I don’t know how other people talk about having chill, relaxed weekends.
If you ask me, having a weekend free of obligation doesn’t exist.
I have never been able to get off work, kick pass, and relax for two days straight. In my world, there is always something that needs to be accomplished and there’s never enough time to get it all done. That’s why, when people ask me what my plans are I generally just shrug and tell them something is going to come up. Recently, it was my heating and cooling system that determined my entire weekend plan. I’ve always felt like owning a central heating and cooling system was way more trouble than it was worth. When you have a central forced air furnace and air conditioning plan you wind up spending a lot of money on extraneous energy bills and emergency repair services. You have to pay close attention to all of your maintenance services and your routine repairs that you can complete yourself. Unfortunately, it seems like the list of heating and cooling responsibilities is never ending in our house. If we don’t need the air filter changed then it’s time for our air ducts to be scrubs. The other weekend I thought I actually had some free time… Until the HVAC system started demanding attention. When the air conditioning unit wouldn’t turn on and we had fluctuating air temperature throughout the house I knew it was going to be a long day. After I tried to troubleshoot the AC unit for 10 hours I finally gave up and called my HVAC technician. There goes yet another weekend.