A Cure for Monday Mornings

Oh is there just about anything worse than a Monday morning?  You're rudely extracted from your warm, fuzzy, comfortable, lazy weekend of relaxation and indulgence, and the whole week stretches ahead, full of undetonated work assignments and unforeseeable disasters.

It's an especially rude awakening when you have a bad habit like mine, which is to go to bed equipped with either a laptop or a Kindle "for a light read," and then before realize it, you are skimming through the end product (20+ open tabs of articles and essays) of a maze of hyperlinks, or flipping madly (just a few more pages!) in the grip of an unraveling murder mystery that must-be-finished-this-instant.  And then it's really, really late.

Therefore when a package came for me in the mail today, I couldn't have been happier.  There is nothing like a long-awaited (shiny) item arriving in the mail from far, far away, to settle on your desk and pull you out of your Monday Morning Stupor.  Bonus points for pretty packaging.  Yay!