Lol, you were on Mahalo all weekend, duh. :P

There are a few things that modify time perception - but the primary is reference. When we were very young, our parents told us we had to wait 5 minutes for something, or that there was a 20 minute car ride and that seemed to take forever, it is because our reference points weren't developed yet.

Also, you don't perceive time, but rather the changes or events that happen because of time. Like when observing the relationship of distances between objects, that a cat is jumping from the floor, you notice the spatial distance between the cat and the floor and imply the movement.

As you age and get more reference points, learning precisely what 5 minutes is, you are no longer observing each individual change in your watch to reach 5 minutes, but are more living in packets of time, thinking it takes 30 minutes to do this task, 2 hours to do this one.

The further you age, the more you seperate yourself form the individual moments and place yourself in a task-to-task world. There are more memories to occupy your time, more things to do, and the time gets eaten up. I'm sure the tasks you were doing over the weekend were more fun than what you do on the weekdays.

If you'd really like to get more weekend, someday get yourself a pocket watch with a second hand. Sit and wait for 5 minutes to go by, or a half hour, while doing absolutely nothing. Maybe staring at a wall. Boring yourself is a guaranteed way to get more time out of time.

It's kinda sad, actually, that time cheats us like that - stealing little bits here and there while we're having fun, and giving it back when we're doing nothing.
Source(s):
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-experience/

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