Well, I worked out. I feel a little better having done so, since for the past 4 hours or so I've been rather down in the dumps for some reason. It might have been induced by the mood of the movie I had on (Broken Flowers) or perhaps it was just the general malaise of an otherwise uneventful Sunday. At 4pm it already felt so very late, thank you end of daylight savings. The growing darkness of winter is always a depressing feature of this time of year. I'm very much a sun person. Need the sun. Love the sun. Now that it gets dark at 5pm, I just want to crawl into bed and wake up in the morning!
I dunno, maybe it's not even that. But probably.
I'm looking out to my patio at the happy little lights I'd strung up in the spring. Green/blue and yellows. Soon it will be time to decorate for the holidays, with even more colors. I never go crazy with decor, but I do love it. I love the colors of the holidays. So bright with reds and greens. It's a rather warm time of year, in spite of the cold outside. I think that's exactly what I love about it...speaking of which, I think it's time for some chai.
Another reason I think I'm a little sub-par is that I didn't get to spend very much time with my family this weekend. While in WI for the wedding, we stayed at my mom's, which was just a hop-skip-and-a-jump away. But because of our work schedules, Bob and I couldn't leave for WI until Saturday morning, heading straight to the church for the 3pm ceremony. Then a few weeks ago, Bob was finally asked to assist with the youth orchestra again here, which is great for him - especially since he now has a title! But, this meant that we were going to have leave early Sunday morning to get him to the rehearsal, allowing for barely 12 hours to be at my mom's! Not to mention that my newly married sister and hubby were going to be gone for the evening Saturday, so we weren't going to be able to hang out with them, either. Ah well, Thanksgiving, right? Incidently, sister and new hubby arrived just 15 minutes before we needed to leave, just in time for a quick family breakfast! As always, mom pulled out a tasty scrambled egg and hashbrown meal (WW? what WW?) and, as always, Bob and I left a little later than intended. But it was good to see the sis, for whom married life seems too look very well on her. =) Seriously, she was glowing! But in the end, it was far too little time spent. I love my mom and sister so much, and I wish I lived closer so I could spend more quality time with them, to be a larger part in the their everyday lives. Of course, living closer to them means living closer to other members of my family, which I could do without... But they mean so much to me, and they are two of the most important people in my life. I just hope they know it.
Well, now THIS is depressing! I have to say this about blogging, though...I like it. It's a journal wrapped in an email...to anyone who wishes to read it. I have not kept a journal in AGES and I'm pretty damn bad at email (my apologies to all my friends out there), so it's interesting (read: convenient) how this kills two birds with one stone. I find that I've been elaborating on a lot of things that I normally wouldn't take the time to put into words...this is both good and bad, I'm sure. But on nights like this, in a quiet and semi-clean apartment, freshly showered and warmed by chai, one's thoughts and a laptop can be good companions.
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I have, at various points in my life, attempted to keep a journal of my daily activities. In each of those times I have failed miserably. Then blogs came along and I've kept mine going steadily for about two years. It could be that my typing is just that much faster than my writing ever could be, or that I have some time on my hands while at work with nothing to do, but that's not it exactly.
Anyway. I know exactly how you feel what with the sun going down so early. It's great that we can get out early and do stuff on saturday night, but driving home from work in the dark is pretty depressing. I like taking evening walks but now there's no evening, only night. At least it's still sunny in the morning when I wake up. It would be worse if I was waking to darkness and leaving work to it. But hang tough there, girl! I know we can make it through ;-j
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