[Redway]

For you? Do you take care of all your life admin./errands on Friday evening/Saturday so that other than truly-mandatory Sunday activities - brunch, roast, church, Sunday rice, whatever - you truly don’t have to lift a finger again until your alarm goes off on Monday morning? Or do the Monday blues kick in after a certain point on Sunday afternoon no matter what you do (or don’t do)?

[Kate!]

Sunday. I hate Sundays. So boring.

[Redway]

Unless I’m looking forward to the week ahead in anticipatory advance, Sunday stops being relaxing/fun after 15.00 and so I can’t tend to bring myself round to do anything other than wallow in pre.-Monday blues misery. That’s when Sundays start to suck and you (or at least I) become painfully-conscious of the fact that the capitalistic society we live in does not allow time for ample rest/leisure. Only a day-and-a-half (Friday evening to early Sunday afternoon) isn’t marred by Monday blues (at least when you look at it from my type of perspective lens) and if you’re someone who’s greeted by nit-picky bosses and co-workers first thing every Monday morning that’ll drive a lot of anxiety.

[Swan]

Right now, reading your thread title has just reminded me.

[bitontheslide]

i enjoy work

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Kate!

Sunday. I hate Sundays. So boring.

Ditto, Kate. Anything up until 3pm on a Sunday’s just fine. After that it’s just a case of biding time and feeling really bored but knowing that the week ahead (at least the first two or three days of it) are probably going to be even worse (I’m not saying that to get the dread-pre. Monday blues ball rolling especially in your case, btw, just explaining it through my lens).

Like I said, unless I’m having a specifically good week all-round, the only time of the week I actually enjoy for what it is (to varying extents) is the period between Wednesday evening and early Sunday afternoon. Between now and Corrie’s Wednesday bill I’d rather just hibernate.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Swan

Right now, reading your thread title has just reminded me.

My bad.

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i enjoy work

So do I (on a certain level) but that doesn’t make the Sunday-Monday-Tuesday transition any less jarring. Weekends seem far too short these days. That’s why I try and be awake for as long as possible during weekends (even if it’s a case of me having done a night shift on a Friday night - which I’ve had to the odd time - or having a long night out) because after a certain point once you so much it’s blink it’s already Monday morning. I hate sleeping away my weekends (not that I won’t have a few hours’ post-hangover kip on a Saturday if need be but other than that I’d rather be conscious and alert during that time of week, just because).

[LeatherTrumpet]

Iv been working all day and still am, love a Sunday. I will stop at 6.30 and cut the grass and a new strimmer has come so cant wait to try it

[Redway]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Iv been working all day and still am, love a Sunday. I will stop at 6.30 and cut the grass and a new strimmer has come so cant wait to try it

What is it exactly that you love about Sundays (after the godly first couple of hours) if I may ask?

[Cherie]

I don’t really get the blues as I dont go out to work and work part time only so that helps I guess

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Redway

What is it exactly that you love about Sundays (after the godly first couple of hours) if I may ask?

Usually its a good football day and i love Johnny Walkers sounds of the 70s on R2 and then Paul O'Grady at 5. Plus I always do some gardening. I dont look forward during term time to getting up tomoz at 6.30 and taking the smallest boy LT to school as its a 3-hour round trip. SUnday evening is also the best time for my sales so its good to watch the dollar coming in at night

[Toy Soldier]

I’d say the weekend “48 hours” is 5pm Friday - 5pm Sunday during school term time. Have to start making sure kids are bathed and hair sorted, school lunches made, uniforms ironed and ready etc.

During school holidays Sundays are pretty chill. I work from home so there’s no real prep needed for Mondays, other than getting to bed at a half decent time.

[LeatherTrumpet]

when i was a kid it was when Wurzle Gummage came on and it was game over when the first bars of Antiques roadshow hit my ears

[ThomasC]

They don't. I work shift patterns.

Don't live for the weekend. I love what I do so for me there is no work and life balance. Work is my life or part of it. It's my purpose.

Try to enjoy each day.

[parmnion]

The fear sets in as soon as my head hits the pillow.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by ThomasC

They don't. I work shift patterns.

Don't live for the weekend. I love what I do so for me there is no work and life balance. Work is my life or part of it. It's my purpose.

Try to enjoy each day.

I hear that but in reality Mondays are generally pretty grim. Even outside of the work-life balance thing I actually don’t think that all days of the week are created equally.

[ThomasC]

Originally Posted by Redway

I hear that but in reality Mondays are generally pretty grim. Even outside of the work-life balance thing I actually don’t think that all days of the week are created equally.

Well depends.. I think if you've had the weekend off it can be a bit crappy going back to work on the Monday.

People wish the time away waiting for the weekend again.

Whereas I work patterns so sometimes I work Monday sometimes I have it odd..same with weekends, some I work, some I don't

[Redway]

Gotcha, but do you not place symbolic value on individual days of the week for what they are (ignoring work to some extent)?

[Redway]

Because if you do it’s easier to find Fridays and Saturdays (maybe to a lesser extent Thursdays and Sundays - at least where I’m sat, the latter purely because you’re reminded that duty calls in some form or other on Monday morning abs that ruins a good part of Sunday) more agreeable and fulfilling than other days of the week. Thursdays are often quite choka in the office/seminar hall but I’d still take one Thursday over 20 Mondays because I actually like Thursdays as a day (not just because they’re followed by Friday). I don’t think I’m alone in that approach either.

Return to work/etc. isn’t the only reason Mondays suck, IMO. They’re just bleak days in general.

[ThomasC]

Originally Posted by Redway

Gotcha, but do you not place symbolic value on individual days of the week for what they are (ignoring work to some extent)?

Oh yeah, I do... So like the weekend, Friday and Saturday just feels extra special.

I tend to binge and over indulge on those days

[Redway]

Yup. The first half of Sunday (up until 3 p.m.) is pretty amazing as well (for so many reasons) but as the afternoon progresses the pre.-Monday blues (which can take certain people down a serious temporary depressive spiral) ruin the fun of it. And apart from that Sundays themselves start to feel empty and dull after that point and you’re just sitting around biding time till Monday. Which isn’t something many people look forward to.

I never used to mind the weekly cycle quite so much (in as much as I’ve always had certain preferences) but at this point the daily grind/struggle of life is more taxing and uninteresting than it’s been for a long time so I can barely deal. I put up, shut up and get on with things regardless but for obvious reasons it’s not a time of the week I look forward to at all.