Solo blog post. This one is not as deep as my others, so perhaps you don’t need to run, screaming, away. It’s Saturday morning, and I’m sitting in my quiet house with just the pets and coffee for company; everyone else is asleep. I welcome the solitude, and yet I am craving human connection pretty strongly right now.
A friend of mine posted this on their page, and I saw it at just the right moment.
I mean, YES. You can see why this person’s post resonates with me, having named my blog “Oversharing Is My Love Language” …amiright? Tee hee. That’s a big YES from me.
*Hold on, it’s hard to type when a cat just snuggled between the laptop and yer tits. On further thought, I’m letting him stay because maybe he needs connection too. Sigh.*
Anyhow back to the post. Here in the Seattle area, the weather took a turn this week, and we went from our glorious blue sunny summer skies to our very typical fall gray rainy skies. It is painful for me, every year. A part of me tries to think positively about fall things – pumpkins (NOT pumpkin flavored things, my goodness no), fresh apples, holidays – but my brain powerfully squashes those happy things down and reminds me that the sun is gone.
Sitting on my couch right now, and the outside is… gray. It isn’t raining at the moment, but we got walloped by a big storm last night. We are supposed to have sun again this next week, and I will join the pups as they sunbathe – gulping up any bit of warm, yellow, vitamin D giving, sun. But in the meanwhile THIS.
Okay, so besides the fact that we need to say BYE BYE to that sad umbrella, do you SEE THE GRAY? HOW DOES ONE COMBAT THAT? I upped my vitamin D vitamin intake, pulled out the light lamp, signed up for a yoga class tomorrow (I don’t do yoga – but Imma start now), and started budgeting for sunny getaways this winter.
I’m also reminded why I thought (and still think) that it’s a good idea to consider a retirement home in Palm Springs, CA or somewhere else sunny. Summers here, and winters there? I gotta call my financial advisor to figure out how to make that happen.
Anyhoo, the whole point of this post is to live out loud – so count this one as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and share your tips to combat it pls.
XOXO – E
Effexor, mixed with Abilify, mixed with a sun lamp as my desk lamp so I sit bathed in it far longer than I’m supposed to. But even with that delicious cocktail I feel the SAD big time by the end of February which is notoriously bleak around here. We have similar amounts of gray here compared with where you are and it’s hard. My pharmaceuticals rock. Took me years to find the right combo that keeps the SAD in check most of the time!