Weekend Stats

I love numbers. When I was sitting at home Sunday with a strange feeling I realized it was because I had no where I was scheduled to go and no one I was supposed to see. So just had to do the math. Checking my appointment book which isn’t 100% accurate I ran the numbers. Can’t find an easy way to insert the graph here, but basically:
- The first two months were the lightest, with February seeing the lowest numbers.
- March I was out of town or hosting guests for 75% of the weekends
- July I max with being out of town or hosting guests for 80% of the weekends
- The cumulative tally to date is 54% of my weekends I spend elsewhere (or hosting).
- Projecting for the end of the year, it remains about constant – over half my weekends this year will be spent elsewhere.

Now don’t get me wrong, I do love seeing friends and family and vacationing. And the weekends I am in town and not hosting people, I often find my weekends full - busy with Birthdays or showers or appointments or just getting together with friends. And living in Boston this often means 45 minute drives to get to other neighborhoods where they live. But there is something to be said for having a nice quiet weekend at home with nothing planned. Curled up with the latest knitting project enjoying a good movie. Sunday I spent trying to shrink the project basket. I think I got one thing done, another is half done – but there is a reason those projects are in there – not easy to resolve. And the movies I picked were less than good (has anyone seen 2012? You know what I mean then). But not bad for a rainy Sunday.

I just booked another trip for October twenty minutes ago and this morning got an email from a friend that the movie festival we always go to is coming up later in October. So there goes two more weekends. But instead of wondering where all my time goes, I should be appreciating all the time I’ve been able to spend catching up with friends in person, hanging with family and checking out new sites on my travels. Plus I have to admit, although my mileage is atrocious, I look forward to driving out of town on weekends. I just love my car – sap stains, bad paint job and all.

I dropped off the cable box today. It was just under two years that I had cable. I’ve been cable free the rest of my life (minus the parts I was living with people with cable but that’s small too). It feels weird I have to admit not watching the commercials or channel surfing. I really wish I could get hulu on my Roku (which rumor has it may happen soon) but otherwise I like my current system. It’s only been a week in, so time will tell.