I'm a pole, and so can you!

The downside of vacations is that you have to return from them.
When you return from your vacation the following things happen:

• you go to work and find you are woefully behind and so your stress level climbs to higher than it was before you left;
• you realize getting up at 7am most mornings is rather ridiculous;
• it becomes sadly apparent by the change in your partner's personality (and your own) how much work sucks the life out of a person;
• there is a distinct lack of apathetic big horn sheep, excitable quail, and highly aggressive marmots;
• your day is planned in full detail from the moment you awake to the point where you have to start recording everything on your Google calendar just to keep track of impending dinners, bridal showers, more dinners, house sitting stints, and then more dinners, and you start to wonder if you ought to start implementing the task list feature because you haven't picked up that book for book club which is due in like two weeks and you can't remember if you booked that hotel in Whistler for the Granfondo or not and you sure as hell better make it to MEC and pick up a gift card before the shower or else you are going to be looked at more askance than normal, and though you get away with it with family members and close acquaintances, you're actually going to have to spend like $5 on some smarmy card in which to place said MEC gift card instead of just writing a cheque and handing it over, like what you did to your brother for his birthday which just reeked of familial love.

Oh, it's tough being me, isn't it?