By which I don't mean late night, last minute shopping dashes and wondering how you're going to cop off with the new girl in the office and worrying if you'll photo copy your arse, again!
But the real silly season, where the transfer rumours really kick in!
It seems like only five minutes ago that we were all completly underwhelmed by the breaking news on Sky Sports that, at two minutes to midnight, we'd smashed our transfer record and signed Marouane Fellaini - who? - from Standard Liege.
And suddenly it's December, we're in some indifferent form to say the least and our only fit striker is a 20-year-old that came of injured in the last game!
So it's comes as no surprise that we're being linked with a gamut of goalgetters...most of which none of us will ever heard of.
The Henrik Larsson one is still doing the rounds but I'll raise you Dinamo Kiev's Brazilian 'ace' Kleber and Zenit St Petersburg's Pavel Pogrebnyak for every time you hear that Portsmouth 'misfit' David Nugent is on his way to the Blues.
It's all rubbish of course and the next month will see more denials flying round than at a David Irving after dinner speech!
We'll all subsequently spend the whole of January waiting for Sky Sport's yellow breaking news bar to stop telling us about Bolton or Middlesbrough's latest successful swoop and break the news that Everton have actually gone out and signed Lukas Podolski!
And the cries to 'Get Jika...Get Juka...Get the young lad on Moyes!' will increase with each Phil Neville cross that takes out someone in the Park End!
One story doing the rounds that may have more substance to it is the news that Tony Hibbert could be fit enough to return to the Everton squad for the game at Man City.
And if that doesn't put the steam back in your stride then nothing will!
Allez le Blues!