I have the blues! Winter Blues that is.
I can't help but think what is wrong with me? Why don't I like Utah Winter? Why do I feel depressed everytime I step outside in the bitter snowy cold?
Honestly, I should be loving Utah! And actually their are a ton of things I am so grateful for. Such as Jim having a steady job thus far, with a good income. Unlike, AZ and CA who just did not treat us right in this dept. 2 Lay Offs in 3 years was not fun. But we made do.
We live in a beautifull house in a wonderful neighborhood.
We live like a block away, if that from my little sister Becky. Whom I love and adore deeply. There is nothing I wouldn't do for her. I have always dreamed to live next to her. Ever since we were little, honestly we talked about how cool it would be to live next door to each other with our husbands. (note. I don't think we ever mentioned kids. I guess we never thought that far ahead. :))
Kallie goes to a great school and is learning a ton in Kindergarten.
So why am I feeling this way with all of these wonderful things happening around me? Honestly, I don't know, it must be the winter blues.
I wish so bad we had all these great things and we were back in Southern California in the warm wheather. You know laying on the beach watching the kids play in the sand. Taking pictures of Jim surfing. Oh Yes, that was fun. The warmth of the sun. Hot sand on your feet. Oh how I miss warm wheather.
Utah doesn't know what a warm sun is in the winter. It only nows cold. Bitter Cold. Where it chills you to the bone.
Hopefully Spring comes sooner rather then later this year. I don't know how many more snowy cold days I can handle. SMILE
Sorry to be such a nasty post but when you have the blues it helps to vent... A little.
9 comments:
I know how you feel. I LOVE LOVE LOVE warm weather. I get extremely grouchy when it gets cold. It snowed here for a few days and I was in the worst mood. It has to help living so close to your sister. I live next door to my sister and it is the best thing in the world. Sounds like you guys need to come to Vegas for a few days to visit and warm up.
MEGAN! Dont make me beat you. Ok lets focus on paragraphs 3,4, 5, and 6. Especially # 5!!! Now lets think about this...there is really only a couple more months of Winter and then SPRING IS HERE! Hanging out at the waterfall at the gardens, hikes up the canyon, running outside, wearing short sleeves and flip flops, running outside, picnics in our front yards (and now this Summer in MY BACKYARD :), Alli will be sitting up, did I mention RUNNING OUTSIDE!!! Life cant get much better than that. I need you here. I love having you here. It will warm up soon I promise. In the mean time we just need to go hit up the hot tub at Legacy or something to warm up your sexy self. Shake these blues off Muggers :) Love you!
Ok another thing that you can add to your list to be grateful for is Tasha! HELLO! But I totally know how you feel, born and raised cali and than I come to Utah and I think are you freaking kidding me???? this is COLD and than we have the Lehi wind on top of that to just add icing to the cake! but trust you me it will get better and be spring before you know it! than we will be complaining how fetching hot it is and dry! can we ever be happy!? but I am with becky, we get our running days back again and beck and I WONT be PREGNANT this summer!! arent you sooo exited??? it will be fun to run again with our little group, well not so little now that we added 2 more kids to the clan but it will be fun! so do crunches at home and get ready for your sexy hot bikini body and we will have play dates at my pool, and bbq's, and slip n slide parties and watermelon, and everything your heart desires! hang in there we are all feeling the blues right now! doesnt it make you wish that you could take up drinking or something? :-) JK
I remember that feeling well. That was the hardest time for me and then in a month, all of the tulips and daffodils and crocus buds will start coming up and that is my absolute favorite time of year. It's absolutely beautiful there and when it hits 50, you thinks it feels wonderful. Right now, it's been chilly here and I'm walking around in sweats and sweatshirts thinking it's too cold. I'm grateful to be where the sun shines, but I was missing you the other day when I was thinking about working out in the park. I'd take you back in a heartbeat! (Sorry, Becky) :) I'm getting pretty soft...this working for a living is overrated. :) I need to get back in shape and I wish you were here to be my running partner because I need some motivation. Look forward to Spring because that always got me through those winter blues! I hope we'll get to see you this summer. We've been missing you!
Yes Megan I feel your pain...i have been so sick of this weather for months now! It doesn't help that I'm pregnant and don't have a car to escape my house...spring can't come soon enough!! When the weather gets warm I can see all us girls hanging out at the park letting the kids roam free...till then I guess we just have to find ways to kick the blues:)
I hear you girl!!! I think I could just copy your entire post and paste it onto my blog. Minus the part about living next to family...at least you have that!!! I am so jealous! I HATE the cold. I always get depressed in the winter. I always have to be working on projects around the house and stuff to keep my mind off of the poopy weather. So here's to spring coming early this year!
I am definitely feeling for you Megan. I can't imagine. Especially coming from the warmer states, you must be dying. It's alright to complain. I've been complaining here that it's too cold. I can't imagine Utah right now. The Hawaii picture at the top of your blog is beautiful! did you take that?
Not that you want to hear from someone down here right now, but I just wanted to say that I'm sorry you're in a "funk". I go through my own versions of them, for different reasons, and I know how badly they suck. Not to be cheesey, and I know this is bad for you, but have you thought of going tanning... even just once a week or every other, to get some "rays". Just a thought. I know a lot of people do that in WA and OR and it supposedly helps? Take care sweetie!
Oh, it does help to vent! Vent away! Has the slightly warmer weather helped at all? We actually had our heater turned off and all the windows opened in our house yesterday! It was beautiful and really lifted the spirits!
Spring will be here soon!!!
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