Blame Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Ramadan, etc.

According to Workopolis, a website devoted to employment searches, work productivity declines as we approach the holiday season.

I just love it when I get to shift blame on something or someone else. See, my slackery is not due to my poor work ethic...it's because the holidays are coming! They're the ones enabling me, or not enabling me, as the case may be...