Have you ever wondered...

why Mondays are so hard? After reading so many comments on Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare today I put some thought into it and being me (I am NOT OCD) I have bulleted them...

• We get 24 hours in a day 8 of which are supposed to be dedicated to sleep. This leaves us 16 hours of which we spend 8 at the aforementioned work or school not to mention the prep and driving time which easily eat up 2 hours at either end shortening our time to 4 hours. 4 hours to spend preparing for the next day, preparing dinner, preparing to sleep, preparing our children to do their best at school and trying to relax with our loved ones.
• We get 7 days in a week 5 of which we spend at work or school or driving around in circles trying to get people to work and school. This gives us 2 days a week to cram in quality time with our loved ones - worship services, sports, shopping, family activities, yard work, shopping, special events and the ever dreaded overtime
• We get 52 weeks in a year - out of that most get 2 weeks for vacation. I'll admit I'm really bad at math but 2 out of 52 doesn't seem like much to spend with the people that mean the most to you.

It would seem to me that Mondays are especially hard on us because whether we work outside the home or not they denote the start of the stop watch that controls most of our lives. There just isn't any other day of the week that seems as onerous as the one that rings the death knoll to our beloved "free time". Even if we aren't working - stay at home mom (bless you cause I KNOW an 8-5 is more restful) disabled, retired or whatever - Mondays are when the banks and offices are open which means we have a list of things that need to be taken care of or will be getting phone calls that give us knew things to take care of that we didn't even plan on adding to our lists. There is also the Post Office, sure they deliver on Saturday but do we really care? I don't even check my box most Saturdays!

So why are Mondays so manic? Well, seems to me that we are trading the running in circles of our "freetime" for just plain running in circles.

Besides - what other day is half MONster and half weakDAY?