Lessons from the three-day weekend

Some people look at a three-day weekend as an opportunity to sleep in, have some drinks with friends, and get in trouble investigating fun-type outlets. Me? I see it as a chance to learn something new. Enhance your education: live the three-day weekend. Here's a random list of things I learned over my weekend, in no real order (even though they are numbered).
1.) Curling is so much better to watch if you really don't get the scoring system. It's an unnatural obsession we've developed, but B and I had curling on television as often as we could over the last three days. Even if it wasn't the U.S., it was better than other things on the tube. Brian tried to figure out the scoring online, but we decided that it's even more fun rolling through the whole thing oblivious.
2.) There are always people as stupid as you are. We figured that, on Sunday when the temperature reached a high of 14 or something, no one would consider walking around the open-air outlet center, so we would have the run of the place with no crowds or anything. We had to park in the outskirts of the lot, and ended up waiting 15 minutes for a table at lunch.
3.) Life, as a young maid/wannabe geisha, is pretty bad. I'm digging in to Memoirs of a Geisha, and have quite fallen in love with it. I'm about 200 pages in, and am eager to pick it up tonight. I can't wait to get farther in because Hatsumomo must, simply must, get hers in the end. Right?
4.) Appreciate your only-childness. If I had a younger sister as messed as Cameron Diaz in In Her Shoes, I might just strangle her. Movies like that, while emotionally touching, really help me out with the whole, "It would be nice to have a sister" thought process, and smack some sense into me.
5.) Shopping on a Monday is the best. There's little more decadent than knowing that some fools are at work while you and your friend are out cruising through shops, trying on clothes and having a beer before noon. I didn't come home with a lot, but the day was stellar and fantastic.
6.) Only having to work Tuesday and Wednesday makes coming back to work from a three-day weekend bearable. We're off to Steamboat Springs, Colo. Thursday morning for a weekend of skiing/snowboarding, eating out, and fun. Some people might use vacation days in the dead of winter to go somewhere tropical, warm and sunny, but not us ... nope, we go where there's more snow.