The Sunday night after Thanksgiving is by far my most unfavorite night of the year. My favorite holiday is over, I feel fat and I have to fake being motivated for the next three weeks until I get more time off from work. Some might argue that January 1 is the biggest letdown day of the year. That on January 1, you finally realize the holidays are over, you don’t get another freebie day off work until President’s Day (maybe MLK day, but maybe not) and if you live north of Florida, the weather pretty much sucks.
But as far as I see it, tonight, the Sunday night post-gorge fest epiphany I’m having that I have to look sharp, make small talk about turkey and answer my phone tomorrow feels worse than any New Year’s hangover.
You?
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I even love January 1st, because it means my birthday is right around the corner. Even though I’m getting older, I still love my birthday, because the day is all about me! Plus I don’t work, so I don’t have the dread of going back to work. So I love everything from November on… except the weather (since I recently moved from Southern California to UTAH, yes the weather sucks.)
I’m with you on feeling fat and hating Jan 1, but knowing that I’m only at work for a month before my next paid break makes returning to work today a breeze.
I am with ya on that sentiment sister! Today has been a REALLY crappy day for me.
I’m so with you. Going back to school and work was tough – and we didn’t start
until Tuesday. Having a new job so no coasting just makes these three weeks really sound even
worse – ooh, off to a staff meeting.
Actually I love the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Being equidistant between Himself’s family and mine, we’re always somewhere else for Thanksgiving and by Sunday we’re all a little crazy from being away from home and from eating simple carbs for four and a half days (one of my girls went from age nine to age four, melting into tears every time I nagged her.) When we get home, we unpack/nag kids to unpack, then each of us drifts into an electronic coma – Himself watches football, I watch basketball, and the girls play Nintendo DS or surf the web on my laptop, and that decompression time is just heavenly.
Now January being depressing, I’m on board there, and actually had serious problems with it back in college.
I am right there with you…. I don’t even want to think about how awful January is going to be.
My birthday’s Jan. 10th so it’s usually after that I begin to feel the holiday let down.