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Is anyone else around here very sensitive to seasons? :?
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Coremodels
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Go to a tanning bed.
seriously.
Not daily so you become a brown leathery waitress at Sugar, but enough to get some UV rays.
Helps me every year.
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Manatee
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I'll be commencing walking when my daughter goes back to school. It will help, although moving and leaving the house seem so... not good right now :) .
Hot cocoa sounds good, too. I'm thinking I'm experiencing something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupor.
I definitely feel the need to insulate myself, and sleep.
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Coremodels
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enzo wrote painting all of my dark wood work and walls white.
may you burn in 10000 hells.
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BUTerrier
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What is wrong with painting woodwork light colors anyway? Dark stuff is god awful. I grew up in a 1920's tudor, and we had all of the walls and molding light colors, our kitchen was very light, but our hw floors were very dark, with a bunch of mahogany english chipendale antiques, it looked gorgeous. The same house with all brown would have felt like some depressing castle.
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lisathewaitress
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What sort of light box are you speaking of? I, too, am a total hibernator. I could literally read in bed all winter. By spring I would be a giant bowl full of jelly. I might even try the tanning be thing this year. There is a tanning center right behind my house. I'm about the palest person I know, so it might even be interresting to see what I look like with a glow.
Also, exercise helps a lot. Yesterday with the "nice" weather (warm and at least not raining) I took the bus halfway to work and walked the other 1.5 miles. I felt so much better by the time I got to work. But then I was at work . . .
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KSquared
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http://www.lighttherapyproducts.com/articles.aspx
This has some links to different articles. I suffer from SAD (seasonal depression basically), and have found that the light box helps. I honestly wish I could hibernate until spring. Left to my own devices, I would never get out of my pajamas, stuff myself endlessly with carbohydrates, and lie in bed reading or watching documentaries....
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lisathewaitress
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KSquared wrote http://www.lighttherapyproducts.com/articles.aspx
This has some links to different articles. I suffer from SAD (seasonal depression basically), and have found that the light box helps. I honestly wish I could hibernate until spring. Left to my own devices, I would never get out of my pajamas, stuff myself endlessly with carbohydrates, and lie in bed reading or watching documentaries....
+1. That would totally be my preferred winter!!! I might include some gin in the picture ...
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Manatee
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Yep, I am right there with you. I have tried lightboxes or full-spectrum lights and they are ok, but I'm still tired a lot.
I think I'm going to try keeping a stricter sleep schedule. I think good things can only happen if I level out the melatonin rollercoaster.
And I've been trying to eat mostly lighter foods, but a lot of them, because I'm hungry but almost completely unmotivated to move around. I went out dancing, that was ok, and I walk to work every day.
I finally managed to scrounge up an idea for a painting that excites me, so maybe I can just get really focused on that and that time will be my "hibernation" zone-out.
By the way, lisathewaitress, I managed to motivate myself to go to Black Creek Iron Chef tonight at your suggestion! So thanks!
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gramarye
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I don't know about hibernating, but I feel the winter blues, definitely. Unfortunately, in my case in manifests more as a shorter fuse. I was next to raving at my TV earlier today because I was playing the original Legend of Zelda (yes, the old NES version) and, well, finding it a little harder than I remembered. :-/
Hibernation would definitely be preferable, especially if work would continue to send me paychecks.
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bonniefide
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Even though its grey outside, it's almost warm! It would be a good day to go for a walk. :D
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Coremodels
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bonniefide wrote Even though its grey outside, it's almost warm! It would be a good day to go for a walk. :D
60 already
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