Have you ever met a person that loves Monday? Especially for those working in corporate five days a week schedule, Mondays are always most dreadful days of the week. No matter if you are a freshman or have been doing it for your entire life ! It’s hard to find a person who waits for a Monday.. unless of-course it’s your day off in the week.
Oh I know, I know there are people who don’t accept it and try to keep the positive attitude and all but honestly do they really look forward to Mondays? Well, at least I’m not one of those and I have no guilt in accepting that I hate Mondays. I’ve been working in corporate world for almost 19 years now but never have I ever loved Mondays (when its not a holiday).
Let me tell you a story of one such Monday. As usual I started getting the “Monday morning blues” on Sunday afternoon and not to mention, I had already mentally spoiled my Sunday evening thinking about the 7 meetings starting 8am the next day. All of a sudden, I started feeling bloated ! Was it the dinner party last night? May be I ate little too much of my favorite appetizer Or probably the drink. My stomach started rumbling and I was not sure if I could attend the important meeting that I myself scheduled (actually moved from last week) for tomorrow.
After trying hard to fall asleep for hours I finally was able to fall asleep sometimes after midnight and when I opened my eyes next morning it was already bright and sunny outside. I got up hurriedly.
Wait ! what happened to my alarm? Oh.. looks like I forgot to set it up last night among my “Monday overthinking”. It’s 7:45am already ? How can I get ready for the 8am meeting ? I need some time for my morning chores before I can get online. After all working from home doesn’t mean that you hop out of the bed and sit in front of the computer.
“Stop thinking Pooja and get moving..” I said to myself but my body had some different plans. It was not letting me move. My neck was stiff as a rock. I tried hard to get up but while struggling with my neck, I got a cramp in my calves. So badly that the cramp in my legs and stiffness in my neck threw me down right back into the bed.
I quickly realized that I’m not going to make it for 8am and was very doubtful if I could be functional for the 8:30 or the other meetings following it. That was the moment, when I felt super excited even in pain. The excitement of calling in sick for the most dreadful day of the week “Monday”. I didn’t even bother to try waking up again .. just grabbed my work phone drafted an OOO message and declined all the meetings for the day ! I can’t explain the joy of declining all the meetings for the day and looking at my all open outlook calendar with a purple OOO background color. I made a best decision for myself that morning and I was going to make the best of this decision today. For once, I was trying to “love” Monday
I decided to sleep in more. There is no rush now. I won’t be able to go for a walk anyways with my hurting neck and cramping leg so why not get more sleep? Yes !! but my body was not going to make it that easy for me. I tried super hard but I couldn’t go back to sleep. My dear husband going shower and getting ready for work was not at all helping either. Well, he didn’t know my plan so I didn’t blame him !
At around 8:30 after struggling hard , I got out of bed and by the time I got down to the kitchen for morning tea, it was past 9:30. Who knows what was I doing up in the bedroom for 1 hr but anyways it was my day to relax so I got my tea and went outside in the patio on that beautiful morning! my neck and leg pain was automatically eased after that and I was actually feeling better just by not doing anything
Suddenly my dear husband who was also working from home called me and asked me to go up to the bedroom again! I was in no mood to do that but he pleaded ( which rarely happens btw ) and I went upstairs again only to find a nice hot bath ready for me with scented candles and peaceful music around. It was magical ! I was actually loving this Monday.
As soon as I got into the shower after soaking in the bath tub a shiver ran through my body because the water was ice-cold ! I mean I get that it was winter but what happened to the water heater ? I came out without showering and started calling my husband who was now in his work meeting so couldn’t come out to help
Alas !! I just dried myself and got back to kitchen to fix something for lunch ! I was starving and just then I noticed water dripping on my head from the kitchen ceiling. Now I had to call my husband out of his meeting to check what’s going on! He went up to attic to find it full of hot water everywhere and couldn’t figure out what’s going on.. and then started a search for plumbing company who can send someone urgently
We both were hungry but in between calling various companies, their hold times and 100 questions we just couldn’t order anything either.
At around 3pm we finally got someone who said they will try to come between 6-8pm. By this time our kitchen floor was a huge water puddle and just because the existing problems were not enough I slipped and bammm!!! hit my head hard on the cabinet corner.. I was numb couldn’t feel the pain but could see the blood dripping on the floor. The water puddle around me started turning red and I was dizzying
And just then I woke up with my 5:30am alarm.. the dreadful Monday , all the meetings starting at 8am were all going to be there and no I was not going to have an Under the weather kind of day !
