That is EXACTLY how I have been feeling this past winter. Stiff upper lip be damned, its been too cold for TOO long and I am tired of it.
I am tired of
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being indoors
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shivering
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gasping for breath
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sinus headaches
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scraping car windows
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starting my car several times a day so I can be assured that it will GO when I am done work
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having to practically SIT on my space heater
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no fresh air that doesn’t HURT
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snow
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cold
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WIND CHILLS
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being chilled
Winter here is bad enough normally, but when the winter never abates it just becomes too much to bear. I am feeling cranky and weepy and just out of sorts.
Not to mention that LAST week Mother Nature dangled the “spring” carrot in front of us by granting us a few short days of almost seasonal weather.
Only to have the promise of the first NICE weekend in MONTHS (where the kids could maybe get OUTSIDE for a bit without turning into ice sculptures) cruelly ripped away by a non-forecasted blizzard on Thursday.
Dammit.
I am not one to really get SAD symptoms. Generally I make use of what little sunlight we get (Hell, we get a lot of SUNLIGHT its just that we don’t get any of the WARMTH) during the winters and hunker down and wait for the pain that heralds the snow-mold season… AKA spring in Saskatchewan
But this winter I have been having a really hard time dealing with the unseasonable and UNENDING cold weather and grey days.
The weeks alone haven’t been helping.
Having RGG in my life has been some consolation… being able to call him or IM him or text him or even go out to his house for the night once in a while has been what has been keeping me going all winter, but even that is starting to lose its effect on my mood.
No… its not that I’m less twitterpated with him… its just that the longer the winter goes on with the uncommonly FREEZING ASS COLD below -25c temperatures the less ANYTHING seems to be able to make me feel any better about things…
My ass is seriously DRAGGING here… I am so uninterested in everything in my life (betcha can’t tell with all the writing I’m doing) that I have been trying what I consider EXTREME measures to get my ‘mojo’ back…
Getting satellite tv.
Yeah, I ordered my satellite tv package from Starchoice (a Shaw TV company (laugh)) last night, and have been assured by the lovely email post that I received back that they will be contacting me within 48 hours (or 48 BUSINESS hours… which is like a week) to schedule a time for them to come and set up my system.
Sadly, I’m really looking forward to having tv.
And I’m looking forward to having something for the kids to watch that ISN’T TreeHouse…
The kids laugh… but its true… Teletubbies were bad… Boobah was worse… Night Garden is some sort of drug induced kid crack!
((SHUDDER))
Anyway… I also ordered the Movies package with the system… so I can watch HBO shows and movies… RGG has gotten me addicted to Entourage (although I have only seen the first 3 seasons and about 1/3rd of the 4th season, and the 5th season isn’t out on DVD until June… sad that i know that, isn’t it??)… and before I moved into my own place I was addicted to BIG Love (although I will have to buy or rent the first few seasons to figure out what is going on)…
RGG is disappointed that I didn’t get any extra sports channels, preferring my own favourites (which he doesn’t subscribe to) such as A&E, TLC, Food Network, and H&G Tv….oh well… i know that I will still have enough sports to keep the boy occupied…
I do have the Wii after all… gives the boy something to do when he’s not interested in what I’m doing (or I’m out scrapbooking or something)…
Boys + Video Games = LOVE
My plan is to spend more time at home doing my creative stuff in the living room (although ALL my creative stuff is now shoved into my bedroom) and less time annoying the hell out of people online…
More Creativity + Less going out = Happier Pam
Now if I could only incorporate a graph here my entry would be complete
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