Case of the Mondays Cure

Ever wonder what cures a case of the Mondays?  Maybe you wonder each and every week.  I sure wouldn’t be shocked, but I would be saddened.  Saddened because, dang, it really stinks to feel such doomy, gloomy, I’m-gonna-really-loose-it-if-I-don’t-get-out-of-here-for-a-minute-feelings.  And I should know.  I’ve felt it too.  It’s my right as an American!

But seriously, in the event you’d like some ways to cope, or even (gasp) shift, your Monday Melancholy into something less blasé - Here are some ideas:


Give yourself something to look forward to.  Take a break or plan an after-work outing to catch up on some shopping, get your hairs did, enjoy a massage, buy a book and something to sip on and read a chapter before or after the Monday whirlwind, pick out a new plant baby or bouquet of flowers to take home, heck, get a tattoo, or enjoy a meal out from one of The District’s finest Monday players.  Pro tip: there’s a lot of available parking on Mondays.

  • 44 Canteen

  • A Little More Poke Bowl & Hibachi

  • Aardvarx

  • Acola

  • Alpine Shop

  • American shoe  

  • Bamboo Terrace 

  • Bluestem Missouri Crafts

  • Booche's

  • Boone Olive Oil Co

  • Breakout CoMo

  • Breeze Boutique

  • Bright City Lights

  • Broadway Brewery (opens at 4pm on Mondays)

  • Broadway diner 

  • Bubblecup Tea Zone

  • Bud's Classic BBQ

  • Cafe Berlin

  • Candy Factory 

  • Captain's Quarters

  • Chims Thai Kitchen

  • Chipotle 

  • Coffeezone 7 am-4 pm

  • Congress wok express 

  • Cracked up Mobile

  • Dryer's Shoe Store 9:30 am -5 pm

  • Dungarees 

  • El Oso 

  • El Rancho

  • El Ray Cocina y Cantina

  • Eleven Eleven

  • Ernie's Cafe

  • Essentialz Bodega 

  • Extended Hair by Brandy 

  • Fed Ex 

  • Flat branch 

  • Fretboard

  • Glenn’s 

  • Glik's 

  • Gunter Hans (by appt)

  • Hedda

  • Hemp Hemp Hooray

  • Hempriety

  • Hot Box

  • Hudson Hawk 

  • I Genie 

  • Insomnia Cookies

  • International Tap House

  • Iron Moe's

  • Iron Tiger Tattoo

  • Jiffy Lube

  • Jimmy John's 

  • Jon’s pipe shop 

  • Kabul market 

  • Kent's on Broadway  

  • Klik's 

  • Las Margaritas

  • Living Canvas Tattoo & Body Piercing

  • Lululemon

  • Makes Scents 

  • McNally's/Wise guys

  • Mizzou sportswear 

  • mk LUSH Salon and Spa

  • Moon Yoga

  • The Mud Room by appointment 

  • My Secret Garden

  • My Sweet Parlor

  • Obsessed 

  • Peace Nook 

  • Pickleman's 

  • Plaza Tire 

  • Poe Golf  

  • Poppy

  • Ragtag

  • Rally House  

  • RENEW Salon, Spa  & Sauna Mondays by appointment

  • Rock Bottom Comics

  • Room 38

  • Salon Nefisa

  • Seoul Taco

  • Shakespeare's Pizza

  • Shortwave Coffee

  • Silverball Arcade & Bar

  • Skylark bookshop 

  • Slackers

  • Sparky's Ice Cream

  • Speckled Frog Toys & Books

  • Studio 306 West Hair Salon

  • Sycamore

  • Tallulahs  

  • Tellers

  • The Beach Salon

  • The Candy Factory

  • Tiger Spirit

  • Top Ten Wines

  • Ukneadsweets

  • Uprise Bakery

  • Varsity Nails

  • Vows

  • We Always Swing

  • Wild Side Smoke Shop

  • YellowDog Bookshop

  • Yogoluv


If, by some miracle, you’re still reading, still looking for ways to cure your Monday blues, well, here are a few ideas.  Utilize at your own risk.

  • Spend 5 hours turning one’s desk into an Olympic event featuring your mastery of manic organization and cleaning into an epic 10/10 in appearing-busy procrastination.   

  • Pretend you’re Scandinavian for the day (they have excellent work/life .  But don’t do an accent, please, that will only increase your co-worker’s case-of-the-Mondays.  

  • Jung might suggest one embrace this shadowy, Monday feeling.  Give it a hug.  Invite it to tea.  While you listen to your shadow’s (valid) reasons for feeling blue at the start of another workweek, not rushing past the tension, resolve to acknowledge this feeling, whenever it arises (even on Thursdays).  Then activate your imagination to create a path forward, bringing the Monday feels along for the adventure.  

  • Call in sick.  Binge watch The Bear.  Decide to never, ever, ever open a restaurant.  But, then again, if you found the right business partner . . . Afterall, you already have a great name for the place.  

  • Work from home if you have the flexibility.  Make sure and put on a non-mustard-stained shirt for that Zoom meeting at 3pm.  Ride the status-quo wave and be OK with it.  For experienced workers only. 

  • Put in your rage-y two week’s notice via a memo made out of strips of paper you got out of the recycle bin.  Reduce Reuse people!

  • Cry into a glass of the beer from your attempted at-home brewery come 3 o’clock pm.  Then cry some more cause, ewwgross, this beer tastes the way sweaty pajamas smell.  

  • Take a walk and admire the way nature doesn’t give a flip what day of the week it is, it’s just out there doing its thing.  Go back to work with the renewed vigor of a honeybee.  


In other words:  Don’t let Mondays infiltrate your body!  No matter how you choose to approach your week, from the arrival of the Sunday Scaries through TGIF, we hope to see you sometime soon in The District.  Cheers!




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