My name is Will DeFrees and this is the Sunday Scaries Podcast, your cure for the Sunday Blues.

You tap your phone that's sitting on your desk next to your computer.

You just did the same thing five minutes ago, but it feels like a half hour is passed.

4.35 pm it reads.

You know you could likely slip out early with very little consequence, but that feels like too much effort given how little effort you've already put in today.

It couldn't be less remarkable of a day in your eyes.

A meeting here, a Zoom call there, even your lunch wasn't worth remembering, some reheated chicken and rice that you made two nights ago.

It didn't sound good as leftovers yesterday, but you couldn't stomach throwing it out because you spent too much money that weekend before to be recklessly going out for lunch all week.

Even after your afterwork plans feel like a slog.

In your eyes you'll probably make dinner before lumbering over to your couch where you eat it over your coffee table.

Because you won't want to watch anything you're overly invested in, you know you'll just end up watching 10 minutes of jeopardy before flipping the TV off, setting your dishes in the sink and leaving them for tomorrow.

But as you sit at your desk where it's now 4.38 pm, you aren't even that excited to leave.

Packing your things up, you know you can kill the last 20 minutes of the day talking to your co-workers as you head for the door.

It's not actual work, but it's a tried and true strategy that even employed numerous times before.

In the car, well it's more the same.

You listen to all your podcasts and between calls, you're sick of the playlist that Spotify keeps suggesting for you, and you know you should call your parents, but even there probably busier than you are at this point.

But as you approach your place, you notice something that brings some welcome mystery to an otherwise forgettable day.

As you walk closer, your brain begins to wonder what it's doing there.

Is this for me? Or was this delivered to the wrong person?

As you glance down at the package itself, you notice your name, and then a light bulb goes off.

Yep, you totally forgot that you had ordered this in a melatonin induced state, but this simple package at your door just changed everything.

It's officially a trademark good mail day.

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