It's the most depressing day...of the year!

Apparently today is the known as “Blue Monday” as it’s supposed to be the most depressing day of the year – according to all those scientists out there who have nothing better to do with their time – I wish I had their job!


It’s said to be that way as it’s the third Monday in January, and Christmas & New Year celebrations have all but disappeared off the horizon now, and for most they are in need of their next wage, added to that is that the weather’s rubbish too, with miserable looking black clouds hanging in our skies.

Most of those New Year resolutions have also all probably failed by now – I know mine did, and with those rising petrol prices, it seems everyone is against us right now – when is the next Fuel Prices Protest Day by the way?

So, what will you be doing on this Blue Monday apart from humming the tune to that excellent New Order song from the 80s and doing the old drum machine bit from it too – you just have to do that don’t you? (electric 80s at its best!)

Well for most the day will of course be spent in the office again, looking at the clock on the bottom right of the computer urging it speed up as much as possible as the countdown begins to the end of the day!

I think we should all think of something positive to do today, and do it at lunchtime so that it breaks the day up nicely – so for me I’m off into town at lunch today, maybe a McDonalds is called for – a treat for the start of the week!

Let’s get through this day of depression together!!!

The Most Depressing Day of the Year!

Happy New Year everybody!

We have finally arrived in 2010, and a new decade, it's all very exciting - for some!

Having enjoyed the festive period with several alcoholic beverages, well more than several actually, the reality has dawned on most us all again today, as we all end up trudging back to work, with faces longer than Tiger Woods' female contacts list!

So why is it so depressing?

I guess it's just the culmination of the last couple of days as we waved farewell to Christmas for yet another year, and then once we pass midnight on New Year's Eve, that's pretty much it, with New Year's Day either spent on the couch nursing a hangover, or resigning yourself to take the decorations down for another year.

Added to this the fact that you had to spend the entire weekend thinking about your return to work, not because you wanted to think about it, but because your subconscious wouldn't let you forget about it!

So, we all got up this morning no doubt full of the joys of that first working day of the new year, if you happen to be an office worker of course, plenty of other job roles would have returned to normality on Saturday, especially in the shops for the masses of sales that drag out the worst of people's rudeness as they converge on the shops - not for me I'm afraid, and thankfully not for my wife either!

Mind you, the fact that we don't have any money at the start of this year has a lot to do with it I have to admit, in fact that's another reason why depression sets in, you just know that it's such a long time til next payday if you happen to be paid monthly, having to endure an extra week following your Christmas pay packet which arrived a week earlier in 2009.

It's all very depressing isn't it?

Now, to avoid anyone heading for the tablets to bring you back up again, let's finish on a high, and think that as bad as today is, there's always tomorrow, and that will never be as bad as today!

I think that's helped, or has it???

Ah well, roll on January 5th!