Monday, Monday. Let's hope it's a good one.

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I had an elderly relative who used to always refer to Monday as ''Blue Monday'' and seemed to dread Mondays in general. She had a stressful job for years; I think that made her dread the beginning of the week. I thought of her today, it's Monday and no sunshine...and it caused me to look up the Blue Monday concept. What I found that is the shortest explanation-- ''"Blue Monday" originated in 2004 as a marketing campaign by UK travel company Sky Travel, which commissioned psychologist Cliff Arnall to create a "formula" for the most depressing day of the year (the third Monday in January) to encourage holiday bookings. The formula combined factors like weather, debt, and failed New Year's resolutions, but Arnall later admitted it's pseudoscience, with the concept now used more for mental health awareness than actual gloom.'' via google. So evidently, Blue Monday is actually supposed to be in January. It just took off, and people started calling every Monday ''Blue Monday'' and it caught on. We have a trip to the treatment center, and hopefully it will not take hours. Then we will come back home. I usually don't dread traffic, but this is Christmas week, and the interstate traffic here is nuts right now, so there's that...I will be glad to get back home again. Son asked for chili late last night, so I put some together and it's in the crock pot, we can have that when we get home. I know, boring and no excitement here...but it's not a Blue Monday, so we're good!!