I am positive I’m in the minority here, but I would say Monday is my favorite day of the week.
I like it for the same reason I like mornings; it feels like a fresh start, full of possibilities.
Yes, Monday signals the re-start of school and work and other responsibilities, but that really doesn’t bother me.
Now, if I had a 9-5 type of job where I was less in control of my schedule, I don’t know that I would love Monday as much as I do.
But since I work for myself and I homeschool, I have a fair amount of choice about how I organize my days and how I spend my time.
I know this type of life feels boring to some, but I can always think of ways that I could do all of my jobs better. So, each week is full of new things to reach for.
And that means Monday doesn’t feel like the start of a prison sentence but rather a fresh chance to meet a new challenge.
Thursday!
It’s almost the weekend but not quite, if you see a friend you can talk about your plans for the weekend. You don’t stay out too late because you have work the next day but you still stay out a bit later because, what the heck, it’s Friday tomorrow. It’s the day for me like the day before the day before Christmas or your birthday, almost there but not quite.
Not sure what that says about me, anticipation before the real think? Who knows!!
Oh, I definitely get the anticipation part of things.
It’s like how the very best time of vacation is when you get there, because you have the whole thing spread out before you.
I prefer Mondays for all the same reasons as you. I even liked them when I was working a traditional 9 to 5 job, although even more so now that I have total control of my schedule. Though weekends are good in many ways, I think I also like the structure weekdays provide.
Tuesday is the day of endless possibility for me. I’ve caught up on whatever fires needed putting out on Monday, and still have enough time in the week where I have the illusion it can all be caught up to where I want to be before the end of the week.
That makes sense!
Monday. It’s the day of the fresh to-do list and the most fresh energy after a couple days of at-least-we’re-doing-something-different.
As an introvert, I love sending my kids back to school. I would be OK with just a three-day school week, but that first day back of the week — I need that for a sanity check.
In normal life, Tuesday is my cycling day. Pretty much nothing (other than this here shutdown) interferes with my Tuesday spin class. My closest friend outside of my church family also spins on Tuesdays and I love having that consistent time with her every week.
Thursday. It’s really our Friday, because our kids have a four-day school week and my husband sets his own schedule and so can finish up his office work by Thursday. Not that weekends are at all relaxing with four whirlwinds constantly swirling around the house, but at least I don’t have to get them up/nag about homework/force them into Zoom meetings.
I love Monday’s! I work from home, get stuff done. Usually in solitude, but that’s OK 🙂
I learned to love Fridays when I worked at a child protection agency. That was the day of the week when everything went completely nuts—mostly because teachers suddenly realized a kid they were worried about would be out of sight until Monday so they would hurry up and call in referrals at about 3 pm every Friday. And even more so if it was the last day until winter and spring breaks were over. It made the day absolutely manic but the time would pass so quickly that eight hours seemed like an hour. And it seemed like there was more staff camaraderie and cooperation, since everyone really helped those more snowed under because no one wanted to leave on Friday afternoon and still see folks who would be struggling for the next two hours to get every referral taken care of. I would go home totally exhausted but feeling curiously energized. I only did that work while paying my way through grad school, but Fridays still seem like the best and most productive day of the week to me.