Blue Monday?

[danniUK]

Ok, so I know the term "Blue Monday" usually refers to a Monday later in January, but I've always considered the first Monday to be "blue", since for a lot of people (in the UK at least, I know it's not quite the same in the US) it can be the first day back to work after the Christmas holidays.

This year it's not blue for me though!
While it is my first day back to work, it's also "back to the grind" for the rest of the household which means I can dress again for the first time in nearly 3 weeks.

It was last year - infact nearly exactly 12 months ago - that I realised the bedroom CDing I'd been doing for decades meant something more to me, and I started regularly dressing during the day. We didn't have any long vacations last year so christmas was the first extended period without dressing since having that realisation. It's been like an itch I couldn't scratch.

So today I'm working at my laptop with my favourite bra, long-sleeved tight turtleneck, tights and a lovely knee length skirt. Blue of course! :) Oh, and a big smile too.

Is anyone else only now getting back to "normal"?

[bridget thronton]

BA k to work today - which means less time dressing each day than the last two weeks

[danniUK]

Ah, didn't occur to me that for some it would be the exact opposite!

[Natalie5004]

For me I am not. Over the holiday break my wife was off 2 weeks. And I did have 1 dressing day with her home. Her 35 year old son also stayed with us for 1 week. He was staying in my room with all my girl stuff. I hate that but that is the only spare room we have. Now is Monday AM and I am usually getting dolled up for the day as Natalie.

She decides to take today off too. So, I can wait another day.

[Sabine7]

I don't have issues with Blue Monday. A day like a day. A Ping Monday is another thing, especially for Sabine fasted after a boy mode weekend.

[Genifer Teal]

I didn't know it was a thing. I know it's a song but I didn't realize the song was written because it had a meaning.

[kimdl93]

Sort of? I spent quite a few days with family since Thanksgiving, and I present as male on those occassions. So the return to normal began once I got home.

[danniUK]

I didn't know it was a thing. I know it's a song but I didn't realize the song was written because it had a meaning.

Ah, I think that "the most depressing day of the year" was selected as the 3rd (or last?) Monday in January as part of an advertising campaign in to 00s.
They gave it the name Blue Monday which had already existed as the song long before that.

I'm sure I read where the name of the song came from... (a quick Google later):

It was inspired by a book that New Order drummer Stephen Morris was reading at the time: Breakfast Of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday by the noted science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut. It?s post-modern satire on society and was published in 1973.

[Stephanie47]

I know what you mean. When my wife was still working as a teacher and I was retired it did mean more quality femme time. Every thing imploded when she also retired. Ugh! Sigh!

[docrobbysherry]

Yes, it's Blue Monday for me in the States, too, Danni! Not only do I have go back to work, but I have to take down the Santa Claus kissing the Xmas tree woman mannikins in my living room!:sad:

The gardner or pool man mite see them and get suspicious!:daydreaming:

[alwayshave]

Danni, Just the lack of sun this time of year depresses me. I just scheduled my next day out as Jamie, so I'm living on the hopes of that day.