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"Blue Monday" is entirely made up you know.

I'm ill, so yeah I'm feeling depressed today. I hate being ill

Ben Goldacare, if you like that sort of thing

White Monday here. <baboom tish>

<<moan>>

Been awake since 00.40 so its a bleary monday for me.

I am feeling mildly worried that I won't be able to get the train to work tomorrow (WFH on Mondays anyway) not because I am worried about getting in for work but because I have plans after work with friends and don't want to miss out.

But "mildly worried" is all, not especially blue.

i'm feeling better this January than i've done for years

mainly i think, because i've sacked off family members

i win

Happy as anything and just fine here. Quite chirpy even especially considering I've only had 3 hours sleep!

I'v always felt that the MN sadface is too sad for use in most cases because of its blueness.

If someone has died then that is as sad as a face needs to be. But if I've dropped my mug and spilled coffee everywhere I might be a little bit sad, but not as sad as that blue sadface. Using the blue sadface would make it look as if I were unreasonably sad about a minor incident, and people would need to ask me if I was OK and if there was anything else wrong.

Yep. Slightly blue and worried - but this is ongoing for health reasons, not because of a specific day.

trills do you need varying shades of blue? Sky blue for minor mishap, bright azure for household calamity and full on midnight blue for the four horsemen arriving unexpectedly for tea?

My husband is off for an op today, a minor one. I'm quite chirpy with it actually.

Yes the blue sadface should be reserved for actual sad things. We could have a green sadface for feeling a bit ill and tired.

I am most certainly blue today.
Not depressed, but down in the dumps.

Trills, thanks for the BG link. It may cheer me up.

Actually feeling quite chirpy today for someone on so little sleep.

Blue, blue!

Much more chirpy than I was last Monday actually. Odd... I hate bloody winter and am usually grumpy as a grumpy thing until the tulips are out.

Wouldn't green sadface look too like envy face? How about a simple yellow sadface?

I'm feeling quite fabulous but that might be the effects of the tramadol I've been taking for two months now, reduction in pain and as my GP wrote in my notes 'patient reports significant mood elevation from the medication'. Marvellous.

Why is it Blue Monday?

I'm actually feeling quite well today. Not too sore, not too much snow, plans to build a huge railroad layout with son after school.

What's to be sad about?

LostinWales I bloody love tramadol. I've only had it once

I'm feeling pretty chirpy but am slightly concerned about getting to uni later. The trains are a bit dodgy.

i've had a little bit of a cry today. am now slurping a massive hot chocolate whilst dd finally naps. so yes, there is a tinge of blueness today.

i vote for a pale blue sad face

Quite chirpy here too. The school is closed due to the icy/ snowy conditions so we are still in our pyjamas.

All we are doing is playing / reading / watching CBeebies / eating. Bliss.

I'm feeling better today than I did yesterday on what will officially be known as "The Birthday Sunday that Sucked".

At least my family have buggered off to work and school today, instead of hanging round the house ignoring me.

Was feeling pretty grim last night - sort of an indigo purple sadface - so decided to give in to my mental & physical uselessness. Took a double dose of sleeping tablets - very naughty! - at 7:30 pm and woke up 10:30 am, feeling quite glorious.

I love drugs!

Happy postbirthday, pip!

Sunny it's great isn't it I'm actually worried they might find a way of fixing my back now as I've got over most of the side effects and just feel very jolly all the time! (although the hallucinations were interesting )

Sorry about your birthday pip, that's awful. I hate birthdays.

feel broke. so blue...

Blue here! Diet utterly gone to pot and sat on sofa eating quality street with DDs who are snowed in!

People tend to use the as a vomit emoticon anyway so I was just applying a bit of logic.

The kids are at school. I've had a hot bath.

I'm rather chilled.

It may change when DS1's determination that school has a half day isn't realised. The fall out from that would be no more dramatic than any other day, though.

I'm snowed in at friends house. My son is at his dads on the other side of town. They cant get out either.

Not feeling bad about it

of the tramadol. I only have 30/500 co-codamol to take the edge off the siatica flare up I have from plodging through snow and on ice for the past week.

On the one hand, I am pleased that DH and the DCs are out of the house for the first time in 4 days (due to illness and snow). They were all Doing My Head In.

On the other hand, I have a very painful/stiff neck and no one to rub it better. Painkillers not working, heat pack not working, Pilates and yoga stretches Not Working. And I'm on about day 20 of my first period post-bf'ing, no sign of it stopping, with accompanying period pains, rubbish skin, etc. So feeling peachy! I should be getting on with sorting out the house but just want to curl up in a ball and eat chocolate.

And we're skint until payday. Not "skiing", as iPad just tried to correct me. I wish! Skint.

I feel pretty blue.
Must be the pregnancy hormanes.

Oh, I thought it was last Monday! Well that would explain why I was chirpy then and feel like shit now. (Hear that, Ben? You and your fascist demands for evidence and peer-reviewed research!)

I feel

No money, boring weekend of both DH and I working whilst attempting to keep DS entertained who has a nasty cold, cooped up in this bloody house which is falling to bits and we're in negative equity on a rip-off key worker mortgage shitey thing .

I spend all my time fucking cleaning, cooking and tidying, feel like a skivvy and I'm supposed to be grateful because we can supposedly afford for me to be a pampered SAHM.

I have just let DS cry himself to sleep because he needs to nap and if he doesn't nap in his cot I need to traipse round the park with him in pram, which I am just not doing in this weather. But hate letting him cry.

And I thought secretly I was pregnant and I got my period last night, and although it wouldn't have been planned I am really upset. And it hurts.

< for opportunity to moan>

I am incredibly chirpy, mainly because I leave my horrible job on Friday, and in two weeks I am emigrating to the sun!

I'm happy
I'm warm, I have food in my fridge and money in my bank account

It's not Monday that's the problem. No the crap day is Tuesday. The bastard.

I'm mning in bed while DD sleeps and DS is at nursery, so can't really complain.

Fainted last night and now I have a mysterious bruise and a fuzzy head, so don't want to do wedding invitations incase I make a mistake, and didn't take dcs to playgroup because I was worried I'd faint.

Feel a little blue as I was looking forward to leaving the house today!

Cheep cheep!

not blue, just been out for a brisk walk in the snow and diet is working. I don't associate feeling blue with winter or post christmas.
For me feeling blue is usually because I have had a row with close family

A bracing walk to school in the snow blew away any blues.

Feeling better this afternoon, different painkillers helping, and look! Blue sky! A tiny little bit of sunlight is making the snow look really pretty here and melting it nicely.

(((hugs))) to my fellow-*poppy*, fainting is horrid.

Not blue here. Best day of the year so far in fact. Surrounded by beautiful snow, dcs all off school and out sledging / snowballing, and I'm able to get some serious tidying done inbetween MNing.

It's stunning in London today. Bright crisp and sunny with snow still white and pretty.

A great Monday (if you're on mat leave and your baby is napping in her pushchair!)

I have made all the angry birds out of snow. Quiet morning at work as no one else turned up. Good coffee, dark chocolate and feeling contented.

Slightly stressy Monday for me. Was expecting a quiet day at home to sort out a presentation for an interview tomorrow. I have my kids and 2 extras, plus my suit from Next hasn't arrived as yet.

On the face of it, I should be quite cheery, DH off work so I got a lie in, got paid on friday so Christmas credit card bill paid off, finally got something out of the massive yet unproductive zit on chin, taken DC sledging, now sitting down with a brew.....

and yet, mildly dissatisfied.

I'm veering wildly from resigned to severely pissed off, as have just come out of hospital with a badly broken leg. Nasty op, pins, plates, lots pain, the lot. Buggered up forthcoming skiing holiday and am actually trying not to cry.
<<looks for bright side but can't see one>>

I had never even heard of blue monday until I saw this thread and the radio mentioned it at the same time.

I am feeling great, same as most other days.

Still no snow here, but this isn't a bad thing.

As for blue Monday, this is the first day in about a month, where I've not been crippled with depression, so in your face blue Monday. In. Your. Face. Ha!!!

Definite blue mood here. Either scientifically proving Blue Mondays existence, or that I am a miserable old boot.

i have blue Sundays as that's the start of the UAE week.
I like Mondays
Tuesday is HUMP day

And have TFI Thursdays which take some getting used to.

Are you kidding? President Obama is being inaugurated...

How can today be bad?

Nah, I'm ok. Life is good!

clam that is shit, especially about the skiing holiday. You definitely need the blue sad face!

I'm doing ok today actually. DH is back to work after 6 weeks without any, which is good for both the bank balance and our marriage. DCs are happy and played in the snow for an hour earlier.

The only blot on my landscape is the poo DS1 decided to do in his pyjamas this morning...

Oh and the fact that my skin has decided to go to pot.

In general, I like Mondays. It is Tuesday and Wednesday that I struggle with, because my enthusiasm for the new week has worn off and the weekend is still far away!

Ooooh, yes, I forgot. I heart Obama. (Actually, I think I heart Mrs O more, but that's another thread!)

I'm actually really happy as it's the Prophets birthday so it's a public holiday ..yay long weekend !

Prophets birthday on Thursday that should read.

It's a blue day for me. 15mo DS has found his feet & delights in charging around the living room. We went away at the weekend to see family which meant there was more space for him to charge in & other people to keep an eye on him. Now I'm stuck at home completely lacking in energy & just counting down the hours until DH arrives home & takes DS off my hands for a few minutes! He's such a daddy's boy & is making me dizzy with all his charging in circles. He's behaving like a caged animal! If only our road wasn't so icy I could get out & take him for a walk! I'm struggling quite enough with pregnancy as it is without being cooped up in the house with Mr Can't-Keep-Still! Why can't he be having one of his bookworm days where all he wants to do is sit on my lap & read books?! Yes, it's OTT on the sad scale but I'm feeling melodramatic!

Nope , had a nice day getting things done . Sun even came. out after a whole weekend of rain and gales . ds had a proper nap so should be pleasant this afternoon .

Suddenly feeling less blue - it turns out DH's "I'm coming home at 6" didn't mean that he was planning to leave at 6 which normally would mean leaving at 7 at the earliest but that he was actually planning to be home at 6 & not only was that his intention but he's actually going to make it!! Well, sort of - he'll be home by 6.15!

It's a little sad that my DH coming home on time can make me so happy!

Happy to say day improved as it went on! Thank goodness Bye bye blue Monday

Jojobump not sad at all! I share the same joy when DH gets back early, on time is 7.30 Early is 7! 6.15 would make me

I'm glad it's not just me!

jojo don't feel like you are sad - assistance with a tearaway 15 month old is enough to bring a smile to anyone's face!

My day has been lovely. DH managed to get BabyGrand to go back to sleep before he got up this morning so after having had NO sleep at all overnight I got 4 hours after he left for work.

It's sunny so I put BabyGrand in the sling and braved the snow to walk to the supermarket - she had a nice long nap (hurrah!) and I got dinner on, which is unusual. She has also over the last week, become much easier to out down so I unloaded the dishwasher too!

Good day today. And I'm seeing Les Mis at the mum & babies showing tomorrow at the cinema too!

Unexpected day off work (school), so very happy. Played with my 15 month old DGS and caught up on all the goss with my DD. Lovely!!

I am utterly thoroughly fucked off. Have had enough tbh.

Happy Monday here. My first outing with my one week old squishy newborn dd. Dud the school run single handed, ds1&2 went in great. Then went for a lovely coffee with friends.

Well I decided to go for my first ever bra fitting on my lunchbreak at the grand old age of 36.

I went in a 38B and left a 34 DD which has <coughs> perked me up abit.

Wow tired teddy. My ds is 9 wo and havent managed the morning school run yet!

Congratulations teddy!

Got great bit of news at work about a colleague so it has been a good day!

Good day sledging. DS and I are happy. DH came home in a foul mood.

Thanks alibaba and doittojulia

I've been really miserable today. I think thats because I had two hours sleep on DS's floor last night though, not because it's Blue Monday.

Been more of a bonkers Monday here. Everywhere I've looked I've encountered bonkersness. Been quite fun actually.

I've been really miserable today. I think thats because I had two hours sleep on DS's floor last night though, not because it's Blue Monday.

We have snow, we've been sledging, it's all good here!

Felt shite this morning and most of the day but feeling mighty fine now and happy as a clam :-)

Happy as a clam? Did you read my post?

I've been pretty miserable really. Some work related concerns, combined with disturbed sleep and the back end of my cycle. It's all fairly grim.

Crappish day at work on top of bad night's sleep but 5lb loss at SW made up for it tonight.

Really quite blue, rough couple of months with mc in nov. shitty weekend topped off by my husbands grandfather dying. So pleased to be going to sleep now, tomorrows a new day and all that.

That is very odd, I have felt utterly depressed today. I have all the usual reasons to be miserable (I hate my job, awful family, money etc) but it all seemed much worse today. So yes, blue monday - although more black than blue, blue is a bit American for me.

I've felt utterly depressed and blue today - so it's a blue Monday for me. And I'm not usually down like this. I'm looking forward to starting again with a brand new day tomorrow.

Definitely blue Monday here.

I'm chirpy! (But only because school is closed because of snow ) Hooray! A day off!

My little boy was 3 today. He got some plastic Octonauts. Not the slightest hint of depression round here. Unbridled joy, in fact.

dd was grumpier than I have ever seen her this morning. She's usually delightfully chirpy but both she and her brothers were moany and stroppy until I packed them off to school.

Bad day at work - I have a cold and didn't finish any of things I needed to, came home, worked until 11 on a presentation for a meeting on Wednesday that I know is going to be horrible, caught up finally with my boss, had a row with him about the recommendations in it (he's wrong, I am right) which I know will rumble on tomorrow. The day has marginally improved in its dying minutes as I am now in bed with a toasted cheese sandwich and a cup of tea, and a note I found from dd which says "sorry I was grumpy this morning, I thought about you all day because I love you so much" which she had put on my pillow.

But yes, I was blue today.