10 Ways You Know You've Had Too Much Of The Holidays

Have you had too much of the holidays? Have you had one too many Christmas parties? Are you experiencing a kind of unfulfilled ennui or boredom shot through with profound fatigue? Perhaps you've had too much of the holidays.  So how do you know?

1. You can't look at turkey for another 10 months--with a mild allowance for it at Easter--, and certainly won't be packing a turkey sandwich, come Monday, for work.

2. You purchased a pair of orthopaedic shoes to alleviate foot pain incurred by the hundreds of kilometres walked in shopping malls. 

3. You've put away the Christmas tree--on Boxing Day.

4. You're opting out of social gatherings simply to avoid any further social interaction around large meals and feasts. Indeed, apart from what you previously believed, you have met a turkey you didn't like. 

5. You're sitting in a walk-in clinic seeking a remedy from food poisoning and wondering if it's in fact a stomach flu--but inflicted from which party? Yesterday's, the day before, or the one before that?

6. Your kids have a stomach flu, caught at one of the many Christmas parties, and you're next...

7. Getting to bed well-past midnight and rising after 9am over a number of consecutive days is seriously messing with your well-honed daily routine.

8. You're sick of lactose intolerance, but still can't resist egg nog and whip cream.

9. In spite of a room full of new presents, you still can't slake the unsettling feeling that you need more, and the despair that you didn't receive everything you wanted.

10. You're looking at the thousands of dollars put on your credit card, and realize it 's going to be a very lean January.