The last couple of days here have been so dark and cold and wet that I have been seriously considering hibernation. It’s getting harder and harder to leave the warm cosy bed each morning. As each morning is darker I seem to linger an extra minute, proud of myself that I made it out of bed at all. Wouldn’t it be nice to go for a long warm peaceful sleep emerging again only when Spring was arriving? It’d do wonders for the figure too surely. I could wake up for Christmas dinner and the occasional Friday night out – I need my nights of bad dancing to good music after all.
Ah well the best way I can think of to get through the dull days are to concentrate on things to look forward and fortunately there are many. I just have to keep reminding myself of them. Alan has discovered christmas wrapping paper on sale already so that must mean it’s almost spring!
Surely one of the great advantages of hibernating until Spring is that you’d miss out on Christmas [and it's ghastly hype] altogether?
Off you go to bed, I’ll wake you for Halloween……
grandad – well there is that too – although I love getting presents and eating and drinking loads – it’s a double edged sword
manuel – lovely stuff – make sure and have the kettle boiled
You can eat and drink loads any time. As for the presents – do as the Queen does and invent a few extra birthdays. Also, that way you don’t have to buy presents back.
Grandad – well funny you should say that cause I already celebrate my half birthday. I reckoned once a year just wasn’t anywhere near enough.
When you get to my age every day is a birthday!
You can keep Christmas and dark days.
Spot on, Grandad, who needs Christmas anyway? The commercial hype long ago took all the fun out of it. I’ve always fancied hibernating during winter, I just hate the cold and dark. As long as I don’t end up like my pet hamster when I was a kid – it was so inanimate I was convinced it was dead and tearfully buried it. I hadn’t heard about hibernation.
is it wrong that i laughed extremely out loud when i read about your hamster nick? conor, i’d love that too, t’would be bliss. I’d wake up for saturdy nights out and the odd episode of corrie hehehe
Be glad you’re not here, Dunnes has a whole Christmas section already! Horrific. One of my favourite things about the run up to Christmas in NL was the relative lack of rampant commercialism. I think this year, to save me from tears, I’ll probably end up doing all my shopping online…
Yes Townygirl LOL extremely inappropriate, but I forgive you, particularly when my own SOH is pretty sick at times. I wouldn’t wake up for anything, though, not till someone told me the weather was tropical and ready for huge bowls of chocolate ice cream.
halloween!!! yippie!!! i already have a costume!!!! in fact, i’m wearing part of it now!!!!!
I get paid tomorrow and the first thing I’m doing is buying a therapy light. I can handle Chicago winters, with their teeth-hurting cold and occassional piles of snow, but I just can’t abide the dark, rainy days here. I’d also like a dawn simulator but I’m going to hold off on that one for now.
grannymar – I like that idea – does that mean you get pressies every day too?
nick – I did the very same thing with a little turtle. I found out what I had done months later – I was horrified.
townygirl – maybe there’s a market for this then – must look into it
backpedal breaks – the sinterklaas stuff began to appear here a week ago…
nick – you’d be waiting an awfully long time for tropical weather
savannah – time to start carving out pumpkins already?
Ann – My occasionally sober friend has one of them and reckons they’re great.
If you know the dancing is bad and the music is good you have not consumed enough alcohol, drink up Conor!
Yay to the hibernation idea!! Do you reckon that bears and squirrels and the like get up every now and then during their hibernation to go and drink beer and have a kebab on a Friday night? If that’s the case I’m going to be all good in this life so I get to come back a a squirrel in the next one.
I always prefer to think of it as good dancing to bad music. It is never we who are to blame – always someone else!
and now i’m laughing at the little turtle . . this is not good. a spot of hibernation may be what i need to sleep off this mean streak i’m developing hehe
’so that must mean it’s spring’
Ha. You would think, with the way these shops work.
In other non-related developments, Grey’s tonight!!!
And you know what that means!
I’m jealous. I have to wear SPF 55 everyday and walk with an umbrella. This summer also had the least rainfall in the past 50 years.
Ack.
But you have to wake up soon – September is about to end!
I find shining a torch through the flesh of a finger cheers me up on dark days. Really, it’s true.
That weather is coming for us too. I’m dreading it. It’s been sunny and hot for the last two weeks, and I just know that the fall banshees are coming. Bastards.
I’m surprised they don’t have the easter candy on sale already.
And two weeks ago you were telling us all how much you enjoyed autumn!! I just had a restorative week in the South of France and man do I feel the cold and the damp.
sharing a bit of sun with you…high today 32c with a low of 17c
ellie – gosh nobody’s ever hinted that I might not be drinking enough before – what’s become of me?
newbie – I suspect they would – it’d be woefully boring otherwise
jovica – that’s because you always do dance well
townygirl – something tells me you’re slightly proud of this mean streak
alan – I’ve watched it! Can’t wait for next week….
medbh – well that explains it – we got all your rain as well as all our own
primal – I’m not waking up until the sun has returned
minge – I’m a little sceptical but I’m willing to give it a go
sassy – fall banshees? hehehe I love it
nick2 – and I do love autumn very much but this ain’t autumn – it’s cold and dull winter – bring back autumn I say – or maybe I should just flee to south france too
savannah – ooohhhh 32C? It’s just not fair
Conor, I know exactly how you feel. I need to find ways to resuscitate my spirits on grey and dull and rainy days because otherwise I might go mad here. I suppose I will climatize one day though I really miss the clear blue skies and the warm sun on my skin I enjoyed the last 10 years of my life. (we are talking something approximately 335 days of clear sunny skies a year…)
I better go put a jumper on.
i don’t mind the cold of winter. it’s the loss of light that i resent.
my therapies: take a walk a day, no matter how dreary.
build a fire. (only recommended if you have a fireplace.)
keep a light burning so you don’t come home to a dark house.
lots and lots of blankets.
What I actually hate is christmas. I come from a small family with a pauper mentality and the only christmas’s I ever really enjoyed have been when I have girlfriends with families with a more generous and sharing attitude. (Did I just say that in public?). There was one christmas in Goa that was good too. But I dread them -fom the first day the lights go up to the 2nd January.
gaye – I’ve always told myself I’ll someday live somewhere warm and sunny – I’ve stopped believing myself now
laurie – I’m with you – that’s why I liek the candles so much
nick2 – christmas is always chaotic in our house – there are millions of us (it feels like) so lots of fights ‘n’ fun. It’s an incredibly stressful time but each year I look forward to it. Strange really. I have my fingers crossed that you have a great one this year.
Did you try the torch thing?