My Winter of Discontent

I've been trying to decide if this winter has felt so hard because last winter was so mild, or if my actual dislike of winter has finally peaked.  This will the the third weekend that we will have two days of storming, though it's looking now like we are going to 'only' have snow then sleet then rain.  Still doesn't make for anything pleasant and certainly means I won't be able to run outside.  As much as I prefer not to run on my treadmill, I am very glad I have one that I can go out the back door to and not have to drive to.

Someone suggested to be that perhaps I should look into light therapy but I know it wouldn't make a difference.  Every single day I sit in an office where one entire wall is a window and I look out on a beautiful marina and the sun pours in.  Here's a shot I took yesterday, which doesn't show a whole lot of my view because I was trying to show how hard the wind was blowing by the fact that the flags are straight out. Yes, the windchill was wicked!

So while I may not be outside in it, I'm definitely getting sunshine in my eyeballs.    I honestly do think I just cannot abide winter any more and it's looking like I will definitely be doing what I've threatened for years:  once I retire, go south from January to April.  Even if I have to rent something I just don't want to be here anymore during this season.  It honestly makes me crazy that my daffodils are under about a foot of snow right now.  Even if they were trying to show that spring is on the way, they can't. Only 15 more years of work then I can leave!

Anyway, I really hate it when bloggers just disappear so I've written this to say that I'm not going to blog for a while.  I'm not even going to try to figure out when I'll write again.  You know my blog is sort of like the diary I used to have as a kid (the kind with a flap lock and a little key) - I'd go on a tear and write for months and then, I'd just put it down.  So that's what I'm doing for now, putting the blog down.

Some of it is due to the fact that I don't want to be a tired, whiny blogger and that's what I'm feeling like right now.  The other part is that I have some personal things I'm working on and I'd rather concentrate on those things than try to figure out what to write in my diary.

If you really want to get in touch, I'm available via email, which you can find if you poke around here. Until then, à bientôt.