Does anyone else get sad being back in work today and seeing xmas lights everywhere

biggebruv

Does anyone else get sad being back in work today and seeing xmas lights everywhere

Lol it’s back to normal time and seeing all the lights around houses and the city just makes me even more depressed for some reason.

I wish I was still at home in bed uggghhhh who else is depressed

NIMAN

Xmas is over.

Face facts.

Pawwed Rig

Worst day ever

I’m highly upset.

_Brian

Can see the evenings changing and getting brighter, for me this signals the return of longer days getting outside more and more.
That’s enough to counter the return to work blues for me.

Kermit.de.frog

The teachers are still happy and that's the main thing.

Bigmac1euro

I was in on Monday and Tuesday.
Softened the blow for me.
I don’t find this depressing at all.
And
It’s Friday tomorrow!!! Wooo.
Now Monday is really gonna hurt but we won’t talk about it.

topper75

Too much is made of Christmas. All the bigger the comedown.

It is just a midwinter festival and a calendar change. It does not merit a September-October windup.

Keep it cool next year and ignore the hype. You'll find that Jan will be just fine.

KildareP

Hate to tell you but technically it’s the third Monday of January is most depressing (Blue Monday). Just a few more weeks and then it’s all uphill!

lawred2

This is why all the tat needs to be put away by Jan 1st at the latest

KilOit

Back in work last friday, lights down new years eve so no

seamus

Meh. When you have younger kids, Xmas is kind of hard work. It's not just continuous lazing around and boozing.

Going into work is a bit of a holiday after Xmas tbh.

lawred2

seamus wrote: »

Meh. When you have younger kids, Xmas is kind of hard work. It's not just continuous lazing around and boozing.

Going into work is a bit of a holiday after Xmas tbh.

100%

Add in a bedridden wife with the flu and a quiet office is a godsend

MrAbyss

Christmas is crap and stupid. I started a thread about this before Christmas. It takes until after it for people to realize how horrible it is.

But you ones complaining here will be wearing retarded jumpers, watching the ****ed up Toy Show again and yer 12 pubs of human misery next year.

screamer

The lights don’t make me sad, it’s the fact that I have to go back to work and leave my kids back into crèches. It’s the time the lights twinkle when we as a family get to spend real quality time together, away from the constant stresses of every day life and the work phones that never stop ringing. That makes me sad, not the lights.

_Kaiser_

If I didn't have a little fella who still believes in Santy then Christmas for me would be a non-event really.

I've been off since the 23rd and not back in the office till the 7th, so the best part of it (aside from spending the few days with him at Christmas itself) has been just been able to laze around and relax. Work has been both stressful and frustrating the last while so the break has been nice.

I'm not dreading going back either. I told my manager before Christmas that we're going to sit down in the next few weeks (he's offshore) and figure out what we do, as I'm not going to put up with more of the same.

All that said, seeing all the lights and stuff that goes up around Christmas is nice - unless it gets to Clark Griswald levels of tackiness, which is more and more common these days

Cee-Jay-Cee

I'm delighted. Christmas is over, the New Year is here and so that means the days are getting longer again. Next stop, summer.

nthclare

First World problems lol

elperello

biggebruv wrote: »

Does anyone else get sad being back in work today and seeing xmas lights everywhere

Lol it’s back to normal time and seeing all the lights around houses and the city just makes me even more depressed for some reason.

I wish I was still at home in bed uggghhhh who else is depressed

You are a kid at heart.
The world of work is not for you.
Start planning your escape now.

whiskeyman

KildareP wrote: »

Hate to tell you but technically it’s the third Monday of January is most depressing (Blue Monday). Just a few more weeks and then it’s all uphill!

Hate to tell you but there's nothing technical about it.
It was originally a marketing gimmick to promote holidays.
No respected research was done on it. All just conjecture.

If anything, Christmas day or new years eve / day are the most depressing for most. You could see if based on posts here for so many going through hard times. Doesn't help they may assume everyone else is so happy.

seamus

whiskeyman wrote: »

If anything, Christmas day or new years eve / day are the most depressing for most. You could see if based on posts here for so many going through hard times. Doesn't help they may assume everyone else is so happy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_effects_on_suicide_rates

Suicide tends to peak in late Spring/early Summer.

The most interesting thing is that while polls continuously find that people record the winter months as being the "most depressing", this doesn't link with actual clinical depression. We assume that there's a huge jump in disappearances and suicides around Xmas, when in fact there's not.

People just find themselves feeling "a bit sad" during the winter months. Not actually depressed or suicidal.

jr86

personally enjoy getting back into the routine again

After Christmas I'm generally bloated, start to get cabin fever and fed up of the dark evenings

At least january starts to bring longer evenings where I can get out and about to exercise and I always use it to plan any holidays for the next few months also, often from my Christmas bonus.

January is what you make of it. Instead of dreading going back to work why not just look at the positives

road_high

That’s because Christmas is so overhyped (has been for years) - it’s really only a few days off and goes by really quickly. Hence the bigger fall when it comes to an abrupt end

It’s not so much because of Christmas. It’s because work is **** and going back after a decent break is hell. It’s the same going back after the couple of weeks you book in the summer.

BeerWolf

Don't know about you OP but I am already looking forward to Christmas in 358 days' time!

Badly Drunk Boy

NIMAN wrote: »

Xmas is over.

Face facts.

Didn't you know that The Twelve Days Of Christmas (song-wise) only start on Christmas Day (or maybe St Stephen's Day)? Today, there should be 8 maids a-milking or 9 ladies dancing!

NIMAN

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Didn't you know that The Twelve Days Of Christmas (song-wise) only start on Christmas Day (or maybe St Stephen's Day)? Today, there should be 8 maids a-milking or 9 ladies dancing!

Its getting rarer and rarer now to see a Xmas tree still up on the 6th Jan.

By that stage of course, some numpties have had it up for over 2 months.

elperello

Shane McGowan no sooner rolls into town on the Barry's Tea train than it's all over for another year.

Not back until the 6th, heading for lunch and a few afternoon pints now :pac:. It’s still Christmas!

Lux23

I am struggling today. I had an extremely stressful Christmas break, so no rest at all for me and now I am incredibly anxious.

Ush1

I prefer the misery.

joe40

MrAbyss wrote: »

Christmas is crap and stupid. I started a thread about this before Christmas. It takes until after it for people to realize how horrible it is.

But you ones complaining here will be wearing retarded jumpers, watching the ****ed up Toy Show again and yer 12 pubs of human misery next year.

Christmas is whatever you want it to be.
I personally like Christmas a lot, but will also look forward to get everything back to normal this weekend and get back to routine again.

Neames

I enjoyed Christmas this year. I'm not back into work until Monday but I'm ready to go back.

I find that the drinking gets a bit tiresome after a while and so I've decided to partake in dry January this year.

Ready now to do something productive rather than lazing around the whole time.

freshpopcorn

For me having the lights, tree up, etc for the first few days back was something to look forward to going home to in the evening.

tamara25

I absolutely hate the month of January.. I think it is a very depressing month. Shops are quite, celebrations are all over, even the days are still very short. There is definitely a lull now. I will be so relived when February arrives

EmmetSpiceland

I won’t consider Christmas “over” until I’m not eating chocolate, or biscuits, before breakfast.

Bobblehats

Christmas is a best by date I intend to stretch out for all its worth

Gwynplaine

MrAbyss wrote: »

Christmas is crap and stupid. I started a thread about this before Christmas. It takes until after it for people to realize how horrible it is.

But you ones complaining here will be wearing retarded jumpers, watching the ****ed up Toy Show again and yer 12 pubs of human misery next year.

I'd say you're a right laugh.

LineOfBeauty

It's an odd couple of days, it feels like things don't really get back to normal until Jan 6th.

lawred2

tamara25 wrote: »

I absolutely hate the month of January.. I think it is a very depressing month. Shops are quite, celebrations are all over, even the days are still very short. There is definitely a lull now. I will be so relived when February arrives

Would have thought the shops being quiet was a thing to be celebrated personally

Carodh

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

The teachers are still happy and that's the main thing.

Passed school where I work and all 3 teachers cars were there today prepping for the next term. As I’m not a teacher I didn’t have to be in so I’m still happy.

jos28

Not in the slightest bit depressed, I love when all the Christmas sh1te is over. Back to work today, Christmas tree outside the house awaiting collection, all the clutter and crap back in boxes in the attic. House lovely and clean, and now I'm looking forward to Spring.

JohnnyFlash

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I won’t consider Christmas “over” until I’m not eating chocolate, or biscuits, before breakfast.

Finishes up around March for you then, Emmet?

IAMAMORON

I wish I lived up in the Alps, they are only getting going now. Another 2-3 months of daily activities, this is their big time of year, it is all go.

All we have is a month of commercial queues, boozing and nonsense and now 2 months of drearyfest, I can't stand it.

When all the fat camp programs come on the telly, you know it is a hopeless time of year. My best advice? Take the next month to take up something "new" as opposed to " giving up" something. New years are about new beginnings, not lamenting past times.

Huntergonzo

Not depressed at all, happy to be back at work to be honest.

Christmas is great, but I've had enough of drink, sweets, Indiana Jones and spending silly money.

Funs over folks, back to work.

Lemsiper

Not back until next Tuesday.

endacl

Lemsiper wrote: »

Not back until next Tuesday.

Me too! Also, in Spain enjoying a bit of winter sun so not feeling too bad at all. Xmas lights? Malaga light show s about to start. They spent half s million on this street so I’m expecting good stuff. Then tapas...

Charlie19

Only 357 more sleeps.:pac:

Better Than Christ

Like seeing porn after the **** is over.

whiskeyman

Better Than Christ wrote: »

Like seeing porn after the **** is over.

Not able to get the Christmas tree up again?

dartboardio

Yep, Ive actually been getting genuinely down/depressed about it all being over, which is quite strange, or maybe it's not.

It's kinda wearing off now but the other day I kept stopping and thinking ' this time last week i was finished work and it was all starting off'