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Hey, New Order. Classic. (It doesn't mention a date though.)

Another study found unpaid Christmas bills, nasty weather and failed New Years resolutions combine to make Thursday 22nd Jan the most depressing in the calendar. Why this day is any different from the end of the month, when bills are often due, I don't see.

Or perhaps it's just the papers looking for easy copy?

Still, there's a small event in Washington on Tuesday 20th to help take peoples' minds off things.

Hmmmm I'm sitting here wondering if there's something special about the day Monday. Its the start of the working week for many and for me that's the only significant thing about it. My question so, what about it. Are we a national of miserable so and so's that blame a day for all our grievance. Just cos its Monday does that give us permission to moan a bit more. Personally could be bleak and morbid any time of day week month or year it chooses me lol. And I certianly do not need some mathematical boffin working it out for me lol
Raise your coffee cup in honour of Mondays it doesn't deserve its bad press. GD

Well, personally I'm completely fed up with winter now.

I love when it snows and also the bright, sunny, frosty weather (at least we've had more of those type of days this winter than the last few) but now it just appears to be windy and wet.

I don't mind the period between Halloween and Christmas but now is a really flat time of the year.

Studies have also shown that there are more suicides in the months of January and February than any other time of the year and more in Northern Europe than Southern Europe. I can't wait until the clocks go forward.Only ten weeks now.

I liked that New order track, although I prefer the Carpenter's interpretation of the Monday blues:



What a great talent Karen Carpenter was. Pity she's no longer with us. A really sad loss to the music industry.

Still, I've just had an e-mail from Peter Klaver who's trying to organise a bloggers dinner on the 7th February to celebrate Darwin's birthday, just to cheer us all up. I for one am up for it (last year's do was a great evening)

Hi peterJhenderson,

Great to hear you're up for this year again!
To avoid hijacking another thread: there's something about it already on the 'belting pope genocide' thread, with invitation to register attendance there.

How does it feel?...

I love Blue Monday

thanks

Blue Monday
Instead of rushing in the first and second week of the year with signing up for all sorts of subscriptions, give yourself a bit of a break to get over the festive season and take time whe you're making new plans.

May I suggest that you make Blue Monday as a day of making new year resolutions.

Or think of thy neighbor, give to charity, have a good clear out. This should cheer you up.
:)

I know it's easier to get down this time of year because the "big" holidays are just past, the bills perhaps are coming in and here in the US we have Income taxes to look forward to. Shorter days probably helps this time of year to be a bit more.... subdued.

I don't mean to make anybody's Blue Monday even bluer, but yes it is true that the weather at this time of year , and - here's the rub - living in California with our 25-degree C January afternoons really helps!

(Sorry.)

On the upside, it's just a day. It'll pass.

"and - here's the rub - living in California with our 25-degree C January afternoons really helps!"

That, John, rates as one of the most insensitive, thoughtless, vindictive, heartless, mean, spiteful, inconsiderate, and disagreeable comments ever posted on this blog. Please proceed, at once, to the confession thread.

Peter,

I'm heading there right now. :-)

John,

"I'm heading there right now. :-)"

And don't forget those rosaries you already got on the other thread for watching Celine Dion. :D

I came out of work yesterday evening at my usual time and it was still daylight - only just, but still, summer's on the way!