To be annoyed Christmas is on a Monday

[Outandabout43]

I'm feeling very irrationally annoyed at Christmas being on a Monday this year. Normally you break up on the Friday the week prior to Christmas and have a few days getting into the Christmas spirit, doing Christmas activities and getting the last bits ready.

This year I break up on the Friday and then BAM Christmas day and it's all over.

AIBU to be really annoyed about this?

This has to be right up there as the silliest thing I’ve ever heard 🤣 how can you be so annoyed at getting a full 4 days off work?

I get 2 weeks off, and I'm still irritated by the timings this year . I wouldn't have started a thread to say so though - I would quite rightly have been flamed!

People on this site really do find the most absurd things to whine about, don't they? From this thread to the one about the teacher demanding that a child take a test (which had all the bedwetting hypochondriacs out in force) People (rightly) blame the government for the bad state the country is in, but sometimes I think that ordinary people are a bit fucking useless as well.

hey I'll swap you , and you can go into work early on Boxing Day instead of me.
Only on MN do you read stuff like this!!!

Monday is better than Saturday. I'd have to either work Christmas Eve or take annual leave to cover it.

I think you’re right - it does feel like a short run up to the day itself without much time for fun stuff earlier it is rude.

To make you feel better since you worked in healthcare - nights into christmas day is equally rude! 😂

I guess it’s reframing the days between christmas and new you that you hate - having a day for finishing the snacks with hot choc and a movie, going for a wander (weather permitting), finding solidarity at soft play or wherever with other parents when being cooped up becomes too much. Embrace the what day is it again / plan stuff in - we are seeing another family on 30th.

But most to reiterate - I DO get it and it is RUDE! x

DDs have broken up on 16-18 dec for years now

It’s also optional, despite your shouty caps.

You won’t be shot if you don’t make a rod for your own back and play the martyr. 🙄

Ffs 🤦‍♀️ What day of the week would you like it to be on ? Perhaps we could all club together next year & change all of the world calendars just to suit you!!
the only other thing I can suggest is change career perhaps become a teacher you’d get two weeks off for Christmas

What is brilliant about CD being on a Monday is that all the 2024 diaries and calendars also start on a Monday.

I find that weirdly satisfying, no odd days at the start of my diary, straight into a double page spread.

Oh no!!! It’s terrible! You poor dear. Are you ok hun?. You get a whole weekend off. Then Xmas day. Get over it

I'm really loving the timing of Christmas - and the school holidays - this year. The kids stay in school until a couple of days before, being excited and doing fun festive things with their friends. I get a couple of days off to prepare myself for Christmas, whereas most years I'd be in work on Christmas Eve, and then at the start of next term their school has an inset day so we can have a full seven days together from 1st-8th Jan. I'm eyeing up late deals on holidays....

Its the Calender dear, get over it.

Don't think there's time to petition the U.N. Security Council to change it.

I don’t blame you, I’d be furious too.

I work in a school and I agree OP, we break up Friday 22nd! Seems so lately, we normally have a much longer build up to Christmas to get organised and do activities.

Some of us work shifts and have to work Christmas day and Boxing day and new year too. YABU!

I'm happy. This is the first time in years DP will not be working Xmas eve because it falls on a Sunday so he actually gets a break before Christmas day instead of working til late the day before

Your question did make me smile… but I kind of get it.
maybe this is obvious advice but get a few things in your freezer between now and Christmas:

• make gravy (Jamie O’s Get Ahead Gravy is good)
• make stuffing
• prep and blanch carrots & sprouts
• freeze half cooked roast potatoes

Cuts down the work on Christmas Day tremendously. Or, buy it all from M&S ! 🤣

Yep, I've only had to take a couple of days annual leave and I've got a week off. I can't wait.

I'll be WFH on the Thursday and Friday beforehand... It's already been said that there won't be much (anything) going on. I'm then off for the week as the office is shut. Considered taking more time off the following week, but I'd say I'll be ready to go back by then after all that time with young, crazy, children! :-)

I think mathematically speaking you are being unreasonable as there’s almost a 50% chance it’ll be the Saturday, Sunday or Monday. However it is cold and the world is both depressing and irritating at the moment so I do defend your right to be irrationally annoyed.

My husband is an organist with a small church choir. Busy, busy, busy!

Me too ! My Christmas is on Saturday this year as I'm on a 12 hour late shift both Christmas Day and Boxing Day . At least if I've forgotten anything I can send someone out to get it

I've read it all now (pain when it's on Tues - Thurs cause you don't know where you are) ... xmas should be Sun/Mon ideally so you know what day it is for rest of the week !