Vargtimmen is a Swedish word. It means the hour of the wolf. In Swedish folklore, it’s the hours between 3 and 5 am or so, right before dawn. Supposedly, it’s the hours when the most births and deaths occur in life.

My personal vargtimmen is Sunday night. It didn’t used to be that way. When I was big into pro wrestling, during it’s height, there were two Sundays a month that were occupied, and during the fall, there was football those nights. And way back in the day, Sunday night was the bomb ass night for nerds in Chicago. Monty Python, Doctors Who and Demento, and Dave Allen at Large. You knew who your people were by who was the most tired on Monday mornings.

But before I get to the Monday morning. I have to get through the Sunday night. Now I have several options, I could stuff my face with carbs and wake up sluggish and feeling worse becuase of over eating. Sadly, this has been my drug of choice. I could do an entire article on my relationship with food. Let’s just say I’m on Monjauro because frankly, me and food need counseling. I used to play video games or read, but one of those isn’t available, and the other isn’t cutting it. ]\

I think a better solution would be to accept that I’m feeling this way every Sunday night, and figure out a way to turn it into something positive. I’m trying to find better ways of doing things. Maybe if I plan good things for the next couple of days, I’ll feel better. I’ve done that this week, might be a good thing to try to look forward with hope and a positive attitude, rather than dread. Worry and stress kills people every year. I don’t want to be one of them.

So instead of vargtimmen, maybe I should call my Sunday nights my Zero Session. Thats a gaming term for the pre-start of a new campaign.I should look forward to the week, find the bright spots where I can. reflect on the good things I had happen this weekend(Thanks Jasmine, Grim and the band Cyanotic for those this weekend). And maybe use that past vision to envision a week ahead that will have good things, in addition to the bad. Focus on the positive, the negative will be here soon enough. Good night.