One celebration ends and another promptly begins, the 'in-between' bit betwixt Christmas and New Year is always an odd time of year. You're still in the mood for merriment, but you're kinda also exhausted. If you've been moving around the country seeing family, you want to just stop and settle somewhere (anywhere...).
But if you've been stationed in one place for all the festivities, you sorta want to GET OUT. There's plenty of stuff that happens between Christmas and New Year.
Here's some of it:
1.) You've sworn off food forever but find yourself eating Quality Street for breakfast.
2.) At least one, if not two, of your presents have broken or gotten lost and it definitely wasn't down to your negligence [eyeballs cousin].
3.) You physically cannot drink any more alcohol. But what else is there to do at midday?
4.) You have five plans for New Year – your favourite and four back-ups – but you'll probably end up doing none of them. Because, last minute, that house party of your friend's work friend's very hot guy friend will seem far more appealing.
5.) You've argued with every member of your family and have officially run out of people to argue with. So you start arguing with them all over again.
6.) The telly schedule, so full of promise, has turned out to be pants. So you turn back to faithful Netflix... and it's just like any other time of year.
7.) If you're single, you've taken to wearing a sign that yes: 'No, I don't have boyfriend but I am FINE with that. NEXT QUESTION.'
8.) If you do have a boyfriend (but haven't spent Christmas with them) you've started doodling their name randomly on walls and talked about them so much you're even annoying yourself now.
9.) If you have spent Christmas with your significant other, you're fantasising about those Christmases alone, where you could make those epic cold turkey, roast potato and crisp sandwiches to gobble in bed without judgement.
10.) You hate to admit it but you're bored a lot of the time. You think about checking your work emails.
11.) You've been through every picture on Instagram for the last year and tired yourself rigid reading the same old posts on Facebook. You contemplate leaving social media for good, until you realise: what else is there in life?
12.) You think about starting your New Year's resolutions early... but actually, the whole of January without chocolate will be very difficult to bear so you might as well make the most of it now.
13.) You ponder writing thank you letters, but decide emails are far more environmentally-friendly. And then you remember how people are always complaining they get too many emails, so you conclude it's far better for them* *if you just telepathically thank them.
14.) You try to go on a run to feel better about yourself but you only manage to get to the end of the road before turning back because... #EXHAUSTED.
15.) You decide you're definitely going to get a 'rad' new haircut next month. Because: new year, new you – ovs.
16.) Finally, you never thought you'd say this but you're ready for January. Bring on midwinter and 2023.