Monday Mutterings

Is it just me, or does this look like the beginning of another long week? Any time a Monday starts with the death of Superman, it's looking like a long week.

Things started off so slow for me. We normally get to bed pretty good Sunday evenings, but for some reason I couldn't sleep - and then I dreamt alot. Woke up at 1:15am, 3:20am, slept through the alarm at 5:55am and woke up from somewhere deep at 6:40am - running late already and not feeling like I'd gotten any sleep at all. I don't normally dream alot, but the past month or so has been very pensive, I guess. I sleep hard normally, it's just that last night and lots of times in the past month, I've slept really really hard. I'm not as rested as I should be, not as up and going in the mornings.

Mondays, then, are that much rougher for me physically. Just feeling tired, run down, under-rested, and I'm sure that plays on my disposition and motivation, too. I've got to get into a habit of walking/exercising, of getting to bed "on time", of turning media off and stretching out with a book or something to shut my mind and spirit down in the evenings. Something like that, prepping for the day and week ahead. As it stands, I'm too testy in the mornings, and that edge might not go away through the day and often lingers into the evening, meaning that my kids get too much angst from Daddy - and that's not good. I need to be looser, freer, less wound up and bound up about things. They need to be free to be kids, free to play with Daddy, free to think and jump and wrestle on the bed.

One thing I do enjoy about Mondays: football talk. Most of us are Carolina or Clemson fans. This morning's not a good time to talk about either of those teams, but a couple of folks sitting next to me in the cubicle farm also have fantasy teams. It's fun to talk about how well or how bad our teams did, and to learn a little about who I might want to pick up for next week. Right now, I'm 0-5 in my Yahoo! league - would've beaten almost anyone else except the team I played this week - and 3-2 in the Fanball league - unless Ahman Green torches me tonight for more than 33 points. Maybe that's why I'm not sleeping enough, having to stay up to watch Sunday Night and Monday Night Football every week...?

Did you know that in Genesis, the Book of Beginnings, God knew Mondays would be trouble? Look at the six days of creation - on all the days, God notices how "good" it is. Except Monday, Genesis 1:6-8 (thanks, Pastor Mark). Hmmmm.... figures.