It’s a sad, sad time – Christmas vacation is over. Now, I’m back home and back to work.

It’s a depressing time of the year, I think. First you have the anticipation and excitement of the holiday season. But that often becomes a hassle and hectic as a result of rushing around looking for presents or stressing over what to get for people you might barely know – or even the people you really know. Since you know them so well, it should be awesome! But is your idea good enough?

Then you get into the actual holidays which usually means spending time with family. This can be enjoyable at first, but more often than not, will become a pain as you start to become more involved with your family’s issues and inability to behave normally around each other. Then you find out you never got the present you really wanted (and have been putting off from buying yourself all this time) and the perfect present you thought you had purchased for that certain someone wasn’t so perfect after all. How could that be?

The next thing you know it’s over. Suddenly all that could have been is gone and you’re left cleaning up the messes that remain after your holiday getaway. You’re back to work and overwhelmed with everything that had happened in your absence and no longer is there this anticipation for the upcoming holiday season.

Personally, I did have a lot of fun on my break. And my family is not so dysfunctional that, when visiting, I had a lot to put up with. It was a generally mild experience. But it does suck to have to come back to work. Ho, hum.