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Post by somuchjoy on Jan 11, 2009 13:54:18 GMT -5
I hate January and February. Loathe these months. A sixth of my damn life spent counting down days. This is what today feels like:  Right about now, all I want is for the snow to melt and for the earth to tilt towards that first day when I can run in a tee shirt. This is what my city feels like round bout the second week of March: pitchfork.tv/dont-look-down/the-thermalsAnybody else want to count down? |
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Post by Rich Tarbell on Jan 11, 2009 14:00:52 GMT -5
This is what today feels like which one of those is your home? |
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Post by hoodrat on Jan 11, 2009 14:10:20 GMT -5
Anybody else want to count down? i too am tired of cold and gray and wet, no matter how much vitamin D i take. i would welcome the onset of allergy season right now. |
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Post by somuchjoy on Jan 11, 2009 14:28:51 GMT -5
Anybody else want to count down? i too am tired of cold and gray and wet, no matter how much vitamin D i take. i would welcome the onset of allergy season right now. 70 days. Your city is going to be beautiful, and thus the fate of our Nation.  If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be |
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Post by biblesalesman on Jan 11, 2009 14:43:40 GMT -5
I just threw out my Christmas tree (yeah Christmas tree, not Holiday tree) and I threw it off my back porch where it proceeded to slide down the ice hill that was my back lawn taking out 4 of my backyard lights, jumping the retaining wall and smashing into a table. Now I have to go get it. I am an the odds on favorite to fall and crack my skull in the winter wonderland that is my home.
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Post by heidivandernice, nice on Jan 11, 2009 15:21:35 GMT -5
i know exactly how you feel. nyc spring/summer is so wonderful that the rest of the year is a big WTF.
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Post by theblondette on Jan 11, 2009 15:34:00 GMT -5
I hate winter!! The problem is lack of light. 50% of British days (all year round!) are overcast. Uuuuuugh. Cold isn't great, but gloomy skies for days on end are yuck. We've actually had some lovely bright January days thus far, but there's plenty of damp gloominess to go round.
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Post by biblesalesman on Jan 11, 2009 16:28:53 GMT -5
i know exactly how you feel. nyc spring/summer is so wonderful that the rest of the year is a big WTF. NY in Autumn is one of the most beautiful things for anyone to see. Like God dropped his paint palette |
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Post by stuckbetween on Jan 11, 2009 16:31:53 GMT -5
It's a crap time but if you are of legal drinking age then what you need is a 'local'. A bar just like the one in Cheers, where everybody knows your name, where if you go in with a smile on your face you can cheer up others, where if you go in looking sad people will cheer you up, where you can relax, drink and join in the conversation and the laughter.
Locals are the way forward at this time of year my friend. ;D
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Post by breukelen on Jan 11, 2009 16:39:29 GMT -5
I've said it before, I'll say it again: LIGHT BOX. For people who don't feel like fucking around.
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Post by missalabamanobody on Jan 11, 2009 16:41:14 GMT -5
62F and sunny here today. Come on out.
Spozed to be 72 tomorrow.
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Post by anniehall on Jan 11, 2009 16:44:06 GMT -5
You know, I tried the light box thing. The only thing it accomplished was getting me out of bed an hour earlier than I needed to be, and reading books for leisure. So I guess all in all it was win win, but it didn't get to the root of things.
As for today, with less than a week of break remaining and the prospect of spending a week in my middle school observing, I have yet to change out of pajamas or accomplish anything remotely admirable.
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Post by breukelen on Jan 11, 2009 16:46:17 GMT -5
What the fucking fuck.
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Post by stuckbetween on Jan 11, 2009 16:50:30 GMT -5
It's a crap time but if you are of legal drinking age then what you need is a 'local'. A bar just like the one in Cheers, where everybody knows your name, where if you go in with a smile on your face you can cheer up others, where if you go in looking sad people will cheer you up, where you can relax, drink and join in the conversation and the laughter. Locals are the way forward at this time of year my friend. ;D This place IS that place for me. You going to eat those beer nuts? I've had some of those today plus some olives and a couple of pickled gherkins! |
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Post by breukelen on Jan 11, 2009 17:01:35 GMT -5
You know, I tried the light box thing. The only thing it accomplished was getting me out of bed an hour earlier than I needed to be, and reading books for leisure. See, without the light box? I can't even get out of bed at all, let alone an hour earlier. Motherfucker has got to be bright as hell though. I've been through several and now use a portable blue-light LED one. That shit is serious business. The first couple days I start using it around late Nov/early Dec, I'm jittery and hyperactive until it settles in. Now? It's January and I'm nice and serene. Not questioning the whole stupid point of bothering to breathe. |
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Post by theblondette on Jan 11, 2009 17:37:42 GMT -5
I've actually looked at lightboxes, b ut I can't afford one.  Sometimes they are available on the NHS, but I don't think I qualify... |
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Post by hard corey on Jan 11, 2009 18:14:22 GMT -5
I've actually looked at lightboxes, b ut I can't afford one. Sometimes they are available on the NHS, but I don't think I qualify... i think its time to invest in a light box. juliet, do you recommend one? |
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Post by hoodrat on Jan 11, 2009 18:21:21 GMT -5
i seriously do recommend taking vitamin D supplements. it won't help rull-blown depression, but a lot of people have a deficiency, especially in the winter, that makes them feel even worse and more sluggish. and women should take more D than most multivitamins have anyway for bone density.
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Post by hoodrat on Jan 11, 2009 18:36:15 GMT -5
It's a crap time but if you are of legal drinking age then what you need is a 'local'. A bar just like the one in Cheers, where everybody knows your name, where if you go in with a smile on your face you can cheer up others, where if you go in looking sad people will cheer you up, where you can relax, drink and join in the conversation and the laughter. Locals are the way forward at this time of year my friend. ;D This place IS that place for me. You going to eat those beer nuts? how's the world treating you, norm? |
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Post by missalabamanobody on Jan 11, 2009 18:53:07 GMT -5
Um...I didn't mean to be flip, by the way. It's been cold (by our standards) and unpleasant until the last couple days.
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Post by breukelen on Jan 11, 2009 19:20:11 GMT -5
I have this one: www.amazon.com/Philips-goLITE-BLU-Therapy-Device/dp/B001I45XL8/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1231719037&sr=8-1Which I got on sale. Amazon is having a $30 off special right now, which is helpful. Expensive, but no more so than a new ipod. I replaced my last, bulkier one (the clock of which stopped functioning) with this one because it was truly portable -- it will hold a charge (and the correct time), and I can carry it out into the livingroom with me or on trips -- and has a dawn simulator alarm clock, which is important to me. A regular alarm = groggy & unhappy waking for me. You can also often find lightboxes/sun clocks on Ebay for cheaper. My biological father had S.A.D., and it only took me about a decade of living with existential despair in the winter to piece it together. I seriously struggled to function at barely base level from Nov-March, and would just get deeply miserable and self-doubting at unnervingly frequent intervals. Now I am pretty much on an even keel. Like hoodrat, I highly recommend vitamin D supplements as well. |
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Post by biblesalesman on Jan 11, 2009 19:30:10 GMT -5
There are days where I stick my head in a carboard box with a big old Maglite in it. I just stay that way for an hour or so and when I come out the world is whole lot more refreshing.
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Post by biblesalesman on Jan 11, 2009 19:31:08 GMT -5
I wonder if people were sadder before electric lights were invented?
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Post by sketchymetal on Jan 11, 2009 19:32:13 GMT -5
Gonna walk around and drink some more..
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Post by yesterdayspapers on Jan 11, 2009 20:22:39 GMT -5
I like winter
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Sometimes they are available on the NHS, but I don't think I qualify...
