$pent Millennial

Well, hello 5:30 pm Sunday…

I wanted to have a post all ready for today. I wanted to post and share something people could relate to that might, just maybe, even provide a bit of relief for others who, like me, experience the Sunday Scaries. 

But here I am, at 4:39 on a Sunday trying to wish a Sunday Scaries post into existence. Torn between creating content for this post, sitting to relax for 30 minutes, starting on dinner or spending some quality time with Jesse, Rocky and an episode of The Middle. 

Ironically, isn’t that exactly what the Sunday Scaries are made of? At least for me it is. It’s the feeling of all that I wanted to fit into the weekend coming up against the reality of the dwindling hours before I am rudely thrown back into the drudgery of the work week. It is the realization that in mere hours I will be shoved back onto the work week hamster wheel, and here I am sitting $pent. 

I don’t have the magic, wonderful post I wanted to share where I ride in and solve the Sunday Scaries- not only for you, but also for myself. So instead, I will share with you what’s running through my mind as this Sunday, and the weekend, come to a close. 

Here is a look at ALL that I wanted to get done this weekend compared with all that I actually fit into the weekend. 

This weekend I was going to:

1. Pay September Bills 
2. Update my spending record and organize my cash allocations into envelopes
3. Decorate for fall and take out the fall mugs for home coffee
4. Order fall coffee syrup flavors for home coffee
5. Create a content schedule and content for this blog 
6. Do Professional Development Work 
7. Work on potential side hustles
8. Meal prep for the upcoming week
9. Spend quality time with Rocky and Jesse
10. Visit with family
11. Relax 
12. Maybe even get some extra work in…

What I actually did this weekend: 

1. Relaxed, morning coffees with Rocky and visits with my sister 
2. Paid bills for the month 
3. Updated my spending record and organized my cash allocations 
4. Cooked some delicious (if I say so myself) meals and enjoyed them with Jesse
5. Prepared some decent (got the job done, and people fed)  meals and enjoyed them with Jesse 
6. Relaxed
7. Relaxed some more (I guess I really needed some rest) 
8. Visited with family 
9. Relaxed even more with Jesse and Rocky, doing my best to out run the Sunday Scaries

As I write it all out here and now, I am deciding for myself that that’s enough. This weekend has been enough. So fall decorations, mugs and coffee flavors will have to wait til next week, it will be here before I know it. And all the extra work, side hustles, PD… those can wait too. Regarding the blog post, content schedule and creation, well… I guess this will just have to do. 

As for me and the rest of my Sunday, I will be finishing up an episode of The Middle, starting on a minimum-effort dinner and sinking into the evening, losing myself in whatever is on the TV while filling up on whatever cheese and carb combination I whip up in the kitchen. 

While I don’t have a magic post to cure your-or my- Sunday Scaries, I encourage you to join me in accepting and appreciating the weekend for what it has been and taking the rest of the Sunday to be kind to yourself. Right now, that’s the best I got for you. I hope it’s enough. 

I’d love to hear about your weekend expectations vs reality and what you are doing to be present in the moment and out run the Sunday Scaries. Share in the comments or send your thoughts to hello@spentmillennial.com