mornings at work (I monitor an art gallery on Saturdays) and catching up on homework.

What do you do on Saturday mornings?

Flogging Jason · Post by **Flogging Jason** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:48 am

I sleep late, or until I've come out of my alcohol induced coma.
I fold the clothes that've been in the dryer all week.
I wash dishes
I watch CNN
If I'm not too sore from the previous night I'll play some guitar.

I go to work at 4pm.

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:21 am

Today, I woke up three hours before my wife, fed the vocal cat, pootled about on the interweb for awhile, and then tried to do silent housework.

Clothes washing and washing up is OK, but no vacuuming.

I'd love to snooze longer, but once I'm awake it seems so wasteful to be sleeping when I could be doing stuff.

After she woke I went the the shops to get various foodstuffs, then vacuumed the living room after I got back.

I like Saturday mornings, but they always pass too quickly.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:28 am

Generally at least a couple cats and a dog want food and/or out.
Make coffee, fix my usual breakfast.
Check email & other net stuff.
Read some newspaper.
Do the elliptical for 30 min, while watching CNN.
Then, this morning, paint the bathroom.

rhulsey · Post by **rhulsey** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:43 am

When I was 4, I watched cartoons, too. Felix the Cat, Astro Boy, maybe?
When I was 14, I did a great deal of sleeping, too - must be an adolescent thing, I reckon.

Now, I usually don't get up later than 7:30 or 8, whip up a triple shot latte', catch up on the web stuff, answer emails, and there's usually some yard work to be done.

Today, however, with the tax extension deadline approaching and an impending appointment with the accountant, I'm summarizing 2007's taxes. Yuck. But the morning in East Tennessee is indeed beautiful, and something worthy of thanks.

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:46 am

Clean the house.

Once while I was working for my folks at their little store/post office/ campground at a lake in central Utah, I had to go to the house next door on a Saturday morning and buy worms for fishbait for someone. The 26-year-old guy my sister was dating lived there with his folks. While I waited in the kitchen for my order of worms, I saw that this guy was in the living room watching cartoons. I told my sister she absolutely couldn't date him any longer.

Susan

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:02 am

It's my job on Saturday Mornings to do the supermarket shopping. My reward is that I get to go around the village and do some shopping on my own.
Alas, there is no more a bookshop in the village. There is, though, a second hand bookshop (run by Oxfam).
Alas, there is no more The Tree House (but it exists online).
And by the time I get home, by 12:30, BBC Radio 4 has their comedy spot. The News Quiz is back! Hurrah!

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:20 am

Monday through Friday I'm up and out the door by 0630.
I get back home, if I'm lucky, by 2000.

On Saturdays I sleep in.

sbfluter · Post by **sbfluter** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:31 am

I like to go hiking on Saturday mornings. Or go for a bike ride. It is raining today, the first rain of the season, so I am not doing either of those things.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:51 am

As little as possible.

Slan,
D.

hyldemoer · Post by **hyldemoer** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:12 pm

Televisions were invented when I was young but few people in my neighborhood had them.
By the time I was school age we had a TV but I spent Saturday mornings helping my mother catch up with her housework. (Housework belonged to females back then.
When guys got a day off they got a day off. When women got a day off they tried to "catch up", or so it seemed.)

Saturdays can be just another work day for Fed employees. I spent most Saturday mornings of my 30 year career either working or just getting off the nightshift and trying to finish domestic chores before going to sleep so I could go back to work later that night.
(Sunday starts at 8:15 Saturday night and paid % more for working it but it took me 29 years to get enough seniority for a bid with Sunday off.)

If I had anything I wanted to do besides going to work on Saturdays I had to use vacation time.

Most Sat. mornings these days I try to spend with my family
although this morning in particular I've been cowering under the bed with the cat while some guys my husband hired to do $15,000. worth of repair work fix the bricks and tuck pointing of our building.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:48 pm

Typically, Saturday mornings are what are known as "French Toast Day" here at Casa Izz. So, we spend the beginning of the morning on that. Then it's our major cleanup day, so we spend the rest of the morning doing a huge cleaning of the whole house. Fun, fun fun!

dwinterfield · Post by **dwinterfield** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:58 pm

See to the dog and cat.
Coffee, newspaper, net.
Make us breakfest.
Go to the cleaners.
Drive to Cambridge for concertina class and practice ceili band.

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:21 pm

Do a 30 mile bike ride
come home
do lunch
Do errands
Go to early Mass
Come home and COOK!!

CHasR · Post by **CHasR** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:41 pm

most sat am's i usualy play bagpipes at someone's funeral,
but today an 11:00am wedding aboard a boat/restaurant, then off to an afternoon wedding.