Yesterday it was announced that my workplace will be closed on Monday, xmas eve. Typically that day is a day I can come in, and whatever I work on that day I can take another off. Instead I will be FORCED -- yes FORCED to have a 4 day weekend.

I hate that. I hate the way --particularly over xmas-- the world goes silent and you are kind of forced to sit in your home and reflect on how you DON"T Have the big family and friends gathering. But also and this might be left over from my parents, I have a phobia about it because I remember how impossible it was to get the elderly parents help over these xmas periods. I can remember how many times I had the parents in the hospital over xmas and how stressful it was.

Makes me climb the walls.