hey Lindsay how are you I'm doing fantastic Michelle how's everything in your world I'm good
I'm good getting back into the swing of things I was on a trip you know um so I I'm getting you
know getting over some jet lag getting my kids over the jet lag it's not easy but uh yeah you
also had a trip so was it hard for you to get back into the swing of things it was the first
couple of nights back from Egypt I definitely uh was struggling with falling asleep and waking up
at the right times for sure but within five days or so I was fine it was light moderate yeah yeah
but you were in Paris right Michelle Paris yeah I was in Paris in London yes so um yeah it's it's
funny you know you then everything's different when you're away right the way you eat the way
you move the way you everything's different right so yeah just getting back into my normal routine
of course it's different especially with the time zone especially with uh my children oh my God it's
true and physically getting back into the swing of things I find that when I take trips I usually
most trips especially in Europe or Middle East I'll walk a lot in Asia you walk all the time
walk a ton so your body feels really good and then coming back to most of us work online and
so we don't we sit all day that's that was a hard uh getting back into this wing of that
was hard for me yeah I have I yeah I feel the same way because I would just walk all day long
but my feet are hap as well they're not happier I don't know on Instagram I talked about I stubbed
my pinky toe a week before I left for the trip a whole week before and so it's been over a month
and my toe still hurts um and then yesterday then last night I was going to the bathroom and I hid
it on a Suitcase anyway the walking wasn't easy we also also in the in the Louvre cafeteria my
son dropped a chair on my foot and my feet are your foot is not having a good year it's not I
also fell down the stairs right when we got there so Michelle what is going on it was not anyway I
just had to share these things anyway but we're talking about getting back into the swing of
things so I mean Lindsay you've talked about how you don't have the Sunday scaries right because
uh yeah you don't have those Sunday Blues but I think the I think after a vacation it can I mean
I think yeah I think it's normal to feel a little like because we missed the travel I guess well
especially if you're dreading your inbox if you've been gone for a few weeks what your inbox might
look like uh yeah that can be I mean vacation is great traveling is great so there's always
a little bit of a letdown when you get back into your work routine for sure yeah yeah yeah yeah
um but it's also good like I'm happy to talk to you today and this is yeah of course of course
guess what I'm excited to get into this topic today Michelle the swing of things but first we
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Michelle we're ready to get into it all right so we often say get back to the swing of things and
it's so frequent that if I I realize myself using it or hearing it several times just yesterday so
this is a huge one actually yeah I was talking to someone and they knew we had come back from a trip
and she said oh is it hard to get back into the swing of things this is just a super common one
um but yeah I mean Lindsay what does this mean that just means getting back into your route
maybe you had some kind of like I said departure from your normal life you did something different
and now you're getting back to your usual routine life work living situation all those things yeah
yeah exactly the usual life guys just to for fun we're gonna throw out another episode for
you to listen to which is episode 1929 of all ears English is we're happy to share these phrases and
pie so just for fun listen to that one as well I'm not sure if I'm happy to share my pie well
pie is pretty amazing I'm not sure if I would share my pie which is your favorite kind of pie
I love especially this time of year oh strawberry rhubarb pie it's amazing it's and in June is when
it you know it's most in swing it's only a few weeks of the year you can get it fresh yes so very
good so we often use this to talk about something new or coming back from a vacation or a weekend
um but we can use it in other yeah like starting something new for example it takes about three
months to get into the swing of things at a new job right so into the routine yeah
so this isn't even about coming back from a vacation right this is a different scenario
just to get used to the routine how work is done we talked on the business uh podcast this week
about how it does take some time to learn the ins and outs another good vocabulary word yes
of a company ins and outs of a company key bonus word for today yes definitely right so
um and what's another what's an another example alright so you can say I feel a little bummed
about my vacation being over but once I get back into the swing of things I'll feel better so this
one is about coming back from a trip and you're getting back into the routine so Lindsay what do
you do to get back into the swing of things when there's a change so it could be with your work it
could be with personal life is there anything you do to kind of make an ease the adjustment
yeah there are things I do and I always when I was you know my 20s living in New York I always said
I would never do these things on Sundays but I do and this goes for the weekend into the week week
two right a Monday Sunday into a Monday I do do a little cleaning around the house on Sundays I go
grocery shopping if if there's an amazing hike I want to do I'll skip that stuff and do it during
the week but if it's a default if I have the day I'll do some stuff to prep so I feel really clean
and good going into Sunday a Monday morning I feel my mind tends to reflect the way my office looks
so I'll straighten out the office clean off my desk arrange my papers and just walk walk
into a clean office on Monday morning that's what I do nice nice so do you do that like do
you clean up your desk I'm now I'm just curious every day like at the end of the day or usually
just that once a week I try to to do a light cleanup just to a rank because but especially
Friday afternoons things get chaotic Michelle on Fridays just like oh crazy and I'm usually at my
craziest emotionally boy I'm just like so burnt out by Fridays I think a lot of our listeners are
gonna feel this too and so there's just papers everywhere scribbling this got to do this gotta
do this so I come back into that maybe Sunday evening and say okay let's get this under control
so we don't feel chaotic on Monday morning right that's what I need what do you do Michelle to get
into the week um I think I I mean this sounds silly but I think just like having like a
quiet night and just like watching a show I like I mean like there there are shows that
um I I didn't really much watch any TV while I was away actually um so just kind of getting watching
a couple shows that I enjoyed that I wanted to catch up on so that was that was nice yeah that's
a good I think in another uh episode I've been watching a couple of those Matchmaker shows on
Netflix they are so fun they're so have you okay I'll come back to that another day okay okay I
love it okay great um those are fun um so I mean I think also after the global Health crisis it was
hard for the world to get back into the swing of things right to get used to some of those changes
so it can be also just for giant things like that so getting back into the swing of things
can be something as easy you know like small is just from the weekend yes um or getting into the
swing of things can you know a new job things like that or it can be something larger right
could be coming back to working in a physical office after the pandemic right going back to
that normal commute taking the train which many people have done now there's still a huge there's
already a huge percentage of the workforce that is just back in the office right um or like you
said a vacation or just a weekend anytime you're going back to what's normal yeah right right right
um or just to something being routine like that's that's the one kind of difference like if you're
getting into the swing of things at a new job like getting it to become normal yes kind of a little
bit interesting um so but yeah I mean I think for you know I don't I think like what I said it's
a good idea to find something you enjoy after a vacation maybe something to look forward to
um or or after a you know like one thing um we did before we left was we did make sure the apartment
government was semi-clean because one time garbage yeah right yeah well I actually had my neighbors
check on my place specifically to make sure that there was nothing smelly because once we went to
Montreal and when we came back it was late on a Sunday night and we walked in and it was like oh
my gosh rotten eggs or like something something rotten eggs I think in the trash and yeah anyway
it happens Michelle to the best of us it's okay but yeah that idea of if we have time we like to
clean the house a little bit before we leave and take out the trash just so we can come back to a
sane house that feels clean and feels good you know and then and it's not fun to do but then
you kind of thank yourself for trying to yeah yeah yeah yeah it's like doing a task for your future
self yes yes yes yeah and what about knowing everyone else feels the same way tell me about
this like anticipate is that what we just said that same idea yeah I mean basically yeah just
anticipating things and just you know if you're having a hard time adjusting back from something
just know that you're not alone and okay feel this way that's all I love it so what are some
so we've got our phrase get back into the swing of things right um or get back to can you say in
two or two would you say goodbye yeah get back to the spring of the things it got yeah get back
into the swing of thing I think either is yeah you say both however if it's a new thing um like
the job yeah yeah get into this right of things because you're not getting back into it so that's
kind of a key difference there that's interesting right yeah you would never say back because you
have never been there before right so that's important to remember so good stuff all right
so what are some other things we could say I'll throw out the first one Michelle are you ready
so I could say get back into the groove right I'm a little rusty but I'll get back into the
groove after a few days yeah and again that other example you could say get into the groove
um yes right in the similar similar way like just getting rid of the back um right and then another
one is acclimate it's tough to acclimate after a long vacation yes I like this one it's a very
interesting word right it's time to acclimate yeah that's a that's a higher level word might
be maybe an IELTS word for example by the way guys check out the IELTS energy podcast with
Aubrey and Jessica I can see that being a high scoring vocabulary word yeah yes yes yes for sure
um so and then what's one more get back into the routine very straightforward
term right I haven't exercised in months but I'll get back into the routine soon
exercise is another one of those things that you just have to be in the habit
yep you know once you lose it it's gone and it's hard to yeah um so anyway well
let's do a role play uh so we are friends and it's a Sunday night okay here we go
ah I don't want tomorrow to be Monday oh it's okay Michelle you'll get back to the routine before you
know and before you know it it will be Friday again that's true it's tough to acclimate after
the weekend I feel like it takes me a while to get back into the groove yeah but once you're at work
you'll feel better you'll easily get back into the swing of things nice I'm really encouraging you
you know I think this is something if you know if our listeners are parents of teenagers for example
they might be having this conversation right about not wanting to go to school I feel like
I I had most of my Sunday scaries in my school days oh oh man did I have them I I yeah I had
them a lot in school I remember like yeah after especially when finishing a break like winter
break I remember just being like oh God yeah I had a lot of I had anxiety for sure on Monday mornings
um thankful that I don't experience that so much yeah in my adult life yeah yeah but anyway so what
do we say here Michelle what do we say so I said all right you said you'll get back to the routine
and before you know it it will be Friday again right and then you said that's true it's tough to
acclimate after the weekend right and then I said I feel like it takes a while to get back into the
groove yeah and then I said yeah but once you're at work you'll feel better you'll easily get back
into the swing of things so get back into the swing of things nice and I think I feel like
that's true I also um I have this sometimes after like a family visit I'll you know have
like a funny feeling like I'm sad and like when my parents leave or you know something and then it's
like oh but then once you start getting you know you know then once you start getting moving and
doing things then you're like okay I got you I'm I'm okay yeah it's so true that used to happen to
me in college a lot I think I said this before but when my parents they didn't come very much because
I was in Virginia they lived in New Hampshire but when they came for parents weekend or to see a big
tennis match weekend I would be so sad when they left but then you get over Monday and
then by Tuesday you're like okay I'm going to the dining hall I'm going to classes I'm doing
my thing tennis practice life is normal again right oh makes me miss the college days actually
I kind of miss him but I don't totally miss them I don't know I don't I don't talk yeah I don't
totally but I could do it for a little while it's a good life for sure oh my God all right Michelle
what's the takeaway for our listeners all right well we all have this feeling I don't I don't
I think it's pretty Universal and I think it's fair to say um that it can be hard to acclimate
after something or to get used to something new a new job whatever it is a new living situation
um but you know we gave you some of the things some of the ways we tried to acclimate
um and we also gave you some ways to connect with others some Expressions to use all right
very good good stop Michelle I'll see you back on here very soon and guys don't forget to go
get the app because this will help you go deeper with today's episode and all of the episodes of
Ballers English alllersenglish.com app all right Michelle talk soon all right bye Lindsay bye
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