The Late Winter Blues in Everyday Ramblings

Just in case you didn’t get the memo…we have had almost four times our normal rainfall this month. FOUR TIMES! Record breaking, more rain than has been ever recorded before rain.

And, oh, guess what? it is raining again and scheduled to rain for seven more straight days. Yesterday morning it was snow and rain, heavy wet sleety snowy rain. I swear my rain pants are starting to whisper to me about retirement.

To be fair, we are only supposed to have showers this week, not monsoon downpours but still…

We may need an emergency mental health evacuation to warmer drier climes. Everybody is talking about it.

I took the above picture from my doctor’s office and it pretty much captures the mood. Nice view of Ross Island and there is a gorgeous mountain back there, out there in the clouds.

This weekend I was out in it a lot, the rain, and by midday yesterday I was so weirdly tired I came home and changed out of my clothes into my warm dry snuggly sweats and left the rest of my clothes (all waterproof so dry) in a pile on the floor like some sort of distracted ungrateful teenager.

I never do that. My back was bothering me too. Not bad, just aching. I think the therapy I am doing is making it tired as I strengthen the erector spinae muscles and release my tight chest.

I went to bed absurdly early later too (after I picked up my clothes) and after looking at photos of all the Oscar dresses on the red carpet. This morning I watched the musical numbers. This way I avoided all the commercials.

This week I need to do things that make me laugh. Or are escapist in some form or another. I did watch “The Martian” on Saturday, which I thought was very good but then my dad worked on the space program and I am a bit biased in that direction. Loved all those strong ordinary seeming women in the movie!

It will stop raining eventually. They will finally finish remodeling the track across the busy street, which they have not worked on in two months. The evil Under Armor will finally finish the building they have been working on for two years and “my” local bus stop might return.

In time I will manage to take off the weight I have gained in the last year, I will have my crowns and my dental work will end and I will get my taxes done. I will get the marketing I need to do done and I will be making money on teaching. (I am very close to breaking even now but had no students last Friday.)

My back will feel better. My energy level will improve. My social connections (that ebb and flow) will also improve.

These are the late winter blues.

It is always darkest before the dawn…right???