Is Mercury in Retrograde at your place?

This post is brought to you with my dry sense of humour, an understanding that the following are not actually big issues and possibly sugar deprivation. 

I’m not sure if it’s even a thing, but if it is, Mercury in Retrograde is doing an outstanding job at Kirsten and co. HQ. Is Mercury in Retrograde at your place too?

Around here it gets a solid A+ for completely and utterly messing with all the tiny things, which are always such a joy to fix. Also, they’re not time-consuming at all.

Nope. When you lose every single email in your entire inbox and on your server, that takes no time at all to rectify. And it’s not stressful.

You’ll just need to put roughly 6-7 hours aside on a Saturday to deal with it.

And the same again the next day – that’s Sunday, which is always a quiet day anyway.

And then, if you’re really lucky you might even need another couple of hours to deal with it on Monday. 

Really you should be thanking Mercury in Retrograde for completely ballsing up one of the most important aspects of your business. It basically gave you a long weekend!

And breathe.

Or eye roll out loud. 

Or possibly do a vodka shot.

What is Mercury in Retrograde?

A couple of times a year Mercury decides to slam the brakes on and slow down. Quite sensible really and probably something we should all do a bit more of, don’t you think?

Anyway, when Mercs does that it kind of looks like it’s going backwards. That’s the retrograde bit.

Except it’s not really going backwards at all. That’s an optical illusion.

It’s just moving slowly, which kind of makes me wonder why they don’t just say Mercury’s on a go slow.

Or call it Mercury in Energy Saving Mode. Or Mercury in Magic Mode.

Maybe then Mercury won’t feel the need to be such a disruptive force?

Instead of being all ‘yep, it’s time to mess with your decision-making, your daily tasks, your life’ for the next few weeks, she’d be all ‘Hey guys! Check out what I can do. It’s like I’m walking backwards except I’m not. You should totally try it.”

Then we wouldn’t have to suffer through things including but not limited to:

• emails failing. Please see above. Apologies if you’re reading this and I haven’t replied to your email. I’m not ignoring you. I’m frantically working my way through a very full inbox. While possibly looking for chocolate.
• flights being delayed, connecting flights missed. The opposite of good times.
• a higher than usual rate of shirt spillage. Seriously, white just isn’t an option at the moment.
• blog posts disappearing. Last week’s have vanished. FYI, Mercs doesn’t like it when you make technology based changes.
• not being able to sleep. Despite sticking to my sleep plan, I am so tired everyday my eyes are scratchy. 

Add an appointment this week with my neurologist into the mix and I’m pretty much done with this Mercury in Retrograde thing!

How long will this last?

Mercury will finish her retrograding on September 5.

If turning off the computer, drinking nothing but non-spill vodka infused smoothies and sleeping until then was an option, I’d be all over it. How about you?

Is Mercury in Retrograde at your place? Want to share what’s been going wrong? It might make you feel better!