I have always found the Christmas period among the most tiring in the year - not the busiest compared with Holy Week and Easter or other peak times - but certainly the most people intensive and exhausting.
The family have rather given up on my participation in Christmas Day since I fell asleep during the opening of the presents last year!
This year, with a brief nap in the afternoon, I made it through until 8.30pm and then went to bed and managed 13 hours of sleep which is something of record for some-one who functions on 6 or 7 hours a night normally.
I can only compare the feeling with jet-lag - I guess the adrenaline just keeps flowing and then suddenly stops - and then there is the sense of loosing track of what day of the week it is, and normal patterns of everyday life go into suspension.
After tidying up various work things and clearing the desk on Boxing Day, I am now on holiday for just over a week - and have spent yesterday working on my guitars, changing strings, completing a custom job on a Squier 51, fixing faults and having a general clean-up of the guitar parts while listening to a selection of music. All very relaxing and helpful in switching off.
I am amazed at the people who have managed extensive blogs over Christmas Day and Boxing Day - where do they find the time and energy?
In my case it's a question of the last nervous twitches before the adrenaline finally runs out...and chronic extroversion, of course ;-)
Enjoy your break, Tom
Posted by: Kathryn | 28 December 2007 at 11:07
Two brief comments. Firstly not all of us have desperately busy advents even if we are anglicans.
Secondly your list of guitar maintenance tasks seemed very tiring to me. Even, as a pianist, imagining taking my piano apart and servicing it sounded as tiring. No, I write for relaxation and so that never feels like work to me. Perhaps we should have a discussion about the difference between real and apparent work.
Posted by: St | 02 January 2008 at 08:29