The January Blues
Jan. 24th, 2014 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amoretteaI really don't have any reason to be depressed but I definitely have the mid-winter blahs. My husband has a cold with a nasty cough and I have to restrain myself from holding a pillow over his face, even though he has moved into the guest room for the duration, and usually I'm a little more patient when he's sick.
I have been practicing retail therapy, which, for me, is all on-line. I have ordered two different sets of tin ceiling samples because I have decided I am NOT going to strip the wallpaper off the ceiling in the north parlor.
I also ordered some clothes, all on end-of-the-season sale. Most of them are practical but I got myself a new bustle suit. Which I didn't really need but. . .
My creative juices have dried up and blown away. I am struggling to write stories on bid openings for county sewer projects, the sort of thing I can usually zip out with my eyes closed. I have a couple of ideas for fiction but they just lie there, staring at me.
I went and reread some of my old fan fiction and some of it was pretty darn good! I wonder where that writer has gone.
Maybe I should try therapy. A therapist has been recommended to me and if these blahs don't clear up by spring (along with husband's cough) I may give it a go.
Anyone have any cheery news in their life?
I have been practicing retail therapy, which, for me, is all on-line. I have ordered two different sets of tin ceiling samples because I have decided I am NOT going to strip the wallpaper off the ceiling in the north parlor.
I also ordered some clothes, all on end-of-the-season sale. Most of them are practical but I got myself a new bustle suit. Which I didn't really need but. . .
My creative juices have dried up and blown away. I am struggling to write stories on bid openings for county sewer projects, the sort of thing I can usually zip out with my eyes closed. I have a couple of ideas for fiction but they just lie there, staring at me.
I went and reread some of my old fan fiction and some of it was pretty darn good! I wonder where that writer has gone.
Maybe I should try therapy. A therapist has been recommended to me and if these blahs don't clear up by spring (along with husband's cough) I may give it a go.
Anyone have any cheery news in their life?
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Date: 2014-01-25 05:58 pm (UTC)On the plus side, this is a good time to curl up with hot chocolate and a good book, or to take a long soak in a hot tub.
Have you considered one of those Seasonal Affective Disorder light treatment things? One of my mother-in-law's friends swears by them. I hate hot weather, but find I really do have more energy when it's bright and sunny out. Things have been so gray lately that I'm dragging.