"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
17 January 2007Tear the ice off the suckerUp to this point, I'd managed to fight off the annual winter blues, but today they forced their way onto the premises, and it will likely be a month before I can shoo them away. There are a number of factors involved. The obvious one: I have a smidgen, maybe more than that, of Seasonal Affective Disorder, separate from the usual clinical depression (which has been in remission of late). It doesn't help that all the crap that fell from the sky over last weekend is still around: temperatures have remained below freezing since Friday morning, and won't recover today either. What's more, the Weather Guys insist that there's another load on the way, and I have this ridiculous idea that we ought to get rid of the stuff we have before we get more of it. Obviously this kind of thinking will never catch on. Just as annoying is the approach of Valentine's Day, which has always had a strong emetic effect on me. (I need hardly point out that the usual trinkets and chocolates and general detritus have been in the stores since, oh, the second of January.) The Prophet, so far as I can determine, would never have endorsed such a thing, which is, to me anyway, the only appealing aspect of Islam. So it's a funk, and not the good sort of funk. (Cue George Clinton: "We want the funk! Give up the funk!") Its ultimate severity is yet to be established, but regardless of the degree, I'm going to have to ride it out. Your problem is, you're not looking at the bright side of all this. Try to keep in mind that any crap that falls on you is stuff that will NOT fall on ME. Feel better? Sure you do. Posted by: Mister Snitch! at 11:29 AM on 17 January 2007Here, here! Midwest City decided to start sanding and plowing their roads TODAY. I guess it hadn't been safe enough for the sandtrucks to travel. Then again, given that I could see an OVERTURNED sandtruck from my back porch (in the median on I-40) yesterday morning, maybe it wasn't safe enough for them after all. Posted by: Dan B at 11:29 AM on 17 January 2007That's it, I know why you got those winter blues....when I eat Danish butter cookies in January it happens to me too. I promise, I have to stay away from all those sweets and chocolate unless I want to get really, really down and dark. Cut down on the sugar and you're mood will surely lift, at least a bit...and none of that Valentine candy that's been in the stores since New Year's Day and in the warehouses for at least six months! Posted by: Webutante at 12:12 PM on 17 January 2007Maybe you can declare WAR ON WINTER! At the very least, it'll keep you busy. Posted by: Veronica at 1:47 PM on 17 January 2007Wouldn't work. For one thing, there's no way to implement a surge. The therapy for my depression seems to be working about as expected. I still have my problems, but I'm happy about them. We're supposedly going to have an ice storm here in Coweta County, GA starting tonight, but I'm doubting the forecast. When I went into the store for the one or two things I thought we should have in case the power goes out, the panic shopping had not yet begun. And in the South, it just isn't winter weather without shopping-cart gridlock in the supermarkets. So, I think we're gonna get skunked here, unless you log on and change the destination code from OKC to ATL. Not that I'm encouraging such a thing, mind. Posted by: McGehee at 2:25 PM on 17 January 2007Ridin' right alongside you, my friend. Perhaps further evidence of great minds thinking alike? Perhaps not, but who's to say, really? Posted by: Jennifer at 3:34 PM on 17 January 2007The only positive thing about Valentine's Day is the half-price chocolates the day after. Otherwise it's banned at our house. Posted by: rita at 6:15 PM on 17 January 2007 |