Homework Loads, anyone?

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Kay. Maybe it's just me but for the past like 3 years of school, I've disliked weekends as much as weekdays, and that's because I might as well be going to school because of the amount of work I get stuck with. My normal homework load this weekend would have been reading a german article, math, and doing this really tedious history assignment which I get periodically, and despise doing...now add to that an entire three page draft for a research paper my mom made me do in one day today, and tomorrow will consist of starting a chemistry project and studying for one of her tests which proves that she's more Aspie in her pickiness than me...
And in all honesty, when I look back on this school year and the ones before it, that's what it's been like...every single weekend, every single afternoon. Part of why I have no social life is because I'm just too busy for one. While other people relax and unwind during the weekends, I endure double the stress.
I can't do this anymore. I can't sit inside for hours on a sunny day while my neighbor hangs out with a German exchange student, playing football or whatever. I get cabin fever within two hours of being indoors. And then my mom breaths down my neck like you wouldn't believe. She herself perused the thirty page handbook of rules on both projects before I even got the chance to, and all I want to do is write the damn paper. Shouldn't weekends be relaxing and unwinding?
Seriously, if anyone else feels overwhelmed like this, please talk to me. I just need to know I'm not just unlucky, or abused, or something.

That reminds me of my school years, when I'd have a lot of homework to do. I used to sit down at the kitchen table, where I didn't have access to a radio, and get it all done, on Friday afternoon, evening and sometimes the night hours, between 6 and 8, just to get it all done, and out of my way. That would free me up, to work on my art, and listen to my music, for the rest of my weekends.

I feel like that sometimes. I always write down everything I need to turn in on an eraserboard, and there is always plenty up there. I thought I just needed to spend all my time doing homework, but I've found that if I do a couple things and leave something it ends up getting done sometime or another. (And not done sloppily, I'm pretty much a straight A student.) It really helps me to write it all down and have it up where I can see it on my board. I also cross off each week on my syllabus.

We think I get headaches when I'm stressed (and school stresses me), and interestingly I have the most headaches on weekends (I keep a headache journal). I think this is cause I do a lot of homework then.