Thank God it's Saturday!

I've recently come to love early Saturday mornings with a passion.

It's been four months now since I started working on a graveyard shift, and my work week ends when I get off the Friday shift at 11 AM. While most people extol the mantra Thank God it's Friday (allocating the night for good times and fun-filled night-outs with friends), I prefer to spend my Friday afternoon-to-evening-to-midnight-and-beyond comatose in my bed. Best of luck to any friend of mine who's looking to spend a great Friday night hanging out with me, because I'll be MIA, out of reach deep beneath the folds of my bed sheets.

After a 12-hour (or more) sleep, I usually awake from hibernation at around 3 or 4 in the morning every Saturday. My first requirements for the day would be food and coffee. After that has been satisfied, I would tidy up my room, and then get down to some serious Me-Time business. I would download the latest episodes of whatever TV series I'm currently hooked into. While waiting for the torrents to finish, I'd check my emails, like and comment like crazy on my friends' statuses and posts on Facebook, stalk some celebs on Twitter, lose myself on StumbleUpon, watch the latest Ellen DeGeneres clips on YouTube (and eventually getting lost as well, usually ending up watching a video of topless guys with rock-solid abs singing Call Me Maybe), read some of my friends' latest blog entries, or try to write something in my own blog. Once my eyes get tired of staring into the monitor, I'd momentarily abandon the laptop and grab a book from my shelf, and catch up on my reading.

I am currently reading A Storm of Swords, been at it for 3 weeks now, almost done but I really find it easier to watch the Game of Thrones on TV than read George RR Martin's thick tomes! I believe this is the only exception to my personal rule of "Read it before you watch it," when it comes to books being adapted into TV and the big screen. Also, I've started reading e-books! Anyone who knows me well enough would know that I prefer the hard copy over e-books. For me, having the copy of a book on your computer or iPad or Kindle or what-have-you is not the same as OWNING the actual, tangible book. But early this month a friend of mine emailed me a copy of the Fifty Shades trilogy, along with other chick-lit books, and I decided to download the Adobe reader for these types of files (I didn't even have an idea how to open the files at first, that's how ignorant I am of these e-books!), and voila! I now am in the process of becoming an e-book reader. (I'm still not converting, though. I'm just giving it a chance, hehe!)

 

Still trying to finish the third GoT book, only for the sake of randomly blurting out spoilers to friends who don't like to read the books but are anticipating the TV series' season 3!

So there, every Saturday morning, when the rest of the world is still slumbering, I am wide awake with my books, my TV series, my laptop and stable internet connection, my coffee and food, just basking in the peace within the four corners of my room, and rejoicing in the thought of not having to go to work today. As an added bonus, it's raining outside today, and I just love it when it rains, but only when I'm snug and comfy inside and am not required to go out!

Thank God it's Saturday!!!