Sliding into 2022

[rareboy]

I don't know if anyone else is having this difficulty...

When we came back to work on the 3rd, I mentioned the old saw that i was "full of cheese and unsure of what day of the week it was".

In many past years, we have had a fairly quiet 1st week of January but this year we are going full bore and here we are at Wednesday and I am still totally off my game.

Our Christmas tree is as fresh as ever, still guzzling water, but we are running ragged all day long at work and with more coming in. I am still listening to CBC classical Christmas music because it isn't Epiphany yet.

I am old and should be reclining on a divan, eating the last of holiday jam tarts and shortbreads, but it is like a frontal assault in the office.

Is anyone else experiencing this existential chaos this week?

 

[TX-Beau]

I for one am glad this holiday season is dead. For me it started in November and was one long nightmare of dealing with stupid and asshole, and it, much like the last year is best left dead and forgotten.

Unfortunately, my first week back is once again spent stuck at home because of stupid and asshole - I've never been vindictinve but, I've arrived and want a bunch of people to get plague and just die already since that is obviously the only thing they're prepared to do that's helpful.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Same here, work is going full speed as if the Holidays never happened. Not even this latest virus upsurge is having any impact of our operations. I need a Holiday redo.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I'm taking it easy I don't want 2022 to get startled. I'm starting on an exceptionally bright note though, at the end of last year I got 3K from the state to use for my community work and I'm basically pissing my pants in excitement at how much I can accomplish with that cuz my father taught me how to pinch the life out of a penny. I'm gonna start feeding the homeless (again), but I'm gonna wait til everybody comes off their holiday now cuz around this time of year there's so many do-gooders passing out food that by the end of the day they're being turned away cuz by that point the people on the streets have had 9 breakfasts, 8 lunches and 17 dinners. I'll swoop in once they've been forgotten again.

 

[peeonme]

This is my "off" season so in a few weeks cabin fever will kick in and I will be bored out of my mind. I am glad that the glitz and glamor along with the advertisements for the holidays are done.

 

[cabinfever]

Last year it was more chaotic but this year it was smooth and by the numbers.

As I have become more and more angry at the anti vaxxers as it is particularly skin crawling for me to listen to their toxic whine about "getting back to normal" when they are, in fact, a large part of the reason that we can't.

So - again I avoided all things Christmas and New Year related because it is a fucking pandemic and things are NOT "normal". I am fine letting the pandemic be what it is because I have to be and bright twinkling lights and meals without masks with anyone except my husband are NOT on the menu for me.