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If there's two things I hate about January...

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Cherielabombe

19:10 / 03.01.06

It's the first day back at work after the festive season. Nooooooooo! At least you get the worst day of work over with very early in the year.

AND "detoxing." Ugh. It's just a way to assuage the guilt for all the naughty things you did in December. And anything that brings "Dr." Gillian McKeith out of the woodwork can't be good.

NO DETOX! I say! Keep on tox-ing!!

Spyder Todd 2008

19:28 / 03.01.06

I've started the year off by being switched to a different branch. Everything's cool, except for the abundance of crazy old people. It's senior citizen day over here, apparently. So they're everywhere. They make me feel bad for understanding how to use the internet just by their presence.

Shrug

10:59 / 04.01.06

My birthday falls in January and I'm inevitably always broke for it which is a bit crap. Everything else I quite like about it. I might be alone in this but I'm quite fond of all that brisk wintery weather.

sleazenation

11:25 / 04.01.06

My birthday is in january and as a freelance it means that I usually have a hefty tax bill to pay around the same time - Januarys are often shit.

Tabitha Tickletooth

11:36 / 04.01.06

My little brother's birthday is in January. In fact, it is January 25 and he is an Australian (who lives in Australia). This means that for his entire life, he will have the day after his birthday off as January 26 is the Australia Day bank holiday. I think this is very cool, although contributes nothing to laments about how crap January is. Sorry.

modern maenad

11:45 / 04.01.06

My brother-in-laws birthday is 2nd January - how crap is that?! Everyone's broke, hungover, fed up with partying and generally in an abstemious frame of mind. And most people haven't transfered fully to their new diary and tend to forget on top of everything else. Gah!!

Our Lady Has Left the Building

12:46 / 04.01.06

My cousin's birthday is the 1st of January. Boooosh! Top that! I did feel grotty yesterday afternoon, first day back. It doesn't help that just before Christmas we get told how the library service's budget has been cut for the next financial year.

William Sack

13:00 / 04.01.06

Didn't some academic come up with a formula (well, more like pull some mathematical symbols out of his arse) that proved that 23rd January, there or thereabouts, was the most miserable day of the year? Something to do with being broke, despairing at broken New Years resolutions, and shit weather I think.

My sons' birthday is next week. I think they have a particularly rough deal being twins with a birthday hard on the heels of Christmas. Some tightfisted fucker is bound to get them a joint present for both xmas and birthday, and that tight bastard is probably going to be me at some stage.

alas

13:53 / 04.01.06

So it's January that's the cruelest month? April's just another also-ran?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:27 / 04.01.06

Yeah, bollocks to that "lilacs out of the dead lands" shit, January is TEH 5Uxx0R.

Mourne Kransky

16:10 / 04.01.06

Janus the Two-Faced has, in fact, only one -miserable- face and he's sticking his toingue out and blowing a raspberry. But Spring is not far off!

Shrug

16:29 / 04.01.06

Some tightfisted fucker is bound to get them a joint present for both xmas and birthday

I always get combo presents. Oh heavy deed! *Shakes fist at sky* etc.
I'm always quite relieved to have Christmas and New Years over with and always enjoy January despite financial decrepitude. Hat & Scarves, warm fires, ice & wind, drinking hot chocolate all puts me in a very good mood.

P. Horus Rhacoid

16:36 / 04.01.06

But Spring is not far off!

I just laughed out loud at this, because I go to school in upstate New York. It's not uncommon to get snow in April. Late April. Sometimes early May.

You London people have it so easy...

Cherielabombe

19:43 / 04.01.06

Tabitha: I think January is better if it takes place in Australia.

Loomis

20:18 / 04.01.06

Some tightfisted fucker is bound to get them a joint present for both xmas and birthday, and that tight bastard is probably going to be me at some stage.

Not only joint presents but matching presents. Maybe matching jumpers with a big embriodered letter on each, for the first name of each child.

Sekhmet

20:22 / 04.01.06

Spring? Pah. Where did Winter go? It's been almost 80 degrees here for the past four days, ferchrissake.

Somebody broke the knob on our climate. All we have now is HIGH and OFF.

Brigade du jour

21:16 / 04.01.06

I went out last night, got pleasantly drunk and kissed a lovely woman. January rules!

But it's not as good as March.

lord nuneaton savage

10:19 / 05.01.06

I've given up drinking for two weeks. Don't get me wrong, it's entirely self imposed (basically I went home to Devon, saw my Mum and then proceeded to dribble over Christmas, upsetting everyone in the process) but it doesn't half suck when you're cold, skint and all you want is a pint of winter ale served by a comely bar maid.

I'm smoking loads of weed and playing Timesplitters 3 to make up for it though, so it's not all bad.

lord nuneaton savage

10:23 / 05.01.06

Oh, and I got a remote control Dalek for chrimbo. I really should stop moaning, at least when I've fallen off the wagon I can customise it with a drinks tray.

Sniv

12:14 / 05.01.06

Loomis - hell yeah, I wanna be a twin just so I can have one of those jumpers. I mean, I could have one now, but it's just sad if you don't have anyone to share it with.

January is shitty though. It takes you almost a month to get out of the holidays sleeping pattern, made worse by New Years. I went to bed at gone 6 am on new years, which meant I wasn't tired on the Sunday until at least 4 am, which means in turn that I was only awake on monday for about 5 hours before I had to go to bed again. Then I had to get up on tuesday at 6.30 am! That's not fair in the least!

Plus, I was sick of work again after about half an hour. Never good.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:20 / 05.01.06

New Year's Day utterly sucked. We had two days' worth of work to do, so we had to go to the office an hour early, and STILL didn't finish until ninety minutes late. Fifty-odd people in various stages of hangover or comedown, moaning and whimpering. The night was like a terminal ward. Or a Wetherspoons on a Friday afternoon.

autopilot disengaged

12:37 / 05.01.06

Wetherspoons: where *everyone* can hear you scream...

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:54 / 05.01.06

Grggh. I am either having the longest comedown ever or I'm properly a bit ill. (or the bonus possibly of both)

Feeling physically dreadful, exhuasted, Also teary, dad-tempered, spacey, able to stay away only in short bursts.

It's dark all the time and although I don't 'work', I have loads of things to do which require me to be a perky PR bunny. Ha.

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:01 / 05.01.06

dad-tempered?

Brigade du jour

08:01 / 06.01.06

Yeah, you know - always telling really poor jokes and yet getting away with it because he's so likeable and harmless.

Or is that just my dad?

Ariadne

08:11 / 06.01.06

My god - are you my brother?

Brigade du jour

10:33 / 06.01.06

Ariadne! I thought I'd never see you again! OK, you can stop kneeling on my face now, I'll give you the money. Or are you my YOUNGER sister?

Ariadne

10:35 / 06.01.06

I'm your older sister, of course. Now go and steal me a biscuit from the tin.

Brigade du jour

10:39 / 06.01.06

Yes'm, Ariadne, yes'm, I know my place.

Mistoffelees

09:21 / 23.01.06

AAarrgh, it´s cold! Last night we had - 20°C! I need to go outside (it´s still - 16°C, "subjective temperature" being - 22°C), but I´m still procrastinating. Maybe my shopping will marvelously arrive at my door step without me having to go out and actually get it from the supermarket?

Anyway, here´s are two pics of icecrystals I discovered on my window this morning.

Shrug

09:59 / 23.01.06

Wow they're beautiful. This is what I love about January!

Olulabelle

10:06 / 23.01.06

They realy are lovely. You should post them in the photography thread in Creation, too.

Shrug

10:12 / 23.01.06

Oh and isn't today, like W.S said upthread, the most depressing day of the year?

Char Aina

10:26 / 23.01.06

i dunno.
i have been pretty darn positive and shit...i have got loads done, and i'm only really late to go into town. beats spectacularly late, innit.

i think the key is to treat january like a period of hermit-like sabbatical, a time in which there is only you and your own, and in which you work on yourself.

do some push ups, dude.
you know you wanna be strong.
STRENGTHMONTHMACHINEGO!

Shrug

10:30 / 23.01.06

No like I said toksik I pretty much love January, but wasn't there a scientific study done last year or the year before?

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