That Day I Played Hooky

I recently took a day off. I was beginning to feel crushed by the weight of everything and I was like for 24 hours, I’d like to not give af about any of it. I wanted to be off the grid for a little bit. I didn’t want to be needed or obligated to anything except Ashley. I didn’t check my work email or the attendance. 

I gave myself a long weekend. IT WAS AMAZING!!! 5/5 stars. Highly recommend. On Sunday, I worked my ass off getting my chores done so I wouldn’t feel inclined to do anything on my day off. 

So umm I watched a Tyler Perry play. I Can Do Bad All By Myself. It was like a hug from my old life. My family loved Madea plays! It was so comforting to my soul. I still knew all the songs and laughed at all the jokes like I never heard them before. I started it on Sunday and finished it on Monday.

While I was watching the first part of the play Sunday evening, I thought "hmmm, I should treat myself". So I ordered a six pack of cookies from Mariah’s Cookies. To my surprise, the dasher handed me 4 boxes of cookies. I wish yall could’ve seen my face. My inner diabetic was like fuuuuuck, I’m going to eat way too many of these. I just wanted my six cookies and I would spread them out. But noooo I got 25 or 26 cookies. If I had gone to work on Monday, I would’ve just offloaded them on my coworkers, who also try to avoid carbs but still eat them when they’re in the lounge LOL...But I wasn’t going anywhere near my school until I had to. I took a bite of each flavor and immediately eliminated like 7 of them because barf--they were gross. But I still had like 20 of them. Initially, I was trying not to go anywhere so with that in mind, I trashed half of them...it’s ok, you can fight me if you’d like. So now I had like 12 cookies and I was like ok I can manage this better. Nope. I ate 4 cookies.

I had imagined spending my day off in bed reading. But then I got a call from my doctor that I had an appointment to see the following day and she said she could get me in that afternoon. I thought ok sure, I do feel like driving. Yall, I should’ve stayed my ass at home!!! She said “oh look at that, you gained a pound” You bitch! You’re not supposed to say it! We’re both just supposed to know...Might have something to do with those 4 cookies and the stress eating I’ve been doing...lol so then I felt terrible and went to go walk 2 miles. Because 2 miles will erase that one pound and those 4 cookies...duh. 

I had to pee before my walk and the place I was walking was close to my sister’s place. Yup, I saw my sister on my day off!! And no, I didn’t have any cookies on me to give her. But I did give her some food I ordered and felt too guilty to eat lol It’s so funny because when I order stuff I’m not supposed to have, I call my sister and ask her if she wants it lol Anyway, look at this beautiful Fall tree I saw on my walk!

After the walk, I showered and read my book for a large chunk of the day. I finished it and I was giddy the whole time. It was the cutest book ever!!! It is called The Love Hypothesis, if anyone is curious. I posted it a few times on Facebook and IG. 

The last major thing that happened was that I discovered a new guilty pleasure. Tik tok. For however long tik tok has been in existence, I avoided it. I flat-out refused. I was like I don’t need something else to be addicted to. But remember, on this day off, I set out to not care about anything. So I decided I didn’t care about a new addiction. YALL...TIK TOK IS THE BEST THING EVER!!! Don’t tell anyone I said that. 

So basically I had an amazing time being off work doing whatever I wanted to do. Being at home on a day that you’re supposed to be at work just hits so differently than a day that everyone gets off. 

I have decided that I will do this regularly. Not more than once a month because let me tell you, sub plans are a bitch. Being absent is like 3x more work than just going to work, but it proved to be so worth it on this day. 

​Thanks for reading!!!