Spring is coming and I am coming out of hibernation. This year the winter blues have hit me hard. I knew I was in trouble when my body started wanting nothing but sleep and carbs in September.
I always fight the winter blues a little, but this winter was a doozy. For those of you who don’t know, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is not depression, but can be very depressing and often leads to some serious blues. It starts as a physical thing, your body just craves hibernation, and you get tired, crave fats and carbs, and just don’t have the energy you normally do. The physical leads to mental- it takes so much to push yourself through the day that you become apathetic. The mental and the physical eventually lead to emotional.
I think one of the things that took this winter from a 2 bad to an 8 bad is the air. I don’t care where you stand on global warming, climate change etc, the air is bad in the winter and getting worse! Our population is too large to sustain our current lifestyle with our current technology. This is not a matter of politics; this is a matter of health and quality of life. My health and my life.
But now the sun is brighter and the cotton is being flushed from my head by the sight of green growing things. Yeah for spring!
While I was hibernating, I found a couple of cool things.
You can make your own family crest! This is cool for yourself, your family, or any group with whom you share values and goals. Brian and I had a great time making ours.
I always fight the winter blues a little, but this winter was a doozy. For those of you who don’t know, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is not depression, but can be very depressing and often leads to some serious blues. It starts as a physical thing, your body just craves hibernation, and you get tired, crave fats and carbs, and just don’t have the energy you normally do. The physical leads to mental- it takes so much to push yourself through the day that you become apathetic. The mental and the physical eventually lead to emotional.
I think one of the things that took this winter from a 2 bad to an 8 bad is the air. I don’t care where you stand on global warming, climate change etc, the air is bad in the winter and getting worse! Our population is too large to sustain our current lifestyle with our current technology. This is not a matter of politics; this is a matter of health and quality of life. My health and my life.
But now the sun is brighter and the cotton is being flushed from my head by the sight of green growing things. Yeah for spring!
While I was hibernating, I found a couple of cool things.
You can make your own family crest! This is cool for yourself, your family, or any group with whom you share values and goals. Brian and I had a great time making ours.
Go Here http://www.makeyourcoatofarms.com/ to try it yourself.
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4 comments:
I too suffer from the winter blues. Something that helps a little is exercise. I'm also greatful for melting snow and shots of green. Yeah for spring!
P.S. I checked out the blog. Thanks for the tip.
I am glad those winter blues are leaving... I remember when we lived in OR I had the blues... Spring/Summer are always a good time! :)
I'm glad to hear your waking up! Your bulbs you gave me have been peaking through the ground I can't wait to see them bloom!
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