This year has been a little bit better because beginning when the clock changed back to Standard Time in November, I started using a light therapy box every morning for 30 minutes. I feel a little silly sitting in front of the light, but I drink coffee and read. It’s kind of a forced relaxation before work, which is not a bad thing. The light therapy seems to be working, as I find that I don’t want to crawl into bed and pull the covers over my head the second I get home from work. Even with the week of hell I just experienced, I haven’t bottomed out as I usually do this time in December.
As I tweeted earlier this week, “I've found I'm not so utterly miserable about the holiday season as usual, just vaguely indifferent.”
And I’ll take “indifferent” over “miserable” most of the time.
So, even though I don’t really celebrate the Xmas season, I still have a wishlist. Hey, blame it on all those gift guides on the net and in print.
Disclaimer: Yes, world peace, health care reform, homes for all the kitties and puppies in shelters, I want all that, blah, blah, blah. Just let me be narcissistic and self-centered on my blog
- A taco truck for Old City. Sure, there’s Honest Tom’s, but the closest they come is Broad & Lombard.
- Submissions for the Syndicate Product: Meta-Comics Issue! Please!
- To see American Idiot while Billie Joe Armstrong is playing St. Jimmy.
- The perfect one-strap messenger-style bag. (After searching for many years, I do not think this exists.)
- A snow-free winter. Damnit, I helped shovel 70 inches of snow last winter and I do not want to do it again.
- A dumpling truck for Philadelphia, like the Rickshaw Dumpling Truck in NYC.
- A few uninterrupted weeks to do nothing but read. How about from December 20 to March 20?
- To attend some of the following small press events in 2011, and even stay overnight when applicable (anyone have a couch?): MoCCA Fest, Stumptown Comics Fest, Toronto Comics Arts Festival, SPX, New England Webcomics Weekend, Chicago Zine Fest, Philadelphia Alternative Comic Con, Alternative Press Expo, MICE Boston, SPACE Columbus, and STAPLE Austin. (Assuming they all happen again.)
- To attend the following big comic events in 2011: SDCC (if they ever figure out how to sell tickets), Wondercon (maybe!), NYCC (likely).
- To attend any of these aforementioned events on someone else’s dime, and then report on them.
- A post office box full of zines published during 2011: The Revenge of Print project.
- For the cat to stop licking himself so much. He’s already “barbered” his belly nearly naked, and I really don’t want to start him on Prozac.
* A reference to The Simpsons episode 8.15 “Homer’s Phobia”, where Homer and Bart are saved by John Waters’ creepy Japanese Santa robot called “Annual Gift Man”.
3 comments:
My cat does that, too. She has pretty much cleared her belly and is now working on her back legs. I started feeding her these treats that are loaded with B vitamins and other "feel good" supplements, but I haven't seen much difference. A vet once suggested Prozac but like you I can't bring myself to go down that road.
Interesting about the light box. I considered getting one when I moved back to the northeast and was struggling during my first winter here. I'm glad to hear it works for you. I may yet get one.
I never thought the light box would work either. I actually received it as a gift during holidays 2009, but didn't start using it until this November. I was a little hesitant that it was just new agey/holistic hokum, but I feel much more "even" than last year. It's a little easier to get up in the mornings.
And I don't agree with animal antidepressants either... it's just kind of disturbing. Plus, getting the cat to take pills after his surgery last year was difficult enough. Couldn't imagine having to do it every day.
I bought a light box this year too! And an alarm clock that is also a lamp that starts gradually lighter 30 mins before I have to get up. I think both are helping a lot. I'll take "indifferent" over "miserable" too. I'd also take a perfect one-strap style messenger bag from the Annual Gift Man, but I've been on a similar quest for years and you're right, it probably doesn't exist.
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