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!