I’m only dateless because my husband is a workaholic.  I appreciate his hard work every other day of the week, but on Friday nights, he should be home with me.  However, he is not, so here I am, 9pm, alone with my son, dogs and my laptop.  I thought about not posting tonight because that seems a little sad, but honestly, what else am I going to do.  So since I feel like doing another post in list form, here’s a list of things I will and won’t do on a Friday night alone.

Things I won’t do on a Friday night:

• Dishes. I hate doing them every night, so on Friday nights I give myself a break.  They’ll definitely still be there tomorrow.  Besides this gives me a feeling of being at a restaurant where a lovely waitperson will whisk my dirty dishes away as if they never existed.
• Adhere to my diet.  Seriously, if I can’t indulge a little every now and again I will definitely have a meltdown and scarf down piles of fried food and sweets.  Tonight I had some chicken tikka masala and basmati rice (half of which I gave to the dogs) with a small glass of chocolate milk.  On a side note, chocolate milk is never as good as you hope it’s going to be.  Now, I’m enjoying a regular Sprite, as in full of empty calories.  And it tastes sooooo good.
• General housework. While I do enjoy doing laundry when I can devote some time to it, most days I am simply trying to get through a load or two a day to stay one-step ahead of the fatal empty dresser drawers.  Since worrying about laundry has taken all the joy out of it for me, I refuse to do it on Friday or Saturday nights.  The same goes for all other dreaded, daily chores: dusting, vacuuming, unloading the dishwasher, etc.
• Homework. Or as grad-students are supposed to call it: coursework.  I’m sorry, but this rule goes all the way back to middle school.  You just don’t do homework on Friday nights.  You just don’t.
• Read anything challenging. I’m a huge book nerd and I love reading nearly everything I can get my hands on.  But Friday nights are meant for relaxing, not analyzing the post-modern prose of a Pulitzer Prize winner.  Hand me the latest vampire book and I’m in heaven.

Things I will do on a Friday night:

• Catch up on my shows. Tonight I’m watching TVRed Bones, Law and Order, and Community, just to shake it up.
• Browse my favorite store sites and make fantasy carts. I look through all the different areas and fill up my cart with anything and everything I would buy if money (and my conscience) was not an issue.
• Wear a mask. My husband is not home, the dogs and baby are asleep, this is THE ideal time to experiment with all my potions and lotions.
• And apparently, blog.

Enjoy your weekend!