Fridays

My Facebook news stream is every Friday full of comments how people are over-joyed about that day. Most of the people have regular job from Monday to Friday. At least here in Finland that means that those not in the customer service can leave earlier from work if they have required hours in. Even some public agencies close earlier.

And what do people do? They drive to some supermarket, then home, they eat something and then most of them open a bottle of alcohol and probably go to sauna. Finnish way of drinking is infamous. At the moment there's even this YouTube thingy going on. But anyway, that's The Finnish Way To Relax. And when the Sunday comes, everybody's still suffering from a hangover, they're eating pizza, watching telly and cursing coming Monday.

Health-conscious people skip the alcohol, but they most certainly still go to sauna, which is a Finnish Must. Well, I love sauna too. Don't get me wrong. But these exercise-freaks swim in a freezing water - they hack a big hole into the ice so they can get into the lake - and then afterward they sit together in public sauna (ladies and gents separately) and boast how they haven't had any flu or other sickness for four years, ever since they started the winter swimming! Yes, even germs are afraid of you...

My Friday as a single parent is little bit different. I go and get my kid from day care at three o'clock. We go to grocery store on our way home. Kid plays, I make dinner for us and after that kid gets to eat a lot of candy. Friday is his candy-day. Rest of the evening he's jumping on the walls with the sugar high and then it's time for supper. All that extra energy guaranties that he won't fall asleep for some time but otherwise it's just a regular evening for me. And kid will get up around six-ish next morning, so I won't stay up late either.

THERE IS NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT FRIDAYS!!!

GET OVER IT!!!