Public Holiday confusion

[Mircha]

Haven't been lurking around LS for long but it's been a great read throughout the time I started my current relationship.

 

Which leads me to starting a bit more of a light hearted thread more so for those that are in international LDR's.

 

I am in the UK and my other half is in Canada so we have different public holidays Most which we do not share such as 'Civic holiday' as it is in Ontario now. Now my OH likes his sleep ins and me thinking that I would be helpful and wake him up incase he slept in (as he usually texts me good morning) I called him on Skype and sent a few messages to deliberately wake him up to get a message saying its a holiday...oops! I really felt so bad waking him up early. He had told me on Saturday but I forgot and being at work myself and 5 hours ahead I am in a great position to wake him up.

 

My point of the thread...has anyone else done similar things to their partner even if in the same country?

[january2011]

My SO can work odd hours. He needs to catch up on sleep during his downtime and unfortunately, I have woken him up before he was due to be woken up.

 

I still haven't got to grips with the different holidays. Neither has he. From memory, Wikipedia has a list of holidays for each country. Communicating in advance about this stuff also helps - and as you've found, he will volunteer this information. You just have to find a way to remember it! You can also set up a reminder in Outlook to wake him for important days, but that would probably be overkill for every day.

 

Outlook, and most likely other calendar systems, also allows you to make visible a specific country's public holidays in your calendar so that you know when they come up. That might also help.

 

The other thing is that, if you are at home, you can still agree to call him. Have the video of him asleep running in the background while you go about your business and check in on him now and again. Both my SO and I do this, though some couples might find it intrusive.

Edited August 7, 2012 by january2011

[Forever Learning]

I'm in the habit now of turning off my ringer when I am sleeping - I just don't want to be woken up, and that solves the problem! But I know what you mean, I feel terrible when I call someone during what should be waking hours and find that I've awoken them from a nap. I wish everyone would turn off their phone or ringer when they are sleeping. Sleep is so important, heck they even say lack of sleep could be one reason obesity is one the rise, people aren't getting enough sleep, which effects cortisol release in some manner, which affects insulin and weight gain.