Do you ever just goof off for a day?

14 years ago

Kay I've been goffin off since April:rolleyes:

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KenThompson

14 years ago

You're not alone, Kay. I have days like that. Lately, I've been reserving
Fridays for my useless day of the week. I think it's a strong memory from
working all my life at a regular job. There's something special in the air
about Friday. I still feel it every Friday morning when I'm having coffee.

I don't fight it, anymore, and now Fridays are fabulous.

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Kay King 14 years ago

I had that Friday feeling for years.

Now I work part time weekends only (usually about 10-12 hours total) so Friday night is like Sunday night used to be
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KimW

14 years ago

Sadly, way too many days.

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14 years ago

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Kay King 14 years ago

Mark - that sounds like fun. I used to go camping every weekend for years and loved it. There weren't a lot of great places within short driving distance but there were two state parks (different states) with lakes and loads of trees with private spots to camp.

It makes a weekend feel twice as long, doesn't it?
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- Kay King 14 years ago
  
  I did have time to play with my resident turtle today. I've noticed this large box turtle on my porch several times and wondered why - today I found out the dude is coming up to eat cat food. Who would have thunk it?
  
  So that's now two raccoons, one opossum and a turtle I'm feeding - as well as assorted cats and dogs who live here. When I eventually move, the new owner of this house will have wildlife knocking on the door at dinnertime.:p
  
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  Leanne King 14 years ago
  
  I'm doing it now
  
  Usually, I have one day a week that I just do nothing other than shop and watch tv when I know I really shouldn't ...but you need to have a break otherwise it is just a J.O.B.
  
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CDarklock

14 years ago

Sometimes I just shut down for four days at a time. I get nothing done at all. I'm aware that I should... I just don't, and I can either spend those days staring at the computer screen, or doing something else. I generally elect to spend them playing my XBox 360.

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TimPhelan

14 years ago

I shoot for four weeks at a time and I shouldn't be also.

Originally Posted by CDarklock

Sometimes I just shut down for four days at a time. I get nothing done at all. I'm aware that I should... I just don't, and I can either spend those days staring at the computer screen, or doing something else. I generally elect to spend them playing my XBox 360.

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Oleg Cherkasky

14 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

Sometimes I just shut down for four days at a time. I get nothing done at all. I'm aware that I should... I just don't, and I can either spend those days staring at the computer screen, or doing something else. I generally elect to spend them playing my XBox 360.

I just looked at your profile, didn't know that guys your age even play videogames, which games do you have?

How much time do you have to spend doing IM so that it is not considered goofing off?

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CDarklock 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Oleg Cherkasky

I just looked at your profile, didn't know that guys your age even play videogames, which games do you have?

I'm currently pretty obsessed with Fable 2 as we move closer to the release of Fable 3 in late October. Other than that, I stay pretty much on Fallout 3 and GTA 4.
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Jim Gillum

14 years ago

A goof off day is good to recharge the battery.......
It works......
I started that about 1964.....the world hasn't ended yet.....

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JustinDupre

14 years ago

I agree with Jim, its nice to goof off for a day or two to recharge your energy and battery. We should relax from the hustle and take a break every once in a while.

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HeySal

14 years ago

I don't usually completely goof off at all unless I am actually not feeling good. But you have to remember that I actually have business that pertains to being out in the wilds and looking for great gems and agates and such so when I'm having the most fun in my life, I'm actually able to toss it off as work.

Last week I took the dog camping and picked up some soapstone that I will be putting up for sale. I can deduct the gas, etc. on taxes, had a great time out in the boonies, met a prospector with some interesting info for me, and got to see a sick doggy have the time of his life on his first camping trip. I got to star-gaze and drink campfire coffee (well, okay - instant starbucks) and hike some nice wooded mountain trails. But it was still work -- so did it count as taking a couple of days off or not? If work is that much fun and so healthy, who gives a rip? LOL

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davidannie

14 years ago

from April till June is a very goofing month.Everyone s feeling lazy this time.In office also I'm not concentrating on my work.

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- Steven Wagenheim 14 years ago
  
  For me, it's not so much goofing off but finding something to do that I feel
  is more important at the time.
  
  For example, many days this year I'd decide that I didn't want to work that
  day because I wanted to go into the recording studio to write and record a
  song, which is certainly work...just not productive work towards my business.
  
  Rarely, if ever, do I just sit around and goof off. I'd go crazy. I need to at
  least do something constructive.
  
  This month, after I had realized that I had burned myself out doing 4 music
  CDs in 5 months, I decided to go back to working on my business full time
  because I needed to feel that I was doing something worth while and
  productive that mattered. Don't ask me to try to explain it because I can't.
  
  Music is, well, fun...but it's never going to be a career for me...not at my
  age. But my business allows me to treat my wife and daughter to things
  that they might have not had otherwise, so it's a worthwhile thing...to me
  anyway.
  
  I know I'll eventually head back into the recording studio at some point
  because I can't stay away from my music forever. I did for 5 years and
  it almost killed what was left of my soul.
  
  These last 2 years (since October 2008 when I did my first CD in 5 years)
  have been the happiest of my life. I had a successful business AND I was
  making music.
  
  It doesn't get any better than that.
  
  Kay, my point is, don't feel guilty because you don't work for a day. Be
  happy because you CAN goof off for a day and it doesn't matter.
  
  Every single day of your life is a gift.
  
  Treat it like one and that gift will go on giving for the rest of your life.
  
  Damn...why do I feel a song coming on?
  
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