Friday, January 22, 2010

I, January = Suckage

Theoretically Janaury should be a time of bright optimism; a new year, new hopes, a blank slate and the possibility of starting over with everything. The reality is that Janaury sucks. It's a hangover Monday after a three day binge and the realization that all those holiday bills and parties are going to require a whole month to pay off and clean up after. Businessses reset their prices to adjust for inflation and tax deductions like CPP and EI come roaring back, leaving some people with post-New Year's paychecks smaller than the ones they had going forward. In some parts of the country, winter has barely set in at Christmas, but by January, everywhere is locked in, streets are frozen, and everything is barren.

January, you suck. Why can't you be over yet?