Monday is Memorial Day. Most of the country, including all of my clients, will be taking the day off. But I plan to work, perhaps finish up some billing, plow through the editing of a website I need to finish, knock out an article on the results of a survey. Maybe I’ll follow up with some leads I’ve left hanging, or try to update my own website with its woefully out of date samples and text.

As a small business owner and a single woman who lives alone, I’m not sure what I’d really do with a day off. When I was dating, I guess a day off would mean a little side trip or a fun day watching movies. When I’m here in my house by myself, I’m working, or at least I’m sitting here at the computer. I guess sometimes it means I’m sitting in the bathtub or taking a nap, but full days here of doing nothing are out of the question.

There are days I don’t work, but I don’t spend them here. On Saturdays I do my long runs with Team in Training, the fundraising arm of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Perhaps a hundred of us have been meeting every Saturday for four months to run between 4 and 20 miles. But tomorrow we do 8 and have the final pep talk for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon, which is June 1. After the marathon, I’ll either find another group to run with on Saturdays or I’ll go back to spending Friday and Saturday nights at the gym and working during the day. (It’s not as pathetic as it sounds, and if it is, don’t tell me.)

I also meet friends for coffee, attend a dinner on occasion, run hither and yon with Erin, congregate at the track on Thursday mornings with a dozen other people who like to torture themselves…. I’m not entirely alone all the time. But because I live and work at home by myself, I don’t think I’ll get back that relaxed weekend leisure time, when someone calls to ask, “Whatcha up to?” and I answer honestly, “Nuthin. Just hanging out.”