I was (am) still feeling down in the dumps about Valentine’s Day, and I had to keep an eye on work all weekend, and overall
Tag: winter
Day 41: Exercising for Emotional Strength
It feels like the Nothing is catching up to me and I’m going to fall into a depressive cycle at any moment. I’m spending my
Day 40: The Nothing Wears Me Down
It is Monday morning. My house is clean and my body is sore. I overslept and I plan to work from home today. I dusted,
Day 38: Light Dawns
It’s one thing to have a logical understanding of something. It’s another thing entirely to experience the emotions of that thing. And it’s yet a
Day 35: Success and Rewards
Yesterday, I told myself if I was good and I got all my chores done I could go see Little Women tonight. I didn’t get
Day 33: Finding Balance
Yesterday’s accomplishment was realizing I need to find balance as I fight the Nothing (which is what I’ve started calling the Spring through Summer seasonal
Day 30: I’ll do Anything to beat depression
Yesterday’s successes include, in no particular order: Going for a walk in the (very rare for this time of year) sunshine Booking a weekend getaway
Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present
It is Sunday evening of Thanksgiving weekend and I have a glass of eggnog heavily dosed with brandy beside me. My Christmas tree was bought
Thanksgiving Day Diet Strategy
This is not another piece about how to maintain one’s diet through the holidays. This is a piece about saying fuck it to that nonsense.
And thus, the holidays begin
It’s the day before Thanksgiving and all through the house, not a creature was stirring because I don’t have to do much cooking this year.
Time change lag and executive dysfunction
TGIF. This whole week has been an endless slog through horrible exhaustion. The clocks changing seem to impact me differently than others. I don’t understand
Winter Sleep is the Best Sleep
Holy cow, last night was the best night’s sleep I’ve had in ages. That’s one of the benefits of the clocks changing, I think. By
Whoa… I actually completed the whole task
Yesterday the clocks changed, and I celebrated the onset of longer evenings by setting up string lights through my entryway, living room, and dining room.
No shame in my Christmas game
The clocks have changed and the months of long, dark evenings have arrived. Some bemoan this, and really, if clocks stopped changing twice a year
It’s Okay To Want To Feel Pretty
You want to stop spending so much. You even wrote a post about it the other day (Financial solutions and headway disorientation update). And yet