Giving

I am absolutely not in the headspace for this long weekend.

It's the Thanksgiving long weekend here and I am not in the mood or the headspace and really would rather just skip having to do anything altogether.

I've been trying to figure out why this holiday a) snuck up on me and b) isn't something I am thrilled about and I wonder if the weather is at least a part of it?

We're in a drought.  (Which I didn't know about exactly but makes total sense when I stop to think about the last time I remember thinking about rain).  It's warm.  Not hot like hot hot, but warm.  Unseasonably so apparently.  I mean yes we often have late "summer like" days in early fall but this is continuing to linger.  

So my brain maybe hasn't switched to "fall/autumn mode" yet and so having a fall holiday is not on my radar.  It's still feeling like early September.  You know... late Summer.  

Usually by now we've had some chilly days, some sweater days, some maybe even gloomy dark rainy days.  I had to fall asleep with just my sheet last night.  When I try to wear a hoodie (for a walk outside for example) I end up taking it off in minutes.  I haven't even started wearing my boots yet!  Not taking jackets anywhere, even into the evenings. 

Plus things have been hard of late and I'm not feeling physically well right now and all in all I'm very happy for an extra day off this week, I just don't want to have to do anything to "earn" that day.  I just want down time.

But it seems it's a long weekend whether I'm ready or up for it or not so there you have it.