Holycrap Joe! You read my mind. I swear I was just thinking this on the way home from work. Yeah, I have the winter blahs...after all the excitement of Christmas is over, I feel like there's nothing to look forward to. Not another holiday from work till Memorial Day.

Of course there's Valentines Day (which us poor, lonely, single girls dread cause all of our coworkers are married and get flowers...woe is me..) :)

Then there's Easter, but all the kids in my family are grown, so no pretty dresses and bonnets & Easter egg hunts...

Yeah!! Blah! Blah! Blah! and Blech!

Yes! Counting down the days till I will be in Sunny Arizona!

I live in England so have the Winter blahs all year round!

yes, but occasional bouts of skiing will help cure them.

Late January is hard, and February is the worst. So what's the groundhog going to tell us this year?

Oh I love winter with the cool crisp air on your face. Having warm bubble baths and hot chocolate with marshmallows. Snuggling up under a doona. Wearing all those funny wooly socks of many colours.

Oh Coogee...you're only sayin that cause it's "hot! damn hot" in your land.. hee hee...

Good post Joe.
I liveed on the Washington coast for 22 years. It can be gray for months on end. Many people thier suffer from depression during the winter. There is a medical term for it, but it escapes me.
the lack of sunlight actually causes some chemical changes in your body which can lead to depression.
May I suggest 6-8 minutes 2-3 times a week in a tanning booth.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Or winter blues.

i am not a proponent of the sun. i like cold days but i'm thinking perhaps i may want to rethink my thinking. i think constant gray days is affectingtheway i think.

on another note, my roommate just told me--he's strange on occasion--says on super bowl sunday 50 million pounds of avocatos will be consumed. that is enough to consume a football fiels 12 foot deep. now, i've been to super bowl parties and have yet to see an avocado. nary a one. what do y'all think?

I have SAD-seasonal affective disorder. I usually get real down in the winter.
wht works- Light box, welbutrin, other meds for depression. and Exercise(easier said than done)

I do. February 2 is the midway point between winter and spring. I usually do a little something to celebrate that day, like go on a winter walk and think about how the earth will be waking up soon. Somehow it helps get me through until I actually feel the first day of spring sun.

Yes! We've had storm after storm after storm. It's getting to me right now. I hate being cooped up in the house..... but at least I'm alive to see it:)

Reed, I am usually in agreement with you, but the tanning booth is just bad advice. It is possible to get melanoma from UVA and UVB in tanning electronics. One person dies every hour from melanoma!!

Broad spectum light is a good alternative. Walks on sunny winter days is an alternative. (I lived in Seattle for 3 years and I know that even there an occasional ray of sunlight gets thru.) I can tell that you live on the east side of the state because of a photo you posted.

I think we're all just bored.

Indeed, shakysara. Sunlight does wonders for our moods.

I never used to. Unfortuantely, since my miscarriage last December, the wintery months are especially harder on me now.