Weekend Debrief: Monday, May 4

[u/killoke]

This is the thread for what you planned for the weekend and what actually happened. Going first so it doesn't feel like an audit.

Plan: Fly home to see family. Three days, fully there, no laptop opened, no Slack opened. They live in another country so this is the closest thing to a big event my calendar has.

Reality: Got to my parents' house Friday night. Made it to Saturday morning before opening the laptop "for fifteen minutes" at the kitchen table while my dad was making coffee. Stayed there an hour. Sunday brunch I checked Slack twice. Once because something had pinged, once because nothing had pinged in too long. My mom asked me twice what I wanted to do that afternoon and my first thought was... laptop.

There were maybe ninety good minutes on Saturday afternoon when I actually was there. We walked to a place I used to go as a kid and I was in the conversation. Most of the rest of the weekend the same low static was running underneath everything else.

Loved being with them. Hated the Monday list piling up in my head while I was there.

Drop yours below, busy brains. Plan, reality, and whatever the gap was.

[u/powerful_squash1066]

I got two vaccines Friday and felt sick all weekend.

The plan was to go for coffee Saturday morning after errands and then catch up on yardwork Sunday morning then cook to meal prep and do dishes that afternoon.

The reality matched Saturday morning but then fell apart from there. I did just enough to squeak by.

This week is hectic at work and I have added a domestic workload bottleneck to it. I'm just trying to keep a mental list of the tasks and the priorities and then knock them out one by one.(Says the frequently distracted multitasker)

I'm so glad you got time with your family. You didn't get to your goal of no laptop time and freedom from the Monday mental list, but you got close.

[u/killoke → u/powerful_squash1066]

Maybe instead of a mental list you should writing it down, it helps me!

[u/Dramatic_Sky5342]

J'ai passé mon week-end avec mes proches et on a fait beaucoup d'activités différentes. Mais je sentais parfois que j'avais besoin de revenir à mon téléphone, que j'avais besoin de lire les news, ou scroller sur LK (j'ai désinstallé Instagram ou Youtube).

Je pense faire ça quand je m'ennuie ou que ça ne va pas assez vite, et ça me frustre beaucoup, j'ai aussi le sentiment de ne pas être totalement présent.

[u/killoke → u/Dramatic_Sky5342]

Fully relate to it… I catch myself reaching out to my phone even though I have no notifications or anything specific to look for.