I’ve definitely been feeling down for the past several days. The grey, dreary weather? The grey, dreary landscape? Low iron? Hormones? The stress of work? The cumulative effects of the DST change? Lack of exercise? Dreary knitting projects? Time for a medication change? I don’t know exactly what brought it on, but there it is. I actually have things to post about, but I just feel too blah.
The forecast is for a bit more sun and some warmer weather over the next few days – hopefully that helps cheer me up. I hope everyone is feeling livelier than I am!
“Oh no!! I thought I would be safe under here!” -M
“Bwah-ha-ha!” -C
Bummer! I’m sorry to hear that! I know how you feel. Maybe it’s lack of sunshine, I know that can do it for me sometimes. Be sure to check on the meds though.
Take care of yourself – and start something new if it makes you feel better! You can never have too many WIP’s.
Oh, that stinks! Here’s hoping for some sunshine and cheerier days soon.
This time of year can get to me too. Something about getting just enough sunshine and warmth to get a taste for it again, then getting a bunch of gloom and mud, grrrrr….
Sounds like you need a good dose of springtime and sunshine. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it’s headed your way!
Hang in there, Chris. This time of year wreaks havoc on me too…but if you think it might be something to do with your medication, I’d definitely check into that.
***hug***
I know the feeling – I think it’s because it still kind of feels like that blah part of winter. But, hopefully we’ll have spring soon – hope you have a happier day today!
{Chris}
The transition to spring can be hard, particularly if the weather doesn’t cooperate with our readiness for winter to be over.
I hope it gets better soon.
Poor dear, I’m sorry you’re feeling down. I hope that, whatever it is, you manage to fix/overcome it.
*hugs*
*hugegiantoübersquishcuddlesplathug*
hugs for you
I hope the sun today helps cheer you up! Maybe a nice walk on your lunch break will help, too?
you aren’t alone – and virtual hugs to you. i hope you feel less funk soon – now go hug some kitties.
I hope you feel better soon.
I believe I’m afflicted with a very similar case of blechy blahs. Hopefully todays sun will be the breakthrough we all need. It would just be easier to make that break if we weren’t stuck inside offices looking out at the sunshine.
Hope you feel better soon!
I helped my wife make pirate flags for my son’s kindergarten flags last night, that cheered me up. So go sew a jolly roger, you’ll be whistling zippity do da out your butt by the time you’re done.
I’m right there with you! I hope you find something to brighten your day a little. If it’s nice out where you are, I’d recommend a walk.
Oh no! Hope you feel better. Definitely the sun and some exercise will help.
Sending you a hug and hopes that you’ll feel better soon! If I could bottle a little of this sunshine, I’d send that too!
I also seem to get the late winter/early spring blahs. Try to have a relaxing weekend and spend some time out in the sun – the sun and fresh air will be the best cure
(along with some good cuddle time with the kitties)
I’ve been feeling the same lately. I blame it on the weather. and PMS. hope you feel better my friend. XOXO
Blech, me too. Mine is the onset of SDS or whatever other acronym you want to give it. Lack of sunshine. Good news, sun in the forecast! Hope you are feeling more like yourself soon. Pet the kitties, that always helps.
Life is full of ups and downs. Rest, relax and things should improve soon!
I’m blaming the weather/time change/allergy season/astrological patterns. Hope you feel better soon.
sorry to hear you’re down. I know the feeling well… treat yourself to an inspired new knit, with yarn that it is a pleasure to look at and to touch. Eat lots of chocolate, go for walks, and keep your fingers crossed that spring actually makes an appearance some time soon.
Oh yeah, and hug a kitty. Nothing helps more than a squiggly pile of black warmth. I should know (poor hank! he always bares the brunt of my low moods!)
*hug* I hope you feel better soon!
And about the picture. I had to click to make it bigger and then stare at it for a short while before I could figure out what was going on. It just looked like a big black blob!
{{hugs}} I hope you are back to your chipper self soon. I know that for me, I’m starting to get a wee bit grouchy by the end of winter. I need my sunshine.
Run, May, Run!
I hope the blahs go away soon. The sun should be just the ticket!
Sorry about the blahs.
Wishing you sunshine soon.
And lots of it.
Sometimes I want to crawl in a box and hide too! Do you have one in my size? This is the hardest time of year for me, too; gray days, mud, rain. Hang in there!
Whoa, honey. That is a lot of question marks… Hopefully, the spring weather will come soon and cheer you up!!
It’s definitely nice and sunny today. (Although I loved yesterday’s rainy day, but I’m weird like that.) Maybe a nice walk will help. May, watch out for Big Brother!
The sun is out and the birds are singing today – hope it helps.
aw, hope you get to feeling better.
The weather is really sucky here, too. Grey, wet, windy, cold. Where is Spring?!!
For me it helps to watch comfort dvds or tv programs, like English mysteries and Sex and the City, while knitting something mindless in a very cheerful colour.
You could also go for a walk with a camera and record this sucky Spring so far. I find the camera helps find other ways to see things.
Chris- “Medication time”
Nurse Ratchet
I hope you chase your blah’s away soon! But I can certainly sympathize!!
I am so with you!! Although in my case, I know the blah’s are hormonal:b
Sorry – but if it helps, I’m really up today!! Things ARE looking better. The sun is out. Someone reached out and took the first step toward mending a broken fence today! Wishing you a warm sunbeam on your face and a soft kitty in your lap purring away your blues.
My entire office is feeling it, too! I think it’s partly that time change thing. WAY too early and I’m sorry, dark is DARK when I’m getting up…not as it should be!
I hope you’re feeling perky soon! (I hope we all are!)
(((hugs)))
Sorry you’re feeling down!!! Hope you’ll feel better soon
Cheers Eva
May the sunshine come to you outside and in. I’ve been feeling blah too. It’s nice to have kitties to make us smile.
Egads! Time to go yarn shopping for some bright and pretty sock yarn. Something that makes you smile.
Send me the kittens, I’ll catsit while you’re gone. Oh, no trouble at all!
The sun sure would be nice, wouldn’t it? And sleep. Checking the meds is never a bad plan though. Mine were Lowered recently and I’m feeling exponentially better. The wrong dose can seriously blah you down.
Big hugs, darlin’.
Build a box fort. Chaos and May can’t be wrong! Look at all the fun they were having.
Hope you feel better soon. Get some sunshine and fresh air. That always helps me.
I’m going through a gloomy phase too. It happens to me every spring, right after DST. What’s up with that? More sunshine is supposed to be good for you.
Poor Chris! I hope you feel more lively soon.
It’s Daylight Saving Time. Clearly the root of all evil.
It must be the nearing spring but still in dreary winter weather that is getting people down, because it’s everywhere!
I hope you feel better soon, I’ll send some sunshine your way! Did you feel it?
I’ve been going through the motions
Walking through the part
Nothing seems to penetrate my heart
Will I stay this way forever
Sleepwalk through my life’s endeavor
I don’t want to be
Going through the motions
Losing all my drive
I can’t even see
If this is really me
And I just want to be
Alive
(see, Buffy applies to all situations.)
I blame it on DST. I HATE the change and it takes me a while to adjust.
Sorry to hear you’re blue. Can you take a day (or half) off and go someplace colorful and relaxing? Maybe go get a massage? I am almost adjusted to DST. Being we are so far east on the EST, the DST actually is better for us. There was legislation a couple years back to switch us to Atlantic time (so we’d be w/ New Brunswick), but it didn’t pass. When the days are longest in the summer, the sun comes up before 4 am! but the switch takes some time. The kids are off tomorrow, so I am too, and that means a longish weekend. Oh, but I’m working at a garden show all day sat…colorful that!
sending big hugs your way! Hope your back to feeling like yourself soon.
Sounds like you need to go for a long springtime bike ride (weather and roads permitting). What do you ride?
Riding my scooter to work has helped my attitude and even my knitting mojo. So much that I have been on a yarn stash frenzy. For me at least. Bought a skein of Fiesta Yarns Boomerang today. YUM.
Hi C&M. No eatting those Keen shoe boxes like at my house, you hear???
S
I can totally relate! Sending some sun your way.
I bet more sun would help. Maybe a nice walk…look for beautiful stuff along the way.
I’m feeling pretty bummed right now too. Maybe it’s like a virus or something.
Oh, bummer! Hopefully you’ll have some nice weather and a warm weekend. That might do it? Hang in there, Chris!
I really hope that you feel better really soon! I agree about the lack of sun, it kills to walk around when it’s all grey and rainy…*blech* Anyhow, take care!
DST is still kicking my ass. I hate it.
Does it make you feel any better to know that it rained here today??
XOXOXO
MWUAH!
Geez, I’m sorry to hear it… Here’s hoping an upcoming weekend and some black fuzzy lovin’ will lift your spirits. (You lift mine every day!)
You obviously have the pre-spring weather blues. My prescription – find a book of lovely flowers, sit in a comfy chair, and remember what it’s going to look like in just a few short weeks. Hope you feel cheery again soon!
Poor Chris. I hate when that happens. I like to blame it on Daylight Savings Time. Maybe the sun will come out enough this weekend so you can get some sunshine and fresh air therapy. Hope you’re feeling livelier soon!
I’ve been having the same issues. And I can’t pin point what it is, exactly. Just wanting to burst into tears for no particular reason, too, is unsettling. (I’m not really a crying kind of guy.) Maybe the equinox??
(((((((((hugs))))))))))
One word: Cymbalta
And, sunshine.
I have been feeling that way as well. That time of the year, the streets are dirty from winer, the trees haven’t started budding, etc… I think this sunny weekend will help.
I hope the unseasonably warm weather did some good in knocking out those cobwebs. There’s nothing like a few sunny warm days to get you feeling better.