Our Friday nights are BBQ & DVD night. On the way home from work we pick up some meat, hubby BBQ's it and I get the lounge ready. Last year we watched a couple of seasons of "Stargate SG1", this year we've started off with the "Long Way Down"DVD. We watch 1 hour episode a week and Friday's have turned into our night.

I don't usually work Saturdays, maybe one a month. Tomorrow is January's Saturday shift. And I was the doofus who took on two extra shifts this week already, including today! ... Then I voluntarily stayed late to work on a project... and offered to come in early tomorrow to finish it. I'm stupid.

It's also 1:25 in the morning and I'm still reading this forum. Speaking of addictions, does anyone else feel compelled to stop in and catch up at least once a day? Our forum is so active (especially compared to many of the BellaOnline forums) that missing a day means having TONS to catch up on!

Our Fridays, like most of our evenings, are relatively unstructured. We either pick up dinner on our way home or find something simple to make at home. We'll watch TV (we love Numbers, too!), watch DVDs (on another Firefly kick right now), play board games, or go to our separate computers. Again, this is most of our evenings. If we don't have pressing housework or errands, and don't have plans with anybody, we keep to ourselves in our quiet little home.

Our truly relaxing nights are the evenings when we have no outside obligations, and I've had the day off work. On my off days, I have the energy to plan and cook a good dinner and catch up on a little housework. He tries to get home a little early on those days so we have plenty of time to eat, talk and do whatever we feel like doing in a tidy home.

Before you ask, yes, I'm a closet Suzy Homemaker. I dig the domestic scene and love having a clean house and a set dinnertime and getting "Hi, honey I'm home" kisses. I'm just too busy working (and oddly, enjoying it) to have that. Work should be settling down soon, though, so I'll have some time to keep house and catch up on my writing on my off days. Yay!

OMG, I babbled and rambled my way through that one. Sorry, guys.

I don't do the computer gaming quite so much, I'm mostly old-school pencil, paper, and funny shaped dice. I used to game with Tress when we lived near each other, she's the one who told me about this forum. Glad you like my posts though, I'll try to keep 'em interesting.

Malamutes, do you mean Long Way Round with Ewan MacGregor?

We also do the pizza and DVD thing on Fridays. On Saturdays we usually see our friends. Tonight we're going for Italian with them. I'm very impressed that we're going out because last week they were in Hawaii, T got hit by a wave and has severe abrasions over about 70% of his body and the bottom of his feet were torn to shreds. So this should be an interesting evening ...

I've mentioned my workaholic husband before :), so we don't see much of each other during the week. Therefore, either Friday or Saturday night becomes a "date night" for us. Which is a great way to catch up and chat together over a bottle of wine and good food without the distraction of the TV(!)or the laptop, phone etc. Anyway..most Friday nights we do go to the bar and do the Happy Hour thing. Mike goes down the road to the bar straight from work and I join him there. The past few Friday HH were spent with Mike's colleagues--then we go either go home or catch a bite to eat in a restaurant for a date night. Last night, we were at the bar with a very cool, single CF girlfriend of mine and then we went home for TV and I made dinner. That means that tonight has the possibility of being a "date night" for us to go to a nice restaurant and relax. The "date night" day (Friday night, Saturday night or weekday) can switch around from week to week.

Last night, we ordered Chinese food, played gin rummy (our new thing since I taught him cards) and watched TV, then fell asleep on each other on the couch. Tonight I think we're going to play racquetball.

On a sidenote, you know what he mentioned this morning? Wait - back up a sec - on our second date, I wanted to dance after dinner, but he said he's not a dancer and doesn't care much for it. Ten months later, he says to me this morning, "Hey babe, why don't you check online for some dance lessons for us?" I about choked on my grapefruit spoon.

"Like what kind of dancing?" I asked.
"Like waltz," he said. That's when I jammed the grapefruit spoon in my eye to make sure I wasn't dreaming.
"As in, ballroom dancing?" I asked, smiling from ear to ear.
"Yeah!"

I was so freaking excited, my first thought was to rent "Shall We Dance" and watch it tonight after racquetball.

Angela, you might have created a monster!

Ah, Fridays ... there are distinct types of Friday for me. Wintertime, Friday is my night to come home, call my parents in New Zealand and catch up on the goss, open a bottle of wine and get tipsy, kiss all the animals, and then pull snowboard gear out and get it all tickled up for the weekends riding. I can spend hours waxing, scraping and tuning edges - to the point where I'm often surprised to find that it's already 11pm.

In the summertime Friday is usually spent driving to the campground. With the days so long here in summer, you can arrive at 8pm, put the tent up, throw the ball for the dogs, get the fire going and grab something out of the cooler to eat and drink, as you stare into the flames and watch the sun go down.

In between seasons, when it's too early to camp and too late to snowboard, Friday is my night to do my best impression of a vegetable and go to bed early.

HI lngilbert,

No, Long Way Down with the same people (Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman). Long Way Round was their first one where they went from England to New York, in this one they go from Scotland to South Africa. If you like them, Charley also did Race to Dakar by himself.

Angela, I'm jealous. Were there any mind control techniques involved in getting him to go to dance lessons with you? I need your secret.

Ummmm....you come here ONCE a day and consider it an addiction? I think I have a problem because I find myself coming here several times a day sometimes :-)

I'm on here way way more than once a day.

Once a day would mean that I would be slacking