I am looking forward to tomorrow: Jayne is back at work, Chrystal is back at school and Charlie is back at college.  I went back to work on Jan 2nd and it has been really annoying getting up and going out while everyone else is still snoozing.

I think I got a better deal though.  My return to work was on a Wednesday, and we only do a half day on Fridays so I was able to ease back into the work routine with a nice short week.  The others have the greater shock of coming out of a longer break and straight into a full week.

Everyone enjoys a moan about getting back into the routine after the Christmas/New Year break but I reckon its the best return-to-work of the year, because (at least in my case)  the whole place closes down.

Any other time you get a week or more off, there is that nagging knowledge that the rest of the company is busy with sending you e-mails, assigning you more work, making decisions without your input, and generally going about their business. In severe cases you return from a holiday and find that all sorts of announcements have been made in your absence or that you have been moved to a new desk.

I can never quite relax when I use up my annual leave allocation as there is always a little paranoid voice in the back of my mind wondering what everyone else is up to.  Its not totally paranoid because I have returned from holidays to find changes have been made a few times now.

And isn’t it great to get back to your desk and find your inbox more or less as you left it?