Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage. That's what winter makes me feel like. The only thing bringing me respite from the impending winter doom is dreaming about how I will style the 3 100% wool coats I got thrifting this weekend. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one with the winter doldrums.
I don't just dread winter, I despise it. It's bad enough before the time change (sorry Fall, you can eff off too) but after the time change, forget it. Where I live the day begins to fade around 3:30pm. It sucks the life out of me. Every year I'm like oh maybe this year I'll figure out how people keep from losing their minds every winter, and I never have, but anyways here are things that help keep me going:
- Cashmere sweatpants and leggings. I stalk eBay for them.
- Planting paperwhites (narcissus) in pots indoors - now is the time of you want blooms in December. Or if you don't like the smell, amaryllis. Even better, both.
- Candles. Candles in the morning, candles at night. I'm down with an open flame but you can also get clear glass hurricane sleeves from a floral supply store for extra safety.
- I caved to targeted ads and got a Shakti acupressure mat, tbd if it improves my winter mood, I'm skeptical but desperate lol.
- Putting pomegranate seeds on everything.
- Ordering fruit from Etsy. This is probably more relevant if you live in the north, but I've ordered passion fruit and persimmons from random Etsy sellers in the past and it's such a special treat. I've done homemade hoshigaki from mail order persimmons the last several years and it's time consuming in a nice way, fun and delicious.
- I freakin love Christmas and let myself indulge in beautiful ribbon and papers.
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage. That's what winter makes me feel like. The only thing bringing me respite from the impending winter doom is dreaming about how I will style the 3 100% wool coats I got thrifting this weekend. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one with the winter doldrums.
I don't just dread winter, I despise it. It's bad enough before the time change (sorry Fall, you can eff off too) but after the time change, forget it. Where I live the day begins to fade around 3:30pm. It sucks the life out of me. Every year I'm like oh maybe this year I'll figure out how people keep from losing their minds every winter, and I never have, but anyways here are things that help keep me going:
- Cashmere sweatpants and leggings. I stalk eBay for them.
- Planting paperwhites (narcissus) in pots indoors - now is the time of you want blooms in December. Or if you don't like the smell, amaryllis. Even better, both.
- Candles. Candles in the morning, candles at night. I'm down with an open flame but you can also get clear glass hurricane sleeves from a floral supply store for extra safety.
- I caved to targeted ads and got a Shakti acupressure mat, tbd if it improves my winter mood, I'm skeptical but desperate lol.
- Putting pomegranate seeds on everything.
- Ordering fruit from Etsy. This is probably more relevant if you live in the north, but I've ordered passion fruit and persimmons from random Etsy sellers in the past and it's such a special treat. I've done homemade hoshigaki from mail order persimmons the last several years and it's time consuming in a nice way, fun and delicious.
- I freakin love Christmas and let myself indulge in beautiful ribbon and papers.
Take it where you can get it friends!
Not a big fan of winter 🥶 luckily the SF Bay Area doesn’t snow lol it gets cold but layering does the job for me or a long coat.
Some activities I like to do during the colder months are crocheting and reading.