Sunday Rituals
[ 7 October 2007 ]
Is there anything you do every Sunday to prepare you for the start of a new week? Do you go to church or tidy your house? Visit relatives or do the grocery shopping?
My Sunday routine involves:
Spending most of the morning in bed, with my Macbook — this is one of the (very few) ways in which I differentiate my Sunday from the rest of the working week. Most days I am up early & at my desk. (The only other real difference is that on Sundays, I don’t push myself so hard to produce content.)
Clearing my email inbox — I try to do this every day, but it is something I rarely manage to finish, so Sunday is like the last frontier of email responding!
Cleaning the house, in some way or another — I am not good on vacuuming, but I at least do the dishes & take out the rubbish!
Planning the week ahead — what I’m going to write for iCiNG, as well as jotting down (in my glorious page-a-day Moleskine) any events or other things that need doing.
Burning incense — I am a dirty hippie, perhaps, but I love the smell of Nag Champa incense a lot. It is very comforting & sweet to me.
Relaxing — as much as I can…
I get really excited about Mondays & the way a new week is like a blank slate, so I like to be chilled out & ready for it.
I think my ideal Sunday routine would contain the following elements:
Slow, leisurely brunch with someone I like.
Lying in bed & reading the newspapers & any & all magazines I haven’t managed to get through.
Yoga in the afternoon. I love yoga. It is so relaxing, I actually just yawned thinking about it. I also love the feeling of a good yoga workout the day afterwards. Drool! Too good!
Drinking lots of water, eating a really good salad, & being read to before I fell asleep.
I should probably start incorporating those things into my life!
How about you?
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala
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Sunday evening = going into a tailspin! No, not really. In summer it’s always the beach for Surf Club. We usually visit our good friends at their place, aka ‘Fun Central’. We always have cheese&Marmite toasties for dinner. This Sunday we went to the monthly Coatesville Market for delicious breads and apple juice – we’ve eaten well today!
Well, after watching the “Wild Brunch” episode of Gossip Girls on Youtube, and reading this, I think I might be looking forward to Sunday Morning.
Usually, I’d wake up early and take my big dog out for a really long walk in the parc, but sadly, he had stomach cancer and we had to put him to sleep Friday. So… I guess this is a good time to have a new ritual for Sunday Mornings.
Maybe it’ll involve taking notes on style from certain magazines I got during the week, or my own designs.
And catch up on world politics, of course. ;3
I usually find it so hard to relax (the word ‘workaholic’ may be applied here …), especially during the semester, that I use Sunday to do a few low-key things, like an elaborate bath, or watching a movie with tea and ice-cream, or reading in the sun on my balcony, or sew. I don’t have a routine, per say, but I try to incorporate more calming activities that have nothing to do with work.
Today it was shopping with my mother, who’s visiting :D
ever since i started school in parsons, sundays, or weekends for that matter, has been filled with homework and more homework. i’ve designed a swimsuit collection so far, and am finishing a dress collection soon. it’s been crazy.
my ideal sunday? sleep. i just want to sleep. need to sleep. need sleep.
Sundays… Get out of bed before 11:30, but not necessarily any earlier, for Ultimate Frisbee practice from 12-2. I don’t know if you know what Ultimate is- a friend had a friend from Australia visiting the other weekend and she didn’t know what I was talking about at all. It’s like a variation on American football using a Frisbee. So practice with my team for two hours, followed by a meal with the team and a nice long shower.
And then homework, and hanging out with my friends on my hall, preferably outside for as long as the weather permits. I like Sundays. And I try to go to bed on the earlier side, because I have a 9 am class every Monday morning.
Sunday is my day to finish off assignments but I love spending time watching TV shows on DVD, and also re-reading my favourite books.
Mondays are hectic for me when assignments are due, because I talk to one of my friends in NZ online all day, and so I rush my assignment in (a 2hr round trip) so I can be back by 9am to talk to him.
Sunday normally always involves shopping.
take today…i shopped for my mums birthday present.
I suppose this is my kind of routine.
although i would love to start having brunch with friends i havent seen for awhile.
great idea!
xo
sundays suck for me it’s so regimented its soul destroying. I get up a 7:30 for work at nine till 3 with all my bags and stuff because at 3:30 I have to get my bus back to college. So i spend 2 hours of sunday listening to my ipod and staring into space on the bus. Then I gwet back to my house, unpack, cook dinner, have a shower, do some assignments if i can be bothered. then watch some tv and fall asleep in front of it. I hate sundays. :[
Sundays….
– Sleep in – Go to the sunday markets – Plan some content for the week ahead for my webzine – Watch DVDs with my boyfriend in the afternoon – Have a long bath, and read while I’m in there – Basically just bum around, really :) Ooh, also, I love Nag Champa incense! It’s my favourite! When I was living in student accomodation I wasn’t able to burn it because there were smoke detectors in every room, but now that I live with my boyfriend I can burn it again :)My ideal Sunday would be getting up nice and early for a trip to the Campberwell markets with someone I like, and browsing there for a few hours to score some bargains. Then off to a cafe for a late brunch (something like French toast and English Breakfast tea). Then back home for some afternoon magazine reading/long shower/snuggling with boyfriend.
At least on the Sundays I have to work, we have a tradition of bringing home-made cupcakes to share. Chai ones. Orange and choc-chip. Date and spice. Yummmm….
/being read to before I fell asleep/
That’s so nice! ＼（＾∀＾）ノ
When I’m in Adelaide, (ie. not term time!) I go to church, then to the Port Adl. markets to buy Agatha Christie novels, then I come home and read them with a cup of tea in my room, and usually go to chucrh again in the evening.
When I’m at uni my Sundays are usually more frenzied, and I only manage to get to church every couple of weeks coz the only church within walking distance that I like has its one and only service at 7.15 am!!!! HORROR! So you can imagine, when I’ve been out at the pub til 3am, chances of me rolling out of bed are slim to none some days!
my mum burns those nag champa incense sticks all the time – i love them, the smell is so comforting and reminds me of home and my beautiful mother now! xo
I only have a two day week for classes at uni, so I generally plan as I go rather than sort it all out on Sunday. New deadlines and meetings go into my diary as the plans are laid, and I keep myself so busy with my own projects and routines that I can’t really have a day off from it – and I wouldn’t want to! So my Sunday is pretty much like every other day, except that when I lived in my own house my housemate didn’t work on Sunday so she was around, and now I’m living with my parents and sister again they’re around all day Sunday as well.
I suppose I am slightly lazier on a Sunday, and I do get a cooked breakfast courtesy of my mum, but I live on a day-to-day plan rather than a week-to-week plan so it’s not really special.
But I so want to go do yoga now. Shame there is no space on my bedroom floor for it! The massive box of books that I have no home for is really getting on my nerves now.
In Sundays (when I don’t have a lot of work to do) I like to spend the day away from the computer. Have breakfast with my sister in some little cheap but nice restaurant near our house. Watch some movies. Play with my dog. In the evenging I like to watch some reality shows that don’t require a lot of thinking with my family.
I love Sundays…
Since I don’t have time to do things during the week other than work or be bored at home (no car, you see), I use the weekends to actually do things. People think I’m crazy that I don’t want to relax, but the only place I go during the week is work! Boo!
:D
I work six days a week so Sunday is my off day.
I usually fix a good breakfast and sit down to watch CBS Sunday Morning. They always have interesting stories. Today there was one about an elephant refuge in Tennessee of all places. Who would have thought?
Afterwards it is a lazy afternoon of snacking, watching TV and messing on the internet.
In the evening I usually get takeout and have a good long shower before reading myself to sleep. I usually read three or four books at a time. Right now I am working on Wicked, The Devil Wears Prada and a Barbara Hambly.
I love Sundays. I laze around the house for the morning reading books and websites and then get up and meet friends for 12:30 Mass.
After Mass my friends and I usually go out for lunch and sometimes a picnic (if weather is good). After that I usually get together with some other friends for dinner.
I really try to do NO WORK on Sundays and to spend it with family or friends just enjoying them and enjoying life. Work on Monday comes too fast anyway.
Sunday for me is like any other day – Saturday is the only day off we have here (that sounds spoiled, doesn’t it? Some people work 7 days a week!)
About every other week I start school later on Sunday, so I get to sleep in a little…
After we achieve world peace, etc. maybe we should work towards having a weekend off be an international right? :)
Sundays is my lazy, family day (I don’t usually see my friends or my boyfriend on sundays); we go out for lunch, then spend the entire afternoon doing nothing; sometimes I cook for tea time, and then we see some movie in the TV xD. I love sundays, I feel I escape from everyone to relax with my family :)
Sunday is seeing-my-family day. Sometimes I would rather spend it in other ways, but guilt prevents this. I love them, and going to their house and playing with my little sister and eating oodles of their delicious food, but if I were to have an ideal Sunday, I would sleep late, paint and listen to music very loudly. All day! Maybe make out with my boyfriend a bit! Sigh. I’m leaving for my parents’ house in about 45 minutes, actually.
Enjoy your Sunday, Gala!
I just switched off my Sunday shift at work, which is brilliant.
Now I plan to:
sleep in
eat breakfast and have tea in bed
work out, or at least a good half hour stretch
not check my email all day
do some knitting
and maybe cap off the night with ice cream and friends
This sounds so much better written down than it had in my head.
Since Sunday is usually the one day a week that I get to sleep in (between school and extracurricular stuff), I usually take advantage of that and sleep till 10. I then spend some time browsing the internet for interesting things instead of just checking my normal sites (which is all I have time for during the week). I help my parents clean up the house, get some homework done, and in general sit about.
I do like Sunday mornings the best. It’s just so relaxed. I usually drink a few cups of tea too :)
Not in order
~Reading poetry
~Napping
~Glued to Hotmail
~Cups & cups of green tea
~Praying [but that’s every day]
ooh a long brunch, yes please!
my sunday yesterday was quite lovely – i slept in, made a big carrot cake for my dad’s bday, hung out with my family and then went home to watch Lemony Snicket.
sudnays…get up late, eat something terribly sugary, go shopping for tasty cheeses, go back home and spend the rest of the day looking at shoes on the internet.
At night we watch the X-Files.
my sundays are ususally spent recovering from saturday night, sleeping in and at the hockey rink, i normally play early then i watch all of my friends play throughout the day, sometimes i can be there from 10 am to 10 pm
on hockey breaks i surf the net cuddle with my bf or go to the movies
Mmm. How I miss my Sundays!! When I lived back in Qld, I would spend my Sunday’s catching the farmers market, then having bbq breakfast with my sister & her hubby, and drinking cosmos in the pool (it’s never too early!) and then sleeping through lunch time… Haha. Afternoon was usually spent catching up with friends, and thai takeaway for dinner. Now I live in WA and work 7 days a week. So yeah… work all day! (Now remind me again – it is good to be self employed, it is good to be self employed…)SIGH!!
Kx
Gala, your Sunday sounds terrific.
As for mine, I usually get up and go downstairs to have brunch with my friends, then go on the computer for a bit, then try to do some work. I usually just get very lazy and end up not getting much accomplished, like today. :) I try to do some reading for pleasure and some things that don’t require a computer. I exercised today, and it was very nice! But here I am on the computer again. I usually also go to church, but skipped today to do some studying.
nag champa is one of my faves, but my absolute fave for burning on my days off (not always a weekend-day) is Spiritual Guide – god it’s delicious!
i also love yoga, or swimming, but my schedule hardly permits me the luxury of a workout.
usually i read a book, go outside catch a tram to the city (or meet my boy for lunch if he’s working) and go to the chiropractor.
x
i love sundays!
if we spend the night together, my boyfriend and i mostly stand up late and have a nice, big breakfast. afterwards, we go for a walk or ride our bycicles or just take the time to sit down and read something, listen to beautiful music or do something on the computer.
Opening the curtains and watching the day develop as I lie-in with my gorgeous boyfriend
Brunch with aforementioned beautiful human
A walk at the beach/ the sculpture trail/ the zoo
A yummy low-fuss tea
Handwashing I don’t have time to do in the week (not a chore, it makes me happy)
A call to an old friend whilst attending to my nails
An early bedtime and dreams about baby animals.
Bliss!
+ dim sum and tea breakfast
+ walks or bike rides through downtown
+ writing lists of things to do for the week
+ photoshoots/taking polaroids of my life at present
+ giving kittens a bath
+ hula hooping at the college a block away
+ tomato soup for dinner
+ last minute homework :(
sunday is my favorite day of the week
Typically, Joe and I laze about until noonish, then we shower, gather the trash and recycling to take to the transfer station, and after that… we are free. We might go to a farm market or up to the mountains to watch a sunset. Generally, it’s a day to relax and be outside — weather permitting.
Sundays are good, lie in to recover from dancing on tables or whatever me and the girls (sometimes we even let the boys come too!) got up to the night before!!! up then spend the afternoon playing with my adorable dog Smudge, pan out watch some thing strange usually and then get ready and go for a few drinks with my older more sensible friend who doesnt seem to like dancing on tables so we just go for a few quiet drinks, sometimes not so quiet!!