 Monday Blues or In the Pink – Quick Five Posted by Anna Sugden Oct 22 2012, 1:15 am Welcome to another Monday! Hope you all had a great weekend – your sports teams won (mixed bag for me and we won’t even mention the hockey lock-out!), the weather was nice (not so much), ‘honey’ did what was on the ‘honey do’ list (yup!) and you had a chance to chill out or do whatever it is you enjoy on the weekend (read, watch a film, eat nice food, hang out with family).
One of the joys of being a writer is that there are no Monday Morning Blues. We suffer Deadline Drearies, Absent Muse Panics and Sagging Middle Sagas (of both the book and physique variety), but as there is no need to get dressed, commute or deal with colleagues in a place of work, we don’t suffer the same feelings of uggh. Then again, most of live with those who do, so we don’t escape! And we aren’t that far removed from having to do the Monday to Friday, 9-5 drudge that we’ve forgotten what it was like. However, despite my best efforts, I haven’t been able to escape the routine of working during the week and not during the weekends. I wonder if that’s because the world around us is geared up to ‘the work week’. Just like many of the older people I know follow the ‘Monday Wash Day’ routine. So, in honour of Mondays, I thought I’d liven up the day with a Mondays Quick Five: 1. Are you a morning person or an evening person? 2. Do you hate Mondays (like in that famous Boomtown Rats song?) or is there another day you dislike? Or do you like all days equally? 3. Do you work a traditional Monday to Friday, 9-5 or do you work another schedule? For those of you who work at home – what’s your work-time? Do you do Monday Wash Day? 4. Do you give yourself a Monday treat, to cheer yourself up? If so, what? If not, what would you give yourself, if you could? 5. In the rhyme, Monday’s child is fair of face – which child are you? Addendum: For those who can’t remember the rhyme – here it is! Mondays child is fair of face, HAPPY MONDAY!! TweetPosted in Anna Sugden, Mondays, quick five Comments62 thoughts on “Monday Blues or In the Pink – Quick Five” |
   
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Hey Anna,
I bet we’re both cranky because we’re missing hockey.
1. I’m a night owl.
2. I despise Mondays.
3. 9-5
4. Sometimes I’ll treat myself to a donut even though I already ate breakfast at home.
5. Friday’s child.
Jane, are you going to share you donut with the Rooster?
Very cranky, Jane! Especially as we’re coming to NY for a week over Thanksgiving and had planned on taking in a game!
Now you have two things to be cranky about – nabbing that pesky bird! Send him over to NHL HQ to peck that Bettman into making deal!
Ummmm, warm donuts — my favorite! I’d walk a mile for one, Jane!
Anna, what a fun post! Here are my answers:
1. Definitely morning.
2. Actually I quite like Mondays in Australia these days. It equates to Sunday in the US and it’s generally nice and quiet.
3. I don’t really have a routine although when things are going OK, I try and take Sundays off.
4. Hmm, a massage from Richard Armitage?
5. Right now, I think I’m Saturday’s child. Working hard for a living!
Oh yes, you’re definitely a morning person! LOL
How clever of you to work Richard Armitage into an answer. *g*.
All writers seem to be Saturday’s children right now! Although I’m more of a ‘should be working hard, but too easily distracted by other things’ child!
Which day of the week is that, VA? Someday? LOL!
I’m generally a morning person, too, Anna, although I can switch to evening if I get a second wind after 10:00 pm.
Jo, I can hit a second wind but it tends to mean I don’t sleep at all and I hate that.
1. I’m a mid-morning kind of person. That’s when I hit my stride, but then it’s all downhill from there.
2. I don’t HATE Mondays, but its not my favorite day. I do HATE house cleaning day which is generally Wednesday.
3. I work half days Mon – Fri. I do a load of laundry every day. If I didn’t we would be running around naked.
4. Slippery slope – if I gave myself treats I would not know where to stop.
5. I am Wednesday’s Child is full of Woe – can’t you tell by my comment here?
I hear you, Mary, on house-cleaning day! I try to limit those to as few in a month as I possibly can. Supposedly so I can work on my writing more … see my comment to Anna C! LOL
It certainly takes me to mid-morning to wake up properly. I like to ease into the day!
You have a specific day to clean house, Mary! Oh, my, I must be the worst organized person in the world. I clean when it gets dirty.
Today we’re cleaning fans in preparation for winter, which means rain where we are.
How do fans get sooooo dusty and why are they such a chore to clean??
Hi Anna!
1. I’m definitely a morning person.
2. I’m retired, so no more Monday blues for me!
3. After 40 years + of getting up early and trudging to work, no more routine for me. Yippee!
4. I would treat myself to coffee and a Krispy Kreme doughnut.
5. I think Friday’s Child fits me best – loving and giving.
Hi Carol! You certainly sound bright and breezy this morning!
Congrats on your retirement. My lovely hubby is retired too, but he seems to be busier than ever! Are you?
Sounds like we need the hockey hunks to lay on donuts for everyone this morning!
When my sister retired, she warned me that the first year is usually a lazy one, enjoying the extra free time, lying in bed late and reading the newspaper. So I was prepared to be a bit at odds.
Then I started writing, and I swear I’m almost as busy as when I was teaching. I’m a hard boss!
Jo, I love working from home but occasionally I can see that there’s a benefit in having a workplace and a home – when the two mix, there are times you just never get away from the to do list.
Hi Carol! Lovely to see you here!
Anna
I like thes firstly no sport for me this weekend footy is finished and cricket hasn’t quite started yet LOL
1. Are you a morning person or an evening person?
Morning
2. Do you hate Mondays (like in that famous Boomtown Rats song?) or is there another day you dislike? Or do you like all days equally?
I dislike Monday to Thursday because they are the days I have to go to work LOL
3. Do you work a traditional Monday to Friday, 9-5 or do you work another schedule? For those of you who work at home – what’s your work-time? Do you do Monday Wash Day?
I work Mon to Thurs 8-30 to 6-30
4. Do you give yourself a Monday treat, to cheer yourself up? If so, what? If not, what would you give yourself, if you could?
I usually have a skim milk mocha whne I get the first part of my job done (fixing up the mess from the weekend)
5. In the rhyme, Monday’s child is fair of face – which child are you?
I can’t remember the whole rhyme LOL but I do like Saturdays
Have Fun
Helen
Hi Helen! Who’s your footie team? Lovely hubby so enjoyed going to an Aussie Rules game when we were over in Oz last summer. He follows it via the internet now.
At least you don’t have to struggle through five days! So Thursday is like your Friday. And you get a nice 3 day weekend.
To me, you sound like a Friday’s child.
Not a Monday person, in fact I even worked 4 10 hour days trying to avoid Monday but my current boss changed it to Friday off.
1. Are you a morning person or an evening person?
Definitely an evening person, the only time I tolerate mornings is when I am going fishing and even then it is slow going.
2. Do you hate Mondays (like in that famous Boomtown Rats song?) or is there another day you dislike? Or do you like all days equally?
Nope Mondays are the days I don’t like, the rest of the work week is tolerable.
3. Do you work a traditional Monday to Friday, 9-5 or do you work another schedule? For those of you who work at home – what’s your work-time? Do you do Monday Wash Day?
I work 4 to 5 10 hour days depending on the needs at work. My wash day is Friday if it is 4-10′s and Saturday if it is five 10′s
4. Do you give yourself a Monday treat, to cheer yourself up? If so, what? If not, what would you give yourself, if you could?
Snork, a day off.
5. In the rhyme, Monday’s child is fair of face – which child are you?
That is so funny, I am a Tuesday’s child and the single most ungraceful person every born.
Oh no, Diannna – we’ll have to send the troops out to your boss to make him give you Monday off again!
In the Lair, you’re very graceful! I think you’re another Friday’s child.
1. Are you a morning person or an evening person?
An evening person
2. Do you hate Mondays (like in that famous Boomtown Rats song?) or is there another day you dislike? Or do you like all days equally?
I never have a Monday as I have weekends all the time as I am retired lol
3. Do you work a traditional Monday to Friday, 9-5 or do you work another schedule? For those of you who work at home – what’s your work-time? Do you do Monday Wash Day?
I wash any day when the wash basket is full and on the days I happen to be home … When I worked I was up at 5am…so no more early mornings
4. Do you give yourself a Monday treat, to cheer yourself up? If so, what? If not, what would you give yourself, if you could?
I have a treat whenever I feel like it lol
5. In the rhyme, Monday’s child is fair of face – which child are you?
I am a Sunday child …..I am bonny and blithe, and good and gay …. at least that is what the verse says but it must have been written a good few years ago lol
LOL Barb – I can tell you’re enjoying your retirement! Wow, no wonder – getting up at 5am is my idea of torture! I only do that if we’re travelling somewhere! Although I did get up early, when I worked in business.
I think Sunday’s child sounds lovely – I know the wording is old-fashioned, but it makes me smile and think of old movies.
Anna, I was just lamenting the fact that it is Monday. Not that I have anything against Mondays, really, but this one seemed really rude.
1. I am a morning person, for sure. I like to be up by myself, drinking coffee, getting organized and enjoying the morning. I just don’t want other people around for the first hour or so.
2. Mondays aren’t the killer for me. It’s generally been Tuesday that is the longest day of the week for some reason. It’s not so bad now that I work from home on Wednesdays, though!
3. I am 8 – 5, Monday – Friday. My last job had flex time, which was great, because I could work 7 – 3:30 or 7:30 – 4 or whatever I needed. This being on a set schedule is kind of a drag.
4. I typically do not indulge in a Monday treat. Although I am a huge fan, just like Tom and Donna on Parks and Rec of Treat Yourself day, I usually save up a good long while before treats are in order. Today, however, I am going for a facial after work. It should be wonderful!
5. I am Thursday’s child with far to go. I never liked that one when I was young, because it seemed like life would be an onerous trudge. Now I choose to think of it as saying I will go far in life and should enjoy the journey.
Have a great Monday!
Look how far you’ve already come, Caren – and the journey is still young. I have high hopes for you!
I don’t like people around me in the morning either – but that’s because I’m a teensy bit grumpy until I fully wake up (that sound you just heard was my lovely hubby falling off his chair laughing!). I’m not a fan of schedules either – you know me, can’t stand being told what to do! *g*
Caren, Boyd is like that too. He gets up around 5:30 and wants his quiet time to drink his hot chocolate and read his newspaper. I try not to get up before 7:00 or I’ll interupt his beloved routine!
1. Are you a morning person or an evening person?
I’m an evening person… so I really do love to sleep in in the mornings. Like this morning, I didn’t want to wake up, but the neighbour’s woke me with drilling and hammering at the ungodly hour of 7am!!!! Okay, it’s the law, but jeez, do you have to?
2. Do you hate Mondays (like in that famous Boomtown Rats song?) or is there another day you dislike? Or do you like all days equally?
Have you heard the lyrics in that song; I mean, really heard them? They are about a girl who takes a gun to school and shoots anyone who either bullies her or any teacher who has been mean to her… horrible. I love the song, and would love to learn the piano piece of it, but Mondays – to me – are good days. All the kids go to school and the unit complex is quiet again; plus I get mail.
3. Do you work a traditional Monday to Friday, 9-5 or do you work another schedule? For those of you who work at home – what’s your work-time? Do you do Monday Wash Day?
Actually, my weekends are for housework; whereas my weekdays are for my arts, gardening and writing. There’s the rare time where I’ll do some laundry during the week, but that’s only when the weather is in my favour.
4. Do you give yourself a Monday treat, to cheer yourself up? If so, what? If not, what would you give yourself, if you could?
I play a lot of music on vinyl… it’s a great way to reminisce and know all the words to the songs that’s being played… and remember where I was when they came out on the radio.
5. In the rhyme, Monday’s child is fair of face – which child are you?
I’m a Friday child… full of woe (I think that’s how that one is… I keep forgetting).
Oh yes, Mozette, I know the lyrics to that song very well. In fact, I’m old enough to remember the incident it’s based on too. I actually think the lyrics are very clever – even if the topic is horrid – I love the line ‘the silicone chip inside her head has switched to overload’ .
We tend to do washing on the weekend too. Except in the spring/summer, when we do it depending on whether it’s a nice sunny day – so we can hang it out on the line.
Friday’s child is loving and giving!
1. I am a morning person. Even as a little kid, I loved to get up early and watch the sunrise and see the world come awake. I still do that today.
2. I love Mondays. Always have – even when I was working. I feel refreshed and am ready to tackle the week.
3. I’m happy to say that after years of working Monday through Friday 7:30-4:00, I am finally retired. AND it’s true when people say they don’t know how they found time to work! I seem to be on a Thursday/Friday schedule for laundry.
4. I don’t feel as though I need a Monday treat. However, my husband and I both worked for NASA and on the way to work on FRIDAYs, we would treat ourselves to a donut and coffee at 7-11. Yummy!
5. I’m a Monday child. Not sure about the fair of face, but I’m a happy person. In that vein, let me wish all of you a Happy Monday and a great week!
Life is Good!
Your happy, breezy post made me smile, Connie – certainly brightened my Monday!
You sound like my lovely hubby – he’s always saying that early morning is the best time of the day. Hummph. It’s only the best time of day if I’ve stayed up all night to greet the dawn *g*!
Congratulations on your retirement! Honestly, I don’t know we ever found the time to work – we seem to be so busy!
I think I was born on a Tuesday, Connie, so I’m probably “full of grace” (snork), but Thursdays have always been my favorite day.
1. Afternoon/evening person mostly.
2. Like all days equally.
3. Try to contain my self-employed work to afternoons and evenings when I can concentrate more effectively. Don’t work weekends much anymore, but I used to. Do laundry after 7 pm weekdays and all weekends, as our hydro is MUCH cheaper then. Have 7-9 loads/week.
4. No treats to cheer myself up. Am working hard on losing weight. If I could give something to myself? Hmmm. I would have my husband retire now, as his 12-hr-shifts schedule interferes with mine all the time, and his takes priority because he works outside the home. (He has the only car.)
5. Hmmm. I’m not fair of face … not full of grace … definitely not full of woe … don’t feel I have far to go (but would like lots of time to confirm that, LOL) … I definitely don’t work hard for a living (been there, done that, am semi-retired now) … and I’m not bonnie, blithe, good and gay … so that leaves loving and giving for Friday’s child (even though I was born on a Monday). Yeah, I’ll go with that….
Definitely sounds like your’e loving and giving, Laney4!
I tend to write in the afternoons as I seem better able to concentrate then and be creative. I use the mornings for chores and admin and anything that I can do without too much thinking *g*
Good luck with the weight loss! And with hubby getting that retirement
Uggh – that should have been up in reply to Laney’s comment!
Hi Anna! Hope you’re having a lovely Monday.
1. I’m a morning person although that seems to be shifting a bit these days. I’ve been staying up later at night and sleeping in a bit when I’m not scheduled to work. Sleeping in means getting up at 7 instead of 6.
2. I work retail which means my work schedule is different every week. That makes Monday like any other day, except that it’s Dancing With the Stars day. That makes it special.
3. I do laundry when it needs to be done. No special day.
4. No regular treats on Monday but the other day, after a long and very tiring day at work, I bought myself a carton of Talenti Sea Salt Caramel Gelato. So good! Oh, and on the days when I have to be at work at 7am, I swing through McDonald’s drive-thru and get a strawberry-banana smoothie. That’s my “let’s get this day started” treat!
5. I’m Thursday’s Child. I have far to go. When I was young, I decided that meant I was destined to travel far and wide. I’ve done my best to make it come true!
Hi PJ! It’s always a great day when I get to see you – even if it’s only via the internet!
Does being Thursday’s child mean you’re coming over to see sometime?
Ooh that gelato sounds yummy. I may have to investigate for a treat.
Hi, PJ! That particular smoothie at Mickey D’s is my granddaughters FAVE! She’s always conning me into taking her to get one.
Hi, Anna! It’s always fun to read everyone’s answers to questions like these.
1. I’m definitely an owl with not a smidgin of lark in the mix.
2. Is anyone else old enough to remember tha Mamas and Papas and “Monday, Monday”? That’s the song this question set going in my head. I don’t hate Mondays exactly, but I do have a difficult time gearing up after Sundays that are more relaxed and sometimes even a bit lazy for me.
3. I never worked 9-5. For years my day started at 5 since I had an hour commute and usually had to be in the classroom by 8. Now I set my own hours, and somedays I work till the wee hours and begin anew around 7; other days I sleep until 9 or 10 and only work a couple of hours in the afternoon. As long as I make my deadline, I set my hours, but my days almost never begin too early.
4. I save my treats for weekends unless I have a particularly onerous task on Monday, and then I use a book I’m longing to read as a carrot.
5. I’m Saturday’s child. Some people would probably question if teaching and writing really qualified as working hard for a living. Those people have probably never done either.
Hey Janga! Glad you popped in today – you won a bookmark prize a while back from me. If you’d still like it – drop me a line with your snail mail addy to anna at annasugden.com.
Glad to hear you’re a fellow owl *g* and a fellow former teacher – who knows just how hard teachers have to work for their living!!!
Oh no – now I’ve got that song in my head too!
One of my fave songs from a favorite group.
Don’t the words say something about Monday morning won’t guarantee that Monday evening will still be with you? Or something like that?
Janga, I’ve done a bit of teaching in recent years and it leaves me completely wrung out! Always suspected it was hard work, now I know for a fact it is!
Janga, I’ve got a feeling Neil Diamond wrote Monday, Monday. Must go and check. No, he did a cover! What do you know? Well, in my case, clearly not MUCH!
Hi Anna!
Definitely a night owl here. I find it hard to get to bed before 2 am or 3am. Of course, that makes getting up in the morning rather late going.
I try to do my writing work during the week as that’s when I have the most uninterrupted time, but muse calls as it will and deadlines mean that sometimes I’m working 15 hour days even on the weekends. But I like Mondays as they get me back on track.
I believe I looked my day of birth up once and was shocked to discover I’m Sunday’s child. Who would have thought?
That’s the issue, isn’t it, Donna? We night owls have to deal with the fact that the rest of the world operates on a 9-5 schedule! It would be so much nicer if they shifted it a little *g*.
You make a good point about Mondays getting you back on track. I think they do for us too.
I enjoy your Quick Five questions, Anna.
1. Evening person
2. Try to take each day as it comes
3. Have been a stay-at-home mother and
grandmother most of my adult life.
4. I get spoiled over the weekend with
meals out and Monday, I want to continue
that process!
5. Monday’s Child
( Janga, I’m sitting here singing “Monday,
Monday” now! I ‘m a long-time Mamas &
Papas fan! )
Pat C.
So glad you enjoy my Quick Five’s, Pat. I have fun coming up with them!
I see yet another thing we have in common … Evening people!
How nice that you get nice treats on the weekend. That’s one of the things that has changed for us. We do tend to go out more in the week and avoid the Friday and Saturday crowds. We also tend to see movie matinees midweek.
1. I am such a night owl. When I worked I use to have to get up at 5 AM – it killed me!
2. I always hated Mondays. Not as much any more but I usually cook a big Sunday dinner and there’s always a lot of clean up.
3. I only work part time and the schedule varies greatly.
4. I usually sleep in a little more because on the weekends my husband gets me up earlier – sometimes intentionally and others because he just can’t be quiet enough lol.
5. I was born on Wednesday
What is this 5 am of which you speak, catslady?! LOL
What is it about men and their inability to be quiet? Or perhaps we’re just lighter sleepers than they are.
No-one can be full of woe when they have cats!
Ah, Monday morning blues, I remember getting those. When I was teaching I always made sure Mondays were “routine” days: vocabulary, sustained silent reading. I found it gave the students AND me a break if I didn’t plan any big projects on Monday.
Now, it doesn’t matter much to me. I usually take Thursdays and Fridays off to tend grandkids or have lunch out with friends. I like working the weekends because it’s too hectic on the highways!
You and me both, Jo. Even my 7 year olds were tired after the weekend, so keeping it simple was key!
I’m with you. Sometimes weekends are the best time to get stuff done! I wonder if some of that special me time feeling still exists too. I seem more productive when I write on a weekend.
Good morning, Anna! Great way to kick off the week!
1. I’m definitely a morning person, just not too early, please. If the sun’s not up, neither am i.
2. Mondays don’t bother me anymore since I quit the day job. (My ‘day job’ gets a a school bus come Monday mornings, leaving me a few precious hours of writing time.)
3. I’m a full time stay at home mom, plus a writer on the side. I try & fail at both activities regularly.
4. I do get one treat a week–lunch with friends at which I get to have my beloved Diet Coke!–but I get that whenever the lunch date happens. Usually it’s later in the week, so I use it as my look-forward.
5. I’m Tuesday’s child–full of grace. Hem. I’m not sure how seriously to take that, considering how often I trip & fall.
I take exception to you saying you fail at your mom duties or your writing job, Susan! From what I’ve seen and read, you do both extremely well. Your kids sound like such a hoot!
I agree on the sun not being means I’m not up … Unless, as I said before, I’m still up when the sun rises LOL.
1. Are you a morning person or an evening person? EVENING.
2. Do you hate Mondays (like in that famous Boomtown Rats song?) or is there another day you dislike? Or do you like all days equally? MONDAYS ARE USUALLY THE WORST, IF NOT, WEDNESDAYS SEEM INTERMINABLE.
3. Do you work a traditional Monday to Friday, 9-5 or do you work another schedule? For those of you who work at home – what’s your work-time? Do you do Monday Wash Day? YES TO THE FORMER. AND IF I HAD TO WORK AT HOME, I’D BE A TOTAL SCAPEGRACE!
4. Do you give yourself a Monday treat, to cheer yourself up? If so, what? If not, what would you give yourself, if you could? NOT REALLY. USUALLY I SAVE MY TREATS FOR THURSDAY–FOR MAKING IT AND IT’S ALL DOWNHILL NOW. *LOL* MASSAGES ARE THE BEST THOUGH!
5. In the rhyme, Monday’s child is fair of face – which child are you? I’M THE FULL OF GRACE CHILD. I’M NOT GRACEFUL THOUGH, SO IT MUST BE A DIFFERENT SORT OF GRACE, LIKE A GRACE OF SPIRITUAL STRENGTH OR SOMETHING
Waving madly at Helly!
Hellion! Great to see you!
Funny you should say that about Wednesdays, I always used to think Tuesdays were the worst and interminable. I think it’s because Mondays, as horrid. They were, tended to pass more quickly with meetings and admin stuff. Tuesday, not close to either weekend and long, long, long!
My massages are on a Thursday!
Of course you’re gracefull … All that swinging from ropes onto ship’s decks
!
Lessee…
1. Are you a morning person or an evening person?
Evening. Definitely. My brain wakes up at about 2 pm.
2. Do you hate Mondays (like in that famous Boomtown Rats song?) or is there another day you dislike? Or do you like all days equally?
Ihate Mondays because of Steve. It means he has to get up and go to a day job, and he dreads it.
3. Do you work a traditional Monday to Friday, 9-5 or do you work another schedule? For those of you who work at home – what’s your work-time? Do you do Monday Wash Day?
I do not work a traditional 9-5 and have not for many, many years. I’ve always done contract work. Many times that means no sleep at all for long stretches, but I prefer that type of project work. Something I can plan, see through, and see end successfully. After doing that for many years I don’t know how I would do with a traditional job. Probably not very well.
4. Do you give yourself a Monday treat, to cheer yourself up? If so, what? If not, what would you give yourself, if you could? Nope. My treats come at the end of the day if I feel that I’ve accomplished what I needed to get done. (And sometimes even if I didn’t, depending on the troubles I’ve had). My treat is a glass of wine and the time to make a homemade dinner. A lot of times I go right back to the computer and eat that homemade dinner while I work, but the break is my reward. Sometimes my break is going outside for a bit when STeve comes home.
5. In the rhyme, Monday’s child is fair of face – which child are you? Definitely not Monday–at least I don’t feel that way lately. Getting older and watching the wrinkles and lines appear is the pits.
I guess maybe Thursday, as I never feel like I’m done and always have “far to go.”
We’re sisters under the skin, Cassondra! I don’t think I could cope with a regular job again. Mind you, when I was in business, it was hardly 9-5 … More like 5-9 and seven days a week!
Plus you know how I feel about a glass of wine at the end of the day too. That and hubby (who is a great cook too) and the furry ones … Lovely!
Hi, Anna–
Sorry your teams did not do better!
I am definitely a night person. Someday we are going to stage a coup at RWA so conference workshops start at 11 am and run until 9 pm or so, no more of this rolling out dressed upnand, at least to some extent, made up, before 8 am {{shudder}}.
I don’t love Monday, as it marks the end of family weekend. When the boy was small and into country music, I discovered Mark Chesnutt’s “It Must Be Monday.” I feel the pain of the guy in the song, except without his hangover.
I work a varying schedule depending on what I have on my list.
No Monday treats, and we do wash when needed, not at a regular time.
I think I’m Wednesday’s child, but I try not to be full of woe.
Thanks, Nancy. At least some of them were actually playing. the hockey lock-out is killing me!
I’m so with you on the RWA coup! Given how many night owl Banditas we have, we should go for it! (Sorry, Anna!) you’d think they’d have worked it out by now, given how late some folks stay up at conference!
Nope … You’re definitely not full of woe! Perhaps it should be full of whoa! Given your yummy scrummy cover for Renegade LOL!
LOL! Thanks, Anna.
1. I am most definitely an evening person. I have to get up early to get to work and I hate it! All of those late nights as an opera singer have ruined me for mornings!
2. I am not overly fond of Monday. My off days are Friday and Sunday so Monday starts the long part of my work week. YUCK!
3. My schedule is a bit odd and I so hope I get to run away from it one of these days. I work four days 7 to 4, one day 12 to 9 and my off days are split. Not. Fun!
4. I usually don’t have time for a Monday treat. My Monday treat is clocking out and going home on time!
5. I am most definitely Saturday’s child these days. I work hard for my living and as the holidays loom it is only going to get more hectic. Sigh.
1. Are you a morning person or an evening person?
I used to be an evening person until kids forced me out of that!
2. Do you hate Mondays (like in that famous Boomtown Rats song?) or is there another day you dislike? Or do you like all days equally?
No I like Mondays because everyone is out of the house
3. Do you work a traditional Monday to Friday, 9-5 or do you work another schedule? For those of you who work at home – what’s your work-time? Do you do Monday Wash Day?
I write 7 days a week & do the full time mum thing
4. Do you give yourself a Monday treat, to cheer yourself up? If so, what? If not, what would you give yourself, if you could?
No my treat is getting to schedule my day the way I want. Treat is going to the gym (yes really) or perhaps reading a great book while I have morning coffee.
5. In the rhyme, Monday’s child is fair of face – which child are you?
I’m Thursday’s child
Tanks VA that was fun!