The return to work after Christmas and New Year is never particularly easy (although I remember a time when the majority of people worked *between* the two rapidly-expanding winterfests).
When you started your belated summer holiday on Boxing Day, spending almost two weeks on a beautiful archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, where winter daytime temperatures generally stay above 16 degrees, where life is laid-back and everyone is friendly (apart from the miserable cow in the airport tourist tat shop)… well, work becomes a tricky prospect.
And I deserve no sympathy. Here goes…
I had never worked between the 2 holidays until 4 years ago when I took my current job. This year, I finished on the 21st Dec, was back in work for the 27th and 28th, off until and back in on the 31st Dec, off 1st Jan, and then back in on the second.
It took me until this last Monday to really get a grip on what day it was!
I hope you’re suffering ;-)