We spend so little time on ourselves...

I know I am not the only person who uses their first day off to cram as many errands as possible on your 'done' list, just so you can stay comatose on the second day off. But in reality, that approach just sucks as your normally too exhausted to really enjoy yourself on the second day, and then of course your angry at yourself for wasting hours fretting about work the next day.
Well, I love my job-now, but yes; I wish I had figured this ritual out a long time ago.
Simply put, come hell or high water have a escape planed on the first day. Get up, get things done and then veg out in a decadent way. Be totally relaxed on second day off and return to work the following day completely chill. It may sound simple, but in reality, it is hard sometimes to justify the decadent activity, time, etc. I tried it out and I am loving it!
Last time it was an hour (yes only an hour) in a hot tub, I think I'll do the sauna next!
OK, so I decided to follow a friends advice and visit Cafe Mokka in Arcata. A bit of a drive but it turned out to be worth it! If ever you have to run errands and are just stressed out, planning an hour in a hot tub or sauna as part of your day is the obvious way to de-stress!

The changing room going in to the hot tub is simple and quaint.

I really just enjoyed relaxing-with a little internet :-) but also with privacy to just let stress go away. These are soaking hot tubs so it was just awesome.
Overhead there was nature and sky.
It's just a great treat to yourself to enjoy a moment of decadence with out any hesitation. At this stage in my life I just want to accept simple pleasures in life without having to justify them. It saddens me that we live our lives on someone else schedule, work-make money-go into debt-work harder; and worse, this is taught to us in many schools! Enjoy your life and just treat yourself to one hour on your first day off and just enjoy the second. I makes life so much more enjoyable. Now, if you will excuse me, there are a lot of ripe blackberries that are calling out to me to pick them! Fruit butters don't make themselves :-)