My two week break starts in t-minus 2 days!! I can hardly wait another second.
Unlike most people, I'd rather do nothing my entire break. No vacation. No errands. No shopping. Pretty much if it involves getting ready and putting on normal clothes, I'd rather not do it. Sitting in my pjs, while watching movies and reading books, is literally the perfect way for me to spend my time. I am the definition of a homebody.
And for your entertainment...14 Struggles only a Homebody Understands.
1. The awkwardness that is cancelling your way out of any and all plans you make/are forced into. Crafting that many excuses isn’t easy and is an art form that deserves proper recognition.
2. Justifying this: “What are you doing?” “Nothing… I’m just sitting at home… but like, because I want to.”
3. You’re not anti-social, you are just selectively-social. You don’t waste your time with people who don’t matter, you don’t keep up fake friendships. Sometimes this looks as though you’re distant, but you actually have a psychological leg up on the people who are still trying to work out relationships that just aren’t meant for them.
4. Dealing with the stigma that someone who spends time at home is boring and needs to “get a life.” Wherever you live your life the happiest is the place you should do it. The only people who think otherwise are the people who can’t be alone with themselves. #TRUTH
5. “But what did you DO all day?”
6. Having no concept of appropriate attire. Also spending most of your life in your underwear, and eventually considering that “normal.” Not being able to fathom why you have to wear a dress or something “fancy” to go out.
7. Hence why you just, y’know, don’t.
8. The concept of working from home is both your ultimate dream and worst nightmare because you probably would never leave your apartment. You don’t usually indulge this desire because you know the dire consequences that would inevitably follow.
9. It’s Friday at the office and everybody is getting pumped for their plans for drinks and brunch and shopping and traveling over the weekend and you are sitting there genuinely on a high over the fact that you can go home and lay on your bed and know that there’s nowhere else you have to be for the next two days. How that compares with exhausting plans to force conversations over martinis and spend more money you don’t have, you’re not entirely sure.
10. Having your most committed relationships be with your Netflix queue and Seamless account/delivery person.
11. Having your other most committed relationship be with your cat, who also does not leave the house.
12. You were never cool in high school, you couldn’t have been. Everybody who was anybody had albums of posed photos with three dozen acquaintances on someone’s back porch, holding a Bud Light in each hand. You, however, were HAPPILY two seasons into a show you started that morning and your mom ordered Chinese food for dinner, bless her.
13. Your dream relationship consists of you and your lover laying on the couch watching movies for like, I don’t know, a week straight.
14. You don’t necessarily dislike people, you just need to be alone with your thoughts sometimes. You need time to deprogram and disconnect (which is ironic, because it’s anything but between you and your WiFi). Point is: you get a rep for not wanting to be around people, but that’s not the case. You don’t think you’re above them. You’re just also not above thinking napping for three hours on a Friday afternoon isn’t the closest we’ll ever get to heaven.
Numbers 2, 6, 9, and 12 REALLY hit home for me!
So anyways... for the few people who actually prefer to be homebodies like me, I have put together a list of books I had time to read during summer break.
1. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
I LOVED LOVED this book. If I cry like a baby, I know the book has pulled at my heart strings. This was definitely a "cried like a baby" book. It had one of the best endings and one of the saddest endings. And even now, I'm not sure I agree with some of the choices. But it was a great, sappy, love story that made me cry with happiness and sadness and that's exactly why you should give this book a chance. Buy this book HERE!
2. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
This book has the whole package. I laughed out loud a lot and just felt happy throughout the book. The storyline is about a man who has Asperger's and has created a questionnaire to find the perfect wife. Nothing really goes his way, but he does find love and it's an honest and sweet love. He believes in the possibility of life and it's really inspiring. Read it. You have to! Buy it HERE!
3. Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos
I don't even know how to explain this book or where to start. The main character, Cornelia, meets different people in her coffee shop. Each person is important in their own way and their roles intertwine into a beautiful story. Cornelia thinks she has found the best love, but then changes happen and she finds an even greater love. I really can't say anything because I will ramble on and give it away. But in the end, this book really makes you think about the risks we take for love. Make sense? GREAT! I was really sad this book had to end. Buy it HERE!
Although the book links are to Amazon, I actually create a list of all the books I want to read using the Goodreads App from itunes. I use the app at Half Price Books and buy the books I can find. The books are much cheaper AND I get to use my 10% off teacher discount. If you sign up for emails, you get more discounts sent to you. Amazon is convenient but Half Price Books can be fun too, especially on a teacher budget.
What books are you reading? Tell me all about them. I need a good book for the Christmas break. So help a sister out!! Muchas Gracias.
