A fair time back, I put up #238 of these posts which was entitled “Mondays Is a Hard Time, #1.” While I think that the title should be self explanatory to anyone who has ever faced the “It’s Monday and I have to get up, etc.” experience, I do not intend to repeat my complete explanation of that title here. (If you really care, the original post was #238, posted in August of 2022 and it’s in the archives of this web site.)
In any case, in spite of the fact that I really thought that I might eventually completely “settle into my retirement,” I find that I have not yet been able to see Mondays as “just another day.” It seems that they will be forever and always the FIRST DAY of the WORK week and, therefore, the hardest day to actually have to face. I suppose that I should have known that this would probably be the case, but I have (quite gradually) come to realize that such expectations were unrealistic. SO, I figured I might pass along some of my newly acquired knowledge (through the use of some of the cartoons, etc.) which have helped me to survive these trying days. THEREFORE, herein I present “Mondays Is a Hard Time, #2” (also known as “Mondays Is STILL a Hard Time!” Enjoy and learn from my experience.
Having been a “cat person” (therefore fond of the cartoon Garfield) I SHOULD have reached a better understanding of Mondays many years ago. Garfield, after all, has, seemingly, always been of the opinion that a week without a Monday would be a just fine sort of thing. Since it often took more coffee than usual for ME to get going on Mondays, I definitely can understand Garfield’s “First Rule of Mondays” as expressed in this strip:
In any case, in spite of the fact that I really thought that I might eventually completely “settle into my retirement,” I find that I have not yet been able to see Mondays as “just another day.” It seems that they will be forever and always the FIRST DAY of the WORK week and, therefore, the hardest day to actually have to face. I suppose that I should have known that this would probably be the case, but I have (quite gradually) come to realize that such expectations were unrealistic. SO, I figured I might pass along some of my newly acquired knowledge (through the use of some of the cartoons, etc.) which have helped me to survive these trying days. THEREFORE, herein I present “Mondays Is a Hard Time, #2” (also known as “Mondays Is STILL a Hard Time!” Enjoy and learn from my experience.
Having been a “cat person” (therefore fond of the cartoon Garfield) I SHOULD have reached a better understanding of Mondays many years ago. Garfield, after all, has, seemingly, always been of the opinion that a week without a Monday would be a just fine sort of thing. Since it often took more coffee than usual for ME to get going on Mondays, I definitely can understand Garfield’s “First Rule of Mondays” as expressed in this strip:
After all, the alternative (as expressed by Garfield below) wasn’t often even remotely possible if I wished to avoid getting more buried than usual with teaching duties, design duties, TD duties, and administrative duties, etc. In any event, here’s one of Garfield’s solutions to the “Monday problem.”
I must confess that there were MANY Monday mornings when I wished to be able to engage in Garfield’s response, but VERY few where it was even remotely possible..
There were also times when I felt quite a lot like Dagwood in this Blondie strip.
There were also times when I felt quite a lot like Dagwood in this Blondie strip.
Most of the time, however, at least while I was working full-time, my technique regarding “Monday Survival” mostly resembled Garfield’s.
Yes, it’s true, I was never very fond of Mondays and Garfield did, on occasion, provide a satisfactory explanation of that phenomenon. He also, on occasion, provided some actual advice for dealing with that situation. (see below)
Unfortunately, Garfield, the comic strip, in addition to having one brilliant cat, is also populated by Garfield’s person, Jon, who seems to be a good representative of the completely CLUELESS among us. (See below)
In any case, I have never been fond of Mondays and that really hasn’t changed all that much since I retired. There’s just something about Monday which is unattractive and unappealing. On the other hand, there ARE other things which I dislike almost as much (and NO, I am NOT going to even consider touching on politics)! There really are OTHER things which I would consider unpleasant. (See below)
And, he hastened to point out, Garfield, Dagwood, and I are, apparently, not the only ones with something of an aversion to Mondays. It would seem that Aunty Acid is also one of the few, the proud, the correct, the “Monday Haters,” if the panel below is asking the correct question (as I, of course, feel it must be).
Still, I, and the rest of us who suffer through Mondays, will testify that even Mondays ARE survivable, if not well-loved. I would suggest that coffee and determination help considerably.
So, like Aunty Acid in the cartoon below, I give you this wishful advice in dealing with the “Monday Morning Blues.”
So, like Aunty Acid in the cartoon below, I give you this wishful advice in dealing with the “Monday Morning Blues.”
After all, things could be worse, someone could try to rearrange the calendar so that there would be more than one Monday in a week. (Now THAT’S scary!!!)
I’ll be back in a couple of weeks, and I promise that I’ll try to find a more cheerful topic for next time.
I’ll be back in a couple of weeks, and I promise that I’ll try to find a more cheerful topic for next time.
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