Good morning!

Well, slept at 2 AM aned woke at 5. Not by choice. Hubby. The weather here is insanely warm (and then it's not) so he's all stuffy and snore-y. And my sleep is bad anyway for PTSD reasons... And my mom... and we just need to take a break.

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So, only song by THe Mamas and The Papas to hit Number One? No, not California Dreaming... "Monday, Monday"...

Possibly just for this line: "Monday, Monday, can't trust that day"... Yep. You never know. That said, the group is also known for aforesaid "California Dreamin'", and a number of other almost-hits and popular songs   Anyway, just a bit of old music for the day's beginning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81Ojd3d2rY

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According to an old rhyme, Monday's child is fair of face (Tuesday being full fo grace, and then eventually we get to Sunday being the perfect child, which led me to ask my mom once, "What day of the week was I born?"  Mom told me it was Monday. My sister was Sunday. Well, crap, that rhyme doesn't tell fortunes worth a damn.)

The tradition and some variation on the rhyme (listed below courtesy good old internet!)

Monday's child is fair of face

Tuesday's child is full of grace

Wednesday's child is full of woe

Thursday's child has far to go,

Friday's child is loving and giving,

Saturday's child works hard for a living,

And the child that is born on the Sabbath day

Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

Existed at least as far back as the 16th century in parts of the UK. At some point, Wednesday's woe was actually Friday's woe (so much for the Addams family child... "Friday Addams" doesn't ring like "Wednesday Addams" somehow), and Sunday and Thursday switched around, too. Why? No one knows. Evolution of social perceptions of stuff, probably. But I feel sorry for Saturday's child. They're stuck that way all around, apparently.

Some studies claim that Mondays are the least productive day at work. I'd attribute that not to Monday, btw, but to the "we were gone two days and have to spend half the day just wading through voice-mails and e-mails" crapola... Rather than to human frailty about Mondays.

Possibly due to work stress, or the fact Monday reminds us of to-do lists, Monday is also the day of the week people are most likely to have heart attacks or commit suicide in the UK, although there's no studies on it for the US. Obviously, UK Mondays realllllly suck.

Americans, however, always feel their least attractive on Mondays. Go figure. And, yes, someone actually found that out. OK, then.

Why does Monday hit so hard? Probably b/c we sleep in on the weekend, an dthen the shock of "back to work schedule" throws our body clocks off-kilter, and we're not really back on-game till about Wedesnday. Thus the woe, possibly ;-)

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OK, I'm... well... Y'know, never mind. I can't explain it without giving up too much personal info, just suffice to say that I am deeply glad y'all are here for me to ramble at.

Oh, and my cats say MIAO EOW AWOW! b/c I am apparently not brushing them on schedule. Speak of "body clocks"... Theirs are more finely tuned than NASA's countdown clocks!