Everything is better with donuts

I seem to have hit a wall in my energy level.  I’m closing in on the end of Sweet Hope and I can’t seem to pull myself up to finish.  I took yesterday off to spend time with the boys and we did our annual killing of an innocent Christmas tree.  I dreamed of candy [...]

Christmas in our house

I have long given up trying to make Christmas perfect in our house.  I figured that one out after our first summer when I couldn’t cram enough stuff into the allotted 3 month time span.  Come to find out Christmas is much the same.  There is only so much holly jolly that is allowed in [...]

Basking in the glow

Everyone has hounded me to buy one of those light therapy things if I’m not going to take medication for my SAD.  I’ve avoided it mostly because I’m lazy and didn’t have the attention span to sit down and find one.  When I did start looking all I found were horribly expensive gigantic boxes of [...]

Let me explain

I feel the need to take a moment to explain a little bit about my depression.  I’ve mentioned before what I have is called Seasonal Affective Disorder.  It is an extremely treatable form of depression (if you live somewhere like Arizona).  Sadly (or not so sadly) I don’t live in Arizona.  I live in Washington.  [...]

Verge of tears

For the past two weeks I have been right on the verge of tears.  For no particular reason really.  No major life traumas (well unless you count that I turn 32 in 3 days thing).  It isn’t a “hormonal” time for me.  My craptastic day was Tuesday before last.  That one where I wanted to [...]

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