friday nights?

geez

Was just wondering what everyone does to relax on fridays? Gym?tv?takeaway? I like to get the house clean and sit down with a good film

we'llallhavetea

dread work on saturday

SarahBeep!

A few drinks with the work crew then home to a takeaway. Really helps shake off the week!

Legs.Eleven

I finish work at 7pm Friday, so usually go for a beer close to my academy and correct essays and stuff and talk to the staff there. Best beer of the week as it's a 3 hour-long exam class and is fairly hellish (I've 14 year olds in the class with 40 year-olds and it's tough to manage). Come home, get me jogging gear on before I wimp out, jog and come home and feel great for having done so. I've usually bought my favourite food for myself that morning and a bottle of red wine to share with me fella as well. Spend the evening on the internet or watch a film or Gordan Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares or some other mindless rubbish to turn my brain off and relax to the max and get an early night as I'm always knackered. Love it.

meeeeh

I was in bed at nine yesterday. Fridays can be very tiring. I'm at home with kids but very often I have to do some stuff for work too and it also depends how much sleep I got during the week. I almost never go out on Fridays because we never know how busy OH will be with work. And with kids you have to prebook everything.

It is a far cry from ten years ago when I would be very often out till two or three in the morning and up at seven for work on Saturday (the joy of working for your parents and always getting the Saturday morning shift). Then out on Saturday till whenever and also meting friends for (usually non alcoholic) drinks on Sunday evening. I'd collapse now with tempo like that.

Fridays can be a mixed bag. I'm a grad student on study leave at the moment so I spend much of the day at home, but I work part time which usually includes from 7pm to 7am on Friday night/Saturday morning, a 15 minute walk from where I live. It can be insanely busy, not busy at all, or anything in between, but I make the best of it by bringing in a hot dinner, some nice snacks and fruit, and decent coffee, and I have dinner after getting myself set up for the shift and dealing with the changeover. I'm usually alone for about 90% of the time, which suits me.

If it's quiet I eat, then study or do gradings, window shop online, or watch downloaded episodes of tv shows on my tablet. Later in the evening if it's quiet I snooze in the armchair in my office, and I bring in a small pillow and cotton quilt to make it comfortable. It's tough jerking myself awake at 5am if the phone goes though! If it's busy I can be up almost 24 hours by the time I get home, but the hours fly by when there's a lot to do and I love the walk home in the mornings. There's no predicting how it'll go, but I enjoy the work when it comes, the rest when it doesn't, and the money either way.

I quite like my Fridays, although I'm often too tired for socialising on a Saturday night if it's been busy, which used to bother me but doesn't anymore - I guess I'm growing up .

Raminahobbin

If I'm going out it's usually to hectic to think about how tired I am, so I just rush home and get dinner (if I have time) then dressed and back out again. More and more in the last few months it's been Friday nights in- in which case I have dinner and walk the dog, then have a chilled out evening with a glass of wine and a movie. Maybe paint my nails or pop on a face mask. Also, FRESH BED LINEN! Nothing better

Precious flower

Oh God, all yer nights are WAY more exciting than mine and I'm 20!! Usually on a Friday, it's college then home to relax tbh, watching a bit of The Bourne ultimatum Friday! :P I'm kind of an introvert so I'm not into going out to nightclubs or particularly drinking in general all that much (always feel weird when I tell people, usually adults that I'm not interested in going out on the weekend). :P Thank God I travel in to University! :P

Saturdays I might go meet up with friends who are down from college and this Friday (Valentines Day - LOL) planning to go out with friends to the cinema and for a few drinks after to celebrate my 21st which is the 16th! Just not mad on big dos but sometimes feel that maybe I'm missing out!!

Raminahobbin

Raminahobbin wrote: »

Also, FRESH BED LINEN! Nothing better

I put the clean linen on on Fridays so when I'm home from work on Saturday mornings I have that feeling to look forward to. And the electric blanket timed to go on an hour before I'm home...Ahhhhhhhhh.

Precious flower wrote: »

planning to go out with friends to the cinema and for a few drinks after to celebrate my 21st which is the 16th! Just not mad on big dos but sometimes feel that maybe I'm missing out!!

Happy 21st PF!! Many happy returns

And if you're not enjoying the big do's then you're not missing out. Nothing wrong with being an introvert at all!

rainbow kirby

Friday night is usually relatively chilled out for me - my OH is in work from really early on a Saturday so we can't really do too much! Usually go to the gym or out for a run straight from work, do a home-cooked dinner when I get back, watch football or rugby if it's on, crack open a bottle of wine and relax.

This weekend though... going to Wembley Arena to see one of my favourite bands ever on Friday. Seriously excited.

confuseddotcom

Ordinarily, Friday night is usually bed extra-early for me wrecked after week's work. If am feeling anyways motivated will clean the house top to bottom and change the bed-clothes and all that craic that evening. Get that stuff outta the way. Saturday then might do something, go somewhere or whatever to get out of the house.

username123

Usually on Thursday night I make a big pot of spaghetti bolognese and leave it in the fridge overnight so on Friday we just have to heat it and put on pasta/garlic bread. We don't really eat take always so spag bol plus garlic bread is a preferred comfy dinner for us.

Generally I have a Baileys or G&T when I come in on Friday after work, then comfy dinner, then either a film, a tv show, a book or internet browsing.

The neighbours cat comes in and spends the evening demanding food, rubs and sleep too.

GreenerGrasss

I usually come home from work and collapse on the couch. Then order pizza before sitting down to a marathon of Big Bang Theory. Saturday is usually when all the fun happens. If I'm not catching up with my friends in the city, we'll go for a roadtrip to a beachey town.

Legs.Eleven

Friday night approaching (sort of)!

SusieBlue

I work Friday nights but my version of a Friday night is a Sunday night so I'l just describe that instead.

I stop in the shops on the way home from work and pick up some of my favourite treats. Lately, they've been apple turnovers from the bakery, M&S cold pasta salads, and salt and vinegar crisps with club lemon

I clean the house as soon as I'm home as quickly as possible, before turning the heating up full blast and hopping in the bath with a Lush bath bomb. I use some sort of deep conditioning oil in my hair after shampooing, and then I leave the conditioner soak in without washing it out I plait my hair and leave it dry naturally. This is a REAL treat for me as I normally spend hours fighting different creams and balms into my hair while trying to style it into something decent.

Then I get into comfiest pyjamas I can find and sit myself on the couch with the laptop. I order/make the nicest thing I can think of that particular week for dinner. Sometimes it could be a chinese takeaway, sometimes it could be a crunchy home made salad. I'll go with whatever I'm craving.

After dinner I open the rosé and catch up on all the telly I missed during the week while munching my way through what I bought on the way home. I head up to bed at about 12-1am, with the hot water bottle on, to indulge in 9hrs of glorious sleep.

I love Sundays

emmabelle

Either a night in with the other half or a night with the gal pals

Depends, mostly I need to just be comatose in bed after the long week
Netflix or skyrim or whatever unless I'm going out but usually I'm not

silly

My friday nights have become soooo boring. Being married to a farmer makes most nights boring this time of the year. He comes in at about 8 - Around the same time the small boy goes to bed. Has a quick bite ( Normally pizza on a friday) and then he's off to work again. I normally use this time to catch up on stuff i have recorded during the week - feel gulity because i know there is tons of housework to be done!
I used to open a bottle of wine - but being up at 7.30am with a baby put a stop to that and its just not worth it anymore.

username123

silly wrote: »

I used to open a bottle of wine - but being up at 7.30am with a baby put a stop to that and its just not worth it anymore.

Thats why I enjoy my large Baileys these days - its not a "moreish" drink!

silly

username123 wrote: »

Thats why I enjoy my large Baileys these days - its not a "moreish" drink!

Because I don't go out that often (which, by the way, is totally fine by me, I have my years of fun in the bag) one drink is then never enough, I have one, then say i'll have a small one, and then another small one. No drink is safe with me. Its always such a "great idea" at the time.

Dutchess

I am lucky enough to leave work at 14.30 on Friday. Sometimes I go into town, I have been known to go for a swim, but generally I end up at home. Wish I could say I vigorously clean the house, create artistic masterpieces, exercise intensively, but most of the time it's pretty unproductive. Food, Netflix, that sorta thing. I'd love to create some better rituals for myself and really work on that momentum for the weekend.