Cabin Fever

‘Tis that time of year. Dark when you get up, and dark when you get home. I hate this time of year. I can tell you exactly what day the sun will start setting again at 6pm again. Feb 16th. I long for Dec 21 to get here, so we can just get this over with.

But the dark also has a side effects beside the gravitational pull of my bed at 6:30 pm. It gives me huge cabin fever. So when not battling my bed, I am overeating and trying to get out of the house for drinks. Suddenly I’m hungry all the time. Just ate a full meal. Check. 30 minutes pass, yup, hungry again. Next comes my desire to be anywhere but my house, so I start begging people to go out for drinks with me. So to my friends, I apologize now for what will surely be a few weeks of constant entries to go for drinks. And begging. Yes, very surely begging. Sigh. Dark, I shake an angry fist at you. Well, I will as soon as I put down this drink and chicken leg.

 

 

 

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Comments (3)

Nov 25, 2009
dgavey said...
You have tried the Litebook right? Although not a cure-all and it does take a while to work. It does definitely work.
Nov 25, 2009
Heidi Schempp Fournier said...
So ahead of you. Pulled out my litebook, and guess what? The power cord is missing. I need to get a new one.
Nov 25, 2009
dgavey said...
Joleen starts her Litebook therapy in like early October, she tries to get ahead of the dark curve. You can probably just get the power cord shipped to you if you call them too. Unless you want a new one. that is ;-)

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Completely Barking Mad is a little place where I do some bitching, throw around my opinions and generally unload. Since everything I write about tends to be a little mad, I am happy to hold the title of Mad Scientist. There's nothing revolutionary going on here. I simply blog about what I observe, what pops into my head, and remarks I hear made. Crazy diatribes come cheap and easy here.

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